On Passive Energy
It wasn't actually spending time in Himachal Pradesh in the early spring
that got me thinking about this, but that's probably pushed me to keep it
in mind on a regular basis, since "summer" hasn't
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Steven Deobald
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Dust
It's a part of everyday life in a city like Bangalore, Dust.
But what's funny about getting so accustomed to living with a thin (sometimes thick) layer of black soot all over everything is that I
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Steven Deobald
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A Village Kitchen (in the time of covid-19)
I am currently trapped in a hotel in Himachal Pradesh. At present, we are on the upward slope of the First Wave of the CoVID-19 pandemic. This will be a phase of my life I look back on in a very
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Steven Deobald
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Re: The Village Canon
This came up today as I was thinking about something else I'll send to the list shortly:
"In Praise of Idleness" - Bertrand Russell
I actually don't particularly recommend the title essay. It's
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Steven Deobald
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Re: The Village Canon
If I may add another book to this list
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and
Companies - Geoffrey West
The books delves into the logarithmic scaling laws that govern
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preethi g
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The Village Canon
Obviously any sensible village, town, or city will have a full-blown public
library. But I'm curious what you folks would put in a curated library
specifically targeting the development and
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Steven Deobald
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Re: The Independence Landscape
I'm replying to the thread to give Cherry an SMTP hook (he says the groups.io web forum is broken... boo-urns).
Cherry, I bet a lot of people would? be interested to hear what you have to say, if
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Steven Deobald
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Climate Resources? (ex. climate-data.org)
I was chatting with Ragul about different locations for setting up shop today (mostly around land prices) and stumbled upon this while looking into the climates of different
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Steven Deobald
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Plug-and-Play Infrastructure
Given that the terminology graduated to household usage surrounding the release of Windows 95 and the years of PnP failings that followed, it's understandable that the idea of plug-and-play, where the
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Steven Deobald
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Re: The Truth On The Ground
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 02:47, Steven Deobald <steven@...> wrote:
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> And if we build within a village, we can help each other out. :)
All this sounds fair. I'll try to jump in on some of
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Arun Raghavan
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The Truth On The Ground
Arun dropped me a message yesterday mentioning that he has some thoughts but wasn't sure he wanted to post them to the list. His hesitation is that "whoever does the work will end up deciding how it
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Steven Deobald
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The Independence Landscape
I keep imagining a spectrum on which a new village might fall prey to outmoded ideologies. I actually think the landscape is more complex than a simple one-dimensional spectrum, with many dimensions
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Steven Deobald
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A better name than "hacker villages"?
Leaning on the term "hacker" requires stretching the definition a lot. There are a lot of circular dependencies here, not least of which is figuring out what exactly this mailing list is for. I think
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Steven Deobald
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North and South India
I propose two initial hacker villages: one in North India, one in South India. Land is expensive, infrastructure and construction (the hard part) is cheap.
#3 Japan?
Canada comes later (cheap land,
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Steven Deobald
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