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Ten percent of the electricity generation in US now comes from wind and solar(salon.com)
9 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|4 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> Those who are keeping jobs in the media division in the newly merged operation include Jared Grusd leading the News vertical (including yahoo.com, aol.com, HuffPost, and Yahoo News); Geoff Reiss leading the Sports vertical; David Karp
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
I should know better than to attempt to have an advanced economics discussion with the likes of HN readers ... many of whom for reasons I will never understand always jump to the defense of evil landlords. Landlording is not a job and doe
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
There is a solution. Since this would probably have to be implemented at a city or county level (that is where permitting, zoning and property taxes happen), my current theory is that it would be something like: (1) Get rid of rent control
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Looks like it has added many of the enhancements from recent updates to luatex. LuaLaTeX has saved my hide more times than I care to mention... Because for reasons I do not understand, there are still some people from the dark ages who ins
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Death by a thousand cuts. Because we are talking infrastructure , most of the corruption is happening at the city and county level where the permitting process happens. Nothing really ever so big enough as to garner national news (and may
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
There was a (brief) period of time many years ago when Twitter was more friendly to developers; that is what I was referring to. What followed was a series of terribly bad decisions to turn it into a marketing platform, rather than what it
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
The only facts so far are that dissenters have until mid-August to make their side known. The trick is they want you to feel powerless and that nothing can be done, that it's already too late. Your original comment shows you are fal
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
For the folks who aren't about to give up so easy, here's the reddit sub where people are brainstorming ways to "make" them listen. Again. I imagine it wil be something along the lines of another blackout or whatever
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Swedish mining company moves town of 18,000 people and buildings to a new location(qz.com)
4 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Online privacy remains an issue that upsets people, but at day's end, neither companies nor the Trump administration have any real interest in protecting privacy. Does not surprise me at all. As a very early adopter of Twitter, I ha
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
No, not really... have a look through my (quite infrequent) posting history and comments to follow the logic. The current GOP-controlled administration is implementing a cunning strategy to undermine the safety and freedom of all Americans.
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
I have yet to see any proof of this whole 'sell your internet history' complaint What the bill stripping Broadband Privacy rules does is make it nearly impossible for the law to set a precedent for what should be considered ille
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Net neutrality is fundamental to free speech. Without net neutrality, big companies could censor your voice and make it harder to speak up online. Net neutrality has been called the “First Amendment of the Internet.” Not just harder. Inf
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> a maddening lack of a definition for "disposable income". Not really. The article goes into pretty good depth about its logic comparing them in pre-tax income (gross income) and after-tax (what it is calling "disposable
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DOE freezes millions in high-tech energy grants and gags staff(sciencemag.org)
8 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Recently heard a talk by Thomas Friedman about how the year 2007 was a really interesting "inflection" year wrt all kinds of technology. The cost of making solar panels began to decline sharply in 2007. Airbnb was conceived in 20
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Musk vs. Bezos: The debate over alternative fuels for your car(seattletimes.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 10y ago|0 comments
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The Arctic Ocean is starting to resemble the Atlantic(seeker.com)
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Pai's logic is flawed in so many ways. But in 2015, the FCC decided to treat the Internet like a public utility, taking away the FTC’s ability to police the privacy practices of broadband providers. The decision to treat it like a pu
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
However, this headline is patently false, right? Congress didn't sell anything. They removed protections that were put into place late last year and hadn't gone into effect as far as I know. It's nearly impossible to find e
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
The "next week" referred to in this article happens today. https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/28/internet-... For this to get through the Senate the way it did makes it pretty clea
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Scientists have developed a self-healing membrane for hydrogen fuel cells(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 10y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
This sentiment seems fairly common in various comment threads I've seen. The dancing aspect seems to evoke in some people... discomfort or something hard to pin down, and I wonder why. At the end of the day, electricity is still electr
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
I'm a former journalist who had to leave the industry not because I didn't care for journalism anymore, but because newspapers lost their business model, and the industry remains a shadow of its former self. Whenever people ask
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
The result is that contract forms have become a sort of IP-free zone. Exactly. One of the sleaziest tricks used by Realtors (most Realtors are not lawyers) is getting clients to sign their forms: their terms usually have the word "
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Despite being "x86" it's near impossible to add custom drivers or rebuild the OS. What's the point of being "x86" if you can't make use of the ecosystem? Edison isn't supposed to be a hub; it's
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
If we are talking Fox News, I'd say Tucker Carlson's show is pretty good. Bret Baier and Chris Wallace are also decent. Most everyone else is a clown putting on a show for ratings. I won't talk about the liberal-leaning stat
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The first images of what will soon be the world's first hyperloop tube(sciencealert.com)
4 points by shawnee_ 10y ago|1 comments
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A Wall Street advertising stunt spotlights a push to get more women on boards(washingtonpost.com)
23 points by shawnee_ 10y ago|2 comments

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