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by skyfaller 4y ago
It gives me hope for the future to see commenters on HN, a forum made by a VC company to talk about VC funding, dunk on companies for taking VC funding. Any tech enthusiast who has been around long enough has seen VCs and acquisitions event
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Yeah, I agree the line spacing is far too much. Butterick's Practical Typography recommends 1.2 to 1.45: https://practicaltypography.com/line-spacing.html Really the only reason to use a line spacing of 2 is if you are
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Are you sure these are natural? In their FAQ, they say: > Is My Buffalo Vegan Friendly? > "Yes - The shell lining we use is 100% Polyamide and our internal lining is synthetic - 100% Polyester. No animal products were used in the
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Low-Tech Mag also discusses insulating the body without electricity: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-th... As they mention in that article, the main advantage of synthetics over wool is t
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Low-Tech Mag also recently advocated for hot water bottles: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the... I acquired and used hot water bottles for the first time in my life last winter and I hig
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Cute, but I just ran both your suggestions through the HTML validator at https://validator.w3.org/nu/ and neither of them validated. The first error read "Bad value data: for attribute href on element link: Premat
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Why not eliminate quotes in production, if you know the value doesn't need quotes? That's still valid, it's optional HTML: https://meiert.com/en/blog/optional-html/ Sorting content alphabetical
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Avoiding Ansible is precisely why I use chezmoi. Unfortunately I still have to use Ansible for stuff that isn't my dotfiles, but the less Ansible, the better. It feels like whatever use cases I have for Ansible are weird and not what o
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I was referring to some material from the no-longer canon Star Wars Extended Universe, where it was referred to during development as the "Imperial Planetary Ore Extractor", and some characters working on its design genuinely beli
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It's really just the font I hate. In the past I've used Reader Mode in Firefox to make it readable, but just now I went into Ublock Origin to change the font to something I like, using the suggestions from this Reddit thread: htt
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by skyfaller 4y ago
On workplace surveillance / "bossware": > Mazzoli seems to have either not used his product, or, if he did, did so under conditions where he was in charge of it – using it the way an athlete might use a stopwatch to time t
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I'm not convinced proof-of-stake works at all: https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-... It's almost certainly better for the environment / our continued existence than proof-of-work, if
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by skyfaller 4y ago
"Good news"! Due to the climate crisis, large sections of the globe are likely to become uninhabitable, so even if world population declines, there will be an influx of refugees into habitable locations. In other words, local popu
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Back in college I used PHPosxom, which was "inspired" by Blosxom but I guess dynamically created pages instead of statically generating them (and of course used PHP instead of Perl, useful if PHP was more accessible/functiona
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by skyfaller 4y ago
No, this doesn't make sense. If your goal is to reduce fossil fuel usage, and Bitcoin also incentivizes fossil fuels, then there's no reason to expect that Bitcoin will help reduce the share of energy produced by fossil fuels. Wor
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I'll try a simple analogy: imagine that your goal is to consume as much corn as possible. (A silly goal for many reasons, but that's a different discussion.) You have all of the corn that you've grown to eat, and then there&#
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by skyfaller 4y ago
One aspect I must mention is Bitcoin miners flock to where energy is cheapest for them , not taking into account negative externalities . This is why you see miners attacking CI services to try to use them for mining crypto: free energy i
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Bitcoin doesn't discriminate between green energy sources and fossil fuel energy sources. It encourages production/consumption of fossil fuels just as much as it encourages production/consumption of green energy sources. Ther
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by skyfaller 4y ago
What part of "Energy use is necessary to support human life" did you not understand when I said it? Do you understand that heat waves, flooding, forest fires, and other extreme weather events will interfere with the delivery of en
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Humans benefit from using energy, but our current energy systems release terrifying amounts of greenhouse gases. Continued global heating will involve mass death, and a great deal of human suffering along the way. Energy use is necessary to
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by skyfaller 4y ago
To be explicit, one problem with Bitcoin's energy use is that it has the potential to consume any excess energy-producing capacity that we free up by making technology more energy efficient. It could use any fossil fuel-powered energy
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Unfortunately this isn't quite accurate, cryptocurrency support is baked in: > Payments Built In > As your app grows beyond the hobby phase, Holepunch lets you evolve into a business without compromises. > With Bitcoin Lightni
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by skyfaller 4y ago
> There's only so many lights that you'd put in a given area to achieve the same result, even if you add more for aesthetic reasons: there's only so many lumens that are useful in an area. You'd think that, but we now
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Efficiency alone almost certainly will not allow us to avoid climate catastrophe, due to the Jevons Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox When an activity uses less energy and therefore becomes less ex
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"Whist is a fork of Brave", and advertises their "Crypto Wallet". I'll pass.
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A point that I made in a much longer comment is that Elon Musk seems to be applying pressure to maintain our society's car dependence. So it's not just him making the best of a bad infrastructure situation, he is contributing to k
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by skyfaller 4y ago
He's the richest man in the world, are you really worried that he's being treated unfairly? If he wants people to say nice things about him, he could hire entire countries to act as sockpuppets. Or, like, he could work on becoming
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I'm not sure this is an unambiguous miss. There are massive numbers of deaths from pollution, many from cancer: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/david-wallace-wells/... But a world that strug
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by skyfaller 4y ago
That's a pretty big assumption, to assume that current pledges will be fulfilled. Last I heard, it was just, like, Gambia that was on track to meet Paris Agreement pledges. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Yeah, that's fair. I frequently agree with what he's saying, but he tends to say it in an abrasive way that won't make him friends or convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him. And maybe that's part of why

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