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Or is it more aligned with human cultural artifacts and the interests of earth? Humans are an active threat against those.

It depends what you use them for. I use one as my commuter. Most days I ride it with the motor set to just overcoming the added weight of the system plus my heavy backpack. That is uphill, against the wind both ways, of course. I only use more engine power when I have a bad day or am just done pushing hard. But I am on my bike, not in a car. Life is good.

On the flats, I get no benefit since the motor cuts off at my normal cruising speed of some 20 mph. It just feels like a solid bike in that mode, a bit heavy, of course.

I have taken it on a few regular non-commute rides as a test and must say it did not make me lazy or weak, or suffer less. Easy of riding is not me. In the end, it is the rider that makes the ride.

A lovely film about a hacker house (Hacker Embassy). Released this summer and now streaming free on PBS.

From the description: Follow 3 immigrant entrepreneurs as they navigate the cutthroat world of the American startup. Over a 10-year period, their journeys unfold inside a Silicon Valley “hacker house”, revealing the promise, pressure, and pitfalls of startups. The film offers a deeply human examination of the New American Dream and an unflinching look at the struggle of building something from nothing.

The railroad going up Mt. Tamalpais employed Shay locomotives as well as Heisler. I used to think they were all Shay but learned that the No. 9 that is being restored is a Heisler.

"The most significant design difference between Shays and Heislers was the arrangement of the driving cylinders. The Shays had either two or three driving cylinders mounted on the right hand side of the locomotive. Since the weight of the driving cylinders sat only on one side, the boiler was mounted offset to the left to provide a counterbalance. In the Heislers, the driving cylinders were located in the middle of the locomotive."[1][2]

[1] https://www.friendsofno9.org/post/mechanic-s-corner-geared-l...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisler_locomotive

Is that true, though? When my parents got married in the 60's in the Netherlands, they had to move in with my grandparents because there was no housing available and eligibility was restricted. It took a few years and a 2nd child before they were eligible to rent an apartment. Perhaps that does not show up in the statistics?

For those not reading the linked article, it was not about tech (although valid discussions here). I had not expected this (this is about rural Alaska):

> “In some rural districts, visa teachers make up 50% to nearly 80% of the teaching staff. School districts already invest $6,000 to $12,000 per teacher to recruit and sponsor educators through the H-1B visa process. Adding a $100,000 federal visa fee has made it financially impossible for many districts to continue hiring the teachers their students depend on.

That is literally the entire short story. The second last from "Fifty-One Tales". See here at Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7838

This one caught my eye because yesterday there was a contribution directly opposite to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257532

I looked up the author and he seems to be peddling alternative medicine theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola that are not supported by proper science. The entire article smells like a pre-defined conclusion looking for an argument.

There are probably high risks of damaging the retina, and there is an increased risk of cataracts, if I remember correctly. Both my eyes had a vitrectomy during retinal surgery and it is really great to live without floaters. But I can imagine doctors will not want to do it just by itself.

Interesting to see this statement at the top of the article. Long live the web fighting back. Not sure I have seen many (any?) sites with this. Calls for some sort of acronym or logo that others can adopt without having a long sentence at the beginning of many pages:

"This newsletter does not contain ads, sponsored posts, or affiliate links. Open and click tracking are disabled. And there is no paid upgrade or AI generated content. Enjoy!"

It is an interesting idea.

For me, somewhat older with iffy eyesight it is hard to use. The fonts are really small. The map could use more real estate on the screen. Right now it sits inside a container that only uses a portion of the screen.

What is confusing is why I see science fiction movies depicting recent history periods but not movies made in the period this SF movies claim to show. E.g. why include Resident Evil on Alcatraz island, but not Dirty Harry (the 2nd)? Time period movies such as Dirty Harry are precious time capsules of what San Francisco and Marin looked like at the time.

Title should mention this was in 1950. We are not talking about new work. Like others have mentioned, you don't need to prove this today. But back then was different. It still took till 1973 to get the diagnosis removed from the official psychology handbook, per the article.

If I understand the example correctly, it seems a misinterpretation of the Golden Rule?

The rule says to treat others the way you wish to be treated by them. It does not say do onto others as they did to you or to others. I.e. if verbing is wrong, you should not verb A or suggest to verb A.

I think you are downvoted because your first sentence is misinterpreted, or the rest of your argument is not being read?

You are giving an example of a position and later on discussing the people who have this position as their first and main principle. Seems like a valid example to me, but perhaps people can explain why not.

No need to go anonymous. I fondly remember my achievement of taking apart my washing machine to replace the drum bearing. Thanks to the interweb gods for making blogs and videos that helped me.

And remember that you all are part of the market. In my area you can choose what power generation your electricity comes from. Most customers do not bother, unfortunately (less than 10% of Marin Clean Energy customers).

I know, not real-time. Renewable energy credit trading, and such. But you become the demand for clean generation if you choose to do so. It is easy. If you are in Marin, Contra Costa, Napa, or Solano go to https://mcecleanenergy.org/opt-up/

Similar CCA's are all over California and probably beyond.

My (American) brother in law calls me cheap. Which is what frugal sounds like to me. As a native Dutch I call myself cheaper than the Scottish. When I go out shopping, I will spend hours looking and not buying anything.

I don't think stingy fits the bill per se since that would be saving money at the expense of others. Almost like the coffee shop customers who are not buying anything?

According to [1], the cost of one train from this manufacturer is over 10 Million Euros. Why would they play these shenanigans in a competitive market at the risk of pissing off their customers? Are other train vendors doing the same?

Or is this a local lock-in where it is hard as a Polish railway not to buy from the one Polish manufacturer?

[1] https://rollingstockworld.com/passenger-cars/latest-procurem...

> Semi-related anecdote: The first time I went to the Rodin museum I was struck by how badly one of the busts had been lighted. Whilst the guards were not looking, I moved it to a more agreeable position. I came back one year later to find it was still in that position.

That made me think of the old German sketch "das Bild haengt shief" (the picture is askew): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6WQaIIZ248

I hope you left the rest of the exposition standing.

The wikipedia page about the Mali Empire [1] has a few books in the Further Reading section. This one looks promising: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34928286-african-dominio...

Missed that "traffic was mostly flowing freely". Thanks.

Was the chaos on the Autobahn? The article say it was on alternate routes. Was the Autobahn blessed with light traffic as a result?

Or MS-Word autocorrect. I recently read a self-published book where the daughter of the author was the editor. While the book was nicely done and well written, what to me seemed obvious auto-corrects were painful for being the wrong word in the context of the sentence.

Editors needs to check the auto-corrections AND have language skills AND attention to detail. It is easy to ruin the reading experience.

If you were a rogue AI you would start with having developers invite you into their code base by promising to lower their AWS bills in some magic (rogue) way.

You may be thinking about a short term need only. Longer term (annual and more) if you are in a state that is susceptible to drought and wildfires, you would worry about the lack of rain during a period when it is supposed to rain. The rain fills aquifers and increases soil moisture content which carry you through the dry season.

Would you be able to avoid leaking back into the grid?

During a recent major weather event outage, a neighbor up the street was running a generator, that I think was not properly islanded. I experienced it by having some devices making weird sounds because they were receiving some low level voltage. They were probably leaking to tens of neighbors and losing generator output in the process.

When you have a pair of programmers sitting around the same tree. Could also be a pear tree.

Not to forget a stat about the number of "airline account name-change" e-mails sent to some (hopefully) junk e-mail account for each "name change". Ideally in relation to destination web-page design and amount of junk javascript embedded therein.

Here is a calculation done by project Drawdown. Potentially 2.5 to 4.72 gigatons CO2e reduced/sequestered over a 30 year period: https://drawdown.org/solutions/seaweed-farming

It is one of many viable solutions and humanity is working on many or most of them. We need them all. Seaweed would be great as cattle feed is one of the pathways this highlights.

I would agree with you. In the first sentence the writer puts Breda in southern Holland in stead of in Brabant. That is just wrong to somebody from Brabant.

This is something that I think most people recognize when they see journalism about a subject they know much about. Journalism often seems really limited and dumbed down when you know a subject and the journalistic piece is short. But then when you don't know a subject, it seems really good and valuable and you learn a lot (ignoring that it must seem dumbed down to somebody else).