carbonmachine

I've long had a scifi vision of the future in which autonomous drones intelligently, with sustainability as a goal, hunt wild fish as a good way around the factory meat problem. Only slightly related, just wanted to share some techno-optimism.

You make a compelling point. If I wanted to support one of those companies by purchasing their products, what would I look for? Any chance salmon is among the fish that are well farmed?

Being an earth dwelling human, this seems pretty bad. Aside from buying ammo or survival rations, what's something proactive that I can do? Is there an organization that is trying to rid the world of pesticides (assuming that's the cause)? If I opt to call my representatives, what am I calling in support of/against?

Over the last year, reading the news had made me more passive and worried. I want to dedicate a slice of time to doing something to solve the problem, but I'm not certain if there's anything pragmatic to be done against big areas of environmental concern like this, global warming, ocean acidity, and etc.

I just signed up for LetsEncrypt and didn't give referer a second thought. Thanks for the tip!

I'd like a good balance of the two, I suppose. If I could earn a few coins while learning and writing about things I enjoy, I'd consider it a successful venture. I'm thinking about Amazon specifically because I'm an avid user/addict.

> just follow their terms of service

I've put in some time trying to parse the legal speak in their operating agreement, terms of service, etc. Most of it makes sense, but I fear I'm missing something. Though, maybe that's the point.

I'm interested in getting started with Amazons affiliate program. Whenever I go to research things, I find many stories like this one. But I don't want to pursue this track. I have dev experience, don't want to pay for views, want to write in a narrow niche I enjoy, and I don't care about the lower commissions to boot. I'd be beyond thrilled if I made made more than a hundred bucks a month.

Where can I find information about this path, versus the substanceless course this person took? I haven't had a public website in a decade and just want to know how to do things decently well and not get into trouble.

Aardvark Habanero from Secret Aardvark ( http://secretaardvark.com ). It's not overly spicy, but has a lot of flavor. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, it may be at your local grocer.

The top 1000 has a lot of software. The thought of running pirated software always filled me with unease, having been burned by malware in my younger days. Only tangentially related to this really well done torrent search (so snappy!), but does anyone have a feel for how safe this software is in general? Do security firms do any analysis on it?

> I understand it could require swapping the platters into a working drive, but I don't imagine that being such a costly procedure.

It may need to be performed in a clean room, which is likely expensive to set up and maintain. Perhaps it's the required equipment that drives up the cost?

I've wondered if data recovery shops distribute the cost of the intensive recoveries (e.g. swapping plates) across the smaller gigs (corrupt file systems and other stuff).

I found out about BluesNews from an issue of PC Gamer and was a loyal visitor for many years in the late 90's. Video games are what got me sucked into the PC world. Modding and map making were my introductions to programming. Had no idea it was still around. Surely it's got to be one of the oldest continuously updated web properties by now?

I've used emacs solely for orgmode over the last year and I'm not sure I'd recommend it whole-heartedly. Orgmode is great, but the emacs learning curve is steep and unforgiving. It still feels as if I'm faking my way through an ancient language whenever I fumble through keyboard "shortcuts".

That said, it's incredibly powerful. Wouldn't continue to torture myself if it wasn't. I like the plain text files, the authoring experience (the document feels alive somehow), and I've never been more organized. I just wish it existed outside emacs!

I've seen this story around before, but I'm always curious if anyone has managed to track him down. Would be a very well read interview if someone could speak with him. Seems likely he could still be alive.

Related question: How do you all earn bitcoins aside from mining?

Same here... Want to start a support group?