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Reducing methane emissions is the single fastest way to slow the rate of global warming today. In order to reduce emissions we first have to know where they're being emitted and who is responsible. The most effective way to do this on a global scale is from space, which is why we're launching a satellite to measure and attribute methane emissions. We are building tools to put in the hands of folks who will best be able to make the data actionable.

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I got a philosophy degree 10+ years ago and have been yearning to go back ever since and at least get a graduate degree, even though I know employment prospects are dismal in academia. Definitely loved my time studying philosophy and found it super worthwhile.

I sometimes use one when traveling, if I'm not sure there will be a kettle or coffee maker in the room. Tons of them available online, usually called "immersion heaters"

I lived there for a bit, fire is another thing to watch out for. While I was there a huge fire got uncomfortably close. Check out http://socalmountains.com to get a preview of the local community there.

Gets crowded on weekends and holidays. There's definitely some antagonism towards the "flatlanders" - e.g. the people who don't live in the mountains, haha.

This idea is actually pretty old. Old episodes of Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" have a place in the frame for advertisers to be superimposed and swapped out.

Doing this on a gameshow seems strangely acceptable, but don't touch the old films please. Even though old films themselves have product placement (continuing with the Marx Brothers - you can see an old cartoon-style flit gun in Animal Crackers (1930), which was used for one of the earlier product tie-ins), manipulating them seems wrong. People want to experience the movie as it was intended to be...

Strangely relevant link: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/03/il-maestro-federico-fell...

Scorsese lamenting the lack of Fellini magic today, and the increase in commercialism:

"“Content” became a business term for all moving images: a David Lean movie, a cat video, a Super Bowl commercial, a superhero sequel, a series episode."

Wouldn't be surprised, as it seems he was friends with Van Gogh. Coincidentally, just watched a film version of his life - dramatized in the 1952 film Moulin Rouge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge_(1952_film)

It can be found in the Committee Comments portion of the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2021 (search for "unidentified aerial phenomena"): https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/intelligenc...

Via Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/180-day-countdown-ufo/

I've found something similar with old films: there have been countless movies made, and the better ones have been preserved and left for us today. However, they are often less accessible and need commentaries to clue us in to their world.

Definitely a good selection of books, just a note that the actual books in the series sometimes have quite small print and aren't the most comfortable way to read. I'd recommend using the list and then checking for recent translations/editions of the books.

Thank you!

Thank you kindly! Appreciate the shout-out!

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Interested in meaningful work? Want to have a hand in combating climate change? Want to be part of a product that will literally launch (into space)? MethaneSAT’s mission is to map and measure worldwide methane emissions, with the aim of reducing those emissions and making this data available free of charge (read more: https://www.methanesat.org/about-methanesat/).

The big challenge of the frontend will be translating the hard data downloaded from the satellite into formats usable by a variety of audiences. React + TypeScript.

This is a US-based remote team, and post-covid it will continue to be remote.

The Amazon effect, which I am guilty of supporting. I walked into a Guitar Center earlier this year and tried out some of their cheaper nylon acoustic models, but wanted to splurge on a big higher quality model, none of which they had in-store. They said they'd have to custom-order it. At that point it was easier just to order from Amazon and deliver to my address... which I did (ended up being shipped from a store in Chicago which listed on Amazon).

Thank you for posting this. He was in the tech industry - I feel like he may have had an account here, or known someone who does. It's a small world, it's weird his identity hasn't been tracked down yet...

MethaneSAT (subsidiary of EDF, the Environmental Defense Fund) | Remote-first US based | Full-time | Remote | Front-End Software Engineer | https://www.methanesat.org/careers

Interested in meaningful work? Want to have a hand in combating climate change? Want to be part of a product that will literally launch (into space)? MethaneSAT’s mission is to map and measure worldwide methane emissions, with the aim of reducing those emissions and making this data available free of charge (read more: https://www.methanesat.org/about-methanesat/).

The big challenge of the frontend will be translating the hard data downloaded from the satellite into formats usable by a variety of audiences. React + TypeScript.

Also hiring a backend position (Golang + Cloud experience preferred).

This is a US-based remote team, and post-covid it will continue to be remote.

Thought you were joking, but unfortunately you weren't... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dev

Just how many parts of the stack does Google have its fingers in?

EDIT:

Consider this:

1. a user at home, wearing a Fitbit walks over to their computer, with their Nest camera recording their movements

2. they open their Chromebook, which uses Chrome OS

3. browses to their Gmail inbox with Chrome, and clicks on a link in one of their emails, sent by a friend using a Google Pixel phone running Android.

4. via their Fiber ISP

5. using Public DNS (8.8.8.8)

6. transfers between the US and Europe via the Grace Hopper subsea cable

7. transfers with HTTP/2 (based on SPDY)

8. to the website on the .dev TLD.

Google is in every step above. Thankfully the webpage doesn't use AMP, or Google would be in that step as well. And good thing it's not a page built on Angular, or hosted in Google Cloud...

I haven't seen it yet. Guess it's going on my "to watch" list :)

12 Angry Men

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Walkabout

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Koyaanisqatsi

A profound movie with no words except the chanting of a Hopi word, meaning "life out of balance", or "a way of life that calls for another way of life".

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My Dinner With Andre

"We're bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now, may very well be a self perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks, and its not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and somebody who's asleep will not say no?"

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The Third Man

(Long shot from Martins' eye line of the fairground far below and the people now on it.)

"Would you feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped - would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man......free of income tax. It's the only way to save money nowadays."

I agree that it looks funny here. But I think it's more of a strategic thing: it reveals the target audience they're addressing, and trying to show "hey, we're one of you" before saying anything more controversial that follows (that it's at all controversial is more sad than funny however).