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Re: New location sought for controversial hydropower station's water source

Daniel M — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:24:20 -0000

"Interesting that local water going to NYC is OK but local energy storage, that can benefit local homes and businesses is not OK...."
There is no benefit to local homes and businesses. There have been more than 800 comments against this proposal by people who live here and operate businesses here. Even the local utilities like Central Hudson have not asked for this. In fact, the only group that wants this is a small company in California.

Re: New location sought for controversial hydropower station's water source

Daniel M — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:57:41 -0000

I think this is a false choice: The question is not 'lithium battery production facility vs megadam and reservoir in the Catskills'. We do not want the Catskills Forest Preserve nor the Ashokan reservoir to be home to this project. It goes without saying that we would also not allow a lithium mining operation, but thankfully both uses are out of bounds due to the protection of the preserve in the NY constitution.

Re: New location sought for controversial hydropower station's water source

Daniel M — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:44:32 -0000

Just to be clear: Premium Energy has said they would provide a new location (last week) due to overwhelming opposition, but they have not. They seem willing to let the countdown end without withdrawing or proposing a new location. Meanwhile, NYC has come out STRONGLY against this proposal: https://savecatskillspreserve.org/2021/04/08/nyc-department-of-environmental-protection-submit-comments-urges-ferc-to-deny-permit/

Re: A look at CSS Resets in 2018

Daniel M — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:35:46 -0000

Here's a good place to start: https://templates.mailchimp...

Re: Bitcoin Adoption Round-Up

Daniel M — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:46:06 -0000

Look up the difference between how BTC and BCH handle 'zero confirmation' transactions and the removal of 'Replace by Fee' then come back here. A 10 minute waiting period is absolutely not needed for small transactions.

Re: Why HTML5 is causing the ad industry pain

Daniel M — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:13:24 -0000

We've been hearing a great deal regarding the confusion of file sizes -- for example Google doesn't count Google fonts against your file size limit for DFP ads, but they will count other webfont services against that limit. It seems like no one is in a rush to update quotas and limits unfortunately.

Tumult Hype 3.5 was released today, and it introduces a huge new feature for advertisement developers and designers: http://j.mp/1NMoPEX.
(I work at Tumult, so please feel free to AMA)

Re: Timeline-Based Animation for the Web with Hype 3

Daniel M — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:12:43 -0000

Fast animations will appear more smooth -- but this won't be the case in the upcoming update.

Re: Timeline-Based Animation for the Web with Hype 3

Daniel M — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:56:37 -0000

It looks like this was made by holding option and dragging a corner (to resize form the center).
A little birdy tells me that animations like these will be smoother in the next update to Hype.

Re: Announcing CloudFlare’s Internet Summit - And How to Get an Invitation

Daniel M — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:41:37 -0000

why's that?

Re: Efficient - Self authentication

Daniel M — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 22:54:57 -0000

This section: "In the SAFE Network as a user requests a login token, they are provided with one. Invalid tokens are provided on every attempt."
... needs clarification.

Re: The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bitcoin Transaction Ever Made

Daniel M — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:05:29 -0000

Here's a good interface for keeping tabs on the dusty transactions: https://tradeblock.com/bloc...

Re: MaidSafe Founder Seeks Monopoly on ‘Distributed Network System’

Daniel M — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:57:34 -0000

I think this article should be removed from the web. It is awkwardly uninformed.

Re: Distributed autonomous corporations are terrifying - Branton Bits

Daniel M — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:39:45 -0000

Absolutely good to be pessimistic, careful, and cautious about tech like this. There will def be a place for rating agencies like WOT, Code reviews by the open source community, and systems like that which will likely emerge out of the pool of DACland.

You would probably enjoy reading this: https://forum.ethereum.org/... -- where sci-fi writers check in on the plausibility of various DAC plots. Great stuff :)

Re: Distributed autonomous corporations are terrifying - Branton Bits

Daniel M — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:36:44 -0000

Pretty scary stuff.

In a way, Bitcoin itself is a DAC, but it still requires human intervention for care and feeding (mining and growing that consensus chain). It's already a platform through which assassinations can be purchased.

So the core issue here is how to limit the replicability and resource requirements of DACs to ensure their environment limits their power or rate of growth. I could see an API developing on the darknet (perhaps mimicking AWS) for consuming CPU/Bandwidth, but I can't see something like this happening in the clear with our current laws. This discussion reminds me of the talk about autonomous nanotechnology -- small robots which can harvest nearby materials to reproduce themselves based on pre-defined rules, which could lead to something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

I think an early DAC would look like a digital loan shark, or some sort of automated system to create a financial infrastructure for a family or community group. Check out: http://www.studiodradiodura... & image for some examples of small lending networks. Complex relationships like these could be managed with financial software. Why make it autonomous? Less corruptible by coercive actors. If the humans don't agree to the autonomous agent's rules, they can stop using it.

Re: Keeping Up With Bitcoin

Daniel M — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:44:44 -0000

One of the best: http://two-bit-idiot.tumblr...
Also the Coinsman is pretty great: http://www.thecoinsman.com.

I've been running a news bot for Bitcoin for four years at http://bitcoinbolt.remember... aka @bitcoinbolt. It's kind of a deluge (12604 posts since then) but it's only about 15 articles a day.

I would love to be able split up the posts into the categories you mentioned. I find the reactions from governments much more interesting than 'TARGET GIFT CARDS' posts. This page has a great rundown of developments by country: http://bitlegal.net.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Daniel M — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:40:35 -0000

Not sure where anyone mentions Firechat. Are you on the wrong page?

Re: Leaving her mark on the world, one student at a time

Daniel M — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:58:35 -0000

Go Fawziah!

Re: A Guide to Animated GIFs in Email

Daniel M — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:40:27 -0000

I'm biased, but Tumult Hype is also a good tool for quickly making animated GIFs for emails: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

One thing I would add to this tutorial is that it's a good idea to run your images through this tool to optimize for file size: http://imageoptim.com

Re: Double Double: A Stairwell's Field Trip

Daniel M — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:30:56 -0000

Stoked.

Re: BitInstant’s Debit Card – The Final Push to Critical Mass

Daniel M — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:26:42 -0000

This is pretty huge. Thanks for the coverage.

Re: Our Open letter to New York Pedestrians

Daniel M — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:59:27 -0000

Good work guys!

Re: Textbooks in iBooks 2 can access online audio and video

Daniel M — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:54:17 -0000

I think this setting is used to allow streaming video (using the 'video' tag) within HTML widgets. I wonder how the user is warned if they try to play a Youtube vide within a widget and this setting is off.

Ideally, it would be a setting for "Online Audio & Video over Cellular Data" since I can't think of a good reason why you would want to restrict this over wifi.

Re: Making Hay While the Sun Shines: A Flap over Solar Panels in Farm Country

Daniel M — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:50:34 -0000

I fail to see any bias on the part of KQED. Who do YOU work for?

Re: Get your Chromium for Mac every day...

Daniel M — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:58:49 -0000

Does this still work?

Re: And Why Shouldn't You Have A Swank Gadget For Keeping Bees At Home?

Daniel M — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:34:15 -0000

At first I thought this required a hole in your glass window, which might have been a neat idea. Instead, it's set design for Meet the Parents 3. You know that time when the bees sting everyone and the Ben Stiller dies.