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My entire financial planning model is founded on a lack of global thermonuclear war. Now I need to figure out what to short so I can take advantage of this blac

My entire financial planning model is founded on a lack of global thermonuclear war. Now I need to figure out what to short so I can take advantage of this black swan event? Eh, this is good for crypto.

CamperBob2 4y ago
My entire financial planning model is founded on a lack of global thermonuclear war That's funny, my financial planning model is founded on the opposite premise.
- jmkni 4y ago
  Bottle caps?
bsagdiyev 4y ago
Let me just login in to the intern... oh right. Well the radios should still wor... no? Shit. I need to pay for clean water from my neighbor.
- kaoD 4y ago
  This is the only thing that makes me want to learn radio. I don't want to buy expensive gear, but being able to build my own DIY QRP (low-power) DX (long-distance) CW (Morse) transceiver? Count me in. Too bad there doesn't seem to be extensive information to introduce us digital engineers to the hobby. I don't want a kit. I want to learn the fundamentals so I can be ready when the society collapses and the ham übermenschen rule the world.
  - CamperBob2 4y ago
    The ARRL Handbook is still the best overall introductory material, I think. Depends on how old-school you want to get. SDR? Pre-SDR digital techniques? Analog-only? Analog-only with discrete transistors? Vacuum tubes...? The Handbook will bring you up to speed on all but the latter, and for that, there's always the older editions.
  - hfjcic7 4y ago
    The license they make you take is all fundamentals... There are hundreds of books and YouTube channels on the topic.
  - someguy212 4y ago
    Here you https://disaster.radio/ https://disaster.radio/
    - Gys 4y ago
      ‘disaster.radio is currently not actively developed and seeks a new maintainer It is a work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.’
  - newbYhrly 4y ago
    There won’t be Rpis, old phones, and WiFi gear laying around?
    - kaoD 4y ago
      It's global thermonuclear war. There won't be internet, cell reception, or even a power grid. The radio in those is pretty short distance (ham can do 1000s of Km) and they draw a lot of power that you'll want to save since (if you're lucky) you'll be running on car batteries in remote areas. But now I'm wondering how the aftermath will affect propagation conditions.
      - newbYhrly 4y ago
        Target lists of other nations do not include all large metro areas in the US. A list for Russia was leaked once; by NY, LA, Seattle, but the middle of the country was mostly untouched. Presumably local infra in many areas will be disconnected from the old larger grid but locally intact. Still functioning gadgets with WiFi will be all over and can make a local mesh network. Dams, wind turbines, utility lines, will remain. It’s not aliens with doomsday weapons hitting all human occupied places from space. That said it’s really what survivors do about that. Not hard to see many in shock ending themselves given the lack of hands on survival skills, and connection to the manual labor that keeps us alive, like farming.
  - bsagdiyev 4y ago
    Do it. I got my license from a free course and test in San Diego and have enjoyed it ever since. Finding info can be pretty easy but I'm on my phone so can't provide links right this second.
- blacksmith_tb 4y ago
  You mean ARPANET won't survive a nuclear war? What a case of false advertising.
blaser-waffle 4y ago
> Eh, this is good for crypto. Only if you stockpile lots of GPUs and generators

CamperBob2 4y ago

My entire financial planning model is founded on a lack of global thermonuclear war That's funny, my financial planning model is founded on the opposite premise.

jmkni 4y ago
Bottle caps?

bsagdiyev 4y ago

Let me just login in to the intern... oh right. Well the radios should still wor... no? Shit. I need to pay for clean water from my neighbor.

kaoD 4y ago
This is the only thing that makes me want to learn radio. I don't want to buy expensive gear, but being able to build my own DIY QRP (low-power) DX (long-distance) CW (Morse) transceiver? Count me in. Too bad there doesn't seem to be extensive information to introduce us digital engineers to the hobby. I don't want a kit. I want to learn the fundamentals so I can be ready when the society collapses and the ham übermenschen rule the world.
- CamperBob2 4y ago
  The ARRL Handbook is still the best overall introductory material, I think. Depends on how old-school you want to get. SDR? Pre-SDR digital techniques? Analog-only? Analog-only with discrete transistors? Vacuum tubes...? The Handbook will bring you up to speed on all but the latter, and for that, there's always the older editions.
- hfjcic7 4y ago
  The license they make you take is all fundamentals... There are hundreds of books and YouTube channels on the topic.
- someguy212 4y ago
  Here you https://disaster.radio/ https://disaster.radio/
  - Gys 4y ago
    ‘disaster.radio is currently not actively developed and seeks a new maintainer It is a work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.’
- newbYhrly 4y ago
  There won’t be Rpis, old phones, and WiFi gear laying around?
  - kaoD 4y ago
    It's global thermonuclear war. There won't be internet, cell reception, or even a power grid. The radio in those is pretty short distance (ham can do 1000s of Km) and they draw a lot of power that you'll want to save since (if you're lucky) you'll be running on car batteries in remote areas. But now I'm wondering how the aftermath will affect propagation conditions.
    - newbYhrly 4y ago
      Target lists of other nations do not include all large metro areas in the US. A list for Russia was leaked once; by NY, LA, Seattle, but the middle of the country was mostly untouched. Presumably local infra in many areas will be disconnected from the old larger grid but locally intact. Still functioning gadgets with WiFi will be all over and can make a local mesh network. Dams, wind turbines, utility lines, will remain. It’s not aliens with doomsday weapons hitting all human occupied places from space. That said it’s really what survivors do about that. Not hard to see many in shock ending themselves given the lack of hands on survival skills, and connection to the manual labor that keeps us alive, like farming.
- bsagdiyev 4y ago
  Do it. I got my license from a free course and test in San Diego and have enjoyed it ever since. Finding info can be pretty easy but I'm on my phone so can't provide links right this second.
blacksmith_tb 4y ago
You mean ARPANET won't survive a nuclear war? What a case of false advertising.

blaser-waffle 4y ago

> Eh, this is good for crypto. Only if you stockpile lots of GPUs and generators