ossie

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by ossie 7y ago
When Malaysia and Indonesia overtook West Africa in producing palm oil due to an "efficient" focus on large scale plantations, we decried it as another sign of Africa's regression, and in Nigeria's specific case, a sign
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by ossie 7y ago
Ok, I understand where you're coming from, and its a logical argument. However, a lot of fossil generators (esp coal) are baseload plants that stay running for system reliability. They might stay running during off-peak hours when the
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by ossie 7y ago
That is not what I was suggesting.
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by ossie 7y ago
In its base form this technology is mining a resource - carbon. Would you rather mine in areas of low or high atmospheric intensity? Would you rather capture it where you fund the whole operation yourself, or where someone else (existing po
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by ossie 7y ago
The unit economics around this are by no means perfect but the BIG point here that should probably be in all caps is that fact that the thermal process is displaced by the use of electricity. We could argue on what is used to generate said
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by ossie 7y ago
Just looked up the book (which i hadn't heard of), and it looks like its worth reading. Thanks for mentioning it!
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by ossie 7y ago
You should sit with your other co-founder(s) and present your current predicament just as you've done here. Your subsequent conversation should be weighing the cost (to the startup) of you leaving to go back to back to big tech vs. you
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by ossie 7y ago
I applaud any attempt to make open source work worthwhile to those who might not be able to continue spending the time on it without such a stipend/reward/incentive (whatever you want to call it). However, i have to admit that onc
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by ossie 10y ago
Putting Travis to the side, nobody cares about the privacy of the two ladies in the video who have been involuntarily dragged into national news? (i assume nobody asked their consent to publish the video)