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Rebalancing Society(rebalancingsociety.org)
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by olau 5y ago
While it's true speed was not a priority, I think most of those initiatives didn't try hard to work with upstream. The Microsoft funded project is different, they're merging things. I don't think they've started on
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by olau 5y ago
I don't think most people have trouble with online advertising as such. Not even targeted advertising as long as they are in control of what's happening. I think what people have trouble with are the other things forced on them. T
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by olau 5y ago
It would perhaps be wise to try to practice deriving happiness from something other than the seeking out of novelty. Like picking up an instrument and start practicing more advanced music than the pop song of the day. That's really a l
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by olau 5y ago
A decent, really easy forum system to allow groups based on existing organizations to flourish, with multiple operators so that you are not beholden to something like Facebook. Most organizations, and I'm using the word here to describ
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by olau 5y ago
Open-source, collaboratively developed software that makes governments/societies more efficient, and where standardization helps. For instance, software for implementing national ID systems, so people can submit their taxes, get health
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by olau 5y ago
You're probably right, but I still think we should add another ball to soccer/football and see what happens.
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by olau 5y ago
I'm in no position to judge the actions of the US back then, but you're wrong about the genocide: > Although Serb forces had long been blamed for the massacre, it was not until June 2004—following the Srebrenica commission&#x27
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by olau 5y ago
I know that a consumptionist attitude is popular these days, but as a user of something like Spotify I would surely prefer as much as possible of my monetary contribution ending up with Spotify and the musicians instead of in the hands of a
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by olau 5y ago
Note that electricitymap.org does not have a complete model of the grid and the involved power plants so the estimates should not be trusted blindly.
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by olau 5y ago
Redshifting is built in. Although to be honest, recently it has been a bit unstable for me in the sense that some applications seem to cause it to disappear. Don't know what's up with that. Screenshot works fine for me, but I gues
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by olau 5y ago
The reason storage for renewables is still hypothetical has to do with the fact that the storage has not really been required yet because people are still willing to burn stuff. Also, when you offer nuclear as an option, you need to remembe
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by olau 5y ago
Yes, of course it has. I'm certainly not an expert, but the plants are operating on a set of risk calculations based on assumptions about their designs. If one of the safety assumptions are challenged, you have to shut the reactors dow
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by olau 5y ago
I was curious whether they talked about the practicality of the whole setup, and they do, e.g. > Electric kettles that run on grid power are often very powerful and boil water in a matter of minutes or even seconds. Boiling water using a
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by olau 5y ago
There is of course self-selection compared to going with the default, but your data may be poisoned. I don't know the Montessori system, but in the Waldorf system, some of the intellectual stuff is moved from the first years to the lat
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by olau 5y ago
My kids go to a Waldorf school. Around half of the kids in my oldest son's class came in later grades, with a story like this. While there are some odd things in anthroposophy, I think a great deal of it is actually metaphorical and co
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by olau 5y ago
I have so far not heard a convincing piano synthesizer, i.e. one that would fool a pianist. Pianos are actually really easy, input-wise. You have attack speed, when you lift the keys and pedals, and that's it. But simulating the audio
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by olau 5y ago
Coming from a country surrounded by other countries, all with national healthcare institutions, I can assure you that healthcare discrimination is unthinkable once you have universal healthcare rights.
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by olau 5y ago
I think they're going in the direction of having things enabled by default. It just takes time. The default experience of Emacs these days is far from the experience 20 years ago.
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> So the claim is there is absolutely no scenario where the other systems can contribute which seems to be false. No. The claim was that pouring resources into those other systems is better spent improving the vision system, within the c
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by olau 5y ago
I don't know how they were made tradionally, but today as you say æbleskiver (apple disks) are not flat, they are spherical. That is why you need the special pan. Also, today most people don't put apple pieces inside them, instead
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by olau 5y ago
I like the explicit pipelining idea, seems much easier to reason about. Some comments: I found the "# `|` can be used rather than newlines." a bit odd. So when using let, you're only transforming one column? I think the examp
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by olau 5y ago
In the house I'm living in, which was built in a transition point between making sure houses don't leak and the realization that you then need active ventilation, I have the problem that the windows are not insulating enough, so I
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by olau 5y ago
As someone who started writing an XMPP client at the time, I can confirm that the stupid unclosed document was painful. It's a leaky abstraction that goes beyond the parsers (that you can't use). It didn't help that the offic
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by olau 5y ago
I have had some great insights when I can't fall a sleep, in that brain fog you mention, sometimes where the feeling of my own self somehow disappears, seeing everything less through the lens of the self-protective consciousness, then
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I remember attending a lecture about how to do well in the academic world well back at university decades ago, where the lecturer quoted another (famous) researcher who had a personal rule for incoming requests. Either he did it now or he d
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by olau 5y ago
I bought an induction cooktop for around USD 350 a few years ago. That was the premium unit of a cheap brand. They also had a cheaper one for around USD 200. The cheap, government-controlled rentals in my town started switching to induction
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by olau 5y ago
I remember asking the same question about Java many years ago. Some optimizations become much easier in the actual running environment. You know the hardware so don't have to cater to lowest common denominator, and you know what's
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by olau 5y ago
Storing heat is not difficult. You just heat up water and put it in an insulated tank. Either steel, or dig a hole in the ground and insulate that, with a floating insulated lid. Once it's big enough, the losses are so low that you can
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by olau 5y ago
Concise writing sometimes cut away important information that cannot be conveyed in a concise manner. It's like a sonata where we have a favourite part. Why don't we just play that part? This is not an argument against editing or

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