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by yungchin 11y ago
If we all came around to taxing mining externalities as we should, then yes. Currently the carbon footprint of mining the lithium and all the other havoc around it are not correctly priced in. So now recycling looks bad, because moving batt
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by yungchin 11y ago
Nasty economics at work: the price of lithium is low enough that recycling is not really cost-effective, so most of them end up in landfill (including the nickel and cobalt components...). But recycling is actually possible so enough public
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by yungchin 11y ago
It always bothers me that newspapers usually omit hyperlinks to relevant information. Here's a paper by the guy they interview in the article: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245612 "[...] t
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by yungchin 11y ago
According to the article, he was very aware of the investigation: tax officers interviewed him about his bitcoin assets.
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The CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage(theguardian.com)
2 points by yungchin 11y ago|2 comments
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by yungchin 11y ago
Submitted this mostly for this bit of insight: If technology is constantly creating new jobs, why aren't we seeing more employment and wage growth? Bessen argues that many workers today face the same problem textile workers faced in 1
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Why history suggests that today's wage stagnation is temporary(vox.com)
2 points by yungchin 11y ago|2 comments
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by yungchin 11y ago
> It seems fair to ask for a minimum level of work contributing back to society I think BI proponents argue that specifying what counts as a contribution leads to economic inefficiencies, in the broadest sense. Does taking care of your o
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by yungchin 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean? If I hold more shares, I get more dividends. That's not redistributive, unlike what groupcurrency proposes. Edit: ah wait, I think I know what you mean. When I wrote they have "no built-in basic in
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by yungchin 11y ago
But there's a difference: Apple shareholders don't see their shares redistributed at a steady pace - Apple shares don't have a built-in basic income. The reason why I think even a single exit might do a lot to the price of Mu
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by yungchin 11y ago
How do you prevent members from only enjoying the upside? Example: say we're a group of musicians, starting a MusicianCoin group. I happen to be a fairly shameless participant, so I enjoy the basic income while I'm still bootstrap
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by yungchin 11y ago
I posted the same link in this thread already, in another context, but it's relevant enough: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mythbusters-part-3-recycling... "The result from this process is that we are able t
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by yungchin 11y ago
Seems they alluded to exactly that some years ago (2008!): http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mythbusters-part-3-recycling... "... at some unfortunate point, the ESS will come to the end of its useful life in the app
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by yungchin 12y ago
Would love to hear more about your findings with btrfs.
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by yungchin 12y ago
I don't think the second part of that quote makes things any better at all. OP is basically saying "I want to be successful in my projects, please advise", and the off-the-cuff diagnosis offered is that he's "aping
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by yungchin 12y ago
> You will NEVER have the energy that the people whom you compare with have. I do hope this is an extreme case of misdiagnosis: it's implying that the OP is not an achiever, and lacking ambition - just because there are a few small
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by yungchin 12y ago
And not just any Linux notebook: assuming they don't change this from the last version, it'll be open down to the embedded-controller firmware. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwOTY
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Crockford’s 2014 object creation pattern(weblogs.asp.net)
1 points by yungchin 12y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 12y ago
Elife is backed by the largest non-profit funding medical research in the United Kingdom (the Wellcome Trust). Its editor won a Nobel Prize recently. I know these are somewhat shallow proxies for trustworthiness, but good enough for me ;) (
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by yungchin 12y ago
> I think the opinion is split on whether prostitution is inherently harmful -- that is, in a post-gender world where there is no trance of social definition of women as stores of resources to be extracted for pleasure and service, would
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by yungchin 12y ago
I've never thought about this topic before, and from your comments it shows you have given it careful thought, so probably this is going to have some fundamental flaws, but I was just thinking: We do seem to have found solutions, howev
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by yungchin 12y ago
Yes. I'm reminded of a project that I didn't really "get" when I first came across it, the Least Authority File System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS - it seems these guys have been build
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by yungchin 12y ago
Easy it's not, but since you trust the debian keys already, you could import keys from the debian-keyring - I'm sure there's a path from those to the putty maintainers'. Here's a somewhat detailed description I just
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by yungchin 12y ago
Ok, not really half a million. Maybe 20 or so :) That's still a lot of state to lose for a kernel-upgrade reboot. I guess it's a style of working. If you need to ask, that probably means you're not the kind of person who care
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by yungchin 12y ago
Bizarre to think that at the time nobody stopped Oracle from picking up Ksplice (they offered rebootless security patches for all the larger distros back in what, 2009?). I really loved their service because it meant I could keep my half mi
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Why fuel cell cars don't work – part 2(ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net)
3 points by yungchin 12y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 12y ago
Somewhat to my surprise when I found out, git-mv doesn't actually result in any extra metadata about the rename getting stored in the repository: "Git has a rename command git mv, but that is just for convenience. The effect is in
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Renaming is the killer app of distributed version control (2007)(markshuttleworth.com)
28 points by yungchin 12y ago|11 comments
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Understanding the key differences between LXC and Docker(flockport.com)
26 points by yungchin 12y ago|27 comments
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by yungchin 12y ago
He just swapped the names I think - Venti is the block store, Fossil is the file system layer.

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