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millettjon··on Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
In my experience, informing the bank of travel makes no difference. They block regardless even when I inform and even for foreign charges that appear with regular frequency.
millettjon··on Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking
This reminds me of when I learned programming with no internet and minimal docs. Everything was an experiment!
millettjon··on A Layman’s Intro to Western Classical Music
The podcast Meet The Composer is also excellent. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/528124256/meet-the-composer
millettjon··on The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End
In Chile mortgages are denominated in a separate currency UF which is inflation adjusted. So the wealth transfer goes the loan holder.
millettjon··on Show HN: Lisp Shell
See also clojure shell https://github.com/dundalek/closh
millettjon··on Elon Musk gives first glimpse inside Tesla Model 3 production line
Good to see them pushing the boundaries. The payoff will be huge if they can achieve faster velocity of iterative improvements.
millettjon··on Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails
In fact they are in at least some cases. https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/979489136439693313
millettjon··on Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails
They could easily route riskier traffic over a separate set of ips and domains without affecting delivery of other domains. This is standard practice in the industry.
millettjon··on How and why I run my own DNS servers
Not sure in his case, but I keep my dns configuration in git and deploy over ssh git pull followed by a dns server restart. I prefer ssh as I know better how to secure that and it seems like less attack surface.
millettjon··on Dynamicland
I would be happy to donate if that would support open sourcing enough to bootstrap this in other locations.
millettjon··on A newly discovered moon tunnel
There are moonquakes so not completely dead. https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/15mar_moonquakes.html
millettjon··on Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse
I orded a librem5 for this among other reasons. https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
millettjon··on Wolf Puppies Are Adorable, Then Comes the Call of the Wild
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)

Several generations of selective breeding was enough to produce tame foxes.

millettjon··on The Cryptocurrency Singularity
If you live under the influence of a failing government, the liquidity of bitcoin may well be higher that the local failin currency as you can move value to/from the outside world.
millettjon··on The Cryptocurrency Singularity
Old joke from engineering school: How did the economist cross the river? He assumed a boat.
millettjon··on The Cryptocurrency Singularity
I think it has high utility anywhere outside of the US and EU. There are billions of people that don't have access to stable currencies or reasonable banking.
millettjon··on EleVR leaving Y Combinator Research
I and my children are big fans of your work. THANK YOU! I show much of your work to kids in our 18 student community home school we run in rural Chile. I wish there was more financial support for your team. I would definitely support via patreon or similar. Good luck. You are an inspiration to many :).
millettjon··on Show HN: Bitcoin investing using Dollar Cost Averaging strategy
There are many currencies that do swing as wildly as bitcoin and we do not refer to those as pryamid schemes.
millettjon··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
Functional package management like nix or guix.
millettjon··on Climate Impacts of Biking vs. Driving
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss574

Also Google Soil Carbon Cowboys.

There used to be many tens of millions of bison living on North American grasslands.

millettjon··on Climate Impacts of Biking vs. Driving
This completely ignores the fact that grain fed factory cows are a problem but pastured cows actually store carbon in the grass roots and also reduce emissions by not tilling, and using less fossil fuels, fertilizers, and herbicides.

Protein doesn't directly fuel exercise. Most people on paleo type diets target a specific number of grams of protein for muscle maintenance and use carbs or fat to fuel the exercise. So biking more distance would mean eating more rice or potatoes or coconut oil for fuel. So the CO2 impact of the biking calories would be similar to the vegan levels.

millettjon··on Snap values itself at nearly $24B with its IPO pricing
Does anyone have a by country breakdown of snapchat users and growth? In Chile in my kids circle of friends, they used it a bit last year but have all deleted it now in favor of musically. Everyone here (kids and adults) also have whatsapp and I think the value of snapchat is even further diminished now that whatsapp is starting to clone some of the features.
millettjon··on Copper is key in burning fat
Chris Masterjohn just releases a podcast on managing copper status. https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2017/02/03/manage-copper-stat...

I haven't listened to this one yet but typically his stuff is top notch.

millettjon··on Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]
Does your source account for number of miles driven per capita?
millettjon··on Show HN: Anycomplete
What are the privacy implications of this? Is there a duck duck go version?
millettjon··on Ask HN: What's your backup solution?
I use borg for laptops and servers. I use syncthing for (android) phones and tablets to sync photos/videos to home server where they are then backed up by borg.

In the past, I have used rdiff-backup and tarsnap.

millettjon··on Snapchat has reportedly filed confidentially for its massive IPO
Just an anecdote but my kids (2 10 year olds in Chile) use Instagram and Snapchat about the same. They use Whatsapp and Musically several times more frequently.
millettjon··on Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Science
If a large portion of the population does not value or understand science, how can you have a rational debate on values?
millettjon··on Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
I deleted my Facebook account and suggest others do the same.
millettjon··on Mars: Inside the High-Risk, High-Stakes Race to the Red Planet
Mars is just the first step. The more environments we habitate (ceres, europa, titan, venus etc), the less the probability that they would all be affected by a disaster.
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