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by solstice 7y ago
Is there anything on top of it? If not, how do you deal with dust coming in from above when the pi isn't used that much (eg during the night) and the airflow lower?
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by solstice 7y ago
I agree. do we want to teach AIs war? This seems like a decision/trend that humanity might regret profoundly in a century or two...
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by solstice 7y ago
Sounds like the chaos monkey program Netflix used to test is infrastructure by introducing random amounts of latency, switching off certain parts of the infrastructure etc
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by solstice 7y ago
Don't kelp forests also play a big role in marine carbon sequestration?
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by solstice 7y ago
That's true but only half the picture: every time one of these trees dies it is cut down it needs to be buried or otherwise prevented from releasing the CO2 back into the atmosphere. The tree you mentioned is described on Wikipedia as
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by solstice 7y ago
Or put a heat and radiation resistant usb-drive in a capsule (complete with small parachute) loaded on a sling shot directed at Earth. Would certainly take a long time but would be fun. Seriously though: what about launching a rocket in the
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by solstice 7y ago
> The economics of it are pretty straightforward—customers simply don't value most content at what it costs to produce it. Well, but right now consumers don't even have the option of paying for single pieces of content as their
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by solstice 7y ago
People are willing to pay if it's made easy. The idea of Flattr (which soundd similar enough to what is proposed here) was that you top up your flattr account with let's say 20 usd and designate a monthly pay-out, let's say 5
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by solstice 7y ago
(Re: micropayments) Sigh... Flattr seemed so promising back in 2011.
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by solstice 7y ago
Agreed. Similarly, the whole internet of shit phenomenon looks a lot like environmental pollution to me: People cutting corners and shirking responsibilities to increase profit leading to an internet environment infested by botnets and worm
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by solstice 7y ago
The image of the Chernobyl liquidators just popped into my mind, each worker only allowed to shovel radiative shit for 90 seconds before having a mandatory time out. Treating content moderators in a similar way seems like a step into the ri
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by solstice 7y ago
I think there are much more important issues like space: Improperly constructed and maintained landfills (i.e. most of them) leak pollutants into the ground (water) and offgas significant quantities of methane. (No sources handy right now..
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by solstice 7y ago
Cool! Now i'll be able to preserve my voice from 20 years ago!
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by solstice 7y ago
So it saves the "hi, this is John Doe. I'm currently not available. Leave a message after the beep!", correct?
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by solstice 7y ago
It would be cool if they could dive to a safe depth to wait out storms and then emerge against once the storm's over
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by solstice 7y ago
I disagree with your first sentence in its sweeping overgeneralization. The second sentence seems somewhat true but there's a reason why eBay failed in China: they ported their English website over without consideration for the idiosyn
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by solstice 7y ago
What an absolutely harrowing, hair-raising tale. Reading this, it's hard for me to fathom the reasons why this guy and the other migrants are willing to subject themselves to this. What courage...
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by solstice 8y ago
I know that the Chinese language version of WeChat has been capable of doing exactly this for several months already.
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by solstice 8y ago
I think it was something along the lines of unfair business practices due to public broadcasters being able to use taxpayer money...
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by solstice 8y ago
Why do the French have such a hard-on for copyright enforcement? (Honest question)
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by solstice 8y ago
When temperature is measured in electronvolt you know things are serious...
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by solstice 8y ago
Anecdotal: they work, but slowly. So for large files I use a vpn
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by solstice 8y ago
The Decentraleyes Firefox extension alleviates this somewhat as it caches popular things like jquery (that are often hosted by Google) locally on your device, making foreign websites load quicker.
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by solstice 10y ago
With climate change and rising sea levels those coastal areas arent going to be long-term habitable anyway
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The woman who swapped home for a hut near Chechnya (BBC)(bbc.com)
31 points by solstice 12y ago|19 comments
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by solstice 12y ago
Highly recommended. Perfect for a flight or train trip
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by solstice 12y ago
seems that they are trying to replace Google's push API with a websocket-based solution. See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1106
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by solstice 13y ago
I agree. It also seems quite suited for keyboard navgation and editing. It has a linux version and the tutorial is very well made.
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by solstice 13y ago
Flashfolders for Windows adds a small bar on top of open/save dialogs and makes them sooo much more convenient: - go directly to currently open explorer window! - paste path! - two-click favourite folders - two-click history - switch t
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by solstice 13y ago
How about django-public-project? The following is from their description at http://django-public-project.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ : Django Public Project (DPP) is a specialised content management system written

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