Furnace with a powerful computer system providing the heat. Will use compute cycles for scientific research or other social or personal purposes, running things like BOINC, Folding at Home, crypto mining, or rented “cloud” usage. Fans or liquid cooling systems will carry heat to a traditional forced air or water boiler system to distribute the heat throughout the home / building. System will increase or decrease CPU usage based on thermostatic control.
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Idea: layered E-ink plus transparent LCD screen
A fully transparent LCD screen would be layered over an E-ink screen. The LCD would provide a color display that can change rapidly for animations, video, games, etc. The E-ink would provide a low power, eye friendly display for text and other visuals not needing the LCD capabilities. The best of both worlds.
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Today at work, I came up with the word “æffect” as a solution to the common confusion of two similar but different words.
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Ideas: regions vote for governing state
Each state would be close to sovereign, with general freedom to create and enforce laws, choose and operate economic systems, run military organizations, etc. States would start as they are now, as geographic areas.
Each state would be divided into regions, such as the current counties, though preferably equal in size. Each region would have a nationally prescribed method of voting to switch to governing of another state.
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This idea is based on my Local + Proxy Remote Hosting for Personal Site idea, but attempts to mitigate some of its problems further.
Continue reading post "Ideas: Remotely hosted personal site with home data store that syncs as client"Unofficial tagline for the movie “Groundhog Day”
“From asshole to awesome in one day flat”
Idea: Single character TLDs for permashortlinks
ICANN could make available single character TLD’s for URL shortening purposes, and make available on them SLD’s of one or more characters.
Continue reading post "Idea: Single character TLDs for permashortlinks"Maximizing blindness in science
Organization created to separate out steps of scientific method to help prevent bias of knowledge. When submitting a step of the scientific method, it is handed off to an independent scientist unaware of who was involved with the previous step and of anything from steps other than the previous.
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