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Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?
91 points by dhruvkar 6y ago|78 comments
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
- 25% Wealthfront (~medium aggressive fund) - 30% Industrial/Commercial Real Estate - 5% Crypto - 40% Cash I'd like to reduce the cash. Will probably buy gold with about half the cash to align with a more all weather portfolio [0]
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Location: St. Louis, MO Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Vanilla JS Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvkar Email: dhruv@wints.org I build software for a distribution company. We h
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
The book would open doors to GET TO the interview, probably not much past that -- exactly for the reasons you stated.
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
- pyenv - pyenv-virtualenv - poetry This is for macOS, but it seems pretty straightforward. I https://duncanleung.com/set-up-python-pyenv-virtualenv-poetr...
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
I don't think so. Playing in someone's arena is playing by their rules. They built that arena with their blood, sweat and tears. Why should the their reward be decided/judged by people on the sidelines? You want to play? Pay
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Often, counterpoints used to cast doubt on someone's state of consciousness take current societal norms as the bar to cross, e.g. 'he couldn’t hold down a job' or 'he was divorced twice' I feel this is an apples&#x2
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Why remove telegram but keep signal? Just curious.
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Hospitals, since 2019, are required to post their price list for services they offer. However, they've made their price list and list of services (1) hard to find and (2) hard to parse. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to f
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
https://nomadlist.com/places-with-fast-internet It's a good place to check for these types of metrics, regardless of whether you ascribe to the "nomad" way.
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
I don't have book recommendations, but this channel is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf9s-yeskYZweEuKyq1ia6w
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
My 2c - I think being contrarian, over long periods of time, turns you into a jerk, because you have faced all kinds of opposition and subconsciously you've realized that the most effective way to get people to stop arguing with you is
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
I've had horrible sleeplessness all my adult life. I have a 10 month old baby now and with the pandemic, it's been hard to get things done since both my wife and I work full time. A few things that have helped: - going to sleep
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
ernst gotsch is the name to lookup. Growing food under a forest canopy with plenty of pruning, which creates healthy soil and less/no need for fertilizers. It's an effort to mimic a forest ecosystem and let things grow in their na
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Ask HN: What preventative steps are you taking during this extended pandemic?
6 points by dhruvkar 6y ago|2 comments
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
I had a mailing list ~1500 people for a keto newsletter. I also worried about mailing too much, not mailing enough etc. and saw the same churn. The way I thought about it is you want a group of CORE 1000 fans. So people that unsubscribe are
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Not sure about the hyped email providers (hey etc.), but I switched to Fastmail earlier this year. Beyond the control part (own domain, not sharing data with Google etc.), I love how snappy it is. Gmail bloat didn't bother me this much
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Thanks! I sent you an email. It's from my personal domain, so might have gone to your spam.
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
I would like to transition to this in the next 5-10 years. Starting off with a garden on a plot of land I just purchased. That syntropic agriculture video was powerful. Any way to contact you to understand how you've made the transitio
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
That's awesome. What sorts of techniques did you try? Sort of a gradual letting them soothe themselves for longer and longer periods of time?
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
We've attempted this with our daughter several times from 6 to almost 10 months now. Just can't do it, it feels wrong. Obviously not science-based, but we haven't been able to do it for more than a few days at a time.
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Incorporate an aspect of "play". Cooking -- what's the craziest/funnest thing I can make with ingredients at home. Studying -- allow myself to go down rabbit holes and explore them thoroughly Coding -- build something fu
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
google domains free whois privacy free email forwarding simple no-nonsense ui
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Nope. I worked broad though. I held 18 jobs through my 20s -- selling Kirbys (vacuum cleaners) and life insurance, working in China as a 3rd party inspector, bus driver, working on a solar commune, developing custom manufactured parts (thin
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
I see this argument a lot for Amazon. monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. Aren't suppliers free to start their own store, drive traffic to it and make money? Aren't su
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OneDevice – A smartphone that makes sense(onedevice.eu)
4 points by dhruvkar 6y ago|3 comments
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
Are the views on MZ really that he's letting Facebook excuse Trump? I see it as him trying to navigate the middle of pretty treacherous waters. I don't see profit or unwilling to toe the line with the administration as being a mot
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
>> surely not Dewey Decimal? Close. https://johnnydecimal.com/ Rather, I'd like to do implement this. I have my own homegrown system, with too many idiosyncrasies to share.
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by dhruvkar 6y ago
https://0x00sec.org/ for security, malware analysis, reversing etc. It's more of a forum, but the write-ups are pretty helpful

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