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Too lazy to print puzzles out, so I made an app to mail them to me
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Show HN: The Humanoid Vibe – weekly newsletter about humanoid robots(humanoidvibe.com)
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by bskinny129 5y ago
Plus I believe Feynman’s baby brother died from an infected hangnail. Going off memory from Gleick’s book, so please correct if slightly off.
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by bskinny129 6y ago
Let me explain a bit more. I don't suggest raising prices for early customers who are receiving the same product they signed up for originally. They can stay at the same price, which is grandfathering them in. More typical though is Cu
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by bskinny129 6y ago
Definitely double the prices right now. Since there is a free version that is generous, it won’t be “selling out”. I’m sure it felt right back years ago, but think of how much the product has improved since then. You can grandfather all cur
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by bskinny129 6y ago
And while you're here, have you read Joseph Tainter's "Collapse of Complex Societies"? He is a very underrated thinker in the lack-of-progress area you've shown interest in.
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by bskinny129 6y ago
I've been using Stripe for several years and love it. Switching to payment intents this year was seamless. One thing I'd love you guys to do is create your own QuickBooks connection app. Most companies offer their own - yours is t
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by bskinny129 7y ago
Methane doesn't have a half-life, but you are correct it doesn't stay around forever. In about a decade it will react to become carbon dioxide and water vapor, which both contribute to warming themselves. Scientists know this when
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by bskinny129 8y ago
I see it more as a stop-gap. Reducing some of the damage transitioning to renewable energy over the next 1-3 decades. And optimistically doing my small part.
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by bskinny129 8y ago
Approval accepted and I will stay away from the kool-aid.
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by bskinny129 8y ago
I would argue being vegan is a very hard change, equivalent in my mind to asking people who care about the environment to never fly or get in a car with an internal combustion engine. Those people exist, but man is that a lot to ask! It is
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by bskinny129 8y ago
No vig The tough part about a problem of massive scale is no solution is good enough. So you sit around debating a global carbon tax for decades while attacking any other effort that is an incremental approach?
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by bskinny129 8y ago
Hopefully this is a more palatable solution for skeptics than a big carbon tax or even doing nothing. There is an obvious connection between cars and airplanes spewing gunk into the air, you don't need to make a case with global warmin
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by bskinny129 8y ago
> A Climeworks app could be installed on my smartphone, he explained. It could then be activated by my handset’s location services. “You fly over here to Europe,” he explained, “and the app tells you that you have just burned 1.7 tons of
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by bskinny129 8y ago
It was also fun diving into React Native for the first time, I learned a lot. I used a starter kit ( https://market.nativebase.io/view/react-native-fiber-firebas... ) I would definitely recommend as it provided a lot mor
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by bskinny129 8y ago
I started https://pledgebalance.com/ in February and just launched an iOS beta group this month. It's an app to balance the negative impact of your daily travel with tiny payment that goes 100% to carbon offsets. My dr
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by bskinny129 8y ago
go on...
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by bskinny129 8y ago
> What if I just can’t avoid that flight, or cut down on driving? If you simply can’t make every change that’s needed, consider offsetting your emissions with a trusted green project > we are still decades away from commercial flights
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by bskinny129 8y ago
This is exactly why I think offsets are a better short-term solution. Don't travel is too big of an ask even for the "eco aware". Would they pay an extra 17 cents to offset their driving that day or $3 for a flight across the
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by bskinny129 8y ago
I'll have to check them out, thanks for sharing. I did hear of another blockchain carbon project, but this one seems more promising at first glance.
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by bskinny129 8y ago
It does seem tricky. A worthy adversary even. Look 10 years out in the future though and I think it is easy to imagine 1) many more people care about this 2) the urgency they feel is increased. Can we start with the Patagonias of the world
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by bskinny129 8y ago
I believe a business model helps align incentives and increases potential scale. Certainly things can evolve, but the plan is no cut from users and charge businesses a markup to balance employee commute and flights. Hopefully can make it in
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by bskinny129 8y ago
As long as those houses don't burn down...
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by bskinny129 8y ago
For now money will be passed along to the best-in-class organizations doing hands-on carbon removal projects - I believe there are several excellent non-profits with the right efficiency and transparency. Yet even though these great organiz
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by bskinny129 8y ago
I'm working on a way to bring dollars to carbon removal, whether as simple as planting trees or investing in these more advanced upcoming technologies. It is an app with a personal pledge to balance the negative impact of your own driv
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by bskinny129 8y ago
Great timing! I also believe it takes personal actions, not waiting on someone else. My personal pledge is to balance the negative impact of my driving and flying. If you are interested, check out the app I'm building for it: https:&#
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by bskinny129 9y ago
I just started reading a book that got me thinking about this - Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue [0] If you can remove just a couple of the worst actors from the internet, does it have an outsized ben
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486 Unique Landing Pages in 21 Days(medium.com)
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by bskinny129 9y ago
Hey Tony - I've been planning on reaching out to you. I've run Breakout Mentors ( https://breakoutmentors.com/ ) for almost 7 years now (mostly Bay Area, some online) so one of the longest for the hot kid coding spa
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Role Models for Girl Coders(breakoutmentors.com)
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