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Vultr is pretty well known amongst the small technically innovative "cloud" hosting companies, and IMO has better offerings than DO. They also have a peering agreement with Backbla…

> This keeps getting repeated.. but when I was studying, I bought used IKEA furniture, moved it around several times to different apartments, and then sold it again when I moved fr…

Sell all your furniture and all but irreplaceable and critical belongings, possibly including selling any cars you may have. Use a few thousand dollars of that money for airfare or…

I'll third this recommendation as well. I find them slightly easier to use than DO, and they have free transit to Cloudflare and Backblaze B2.

The point is that all technology is a tool. Whether it be writing, calculators, or various narrow AI software. We can either bemoan the loss of a now-less-useful skill (memorizatio…

> In fact, [writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which…

Greater control of our physical environment.

The number hasn't really changed, it's just been measured with increasing precision. It is rather unlikely to be wrong given measurements via various methods are all in agreement. …

Thanks for your civil engagement on what is often a contentious topic. While not a perfect representation of purchases, I believe the EPA chart (Fig. ES-3) I referred to shows the …

If oil companies have been campaigning specifically to deceive customers about the potential harms those customers may cause, then that should be what they are "held responsible" f…

Yet these companies aren't the ones actually burning the oil, are they? They merely sell the product which others then burn. How can you hold only them responsible but excuse the p…

It's even older; there's a decent blip in the 1830s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=institutional+...

I highly recommend this as well, although I just use it for managing snapshots on my NAS. For backup I use hourly & daily kopia backups that are then rcloned to an external drive a…

That is an age-old question: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/

You're mixing up responsibility and restitution. "It's my fault" is exactly taking responsibility.

I've had a good experience with Kopia [0] for over a year. Linux and Windows boxes all writing to the same repository, which is synchronized to both B2 and a portable drive every n…

Why would you want to bring it back? There are literal gigatons of useful material 'up there', perfectly usable in-place (or anywhere that's not down a well) with low effort. Even …

I use maddy + dovecot. maddy's IMAP implementation is good for small stuff (and trivial to set up!), but still performs very slow for few-GB inboxes or larger.

Only if you make workspace-specific settings changes.

Yes, but the point of publishing is not to inform the public or media - the point is to communicate scientific results to others working in one's field. Expecting it to be well exp…

A reference would be the video referring to another paper (or video). That's difficult to extract from the video unless the publisher is going to fully annotate it - and if that's …

I personally preferred The Better Angels of our Nature [0] as a deeper look focusing on the assorted statistics. Enlightenment Now recycles a lot of it and summarizes. There's some…

Dark matter isn't adding hidden variables, it's identifying that there is a variable present which we don't know the origin of.

Exactly - often people forget the 'dark' in 'dark matter' just means 'we have no idea what it is'! All dark matter researchers would love for it to become ' matter'. It's not like …

Are you thinking of Timescape Cosmology [0]? I think it's a great explanation for dark energy that should be further explored. A summary is that due to the large difference in grav…