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by alfl 4y ago
Congratulations! Sounds like a stressful situation. In my opinion: It sounds like you need a break and need a bit of a mental adjustment: you've likely spent a decade being undervalued (new hires almost always make more than long-servi
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by alfl 4y ago
The Crown pays taxes: https://www.royal.uk/royal-finances-0?ch=5#bio-section-4
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by alfl 4y ago
God bless her and long live the King.
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by alfl 4y ago
Canada, where power is governed at the provincial level. Province was Nova Scotia. Dealing with the government utility was slow and inconvenient. Tech was solar and wind to battery.
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by alfl 4y ago
A condo building I know of runs a bioreactor / waste water compost. They sell heat to a nearby hotel (ie, warm their water off-site) and fertilizer (IIRC). Not electricity, but heat and chemical energy.
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by alfl 4y ago
I tried this. As other commenters have pointed out the big challenge is regulatory. That said, my approach was to find businesses or individuals as near as possible to a given piece of land (a lot I own) and see if they would buy power dire
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by alfl 4y ago
No hate on panels, the engineering claims just come pretty close to not passing the sniff test. I did a bit of math once to work out if panels could power my (future) Cybertruck and it wasn't even close. So maybe they have very efficie
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by alfl 4y ago
Functional business vocab is about a thousand words that comprise a domain-specific language. If you really want to master it, simply take notes in meetings (generally, this is a hack for any "boring" meeting that lets you activel
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by alfl 4y ago
OP is likely referring to the current government using emergency powers to order banks to freeze the accounts of protestors. The government has also (re-) introduced legislation to require platforms to regulate social media posts, as well a
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by alfl 4y ago
This "isn't even wrong."[0] Users should own their own data, period. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
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by alfl 4y ago
Strongly recommend you do the boring stuff. It teaches you what you need to outsource it, and it's generally less of a cognitive lift than engineering.
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by alfl 4y ago
Volatile by what measure over what time period? If a country, for example, is looking at price-versus-USD on a rolling average over five years and measuring volatility in terms of (positive and negative) variance of price, then the trend li
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by alfl 4y ago
We're in the middle of leasing an office because the market for office space is flooded right now: way more supply than demand. We're getting a great price on a long-ish term lease. We did some in-office tests in a coworking space
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by alfl 4y ago
Re: several comments here saying "web3 is a scam". That's what people used to think[0] about Web 2.0 as well. [0]: https://www.wired.com/2005/10/web-2-0-cracks-start-to-show/
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by alfl 4y ago
"web3 is a scam" is a popular narrative[0]. I decided to check what people originally said about Web 2.0 for comparison. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083470
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Web 2.0 Is A Scam (2005)(wired.com)
4 points by alfl 4y ago|3 comments
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by alfl 4y ago
web3 is cool :)
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by alfl 5y ago
Is this one of those "the fastest way to find the right way to do something is to post the wrong way to do it" things? :) None of the "expected rituals" sound like good ideas, though the walk-and-talks sound interesting.
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by alfl 5y ago
This is really cool, congrats and good luck!
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by alfl 5y ago
Brilliant comment, completely agree, would upvote more if possible.
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by alfl 5y ago
Thank you! Also found this: "Production is expected to take several months, and sea mail from China to me should take 1-2 additional months."
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by alfl 5y ago
I'm buying American this year - any idea where it's made?
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by alfl 5y ago
Match the donations.
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by alfl 5y ago
Latest is on GH: https://github.com/kubelt/whitepaper/blob/main/kubelt_whitep...
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by alfl 5y ago
How's this? http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNfXy5uCQjEWabnAsvJJPGkKNc6wSZu9M9w2cNx...
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by alfl 5y ago
For now. My company kubelt.com is fixing this.
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by alfl 5y ago
This, but non-ironically, and with distributed discovery.
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by alfl 5y ago
Don't forget distributed storage like IPFS and content management graphs like kubelt (my company). web3 isn't all tokens and NFTs. There's a huge distributed computing piece. The increased investment is being used to build im
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by alfl 5y ago
In “The Innovator’s Dilemma” Christiansen presents data from the storage market supporting the argument that disruptive innovations happen when inventions outcompete incumbent products on value criteria that appeal to engineers and enthusia
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by alfl 5y ago
Perhaps Gonzo has been industrialized: “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

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