ponyfleisch

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by ponyfleisch 5y ago
What I want to say is: atmospheric carbon capture is not the deus ex machina that one might be tempted to believe it is after seeing news of startups like Climeworks doing it. I responded to a comment implying that if there is a philantropi
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by ponyfleisch 5y ago
I think your perception of the ease of/effort required for atmospheric carbon capture is off by a few orders of magnitude.
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by ponyfleisch 5y ago
And iOS Safari shows it as a mostly green mess. After tapping the image to get to the real .j2, in the page itself it’s a png.
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by ponyfleisch 5y ago
Hi Jeff Did you get 750-800 out of the box with a Pi4 and USB ethernet? Asking because mine was around 300 and needed some manual tweaking (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231705 )
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by ponyfleisch 5y ago
For those who get poor performance out of this, I recommend https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/scaling.ht... I had 300-400Mbit/s out of the box and got it up to ~900 with the right se
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
> Does paper cash printed by government make more sense? Than energy wasting cash computed by chinese miners and (in the early days) a select group of early adopters? Yes, it makes more sense.
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
Would you mind linking the law you're talking about?
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
I think it's really just more of the ruthless pragmatism that makes this place so efficient and a consequence of land scarcity. Housing is limited and leaving it up to the free market would exacerbate wealth inequality. Therefore the g
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
> Also criticizing the government is a crime and saying the wrong thing on facebook can land you in prison. Would you mind linking the specific law(s) you talk about here?
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
> There is no better way that a developer can earn outsized riches than blockchain and cryptocurrency. You are solving tough problems in difficult, constrained environments and are rewarded extremely well for doing so by a global group o
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
A /16 has ~65k unique IPs.
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
For people who are of the opinion that expensive preparation for low probability events is untenable for elected governments because it would be seen as wasteful: My home country (Switzerland) has a conscription army. ~160k people, each wit
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
Yes, that wasn't my point. I find the term "synonymous" when used for unambiguous numerical values that are off by 1% strange. But i'm not a native english speaker. Roughly 1% of people born in the 17th century were not
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
Yes, I was aware that years not being zero-indexed can create confusion, but I never noticed this particular consequence of that.
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
I get your point, but would you say "a 99 year period" is synonymous with "a century"?
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by ponyfleisch 6y ago
Wow. A linguistical off-by-one bug. I have never noticed that before. Interestingly, Wikipedia contradicts itself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600s > The period from 1600 to 1699, synonymous with the 17th ce
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by ponyfleisch 7y ago
I've met quite a few libertarians in Singapore but i continue to be puzzled by why someone with libertarian leanings would choose to live here. Can you explain why it appeals to you? Do the low taxes make up for the limitations on pers
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by ponyfleisch 7y ago
pro: * Many overseas educated locals helping with cultural cross pollination * Locals often live with their parents until their late twenties (when they get married), so there are a lot of young people with low personal burn rates * Lots of
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by ponyfleisch 7y ago
Ironically, i come across quite a lot of outrageous health claims in Singapore. Cancer-curing smoothies for example.
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by ponyfleisch 7y ago
> Having a bunch of people paid 5 times what you are coming to your area is never fun. It's probably a net positive overall though, especially if the money these people are paid (and spend locally) is coming from other parts of the
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by ponyfleisch 7y ago
> Tofu is _never_ mixed with meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapo_doufu
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
But unless you use server push, it still is an additional roundtrip.
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
I have a bachelor’s degree but i know people without a degree making 130-140k USD anually in software related roles. Not quite SF/Valley rates but it goes a long way here with the low tax rates. And these are relatively young people. (
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> No I worked remote for companies in the US, which was my main willingness to live in SE asia in the first place because salaries here are crap. You can make decent money in Singapore as an expat. But the range of salaries i've see
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> In all fairness I'd be hesitant to live in Singapore on account of its high cost of living and poor work-life balance. As an expat, that would likely not affect you much. Lots of MNCs have fairly nice working hours, decent pay and
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> Their censorship regime is purely domestic. They block: -pornography -ashley madison -an admittedly very questionable "news" site targeted at Singapore but operated from the outside Further, the sale of malaysian newspapers
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
Do you have to go to an office daily? How convenient is that? Do you go out socially a lot? How are the restaurants and bars? Jakarta is the city in SEA i know the least. I spent 3 days there as a cheap backpacker 10 years ago. I remember s
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
Fair enough, but every city in malaysia feels like post apocalyptic singapore, infrastructure wise. Indonesia - not much quality of life overall.
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
why?
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> lol. nice and detailed april fools article. just wish it wasn't posted in December. > > avoid global state by having a global name that hold the state That state is not global though, you can use multiple getters from a gett

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