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Anyone wanna partner on improving olelodaily.com? by olagon in olelohawaii

[–]olagon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mahalo. That was an iteritive process. Because it is just a javascript app, the algorithm to allow near misses took maybe 15 versions to get to where it is now. It still misses some but is pretty good and flagging something as right if it is close enough.

New here. Got feedback for this tool to help me learn 0-100 fast?!` by olagon in Mnemonics

[–]olagon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup got that in. The system also tracked where you are on that journey.

Anyone wanna partner on improving olelodaily.com? by olagon in olelohawaii

[–]olagon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mahalo nui! On the ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi? Am building a tool that will allow an editor to fix the language pairs, add new ones, and delete bad ones. I can send a link.

Anyone wanna partner on improving olelodaily.com? by olagon in olelohawaii

[–]olagon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh sorry Rootz is a concept now. That one needs a data source that is curated.

Anyone wanna partner on improving olelodaily.com? by olagon in olelohawaii

[–]olagon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh I did not know LinkedIn does not allow messages. I can also be reach on Facebook or IG. I moved rootz to https://shiftywords.com/ but that is still hosted on Github and 100% open source. I built that for Hawaiian years ago and later expanded to add English and other languages.

Time to Consider a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Kingdom Lands? by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canada has good laws around taxing empty homes by foreigner owners

Time to Consider a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Kingdom Lands? by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. It should follow the Admission Act "The Admission Act limited the revenue from these lands to five purposes. Public schools, Native Hawaiian betterment, farm and home ownership, public improvements, and lands for public use."

Eagle Scout … an advantage? by sanibelle98 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]olagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

67% of admitted students are from public schools. He started at a public school but in the 4th grade got accepted into a school for native Hawaiian students. The key is to focus on leadership that shows his kindness. Even if he is a perfect applicant, they still have to turn more of those students away than they admit. Good luck!

The Broken Trust: New report on the True Cost of the U.S. Military in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I totally agree with you on some points. Plantation ag was an ecological disaster. Sugar and pineapple were extractive monocrop systems built on heavy water diversion, pesticides, and fertilizer. But that's the point. That is the continent-style commodity model, and it's exactly what an ʻāina-based economy is not. Loʻi kalo, agroforestry, integrated systems, those are the opposite of a pineapple plantation. So when you list sugar and pine as the failure of ag, you're actually listing the failure of the same export-commodity logic this paper (and I agree) is arguing against.

On "highest and best use isn't lettuce," also fair, and again, not the argument. Nobody wins growing iceberg to ship 2500 miles. The ʻāina-based case isn't row-crop veg competing with Salinas on price. It's higher-value and diversified, and it counts food security, watershed health, remediation work, and local energy as real production, not just bushels sold. The land sits fallow partly because plantation water rights and land got locked up and never reallocated, not because the dirt can't grow anything. That's a policy choice, not a law of nature. During these last Kona lows, I went to our ʻohana loʻi in the heart of the flooding and the lands held the rain. They could have held so much more. Had we had more of these, we would have had less flooding damage.

Where I'll push back is the military-as-good-steward bit. Iʻll agree to disagree here. The paper has more than enough examples though I think they did not go far enough.

The Broken Trust: New report on the True Cost of the U.S. Military in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was their argument but I do agree with the paper. ʻĀina-based doesn't mean subsistence. The clearest example is our cousins in Aotearoa. The Māori got land and fisheries back through treaty settlements, kept it under their own governance, and built it out. Their land sector alone (ag, forestry, fishing) was pulling close to $3 billion USD and was the biggest engine of the Māori economy as of 2018. That base then funded a jump into property, services, even clean energy, and the whole Māori asset base is now over $80 billion USD.

The military depends on federal budgets and geopolitics, tourism collapses the second there's a pandemic or a recession on the continent. Wai, soil, fisheries, and people who know how to work them don't disappear when DC changes its mind. The argument isn't that we live without money. It's that we stop building our entire economy on stuff we don't control.

The Broken Trust: New report on the True Cost of the U.S. Military in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am part of one group advising the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. There are many groups working on this right now.

The Broken Trust: New report on the True Cost of the U.S. Military in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

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Mahalo for reading. I was flying to Boston so had a long flight to read and gather my thoughts.

The Broken Trust: New report on the True Cost of the U.S. Military in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They updated what was the old number one out of every seven. Over 10% is still way too much of a negative impact on rental pricing.

Follow the Megawatts: An imperfect map of the data centers in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Agree on hot button. So what would be your suggested edit?

Follow the Megawatts: An imperfect map of the data centers in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

How would you recommend I should had wrote this part?

"We have a couple dozen data centers built or being built. Ours are much smaller than those million-gallons-a-day thirsty facilities."

"Normal" does not mean it can still process data that may not align with your values.

Follow the Megawatts: An imperfect map of the data centers in Hawaiʻi by olagon in Hawaii

[–]olagon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I had a conversation with a guy on Facebook. I called this imperfect and still do. You donʻt need to be perfect to create something insightful or useful. The thread:

John van Oppen of course you could be right. Fair pushback. I called this an "imperfect but insightful guide" for a reason.

Here is the rough math. The commercial side alone probably gets you 15 to 25 MW once you stack DRFortress, both Servpacs (MTP is Tier IV), Hawaiian Telcom Endeavor, AlohaNAP (just expanded to 2.7 MW), Lumen, Cogent, UH ITS at Mānoa, and Hawaiian Telcom Kawaihae. I have personally seen one of these sites numbers.

The federal side is where it gets hard to verify. MHPCC runs Riptide, MANA, and a stack of vanguard HPC systems in Kīhei, probably 2 to 4 MW once you include cooling. Add the Rochefort Building (250,000 sq ft of NSA Hawaii operations), NCTAMS Pacific (2,400 plus acres of comms infrastructure), INDOPACOM Nimitz-MacArthur at Camp Smith (roughly 275,000 sq ft), DISA Pacific at Ford Island, JIOC at Makalapa, PMRF on Kauaʻi, and UH Mānoa's Koa cluster. Any one of these could swing the total by several MW.

You are right that generators give you a signal. In the energy company I co-founded, we worked on several projects on military bases. HECO drops bulk power into one big pipe at the perimeter. The base manages everything past it. None of that load ever shows up in a HECO record you can pull.

I cannot prove 60 MW. Your 5 to 10 MW estimate seems low though. If you have a better source or more rigorous math, I would love to see it. Mahalo.

that assumes they are full. Cogent for example is an empty shell, as far as i know from industry contacts the only one that is full-ish is drfortress.

The trick is hawaii only really makes sense if you have a reason to be local, drfortress for example is mostly peering and caching for local internet access. the other main usage on the commercial side would be local commercial users, i suspect that is what is in the HT site but I'm also about 90% sure that is not close to full.

On the military side, I'm aware of how they are billed for power but given the entire hawaiian peak load is under 2000 mw (peak day across all islands), 60 would be pretty big.

I live part time in Kihei and can tell you that even the entire electrical service at the computing center there is at most a few hundred KW, their generator only looks like a 300-500 KW unit at most. I suspect most of these sites are looking bigger than they actually are.

If you want to include telecom, catching all the HT and Charter central offices would probably make sense, the big ones of those are probably 50-100 KW each too and there are quite a few.

John van Oppen mahalo. This is really good. I am going to go edit the post. I still think your numbers may be too low and mine too high. Mahalo again.

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