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by mfb 2y ago
Yes, I've seen some brand new ornate/decorative lighting, usually on pedestrian- and bicycle-focused construction projects with grant funding, as it's expensive. Without those grants from regional/state agencies, a cash-
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by mfb 2y ago
So-called socially-responsible investing has been around at least since the 1970s, when anti-Apartheid mutual funds were launched. It seems like the main change with ESG is that larger firms have adopted the concept, with lower fees/ex
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by mfb 3y ago
ACE (Altamont Corridor Express) appears to be missing as well?
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by mfb 3y ago
I'd be interested to see the data re: "processing imported lumber mostly". Statewide back in 2016, California timber harvest was 1,572 MMBF; wood processing facilities received 1,483 MMBF; 11.5 MMBF flowed into California fro
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by mfb 3y ago
"no saw mills left in Northern California" - eh? This is just one company's sawmills (they are hiring): https://www.spi-ind.com/Operations/SawmillOperations
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by mfb 10y ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | San Francisco, CA | Front-End Developer | ONSITE We're building web applications that keep the Internet free, open and awesome. We want you to help: https://www.eff.org/opportuniti
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Dear President Obama: Stand Up for Strong Security(savecrypto.org)
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by mfb 11y ago
The device for measuring particulate concentration is called an aethalometer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethalometer
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by mfb 12y ago
I heard a story of the vulnerability being exploited on several sites, a new backdoor created, and then the hax0r applied the drupal update to close the door behind them. So, don't just check if the site was updated, check if the site
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by mfb 12y ago
note to self, check if site is on hacker news front page before purging stale caches!
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by mfb 12y ago
In the US it's not uncommon for protesters to have a lawyer, in the form of organizations like the National Lawyers Guild which offer legal support at demonstrations. Protesters typically scrawl the phone number for the NLG legal hotl
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by mfb 12y ago
I'd be interested to see some benchmarks comparing Linux and FreeBSD power usage. Personally I've been impressed w/ power management on FreeBSD 10 using recent hardware - once I enabled powerd and set the powerd_flags - but I
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by mfb 15y ago
We invite you to join Hackmeet, a hacktivism unconference Oct. 15th and 16th at Noisebridge. Many folks who've been involved with #occupysf and #occupyoakland will be participating. More info: https://hackmeet.org