millettjon

I learned to drive a small manual shift tractor at 7 and mowed a 4 acre lawn with lots of trees and bushes. Also snowmobile and motor boat.

freedom

I agree. They should start by deploying local solar in the huge and already impacted active mining areas.

They are starting to ramp up solar only in the last year or two. Endesa, the main hydro company, recently gave up fighting to construct 5 dams in the south due to persistent opposition over the last several years. Hopefully this will accelerate the solar deployments even more. The main mining company CODELCO is state owned. Endesa and CODELCO basically try to do whatever they feel like unless there is enough grass roots opposition. There is also a huge potential for wind generation in Chile which they are only starting to use.

In Chile, the mining companies in the North use a disproportionate amount of energy. They are located in one of the driest deserts in the world and could easily supply their power needs from solar with minimal impact. Instead they continually fight to build dams in pristine temperate rain forest in the South.

Unreliability of wind power generate can be largely mitigated by interconnecting disparate wind farms spread over a large area.

you jest but this is actually a valid point.

Radiolab did a story about this. http://www.radiolab.org/story/cathedral/

There is a related Radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/shrink/

This might be useful for password recovery in some scenarios.

The fact that some governments don't do it is precisely the point. This project would allow identities to exist outside the control of the local government. The identities would be accessible by local communities, competing local governments, foreign governments, NGOs and others.

And what would happen if we took those same actions today? Cultural notions about what is acceptable behavior have also evolved. Microsoft's behavior may have been accepted 100 years ago, but not today when there is more freedom of choice.

It is not hatred, decades more of experience. Throughout the 90's and early 2000's Microsoft abused their monopoly position to the detriment of many. Open source options were much more limited then than now. The only reason Microsoft is changing now is that they have no choice.

That's true. However, being on Mars would allows us to re colonize Earth N years after a cataclysmic event.

There are plenty of people that do use ssh for the bulk of their work. In that scenario, these sorts of optimizations are quite useful.

I build a similar library that does exactly this and have used it internally for a couple of years. The approach complements ansible quite nicely. For simple setups it is easier to read and modify. It is also less learning curve for the other developers.

Scratch is great for making animated comics. It appeals to girls as well as boys. I taught kids from 6 to 12 years last year. Kids older than that got bored with it. Highly recommended.

I've lived in Chile 8 years and haven't seen any racism first hand. I see it all the time in Michigan even within my own family. The racism that does exist is concentrated towards Peruvian immigrants and Mapuche.

The much larger problems are class and sex discrimination. There is definitely a "nanny" class that the middle/upper income people view differently and vice versa. You would be largely exempt from this as a foreigner and would have no problems interacting with both groups. For women, the sexism is an obstacle although not a huge one. Offhand I can think of five female entrepreneurs I know personally in the tourism industry. They are from Chile, Cuba, Austria, US, and Argentina.

Chileans are overall very respectful of foreigners. They are self conscious due to Chile's small population and are open with foreigners and appreciate what they bring to the table.

There are very few black people. I have talked to a few that are US basketball players on contract to local teams for a year or two. They generally seem to enjoy the experience. Brazil has more blacks but it also has more corruption, more crime, and a higher cost of living.

Whatever you decide, I highly recommend living abroad as there are few better learning experiences.

It works well for me. I've been in Puerto Varas, Chile for the last 8 years and quite happy.

This article is disingenuous. Does capitalism get credit for all the miners that have died in the past as well?

A few points: 1) The rescue was financed by the government as the company couldn't afford it. 2) The rescue operation would not have been necessary if the company had maintained two escape routes with ladders as mandated by law. They maintained a single one without a ladder. 3) To the extent that capitalism helps it is because people choose to employ it as a tool. Chile and others did save Chile.

Disclaimer: I live in Chile.

I run a script every 15 minutes from cron that updates my iptables rules based on a whitelist of dynamic dns entries. That lets me logon from my laptop wherever I happen to be.

If it is just one task, why do you even need cron? Just use a simple daemon process that sleeps for a bit and then checks for work?

I had this same though recently after thinking about how much shrub/tree/grass growth I have pruned out of my yard over the last 4 years ;-). Keeping a compost pile of all trimmings keeps this in perspective. Conversely, the amount of mass left after you burn wood is quite minimal. There was a nice scene about that topic in the move "Smoke". Screenplay dialog here: http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/smoke-script-tr...

The fact that people respond with knee jerk reactions applies across all facets of society and is an orthogonal problem that should be independently addressed. In these cases, more evidence is both beneficial and necessary. The police will only fear youtube to the extent that their public image is already tarnished.

Chile

I would have liked to have seen marketing dollars per units sold. How long will it take for TMobile to get back the 100M they spent on marketing? This is Google's first offering in a new market and the limited marketing will buy them time to ramp up operations in a controlled manner.