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by musesum 5y ago
Housemate is working on solar pod-cars - think of it package-switched trains (as opposed to circuit switched) Takeaway from our conversations: highest pain point is floodplains. Like Jakarta, which is sinking. Like Houston, after Harvey.
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by musesum 5y ago
audio of interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhw5vdH3rlo
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by musesum 5y ago
Microfines was tested in Israel and backfired: https://priceonomics.com/effectiveness-of-fines-for-late-pic...
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by musesum 5y ago
I put off trip to Bali until this update. Last time, the screen cracked due to lid closed and heat buildup with fan trying cool in a positive feedback loop. Had to fly to Singapore to replace. This time, carrying (soon to be) old MBP as bac
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by musesum 5y ago
Hmmm, there is a dislike (Song | Artist) feature on the Desktop version -- as least for the Discover Weekly channel.
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My housemate's family grows wild rice in California. But, some land is now too dry. So, he is thinking of putting up solar panels. Other farmers are experimenting with grazing animals like sheep. Intensive grazing (as per Allan Savory)
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Growing Crops Under Solar Panels? Now There’s a Bright Idea(wired.com)
12 points by musesum 5y ago|3 comments
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by musesum 5y ago
Cannot understate how influential the OG Star Trek was for me. Never saw Shatner in anything else (was too busy reading Clark, Heinlein, Dick, et al). So, he is still Captain Kirk, to me. His words are profoundly moving.
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by musesum 5y ago
One private study on a campus network found that the distribution of titles followed a power law. A handful of songs capturing most of the volume, and then hundreds of songs with only 1 or 2 shares. It was perplexing to find a business mode
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My takeaway was that Concepts have Contexts. The problem is that the Context may vary from person to person. Kinda like an n-gram, where n can vary between people. Later, I read Lotfi Zadeh who treated Concepts as a kind of probability dist
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by musesum 5y ago
This used to be the case with NYTimes, several years ago. But, I think it has improved. Same horrible experience, a few years ago. Then, I resubbed after a couple years. A few months ago, NYTimes ran an article on "dark patterns."
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by musesum 5y ago
Would love to offer NFTs of works that are both authored and offered on iOS/Android. Would this be a first step? I don't know how to do it otherwise.
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by musesum 5y ago
Fun read. I wrote a DRM system in the early 90's for try-before-you-buy. Instead of a gateway, we would perchlorate portions of code APIs through a lattice. Somewhat like a one-way hash. I think there 512 keys -- one for each node. You
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by musesum 5y ago
I stopped work on a memo app. Was piggybacking on Apple's branding around privacy. Am going to wait a year to see how this shakes out. Super disappointed. [Edit] Here is/was the privacy statement https://www.deepmuse.co
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by musesum 5y ago
Ok, this is about Bonjour, which is pretty cool. David Abramson and I released a multiplayer Horse Racing game, called PocketJockey on iOS 2.1. During game play each device would play its local copy of the William Tell Overture. We used pac
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by musesum 5y ago
Going solo could fall into two different writer-style idioms: Stringer vs Novelist. A Stringer is a freelancer that writes a news story. The content is short term and quasi-anonymous. A Novelist spends months writing something a bit more ep
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by musesum 5y ago
> another way of looking at the cancellation of OpenDoc is that its success would have completely upended the software industry. Ironically, that was the main interest of Brad Cox who, with Tom Love, created Objective-C, which was acquir
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by musesum 5y ago
Same goes for MacOS, try deleting the News App on Big Sur.
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What's the total addressable market for disrupting carbon footprint of banks? When every person is their own bank, there is less need for brick-and-mortar real estate, the employees commuting, and the like -- what the EPA calls "S
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by musesum 5y ago
The article wasn't very clear; I think it means the related footprint of internal operations, such as real estate, employee travel, and the like. At least, if you go by https://www.epa.gov/climateleadership/scope-3
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by musesum 5y ago
> So banks actually produce about 1.5M tons of emissions then according to your link. Wrong; Gigatons.
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by musesum 5y ago
citations: USMilitary 59 M Tons 2017: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report... BTC: 37M M tons - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/bitcoin-btc-s
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by musesum 5y ago
Was intrigued, yet somewhat disappointed, after reading Stross's post as I've read Accelerando several times. Some thoughts: > It's also horribly energy-inefficient Yep, here are some comparative carbon costs: US Military:
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by musesum 5y ago
The ability to sue is not the same as suing. Simply the threat of a lawsuit is enough to discourage some transactions. That's the point. In my case, I used a hybrid approach: I studied the law, drew up a response, and then hired a lawy
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by musesum 5y ago
You can sue in Pro Per(son) -- essential act as your own lawyer. I know someone who studied the Law so he could sue his former business partners. Most of it was a reverse deep pockets kinda game: "It will cost you $300K in legal fees t
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by musesum 5y ago
Health and climate mitigation. Trace elements of Glyphosate in food supply. Intensive grazing to reverse desertification (as per Alan Savory) and carbon sequestration. A 2015 USDA study shows organic corn fetching 3X conventional. But, high
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by musesum 5y ago
Actually quite nice; still using some of that code.
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By 2001, three companies I co-founded went under. One was going public in April 2000 (oops), plus a couple others failed after 911. I wound up living in my car and writing code in a cafe. There were quite a few of us. The owner was sympathe
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by musesum 5y ago
I wonder if an Aptera would qualify as the Geo Metro of EVs? I haven't owned a car since 2008 - living in SF helped. Was commuting to Mt View with the SF2G group. There is one member of the group who's Twitter handle is "Elec
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My Dad owned a GM dealership in the 70's. I grew up working in the parts department. Part of the business model were "genuine Delco parts" plus a very busy service department. So, low fixed cost with high variable cost. Somew

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