josscrowcroft

Again speaking from zero expertise, would it be possible to genetically engineer coral lifeforms to adapt to higher temperatures?

Is improving water quality the decided-upon method for preventing (or even reversing) bleaching of coral reefs?

It seems like that ship has sailed, and now more technological advances are required.

Speaking from zero expertise or experience in marine biology, is it not possible to manufacture massive quantities of synthetic coral that somehow corrects for the changing water quality to enable coral life to flourish?

I think we've been with HelpScout for around 4 years at https://openexchangerates.org. The service is great, and they just seem like a really honest, switched-on team.

I am fortunate that neither work, family, nor leisure compel me to fly to (or through) the USA at any point. I intend to keep it that way.

I liked this one:

https://github.com/squared-one/omniauth-unsplash/commit/072b...

"... It's not really removing any password, is it? But hey, why not use the momentum ... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

I'm curious, at that scale why don't they build their own infrastructure? Surely it would cost less?

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. I'm on at least my third reading and imagine I'll read it again.

Also re-listened to Getting Things Done by David Allen. This could also be any number of times.

Sort-of related, currently re-watching Westworld. I burned through ten episodes in two sittings first time around and wanted to properly appreciate it this time at a more leisurely pace.

A very well-reasoned and well-written piece. Thank you.

Alternatively - under UBI - you may decide to work 6 hours per day, and enjoy the earned income in addition to the regular Basic Income payment, all the while knowing that you can leave (or switch employer) any time without fear of destitution.

I got the mayonnaise guy as well!

Good question! Neither. I write whatever is on my mind, it changes day-to-day. It's sometimes logical, rational things, plans for the day or week or a project, and sometimes it's dream recall from the night before, or pennies that have dropped, sometimes it's stream-of-consciousness, nonsense, or just fiction. I'll usually shift between these and page 2-3 tend to be more 'out there' and get to the deeper stuff going on in my life. I don't set a timer, but the process generally takes 25-30 minutes on an average day.

The key is to write without editing and as much as possible, without stopping to think or read.

I learnt about the practice in The Artist's Way about 3 years ago. I think this is the most up-to-date website about it: http://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/

I've been writing Morning Pages (3 x A4 pages, hand-written) every day for almost three years. Sometimes I do them in the afternoon or evening, or right before bed.

Sometimes I'll only do one page, sometimes ten... A month or two ago I spent a month writing about 20 pages a day of "morning pages" after a few intense experiences.

After a month or so I didn't need to think about it any more, and now I can't imagine not doing it. Every morning, wake up, make coffee, write, then start the day. I find my life is richer and deeper as a result.

In 2008, his book "The Four Hour Workweek" helped me change absolutely everything in my life, and really to start living at all.

Even if most of its contents could be found elsewhere, the book is something of value that didn't exist before.

I've since moved on from where that book is coming from (as has he, from the sounds of things), but I still listen to the audio from time to time for inspiration and to reconnect with my 2008-self.

The most shocking stats from this article that jumped out at me and made my heart sink:

"The world has lost 60 percent of its population of Bornean orangutans since 1950, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In July, the Bornean orangutan was listed as critically endangered."

"About 15 percent of the world’s historical forest cover remains intact, according to the World Resources Institute. The rest [85%] has been cleared or degraded or is in fragments."

"Climate concerns have been brought into sharp relief by the impending presidency of Donald J. Trump, who has called climate change a hoax. Mr. Trump has said he will pull the United States out of the Paris accord, a commitment by 95 countries to take concrete measures to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions."

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair

What effect could four years of Trump presidency have on such research, trials and progress? Anybody have any comments or links to related resources? Thanks in advance.

From the outside, I'm curious if anybody here has any comment on what effect (if any) a Trump presidency could have on this and related research/progress?

In all the noise of the election run, I didn't any position on controlled substances and medical research coming from Trump's side.

I use https://ipredator.se.

"IPredator was launched in 2009 as a response to a growing trend of Internet censorship, in restrictive regimes as well as so-called open societies. Our main goal is to provide a seriously non-discriminating access flatrate for the Internet."

I may be mistaken, but I believe it was built by or connected somehow with The Pirate Bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPredator

I'm most proud of making Open Exchange Rates (https://openexchangerates.org), which grew out of a hobby project (and a desire to create a really simple API for something that had previously been annoyingly complex.)

The basic JSON API request and response formats are unchanged since day 0, although we've added a few new features in response to customers' demands over the years.

Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne (live 1968):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6wBBrTMEs

So long, Leonard.

I enjoyed your post, great and very real writing. Thank you for publishing.

That's just the kind of coverage I hoped for, thank you.

> calling mayday gives the rescuing vessel significant rights to the ship and cargo

What do you mean by this? Is there a legal case for a rescuing vessel to commandeer the ship and cargo somehow?

I recall one major case (the Costa Concordia) in which the captain abandoned the sinking ship, survived, and later faced prosecution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16611371

I'm curious - and surprised nobody seems to have mentioned or asked - what happens to all the sailors working aboard the ships, which are now stranded offshore?

Do they continue working aboard, knowing that they probably won't be paid (because the company is bankrupt)?

What's morale like? Can they leave, and how would they logistically?

What kind of laws and rights (if any) apply to them in these circumstances?

It's funny to me to be thinking about how our Christmas may be "ruined", meanwhile hundreds or thousands of workers may be out of jobs and effectively indefinitely stranded at sea.

This might be a naive question, but has there ever been a successful non-profit bank-like financial institution?

As I was reading this article I thought of iPredator.se, which provides a non-tracked VPN service. Their USP is "We don't track anything you do". I wonder whether there could ever be a cashless option that offers a similar service. This of course would only address the concerns of privacy and profit-driven interests, and not the other serious concerns raised in the article.

Has there been/could there ever be a bank like that?

There goes my Saturday morning! Time to go stick my wrists in a bucket of ice.

Kudos to the developers. Really lovely game, intuitive and entertaining, well-built.

Congratulations. I enjoyed the clear, transparent blog post, although my fundamental question "Will they shut down the service in the mid-to-long term or force us to become an Atlassian customer?" took some time to get an answer to.

I also felt their blog post was all about their journey, which while interesting doesn't really present any value for us as a customer. It would have been nice to know why the acquisition is in the customers' best interest rather than only the founders' (of course both are important).