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by strommen 10y ago
The biggest dietary change involved for Paleo is eliminating heavily-processed high-carb foods: bread, pasta, donuts, pizza, candy. This is a major nutritional improvement for everybody. The high-fat aspect just helps people stick with it b
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by strommen 10y ago
If it makes you feel better, melting permafrost is currently a small portion of overall global methane emissions. There's a potential for a massive release of gas, but it isn't happening yet.
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by strommen 10y ago
Mitigation is the key word here. The best-case scenario is that over the next 30 years we ramp down our greenhouse emissions to zero, and the planet warms up by ~2 degrees Celsius and stays there. We're not currently on track for thi
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by strommen 10y ago
The factor of 25 is over a 100-year time period, and accounts for this decay.
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by strommen 10y ago
The StackExchange post shows some back-and-forth conversation along these lines. The auditor doesn't budge an inch, and gets defensive.
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[2015] ITT Tech sells an American dream of broken lives and financial ruin(citypages.com)
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by strommen 10y ago
For that poor guy living in isolated tribal land in India, the cheapest, easiest, and most direct path to electricity - by far - is solar panels. Burning coal also contributes heavily to air pollution, which is already terrible in Indian
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by strommen 10y ago
The right metric is probably cost per annual kWh. 1 kW of photovoltaic (PV) will generate about 1,800 kWh per year over its lifetime, and costs probably about $1,800 to build at utility scale. So $1 per annual kWh. Things are more complica
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by strommen 10y ago
Ivanpah is a black mark on renewable energy. Its price was ridiculously expensive, and it has failed to perform to expectations. The good news is that the industry has learned from it. Almost nobody is doing concentrated solar thermal anymo
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by strommen 10y ago
Untrusted TLS does not mean that nobody else in the coffee shop is snooping on it. That Starbucks access point you've connected to might actually be the Pineapple belonging to the guy at the corner table, and he's injecting his
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by strommen 10y ago
EAV is an anti-pattern? If you don't have JSONB, EAV is the only remotely-reasonable way to implement user-defined fields (e.g. product-specific attributes in e-commerce).
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by strommen 10y ago
Data lives far, far longer than applications. You may not have multiple apps using the database now, but if your system lasts 10 years or more than it certainly will.
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by strommen 10y ago
It's nowhere near enough to meaningfully affect demand. The EIA estimates[1] that gasoline has to get 25-50% more expensive to reduce demand by even 1% . [1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=19191
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by strommen 10y ago
Just a PSA: there is zero chance that nuclear fusion makes a meaningful impact in stopping climate change in the next 30 years. Before it becomes a significant part of our energy mix, fusion needs to be cheap, safe, and reliable. It is no
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by strommen 10y ago
Exxon is probably pushing this because it will help their business. The #1 "victim" of a carbon tax is coal, which accounts for about 30% of our energy production. A carbon tax will redistribute this production to other sources, m
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by strommen 10y ago
Cooking a whole chicken is a major pain. If not for rotisserie chickens, I would only buy chicken in the form of pre-butchered packages of breasts, thighs, or legs (and the occasional bag of frozen buffalo wings). The pre-butchered meat is
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by strommen 10y ago
Most likely is that WSJ checks the HTTP referer header to see if it's google.com.
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by strommen 10y ago
This demo is not realistic at all, and is pretty contrived to play to the strengths of HTTP/2. If your page loads stuff from 25 different domains, HTTP/2 barely helps at all. Likewise if your page is loading MB-size image or scrip
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by strommen 10y ago
Hanselman is a Microsoft employee and a luminary in the .NET community. The audience for his blog is definitely Windows-focused.
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by strommen 10y ago
3.75ppm, but yes - to be clear, worldwide emissions are continuing to increase, so the CO2 level should be rising by more and more every year. If we can level off our greenhouse emissions (and we're very close), the CO2 level should co
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by strommen 10y ago
There's definitely reason to be optimistic. Emissions have started decreasing majorly in Europe [1], slightly in the USA [2], and are even leveling off in China [3]. Those three entities account for half the world's emissions. Sol
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by strommen 10y ago
Yes, It would take a very long time for global warming to cause the sea levels to rise such that cities are underwater. But the primary way that global warming manifests itself is by causing severe weather events to be more frequent and mor
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by strommen 10y ago
D'oh! Thanks! Too late to edit my comment though...
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by strommen 10y ago
NBA players aren't on that list because their contracts are limited to 5 years, and to a maximum salary. And the truly elite players sign short contracts, because the max salary goes up over time. Mean NBA salary is ~$6M, compared to ~
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by strommen 10y ago
The extremely rare talent is not what makes the Olympics possible. The marketing machine (which is run by the executives) are what make it possible. The top 100 athletes in every sport could sit out the Olympics, and the TV ratings and co
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by strommen 10y ago
The Olympics are truly not about money for the athletes. And indeed, they cannot be. Only a select few have any leverage at all to bargain for more money (think Husain Bolt and others at his level). But these select few are already profitin
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by strommen 10y ago
Hate to post something this silly on HN, but you might enjoy this old SNL skit: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-all-drug...
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by strommen 10y ago
Read this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5696244/is-escaping-and-...
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by strommen 10y ago
Yes, blacklisting is insufficient in general. But it covers many cases, including the one here. Contextual encoding must be done each and every place you emit user input into HTML, and it's easy to screw this up. Character blacklisting
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by strommen 10y ago
Wow, this attack was XSS 101. And it could have been mitigated with anti -XSS 101: rejecting all form posts containing angle-brackets.

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