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by rickydroll 4y ago
I have come to terms with the fact that any form of human civilization is not sustainable. We take more then we return to the Gaia ecosystem. At best we can be in balance once human existence returned to a pre-technological, nasty, brutish,
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by rickydroll 4y ago
s/suburbia/rural/ Fortunately with modern technology, you can run your own composting waste disposal, water from rainwater or aquifer, electricity via solar panels and batteries and the entire package is surprising affordable
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by rickydroll 4y ago
That is an incentive for somebody else who likes to tell other people how to live. Not for me. I bought a house in suburbia. My basement is filled with home lab, workshop (wood and 3D printing), indoor garden (wintertime leafy greens and st
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by rickydroll 4y ago
I'm okay with the current suburban model in many ways. For me it would make a difference is dedicated bike lanes. I walk for exercise my neighborhood and the labyrinth is a welcome pattern to reduce boredom. Public transit will never w
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by rickydroll 4y ago
RSI took away my ability to write any significant amount of code 30 yrs ago. co-pilot plus speech recognition restored that ability. what impressed me most was that from a textual description,co-pilot gave me code that could have been writ
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by rickydroll 5y ago
not necessarily. Even in my prototype sender pays email environment (camram/2 penny blue), the cost of the stamp was pushed on the message originator i.e. the email client. The mail server delivering the mail to another server on the I
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by rickydroll 5y ago
back in the mid to thousands. I had a working example of a sender pays email environment. it used hash cash embedded in an email message in combination with content filtering. it was more of a proof of concept that an actual practical syste
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by rickydroll 5y ago
I'm not sure that's a hard and fast correlation. We have indicators that suggest that housing prices are increasing because of equity funds literally engaging in rent seeking behavior by buying of housing stock and turning into re