elago

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by elago 6y ago
That talk was inspirational, as was the follow up ~10 years in progress video that came up next. I'm going to give FreedomBox a try. It is sad that I've never heard of this until now.
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by elago 6y ago
More clarification on the topic would be nice. When I open the Signal app right now, I am nagged to "Create a PIN. PINs keep information that's stored with Signal encrypted. Remind Me Later / Create PIN". Would be intere
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by elago 6y ago
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. has 434,164,946 acres of “cropland”—land that is able to be worked in an industrial fashion (monoculture). This is the prime, level, and generally deep agricultural soil. In addition
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by elago 8y ago
What's wrong with that site? I've been listening to the podcast hosted there, Econtalk, for the last year+. Do they have some bias in the grander scheme of economics? The guests and topics always seem extremely varied, and the hos
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by elago 8y ago
I wouldn't say that's the problem. You do not need to register a new account to see an instance's timeline. For example this page shows the instance's timeline without logging in: https://mastodon.sdf.org&#x2F
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by elago 8y ago
On the android app I use, switching between accounts is as simple UI wise as switching to different instances (or spaces or whatever the top level division is called) in Slack. In two taps I can switch between tech themed and social themed
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by elago 8y ago
I've seen electric companies bill like that to reflect the realities of power generation and usage, but it's applied equally to all consumers of electricity at the time of day. Using 1000w of electricity with a 1950's toaster
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by elago 8y ago
This is absurdly myopic. The only way it's 100% along party lines is if you ignore EVERYTHING else that happens in politics except the issue of Russian influence in the 2016. I could go on and on citing examples of both parties doing a
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by elago 8y ago
I give a lot of page views to those ad-heavy online unit conversion calculators that are quite simple. While the page itself really just implements basic arithmetic, I have no idea how hard it is to get the 1st result from the search engine
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by elago 8y ago
True for me. Using spacemacs which uses vi style keybindings, so most shortcuts are key sequences instead of chords. I think its faster for me to press two or three characters on the keyboard my fingers are already on before I move them in
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by elago 8y ago
To be cynical regarding that link, there are 2 separate facts presented but not a good explanation of why the two are related. 1) A chinese electricity company began collecting wireless sensor data in 2014 2) In April 2018 their profits wer
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by elago 8y ago
Failure of an ecosystem is very severe. What does the base rate fallacy test have to say about playing russian roulette? No one talks about the 5/6 times it doesn't cause any problems.
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by elago 8y ago
I've got to visit something similar at Sandia National Labs. https://energy.sandia.gov/energy/renewable-energy/solar-ener... (The video at about 6 minutes shows cool footage of spaceship material being tested
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by elago 8y ago
Yea, you probably can if you want and don't give up. It's not apparent to me if you want to be a quant, or you want a job that earns a lot of money and is considered prestigious by a certain group of people. If you had the passion
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by elago 8y ago
You ever hear of "early retirement extreme" (don't be scared by the cheesy misleading name, it's probably the lowest quality part of the blog/book). I discovered it in my mid 20's and wish I did earlier. I coul
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by elago 8y ago
At the risk of being judgemental without knowing you: 1) Are there really that many things you can't do in the world with that salary? 2) Are you choosing a fair group of people to compare yourself with? Yes, you may be at the ABSOLUTE
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by elago 8y ago
Thank you for the response and engaging with me. I'm sorry you were insulted, I should have written a longer reply and left less room for reading between the lines. I'd really enjoy diving a little deeper into this, and really hop
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by elago 8y ago
This reasoning leads to praising blackhat SEO, spammers, ICO scammers, etc. I'm sure they do plenty of technically clever things. And they also make plenty of money, therefore via economic theory they're a valuable asset to our co
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by elago 8y ago
My life's fine and more importantly I sleep great at night and am proud to tell anyone what I do for work. I've completely plateaued on the happiness vs money graph and you couldn't pay me enough at this point to take a job i
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by elago 8y ago
No, because the shares actually represent ownership in a company that's engineering and building rockets. I believe a Ponzi scheme is when you pay "interest" to early investors, via investments from new members. There is neve
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by elago 8y ago
As a human, social, user of Mastodon, yes that's totally fine with me. 50k followers is absurd, I have maybe in the 100's of social connections, and realistically only maintain in the dozens of meaningful conversations with people
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by elago 8y ago
It is social media, why does this need to be handled at the protocol level? Post a final message on the "You@ServerA" account saying "This is my last post here, keep talking to me with my new account: You@ServerB" Anyo
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by elago 8y ago
>Mastodon is like email. Then why did you write this sentence and not "ActivityPub is like email"? Mastodon would be like Hotmail, right?
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by elago 8y ago
How many centralized social networks have failed too? Most of them. A lot of successful things have had similarities to previous failures. The first step is to actually try something new instead of sitting around nay-saying everything. Pers
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by elago 8y ago
I'm curious how are you coming up with these economic projections? Are you running simulations? Reading reports? Are you an economist? What if China just sells to other customers? What is China subsidizes it's manufacturers, so th
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by elago 8y ago
They're a Russian company and semi-recently Trump banned their software from government agencies. People theorize they're controlled by the Russian government but I've never come across any evidence that they're anything
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by elago 8y ago
"the whole IoT thing" was ever Stallman's responsibility to stop in the first place? he wants to champion free software, not every just cause under the sun. IoT devices shipping with insecure configurations is a "failure
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by elago 8y ago
Why would they do that rather than just not submit anything and let the already broken next-best competitor win?
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by elago 8y ago
Well I hope we meet again on a thread that's a more appropriate platform to spread my lunatic gardener beliefs. I enjoyed the discussion and learned something new about the honey bee.
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by elago 8y ago
I don't have one. The pesticide issue and species collapse is one of many entry points to get people to entertain (or better participate) in restructuring all of modern agriculture. There are other reasons too (resilience, independence

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