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esterlyon Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy

DuckDuckGo for Cascades Fumaroles. You can hike to vents emitting steam, many through glaciers. http://www.ivm-fund.org/mount-baker-volcano-fumaroles/

Also many hot springs could be potential GeoThermal candidate areas http://www.hotspringsenthusiast.com/USsprings.asp

esterlyon Learn Redis the hard way: in production

Redis is one of the most reliable pieces of software we have used. We ran it in the debugger in our staging environment for 2years hoping to supply a good bug report years ago. Zero crashes to report on in two years under cache and analytics load. Please write the book, I have always appreciated your writing.

esterlyon I am an Uber survivor

Agreed. Are down modders anonymous? Seems unfair they can take 4x the points of a contributing comment.

esterlyon Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”

DH4 and above on this outline the more likely to engage (and avoid getting mod'd down) http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

"Counterargument is contradiction plus reasoning and/or evidence. When aimed squarely at the original argument, it can be convincing."

esterlyon Let’s Encrypt 2016 in Review

Use cert bot to auto renew https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#renewing-certificate...

Also include command like below as part of your automated audit scripts:

echo | openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates

http://www.shellhacks.com/en/HowTo-Check-SSL-Certificate-Exp...

esterlyon Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck

  I'm on the waiting list for a Model 3 and plan on getting and e-bike some day http://www.ktm.com/gb/e-ride/  I own a loud KTM 300 2 stroke and a diesel truck. Tho I'll probably never sell my Harley evo, loud pipe save lives ;-)

esterlyon Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity

Carrying the financing yourself such as this local program http://www.snopud.com/home/green/solarexpress.ashx?p=1207 is beneficial to the homeowner. SolarCity lease was the least economical when we received bids. Additionally the SolarCity lease can be problematic when selling http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-23/rooftop-so.... Our local PUD financed via Credit Union showed a 6-9yr break even point, much shorter than SolarCity's lease.

esterlyon Take Light, Not Drugs: On Light Therapy

Do you do the bright in the morning and dim at night? I've found I need both plus a daylight lamp in my office.

esterlyon Take Light, Not Drugs: On Light Therapy

So true, something that works out of the box is worth it. I did the kickstarter for the Lifx on a whim as well. Dim lights are money for getting the kids to go the you-know to sleep too.

esterlyon Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods

Thanks man. I have plenty of other stuff I used rally-ing up on ;-) next time all say 'well played' instead of up vote

esterlyon Take Light, Not Drugs: On Light Therapy

Thanks for the direct source. Book marked

esterlyon Take Light, Not Drugs: On Light Therapy

Light therapy has been huge for my mental and physical health. Research lead me to purchase a light alarm clock [1] years ago. Light early in the morning has made a noticeable effect on my ability to go to sleep at night by simulating serotonin [2] In the evening we have our Lifx bulbs set to mimic sunset color and the morning mimic sunrise transition to bright white wake up hue.

1. http://www.biobrite.com/category/light-therapy/ 2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry...

esterlyon Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods

Agreed. Friends use an up vote for this parent.

esterlyon Let's Encrypt: Active Incident, DNS errors causing service disruption

We created certs with Let's Encrypt today, worked like a champ.

esterlyon Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk's Twitter Barrage

One of the folks Musk responded to, Brian Reed, did an nice job filling in the gap in this article and video http://bgr.com/2016/04/04/tesla-model-3-hidden-details-video...

esterlyon Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B

Agreed. Alaskan was one of the first to have check in kiosks and app base checkin. They just released a pre-print bag check tag as well. Best experience of any airline I have flown people and technology wise. ( I'm a former Delta Platinum miles member )

esterlyon Galaxy Explorer – open-source HoloLens application

Demo video. Cheers. https://twitter.com/HoloLens/status/712715836893433856