richardc323

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by richardc323 2mo ago
That is a bit extreme. Wanting to preserve the environment isn't the same as wanting to let everyone starve, it's quite the opposite. Spend a minute or two looking up soil erosion, and extrapolate 100 years.
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by richardc323 2mo ago
It depends who's definition of organic you are using. Demeter and Biogro, which are the certifications I am familiar with prohibit most conventional artificial fertilisers.
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by richardc323 2mo ago
Yes, the Green Revolution. I agree it's not black and white, which may well be an ironic turn of phrase.
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by richardc323 2mo ago
Turns out the article is on the Ammonia Energy Association website, wake up Richard.
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by richardc323 2mo ago
I grew up on an organic orchard, so don't get excited about artificial sources of nitrogen for agriculture and horticulture. It is better than getting fertiliser from fossil fuels, but it is still not great. My mind goes to energy stor
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by richardc323 9mo ago
Ha, for the last 30 years I have been convinced it was Disk Direct.
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by richardc323 1y ago
I naively sent the Docker developers a PR[1] to add this functionality into mainline Docker back in 2015. I was rapidly redirected into helping out in other areas - not having to use a registry undermined their business model too much I gue
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by richardc323 2y ago
Wow. Did you read the next three paragraphs to the end of the article: | Policymakers are now attempting to come up with solutions. “You can make solar play nice with the grids,” ... | Yet the best solution would be for energy firms to resp
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by richardc323 2y ago
You are reading that very narrowly. The paragraph is simply pointing out that solar power is cheaper when built out in a centralised way because of: * economies of scale for construction and maintenance * higher utilisation. They don&#x27
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by richardc323 3y ago
Sounds like as well as mandating limited on-duty time government needs to mandate pay for waiting time is same as pay for driving. This would reduce the incentive for drivers to drive more hours. This is not so straightforward when drivers
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by richardc323 4y ago
I suspect it is the credit card company rather than the banks that have the power to fix this, but yes the incentives seem wrong. They have successfully shifted liability for the problem to banks and merchants. Instead the innovation has go
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by richardc323 4y ago
This would be more secure than what I proposed, but requires changes that are out of the control of the credit card companies. For the card to sign the transaction, you need to add some kind of card interface to the users device. Maybe thi
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by richardc323 4y ago
Sure, there is a trade off, but they have it wrong for online fraud from stolen credit cards. The three digit CVV code should be a one time passcode (OTP). Banks have been using these since the 1990s for online logins. Using 90s technology,
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by richardc323 4y ago
For reasons I wont go into here, I built a system with a similar approach 10 years ago. The system was horizontally scaleable. There was no database tier, instead each server had a replica of the database locally which were used for reads.