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steve19··on Why I Voted to Sell .ORG
But funnily enough the trustees of the Public Interest Registry (the .Org subsidiary) were all being paid before it was sold.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/331...

steve19··on Why I Voted to Sell .ORG
What it comes down to is the board wanted a large pile of cash so they could do more of whatever it is they like doing, which apparently is not what many of us think their core mission should be.

I look forward to reading how much the board members are being paid now, and how much they will be paid in a years time.

steve19··on Something Changed at Tesla
It can resist low powered 9mm bullets. It won't even come close to resisting a rifle round. So minimally more protection than any other vehicle.
steve19··on Bollinger B2 Electric Pickup Truck
Not to mention less range and less towing capacity.

But to be fair, it is a farm truck not for running kids to school. It has quite a bit more payload capacity (3500 vs 5000 lbs)

steve19··on New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water
If you clean the toilet with soap and a brush will it remove either the hairs or lubricant?

Edit: and bleach?

steve19··on Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do
Presumably she had a lot less power early in her career when she originally recorded those albums.
steve19··on Amazon Confirms Plans for Store Under New Grocery Brand
Better targeted products, they already know what people in the area of each store demand, so each store could have a different mix of products.
steve19··on As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots
I experienced them early in my career working for a shipping company. They were quite willing to attack the while collar staff trying to get to work while they were on strike, despite not being the same job, not being on strike and our office was not even in the port, just nearby and despite being paid a LOT more than we were. The salaries were insane and the theft was something else. We shipped a lot of beer and if a fork lift was going to damage a pallet, it would just happen to be a beer pallet and just happen break a couple of bottles. The pallet would be considered destroy and they would never need to pay for beer while they had the job.
steve19··on Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers
I think he means for the users. A lot of people who gave up piracy are going to return when 6 different services are required to watch the four shows they like in any given month.
steve19··on Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet
Of course, but no theologians are telling laypeople to learn Greek, ancient Hebrew, Aramaic and vulgar Latin before reading a translation in their first language! Or at least not since post counter reformation.
steve19··on Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet
A translation is basically offloading all that to a team of scholars.

Other religious books may have been standardized so you can't compare different versions, but that does not diminish the versions studied today.

steve19··on Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet
Speaking of Luke, typing "Luke" into the search bar does not come up with Luke. Typing "Luk" works.
steve19··on Bill Gates Objects to Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax, and She Offers to Explain
What you do is what all the billionaires do: take out loans backed by you assets rather than sell equity.

In this scenario the banks start profiting from startups, probably more in interest than the govt will get taxes.

steve19··on Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to negative prices
The grid has to finely balance supply and demand. You can't just dump power into the grid. If you did the grid frequency would increase out of spec and it could damage connected equipment and machinery.

Water storage would only work if there is a steep mountain or big hill nearby.

Another way to look at negitive pricing is the grid is paying industrial users to burn as much power as they can.

steve19··on Biometric YubiKey
A fingerprint is only going to stop a very opportunistic attacker. Someone who already has your desktop and app password and physical access to your desktop can probably get a fingerprint off a glass, cup or something else.

I don't think this product is as useful as it seems at first glance. Using stronger passwords is probably just as safe.

But I am no tptacek so I may be completely wrong :)

steve19··on Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'
Pumped storage requires very specific geography and how much energy can be stored is very dependant on height differences. It is also only 70-80% efficient. Compressed-air energy storage also requires specific geography. Molten salt is not going to be a great idea in places that have lots of wind, but not a lot of sun (UK in winter for example).

To replace strip mined coal burning generators and fracked gas we need a mix of just about everything.

steve19··on Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming
Submarines too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine#Diesel-electric

steve19··on Saudi Aramco: The message from the world’s biggest and wildest IPO
Like with sovereign bond defaulters or countries who have nationalised US owned assets: they would get sued in US courts. US courts would freeze and/or confiscate Saudi assets. Saudi Princes might find yatchs, private planes and super cars start getting impounded wherever lawsuits can be filed.
steve19··on Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware
Mikrotik is pretty nice although the gui is not user friendly as ubiquiti.
steve19··on Show HN: Self-Validating Email Aliases for Postfix
This is quite clever. I have avoided wildcards because I have not wanted to deal with the increased spam sent by bots to random (jane@ eve@) or not so random addresses (webmaster@).
steve19··on Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins
Obviously we are asking the parent what was preventing deep sleep.
steve19··on Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins
> I recently figured out the root of the issue (fingers crossed!

Don't leave us hanging, what is the root cause?

steve19··on Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
At what point do we first see mass floodings from unusually high tides, such as during proxigean spring tide? Surely it must be soon if Veitnam will be underwater in just 30 years time?
steve19··on How I pay $1/month for 2 terabytes of storage: introducing Sia Slice
0.50c/terabyte is an order of magnitude or less than how much tape storage costs.

So the author is paying far far less than the cheapest storage solution. So some folks may be selling surplus storage or free hard drive space for less than it is worth, but as soon as a system like this becomes popular the price will reach a much higher equilibrium.

Edit: I found packs of LTO6 tapes on ebay that worked out to be $4.30/tb, so less than an order of magnitude.

steve19··on Why Palladium Is Suddenly a More Precious Metal
Photographic platinum prints. Palladium has different properties that may be desirable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_print#Palladium

steve19··on Startpage is now owned by an advertising company
I don't think they would have lasted long using a private API.
steve19··on Telling Whiskey from Whisky
I think the trouble lies in the quantity of aged whisky Japan is exporting. They did not have a lot of whisky production 25+ years and so it is simply not possible for them to be bottling this much whisky from 25 year old Japanese casks.

I hate to link to Bloomberg but this article is pretty good:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/that-expe...

steve19··on Telling Whiskey from Whisky
A lot of Japanese Whisky isn't even from Japan.

https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/19680/not-all-jap...

steve19··on Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
Eagle IP simply encapsulates Pigeon IP like TCP over a VPN.
steve19··on Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
That is usually a feature. The reason it's not the default everytime you change a cell if that cells can contain long running calculations.
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