bloudermilk

Broadly speaking, I think there are two kinds of companies you want to look for:

* Those which directly aim to reduce or sequester emissions

* Those which could deploy technologies to lower their emissions and save money

You can find examples of these in literally every sector. This is a blessing because it means there is a ton of demand. It's also a curse since it can be hard to pick a niche if you don't happen to have some kind of specialization (e.g. transportation or agriculture).

I'm actively looking for clients that fit both of those categories. I'd be happy to chat about collaborating or any of this if you reach out via email (see profile).

If you're mathematically oriented, you could look at it this way: Global population is one of four terms in the [Kaya identity][0]. A lower population equals less emissions, especially in countries with high GDP and energy intensity. It seems logical enough to me that choosing not to have children is an indirect but sane way to limit one's emissions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaya_identity

Please reach out if you're still looking! I'm drumming up projects and will have work for UX/UI designers, software engineers, data scientists, copywriters, and more. My email is in my profile

I reached a point last year where working on frivolous tech products made me guilty and depressed. As a result I've spent the past several months pivoting my software consulting career to be focused on sustainability. My strategy so far is to:

* Understand the science behind the causes and effects that make up the broad problem of "climate change" * Learn as much as I can about current policies, technologies, strategies, etc * Read well-regarded books on the above topics (e.g. I just finished Koomey's [Cold Cash, Cool Climate][0]) * Observe/follow leaders in the space * Meet people who know and care about protecting our environment * Find solutions where I can contribute my software expertise to the greatest effect

I'm just scratching the surface but there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is a tremendous amount of work being done across major sectors like energy, transportation, building, manufacturing, etc. that is both fulfilling and well-funded.

I'd be delighted to connect with any other HN'ers who want to collaborate or chat. Email in my profile

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Cash-Cool-Climate-Science-Based/...

> In fact, more than a century has passed and David’s sealed bottle garden is still thriving and robust as can be. With thriving plant life, despite not watering it since 1972.

"more than half a century" ?

Disappointed to see you getting downvoted regardless of the efficacy of your concept. Haters gon’ hate. I hope you won’t let it deter you.

I sympathize with the premise of your argument but disagree with you conclusion in this case. High quality typefaces are fundamental to any digital product within the government, commercial, and public sectors. In my opinion, this is a great contribution to the commons.

> The concept of resisting government requests for information is well established.

Well established for whom? For many poor Americans, the thought of resisting a local PD seems impossible, let alone a federal agent who comes knocking. Try to imagine being on your night shift at a rural Motel 6 when a few strange individuals start waving badges, making requests, maybe threatening to escalate things if you don't play along. Maybe you would have the courage to stand up to them, but I think a lot of people would fall to the pressure and abide by the request. One big difference is privilege.

I believe ICE should be responsible for illegally attaining this information. They should also bear the cost of educating the Motel 6 workforce on their rights to resist requests from law enforcement agencies.

Agree with your critique of Wolff. I’m on a similar quest and have some resources you might find interesting. Feel free to reach out on gmail–same handle.

That's what makes cooperation an important aspect of these types of ideologies. In Humanizing The Economy[0], the author describes successful cooperative movements from around the world that are based on localized democratic principles but leverage large-scale cooperation to organize at scale.

[0]: https://www.newsociety.com/Books/H/Humanizing-the-Economy

> Noteworthy is that cows visit the CowToilet voluntarily. The visit to the toilet is combined with the receival of their daily portion of feed.

"Voluntarily"... right

I think we have to look pre-industrialization to see fundamentally different ways of organizing production and work. The digital age has certainly sped things up, but the 20th century was full of bullshit too.

The example you make here is exactly what I'm referring to when I say the "abstraction leaks". From the homepage:

> Kweb ... virtually eliminates the separation between browser and server from the programmer’s perspective.

In my opinion, we can't say the separation has been "eliminated" if I'm constantly having to ask myself "should I handle this event on the server or the client via `onImmediate`?"

What seems more likely to happen, is that inexperienced developers simply won't ask the question at all and months later the customer will ask why their dashboard page is taking 60 seconds to load. The senior engineers will be tasked to fix it only to find out that the page is making dozens or hundreds or thousands of N+1 round trips to the server.

This has been my experience being asked to come in to fix MeteorJS apps. Teams of web developers not understanding that the client/server interface is not free and that poor engineering practices have severe compound effects.

The problem with this approach is that the “division” is so fundamental to the performance of web applications that it can’t simply be abstracted away. When real applications encounter latency and unreliable connections at scale the abstraction will leak. At that time teams will be forced to dedicate efforts just to overcome the deficiencies in the architecture.

Perhaps the iPhone XS could support switching via its new dual sim feature?

For those who aren't familiar with his work, Richard Wolff is the author of [Democracy at Work][0] and strong proponent of worker owned and governed businesses.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-at-Work-Cure-Capitalism/dp/...

I have multiple times. I came to believe that night owls and morning people both want to achieve the same thing; a few hours of uninterrupted work. I had success with both. The difference is that morning routines take more discipline, while being a night owl just takes a bit of willpower and stimulants. Ultimately I found that I preferred being up early and watching the natural world waking up, beating everyone else to the start of the day, and feeling ready to sleep at a reasonable hour. Learning how to go to sleep was the hardest part and probably varies a lot per person. For me the trick was getting in bed and reading with bedtime tea for a while before I wanted to sleep.

P.S watching the sunrise is a secret reward morning people get, and it’s beautiful.

I had the exact same experience. Customer for years from the early public beta and watched their service get progressively worse post-acquisition. Eventually when they made the switch to BBVA my account was unable to be moved over despite months of back and forth with their support team. Eventually I switched to Schwab and I’ve been a happy customer ever since. It’s more work to manage, but I get so much more utility out of my money today.

Fantastic article. As an engineering manager working for a lot of young startups, I’ve found technical debt to be inevitable. The author seems to have come to the same conclusion I have: embrace technical debt by leveraging it conciously and tracking it carefully.

Agreed, skipped over these. The rest of the content was golden.

Damn good marketing

> Of our 9,813,747 accounts...

Stack Exchange has less than 10 million registered users? That’s surprisingly low even for Stack Overflow alone. I wonder how many MAUs they get...

I'd argue that what you need is not 40GB of storage, it's enough storage and a great service. To me, paying $8.25/mo is a no-brainer for the quality and reliability of the service alone. Having enough storage space so that I never have to think twice about uploading something is just a nice bonus.

This is true, but IMO it's not a great replacement. I imported my old Rdio library this way and it's effectively useless. I've had to become a playlist-first user as well, but boy I miss having a browsable catalog of all "my music"...

Thanks for pointing that out!

Google claims[0] the TPU is many times faster for the workloads they've designed it for.

> On our production AI workloads that utilize neural network inference, the TPU is 15x to 30x faster than contemporary GPUs and CPUs.

As far as I know this will be the first opportunity for the public to prove those claims, as until now they've not been available on GCP. I don't mean to sound skeptical–I'm quite confident they're not exaggerating.

[0]: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/quantifying-the...

Are they "close enough"? How can we be sure which wallets belong to who? As far as I know (which is admittedly little in this space) the very point is that we can't be sure. So really there's no assurance at all.

In the US, we have laws and the SEC which require executives to be transparent about important aspects of their business, such as their personal equity interest. In general, corporations are accountable to their shareholders by law.

What about crypto currencies? Obviously there's nothing immoral about the founders holding equity in their own currency. In fact, as an investor I'd prefer to know that the founders had some skin in the game! But, the idea that I don't have any transparency or accountability to protect my interest is unsettling. Further, the notion that a founder could just liquidate and walk one day with no recourse doesn't leave me with very much assurance that my investment is safe.

I think coming to terms with the morality is a fun thought experiment but not entirely useful. We should be thinking about how to apply the right amounts of transparency and regulation to keep the public safe.

These are all very good questions! I wasn't trying to pass judgement one way or the other, I just think it's an interesting discussion point. Certainly, if crypto currency is going to stay mainstream we (the US) will be regulating a lot of this in short order.

The idea that you can invent a crypto currency, mine the earliest (and therefore easiest-to-mine) tokens yourself, build a business/community/market, then get incredibly rich strikes me as incredibly shady. In theory it's not that different from founding a company, selling some of the shares to investors, keeping "founder shares" for yourself, then growing the company. But somehow it seems much shadier?

I guess the difference is: in a company an investor can look at a cap table and say "that's a reasonable number of shares for the founders to keep" whereas the coin "investors" can't know how much of outstanding equity belongs to the founders.