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jbu

157 karma · joined November 13, 2013

https://uther.uk
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jbu··on WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing
One of these went up near me. Pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTkW87vmUQ
jbu··on Hydrogen production from the air
Were you thinking of methane instead of hydrogen? But the paper does seem hypy. H2 will have its place, but wire transfers electrons better than hydrogen.
jbu··on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
Ahh, you nerd swiped me. I was involved in a hi rez phone before the iphone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N80
jbu··on The tragedy of climate change science
This is not true in medical research. By induction why should it be true anywhere? The idea that scientists must never have an opinion is to dehumanise them.
jbu··on Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
I get value from using my AirPods while they last. They make my life better. Cryptocurrencies? Great if you got in at the top of the ponzi, but otherwise not.
jbu··on Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal significantly
But the whole point is to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. These just put it back in again.
jbu··on The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
All solutions should be considered. But we have solutions (electrification, present renewables) that are less risky than sunshades in many ways. Also, sunshades don't help the ocean acidification. So it'd be diverting resources to a fragile solution of a sub-problem when we only have the resources to solve the problems in an integrated way.
jbu··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
> but come on, you have to be more rational when you're playing in the $10B league.

Or, being able to choose between $10B and your values shows your character.

jbu··on Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly
Here's some documentation of me getting one running. http://www.lshift.net/blog/2015/03/31/lets-run-science-part-... In short, yes they're open, but they tend to be what I call the 'science' coding style.
jbu··on The rise of fake engine noise
Car ring-tones! yay! I want crazy frog on my tesla.
jbu··on Little Data: How do we query personal data?
http://chai.it.usyd.edu.au/Projects/Personis

Project Description

Personis supports an accretion/resolution approach to reasoning about people, places and devices. It was designed to support user control of both the information held about them and the way that it is used.

also https://github.com/jbu/personis

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