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That talk was inspirational, as was the follow up ~10 years in progress video that came up next. I'm going to give FreedomBox a try. It is sad that I've never heard of this until n…

More clarification on the topic would be nice. When I open the Signal app right now, I am nagged to "Create a PIN. PINs keep information that's stored with Signal encrypted. Remind…

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. has 434,164,946 acres of “cropland”—land that is able to be worked in an industrial fashion (monoculture). This is the pri…

> Please try to use actual logic, data, and science, not trivially disprovable claims. Take your own advice, Monsanto

What's wrong with that site? I've been listening to the podcast hosted there, Econtalk, for the last year+. Do they have some bias in the grander scheme of economics? The guests an…

I wouldn't say that's the problem. You do not need to register a new account to see an instance's timeline. For example this page shows the instance's timeline without logging in: …

On the android app I use, switching between accounts is as simple UI wise as switching to different instances (or spaces or whatever the top level division is called) in Slack. In …

I've seen electric companies bill like that to reflect the realities of power generation and usage, but it's applied equally to all consumers of electricity at the time of day. Usi…

This is absurdly myopic. The only way it's 100% along party lines is if you ignore EVERYTHING else that happens in politics except the issue of Russian influence in the 2016. I cou…

I give a lot of page views to those ad-heavy online unit conversion calculators that are quite simple. While the page itself really just implements basic arithmetic, I have no idea…

True for me. Using spacemacs which uses vi style keybindings, so most shortcuts are key sequences instead of chords. I think its faster for me to press two or three characters on t…

To be cynical regarding that link, there are 2 separate facts presented but not a good explanation of why the two are related. 1) A chinese electricity company began collecting wir…

Failure of an ecosystem is very severe. What does the base rate fallacy test have to say about playing russian roulette? No one talks about the 5/6 times it doesn't cause any probl…

I've got to visit something similar at Sandia National Labs. https://energy.sandia.gov/energy/renewable-energy/solar-ener... (The video at about 6 minutes shows cool footage of spa…

Yea, you probably can if you want and don't give up. It's not apparent to me if you want to be a quant, or you want a job that earns a lot of money and is considered prestigious by…

You ever hear of "early retirement extreme" (don't be scared by the cheesy misleading name, it's probably the lowest quality part of the blog/book). I discovered it in my mid 20's …

At the risk of being judgemental without knowing you: 1) Are there really that many things you can't do in the world with that salary? 2) Are you choosing a fair group of people to…

Thank you for the response and engaging with me. I'm sorry you were insulted, I should have written a longer reply and left less room for reading between the lines. I'd really enjo…

This reasoning leads to praising blackhat SEO, spammers, ICO scammers, etc. I'm sure they do plenty of technically clever things. And they also make plenty of money, therefore via …

My life's fine and more importantly I sleep great at night and am proud to tell anyone what I do for work. I've completely plateaued on the happiness vs money graph and you couldn'…

No, because the shares actually represent ownership in a company that's engineering and building rockets. I believe a Ponzi scheme is when you pay "interest" to early investors, vi…

As a human, social, user of Mastodon, yes that's totally fine with me. 50k followers is absurd, I have maybe in the 100's of social connections, and realistically only maintain in …

It is social media, why does this need to be handled at the protocol level? Post a final message on the "You@ServerA" account saying "This is my last post here, keep talking to me …

>Mastodon is like email. Then why did you write this sentence and not "ActivityPub is like email"? Mastodon would be like Hotmail, right?

How many centralized social networks have failed too? Most of them. A lot of successful things have had similarities to previous failures. The first step is to actually try somethi…