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by tbirrell 7y ago
> more cost effective and less environmentally destructive methods There are few options that are both these things. Which is not an argument to not fund R&D to reach that point, simply that as of right now, precious few things have
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Thats is the only reason not counting infrastructure, storage, peak-usage logistics, winter-usage logistics. Oh, and the fact that weather is temperamental, not consistent, not under our control at all, or able to change to meet our demand.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Eh, its not really that bad. The variable latency needs to be much more extreme to be noticeable. 250ms is about the threshold where I start to feel hampered. So going from 34ms->78ms->150ms->56ms->14ms really isn't an issu
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by tbirrell 7y ago
No it isn't. It tells us that more than half of searches are 0-click. It may not be _exact_ but it is meaningful.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Medium keeps track by setting a cookie. If you have a ad-blocker that blocks cookies, or use incognito, or clear the cookie by hand, then medium won't know the difference.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
This. Expanding words and phrases out of their acronyms, abbreviations, or shorted versions lends an air of genuineness and intention to what you are saying.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Well sure, when talking about experience. But not wealth. A millionaire living in my city is objectively wealthy regardless of age. I'm not "wealthy" by any means. Despite that, my income is top 1% for my age-group. However t
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Extensive experience supporting and updating legacy PHP. Previous experience with WP. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbirrell/
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by tbirrell 7y ago
I feel like age shouldn't factor in, only location. Granted expenses will be different based on age, but they don't seem to be using expenses to determine "rich-ness" at all.
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Ask HN: Digital vs. DVD for Media Library
1 points by tbirrell 7y ago|0 comments
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by tbirrell 7y ago
This is not an example of Appeal to Authority because Ben Franklin is an accepted authority. If all parties agree on the reliability of an authority in the given context it becomes a valid inductive argument. Otherwise every Citation or Sou
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by tbirrell 7y ago
More importantly, I don't believe we could prevent another 9/11 even with government mandated backdoors.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Benjamin Franklin is a Founding Father and has been generally accepted as an authority for more than 200 years, especially on the subject of freedoms and rights. He was a renown political theorist, politician, civic activist, statesman, and
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by tbirrell 7y ago
The truck would have to get 50-60 miles to the gallon to even begin to be competitive with a VPN.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
What if I want to take my data back? Is there a way to export everything I've added?
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Ask HN: How do you learn a new programming language without low level goals?
1 points by tbirrell 7y ago|2 comments
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by tbirrell 7y ago
But its still easier to break into tech.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Its missing the bar from the pedals to the back tire. If you sat on this bike, all your weight would rest on the joint under the seat, bending the front half of the frame away from the back tire, at least sending the pedals into the ground,
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Interesting concept. This is similar to something I've been thinking of building for some time. My concern is that its a paid subscription service. What happens to all my info if I stop paying? Can I download it? If so, what format doe
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by tbirrell 7y ago
What prevents hostyoself.com (or more likely, a malicious actor that hacked HYS) from executing a MITM attack on everything?
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Depending on scale, its usually easier to spin a new server than prevent malware.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
I like it so far, but J to navigate down and K to navigate up is not intuitive at all. It should be flipped to match our Left-to-Right-Top-to-Bottom understanding of layouts
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by tbirrell 7y ago
I am the same way. I have trouble falling asleep (will toss and turn for 45 minutes to 2 hours), so I'm loathe to wake up before I absolutely have to, because once I'm asleep, I want to stay that way. As a result, I just schedule
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Ask HN: What information would you include in a digital survival kit?
2 points by tbirrell 7y ago|0 comments
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Pursuant to the arguments that ships are "even worse" than planes, it is worth noting that a lot of ships (especially cargo) are built specifically to burn bunker fuel (residual oil left over after gasoline, diesel and other light
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Location: Austin Tx Remote: Preferred, not required. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: LA/EMP, PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Linux, Bash Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbirrel
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Is this the actual curriculum digitized? Or the equivalent of, sourced from around the internet?
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by tbirrell 7y ago
I keep meaning to set one up one of these days. Does anyone know what effect a Pi-hole has on internet speed? I play a few games where latency is a big deal, and don't really want to artificially throttle my internet.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Simple economics won't allow something to become cheaper just because its a shame that some people don't have access. The goal here isn't to provide elite, one-on-one tutoring with experts, its to provide auxiliary help for t

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