josscrowcroft

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by josscrowcroft 9y ago
Again speaking from zero expertise, would it be possible to genetically engineer coral lifeforms to adapt to higher temperatures?
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by josscrowcroft 9y ago
Is improving water quality the decided-upon method for preventing (or even reversing) bleaching of coral reefs? It seems like that ship has sailed, and now more technological advances are required. Speaking from zero expertise or experience
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I think we've been with HelpScout for around 4 years at https://openexchangerates.org . The service is great, and they just seem like a really honest, switched-on team.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I am fortunate that neither work, family, nor leisure compel me to fly to (or through) the USA at any point. I intend to keep it that way.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I liked this one: https://github.com/squared-one/omniauth-unsplash/commit/072b... "... It's not really removing any password, is it? But hey, why not use the momentum ... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!&quot
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I'm curious, at that scale why don't they build their own infrastructure? Surely it would cost less?
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. I'm on at least my third reading and imagine I'll read it again. Also re-listened to Getting Things Done by David Allen. This could also be any number of times. S
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
A very well-reasoned and well-written piece. Thank you.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
Alternatively - under UBI - you may decide to work 6 hours per day, and enjoy the earned income in addition to the regular Basic Income payment, all the while knowing that you can leave (or switch employer) any time without fear of destitut
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I got the mayonnaise guy as well!
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
Good question! Neither. I write whatever is on my mind, it changes day-to-day. It's sometimes logical, rational things, plans for the day or week or a project, and sometimes it's dream recall from the night before, or pennies that
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I've been writing Morning Pages (3 x A4 pages, hand-written) every day for almost three years. Sometimes I do them in the afternoon or evening, or right before bed. Sometimes I'll only do one page, sometimes ten... A month or two
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
In 2008, his book "The Four Hour Workweek" helped me change absolutely everything in my life, and really to start living at all. Even if most of its contents could be found elsewhere, the book is something of value that didn'
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
The most shocking stats from this article that jumped out at me and made my heart sink: "The world has lost 60 percent of its population of Bornean orangutans since 1950, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
What effect could four years of Trump presidency have on such research, trials and progress? Anybody have any comments or links to related resources? Thanks in advance.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
From the outside, I'm curious if anybody here has any comment on what effect (if any) a Trump presidency could have on this and related research/progress? In all the noise of the election run, I didn't any position on control
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I use https://ipredator.se . "IPredator was launched in 2009 as a response to a growing trend of Internet censorship, in restrictive regimes as well as so-called open societies. Our main goal is to provide a seriously non-di
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I'm most proud of making Open Exchange Rates ( https://openexchangerates.org ), which grew out of a hobby project (and a desire to create a really simple API for something that had previously been annoyingly complex.) The bas
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World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns(theguardian.com)
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne (live 1968): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6wBBrTMEs So long, Leonard.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I enjoyed your post, great and very real writing. Thank you for publishing.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
That's just the kind of coverage I hoped for, thank you.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
> calling mayday gives the rescuing vessel significant rights to the ship and cargo What do you mean by this? Is there a legal case for a rescuing vessel to commandeer the ship and cargo somehow?
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I recall one major case (the Costa Concordia) in which the captain abandoned the sinking ship, survived, and later faced prosecution. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16611371
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
I'm curious - and surprised nobody seems to have mentioned or asked - what happens to all the sailors working aboard the ships, which are now stranded offshore? Do they continue working aboard, knowing that they probably won't be
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
This might be a naive question, but has there ever been a successful non-profit bank-like financial institution? As I was reading this article I thought of iPredator.se, which provides a non-tracked VPN service. Their USP is "We don&#x
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
There goes my Saturday morning! Time to go stick my wrists in a bucket of ice. Kudos to the developers. Really lovely game, intuitive and entertaining, well-built.
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by josscrowcroft 10y ago
Congratulations. I enjoyed the clear, transparent blog post, although my fundamental question "Will they shut down the service in the mid-to-long term or force us to become an Atlassian customer?" took some time to get an answer t

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