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by shoo 6y ago
I once spoke to a man who’d shared consciousness with an octopus. I’d expected his tale to be far less frightening than those I’d studied up to that point. Identity has a critical mass, after all; fuse with a million-brain hive and
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by shoo 6y ago
There's the question of what inputs are used to provide the feed to grow the fish. E.g. for salmon > On a dry-dry basis, 2–4 kg of wild-caught fish are needed to produce 1 kg of salmon. The ratio may be reduced if non-fish sources a
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by shoo 6y ago
great news! the business is delighted by the scalability and resilience demonstrated by this proof-of-concept and alignment with cloud-native strategy. the business has decided to use this as the platform to deliver the new "hello $cus
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by shoo 6y ago
> "Australia was a complete shock to my system," says Brian Robson. "I found it very difficult, and thought from the moment I got there I wanted to get out as quickly as possible." a desperate situation calls for desp
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by shoo 6y ago
Some other things it could be: - it's a planned outage of some internal system for an upgrade/patching/DR exercise - it's an unplanned outage of some internal system because some planned change to something it depends on
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by shoo 6y ago
Perhaps worth digging in to understand what the causes of the 9% net profit increase is. If a decent part of the profit increase is attributable to factors outside of company control that are unlikely to persist then maybe the business will
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by shoo 6y ago
I agree that avoiding emissions in the first place is preferable to trying to figure out how to undo the emissions afterwards. Mental model of emission removal scope is some giant world system maybe 1x or 2x the size of the fossil fuel indu
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by shoo 6y ago
One lens to think about this is the lens of species extinction [+]. The world is currently experiencing species extinction at a rate significantly higher than the background rate, due to direct and indirect human causes: > In contrast to
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by shoo 6y ago
What kind of annual sustained global emissions reductions would be necessary to have a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees? [0] 2018 estimates of the carbon budget remaining for a 50% chance of less than 1.5C warming: 200
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by shoo 6y ago
Another anecdote: I rent a 50m^2 apartment. Electricity consumption for the apartment, averaged over trailing 12 months, is 4.5 kWh / day. This excludes: energy for stove top/oven (natural gas) and energy for hot water (paid for
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by shoo 6y ago
I agree. Perhaps also known as "data-oriented design". Decompose entities into components by modelling the data in a normalised way, as is done when modelling for relational databases. Group together similar data as records in hom
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by shoo 6y ago
We can make progress in solving this specific inference problem with a carefully constructed experimental design & human challenge trials. E.g. repeat variations of the scenario where we keep all factors the same but intervene and forc
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by shoo 6y ago
I have an electric kettle that holds water in a vessel with transparent sides. When the kettle is turned on and heating water it illuminates the water with blue LEDs. It doesn't bother me at night time as the light goes on only when it
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by shoo 6y ago
The original idea for documenting design patterns goes something like this: > Documenting a pattern requires explaining why a particular situation causes problems, and how the components of the pattern relate to each other to give the so
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by shoo 6y ago
> Anything and everything could be fake. i did a double take while listening to the nature podcast on april 1st talking about rabbits -- with a genetic mutation that impacts their hind legs -- that walk about on their front paws only by
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by shoo 6y ago
David MacKay's book "sustainable energy: without the hot air" has a section that estimates if nuclear fission might work as a large scale long-lived energy source http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_161
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by shoo 6y ago
A game with a truly fantastic atmosphere & great audio. May have been the first and best game to use audio logs to develop the plot & build the world. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf92cXs6fvg Some other mech
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by shoo 6y ago
less seriously: indentured chattel, information curdler, integration cobbler, indigent craftsperson, imaginative collaborator, introverted creative, incredulous cynic, inventive clerk.
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by shoo 6y ago
I'm curious to estimate how much google's app store revenue would be decreased by this change in fee structure. Can anyone share accurate statistics on the distribution of app revenue per google play developer? I'm not famili
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by shoo 6y ago
Seems like misbehavior by one of FlashDrive's tenants can degrade experience for other tenants: > FlashDrive’s containers can be used to send emails but the architecture of FlashDrive uses a single IP address by datacenter to provid
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by shoo 6y ago
and if thy cuda driver installation slow thee, cut it off, and cast it from thy pipeline: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy build dependencies should perish, and not that thy whole pipeline should be cast into the mire.
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by shoo 6y ago
There may be some conflation of value creation with value extraction, they are not the same thing. Capitalism is a hell of a drug and can warp the mind. Some people can get very rich by running scams -- convincing other people to make bad d
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by shoo 6y ago
If you can cultivate a number of job opportunities at once and get simultaneous competing offers from multiple employers, then you'll be in a stronger position to get offers with attractive compensation at the market rate.
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by shoo 6y ago
>> you should still go for it if and only if you understand what you’re getting yourself into > Most people don't realize until much later, that everything is a trade. This for that. > Everything has a price, and not knowin
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by shoo 6y ago
Different types of work require specialised equipment and need different kinds of work space. For a kind of work that's clearly not a great fit for renting out your house: a restaurant. Why exactly might it be a poor fit? Restaurant ne
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by shoo 6y ago
Some of these ideas are written up in the late Joe Armstrong's dissertation about Erlang and OTP "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors". It's a few hundred pages but quite readable to a
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by shoo 6y ago
physical-economy interpretation: the teachers and children are lucky enough to live in a rich society where only a fraction of the population are required to do productive work such as growing food, distributing clean water, building and m
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by shoo 6y ago
Options backdating schemes allow additional wealth to be transferred to an options recipient from the company. In doing so, they increase the company's compensation expenses. The next question to ask is: are the increased compensation
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by shoo 6y ago
Prior HN discussion of Christopher Alexander: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17480178
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by shoo 6y ago
I reckon that a new mail protocol with use cases of excluding unwanted communications may find it harder to gain adoption. It's like an anti-viral quality. I could see this being rolled out within an org where the one org can deploy cl

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