strommen

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by strommen 11y ago
Nope. The CO2 produced from burning coal/gas is normally just vented into the atmosphere. This is why we have global warming. Other toxic stuff like nitric and sulfuric oxides are captured to meet emissions standards.
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by strommen 11y ago
T-Mobile's behavior has officially entered the "Tyson Zone" for me. Seriously, what could Legere possibly do in the next 24 hours that would surprise you?
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by strommen 11y ago
Stubhub does exactly this, but not every organization wants to work with them. For instance, in my market they partner with the Minnesota Twins. Twins tickets purchased through StubHub are "digitally delivered" just as you sugges
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by strommen 11y ago
How could they possibly make that promise? They don't own the tickets, and they're not really selling them. They're facilitating a transaction between two parties.
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by strommen 11y ago
Update: StubHub, via their Twitter account, has promised to get this guy to the Kobe game. https://twitter.com/StubHub/status/684906796813697024
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by strommen 11y ago
I'm imagining sorting "kilograms of bank notes" in Sierra Leone during the midst of the Ebola outbreak. Yikes. I hope they had some good physical security (but I suspect that they didn't...)
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by strommen 11y ago
The factor of 25 accounts for this - over a 100-year timespan, methane is 25x worse than the equivalent weight of CO2. Over a shorter 20-year timespan, it is 86x worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global-warming_pot
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by strommen 11y ago
That was it - thanks!
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by strommen 11y ago
I think I've corrected it, but we're still off from each other :) Can you take another look? I'm not sure what you're using for US-wide methane and CO2e emissions figures.
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by strommen 11y ago
To put this in perspective: the US emits 6,673 million metric tons of CO2e* each year [1]. That's 18.2 million per day. EDIT - I also had some numbers wrong! I was using the total leakage as the daily leakage. This leak is 110,000 lb
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by strommen 11y ago
25 is the correct number. 22.7 is used to convert short tons CH4 to metric tons CO2e. (A "short ton" is what we call a "ton" in the US)
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by strommen 11y ago
> we can calculate the CO2 equivalent by multiplying with 3.6 3.6x is how much CO2 is produced by burning methane (i.e. converting CH4 + 2 O2 => CO2 + 2 H2O). Methane released into the atmosphere is 25x more potent as a greenhouse g
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by strommen 11y ago
> A box of manuscripts and three notebooks. That's all that's left of the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan FYI, the three notebooks are available in PDF form here: http://www.math.tifr.res.in/~publ/ramanujan.htm
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by strommen 11y ago
Also - when you swipe the page right (to go Back in a mobile browser), it instead navigates you to the previous blog entry. Argh.
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by strommen 11y ago
How do you filter out crawlers, bots, pre-fetchers, etc.? I've personally never even tried using server-side analytics because I assumed there would be so much noise it wouldn't be worth the trouble.
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by strommen 11y ago
The laws are typically guaranteeing that manufacturers cannot sell directly in places where they also have dealers . Because a regional car dealer with $X0 million of revenue cannot compete with a multinational car manufacturer with $X0 b
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by strommen 11y ago
The only real consumer benefit that this article describes for factory-direct sales is cost savings from no longer carrying inventory. But that's a completely separate issue: there's no reason an indy dealer can't have a lo
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by strommen 11y ago
The next step is to predict where the rebound will go on a missed shot. And of course, trigger an according haptic notification on a wearable device.
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by strommen 11y ago
> But he said they were forced to rely on [deeply discounted first time Homejoy cleanings] heavily because of intense competition with their chief rival, Handy, which employed a similar strategy. This is one of the bizarre aspects of VC
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by strommen 11y ago
It's frustrating when a library function does a worse job than 15 lines of code you wrote yourself. It's doubly frustrating when a library function is obsoleted and replaced wholesale rather than fixed of whatever defects it has.
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by strommen 11y ago
As Shaq says, "black people don't drink coffee" http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/shaquille-o-...
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by strommen 11y ago
Great point, and caches are even smaller on mobile. I think it depends on your use case. If your page views are mostly new users (e.g. you're a content publisher), then cachability doesn't matter too much. But if you're wri
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by strommen 11y ago
Combining everything into one file reduces browser caching, since a change in any of the N files invalidates the cache. As a site grows, it's usually better to have 2-3 bundles grouped by frequency of change. E.g. I rarely upgrade 3
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by strommen 11y ago
I don't understand why people feel entitled to use Facebook in this way. Facebook is a place to communicate with your friends and family, not a publishing platform. If you want to write anonymously, then get a free account on any numbe
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by strommen 11y ago
CORRECTION - resource timing is not disallowed entirely; only network timing details (to calculate latency, etc.) are disallowed. Sharing resources across pages based on has values would render this restriction moot. From http://
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by strommen 11y ago
This would be a security problem. By measuring resource timing of a script copied from another site, one could determine if the browser has visited that other site. (Resource timing is disallowed for cross-domain resources for exactly this
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by strommen 11y ago
Ther internet is a looong way from winning. When I turn on my cable TV, there is always something playing - instantly. When I change the channel, whatever is on the other channel is now playing - instantly. My TV always works - it never
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by strommen 11y ago
There are lots and lots of ridiculous patent and patent claims occurring in the US. I'm glad that the EFF is fighting against them. But this particular paragraph in this particular claim is by no means an abuse of patent law. The pat
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by strommen 11y ago
I think the entire premise of hiring for fit in terms of leader vs. follower, etc. is flawed. Has anybody ever actually worked with an engineer that was a) good at their job, b) not a total jackass, c) their employer would have been better
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by strommen 11y ago
So just to be clear: whatever you do with the keys generated by this service is trivially pwn-able by TinyCert. Maybe you trust TinyCert not to be malicious. But do you think they're completely unhackable? A database full of private

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