jstalin

Is there a consensus project that's carrying on development?

We learned yesterday that 80% of water consumption in California is by agriculture[1]. Yet this executive order does nothing to reduce agriculture's use of water[2]. It only refers to use of urban water, lawns, landscaping, and cemeteries. Agricultural users just need to submit vague "plans."

1. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/30/how-growers... 2. http://gov.ca.gov/docs/4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf

Issues like this aren't resolved until enough people are personally effected. When a community or two wakes up and turns on their faucet and nothing comes out, then there will be change.

It's a purely emotional issue. It doesn't need to make sense.

My experience is that these are the situations where you learn and grow the most. It might be horrible now, but think about boot camp (the real thing). It's horrible and miserable and you want to quit. But at the end you're stronger and (better) prepared for what might come.

Sure, you can do all sorts of scammy things to squeeze a few dollars out of people in quasi-illegitimate ways, but if you want to build a sustainable, long-term business, you need to provide people with something they actually want.

Stupid voters. Do what you're told by your political-class superiors!

If the politicians are supporting it, then it must be a good plan.

Why, when you put it that way, why not just say that it's 1.45¢ per hour! Or just 0.24¢ per minute! Golly, that makes it completely ok now!

A spot-on accurate summary of the article.

Maybe you linked to the wrong photo, but I'm not seeing what you're referring to.

I like the idea, but the pricing seems unreasonable. $15/mo/user (over 35 users) for what? With dropbox or box at least you get the storage space off-premise. All this does is sync your files across your own hardware.

I'm in a company looking for an enterprise-grade solution for our 5,000+ users, but this quickly became a non-option when I saw the pricing.

I don't see any acceleration in sea level increases. It's been happening for a long time.

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.s...

Even the IPCC doesn't claim human-induced climate change until the 1950s. The amounts of CO2 added to the atmosphere didn't seriously ramp up until after 1950.

Since you aren't making personal attacks, like others on this message board, I'll explain my personal point of view.

I don't deny that humans can influence earth's climate. But the tone of climate change media is beyond hysterics.

For instance, the headline from this article is, in full, "The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse."

I posted below links to scientific studies showing that Antarctica has 12.5 million cubic km of ice. 125 cubic km of ice is "melting" each year. On top of that, surveyors noticed reductions in Antarctic ice at least as far back as 1932, far far before "climate change."

My naturally skeptical alarms go off when I realize that headlines like the OP are pure hysterics. At the current rate, Antarctica will melt in 1 million years. Of course, climate changes dramatically on that geologic time scale, so the headline completely destroys the credibility, in my mind, of the central argument -- that Antarctica is "melting."

One look a tide gauges shows that the sea level rise we've been seeing has been going on for about 150 years with no change in the rate of rise.

So, naturally, I'm going to be skeptical of hysterical claims.

As to your point about HN being hostile to climate change, I see it the complete opposite way. Any skeptical arguments, even links to objective scientific facts, are immediately flagkilled and downvoted into hell.

Questioning the official line, in any manner, is verboten.

First, Antarctica is not "melting," and second it seems to have been happening for a long time.

Additionally, there has been no acceleration in sea level increases:

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.s...

Browse stations here: http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/mslUSTrendsTable.h...

For some context (which media rarely provide), Antarctica has about 12.3 million cubic km of ice sheet. The latest measurements I've seen show that between 2011 and 2014, the Antarctic ice sheet lost 125 cubic km per year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21692423

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/08/Antarctic_ic...

Additionally, people have been noticing a loss of ice since at least 1932: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/23150667

Your first link is broken.

Reading the comments provides more information. One commenter even called the plane a widow maker.

United Airlines, for instance, made about a 3% profit in 2014. Not exactly raking in the dough.

https://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=UAL+Income+Statement&annual

Not to minimize drunk driving deaths, but it's hardly "rampant." About 10,000 people are killed each year in drunk driving accidents in the US. 30,000 a year die from falls.

http://responsibility.org/drunk-driving/drunk-driving-fatali... http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf

I tried sending an email to that domain to see if it would bounce back, but it didn't. I was hoping to get the server's IP address.

Looks like bouncebacks were working yesterday, but have been disabled: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-03/hdr22clintonemailco...

Edit:

I tried to telnet to the server:

   telnet clintonemail.com 25
   Trying 208.91.197.27...
   telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

Where is that IP address? British Virgin Islands: http://www.ip-address.org/lookup/ip-locator.php?track=208.91...

See my post below. The mx records point to mxlogic, which provides email filtering services, not hosting (as far as I can tell). It looks like she may have indeed run her own email server.

Is there an archive of domain mx records out there? That would seem to clear up exactly where her email was hosted.

Edit: the current mx records are below:

   ;; ANSWER SECTION:
   clintonemail.com.       5495    IN      MX      10 clintonemail.com.inbound10.mxlogic.net.
   clintonemail.com.       5495    IN      MX      10 clintonemail.com.inbound10.mxlogicmx.net.

Land reform and allowing people to own their land is seen as one of the primary ways of helping the extremely poor bring themselves out of poverty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar#Main_th...

Touché!

Same here. I rotate my online username on forums and online comment systems every few months: https://fakena.me.

If I say something stupid to a group of friends, usually they'll tell me it's stupid or I said something wrong, and everyone moves on. If I say something stupid on twitter, it's literally archived forever. Another reason I'm glad I've disconnected from all social media. I'll keep my stupid, non-politically correct jokes in my own head.

I received one as well.