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by drewnick 4y ago
This is excellent advice, and points out how difficult parenting actually is. None of what you mention is easy, or path of least resistence. Especially waiting for highschool for the phone. We did sixth grade and we regret it now that our
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by drewnick 4y ago
Yes, it supplies about 10% of the region's water. At a 2x cost compared to other methods, but for residential the economics still make sense.
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by drewnick 4y ago
Thank you for this calculation. This water is primarily residential, versus the Colorado River compact water, which is majority agricultural. California exports hay (grown on Coloradio River compact water) to other countries, including Chi
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by drewnick 4y ago
I live in Carlsbad, CA. We procure 50M gallons a day from the Pacific Ocean. [0] San Diego saw this coming 10y ago and took action. 0. https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/
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by drewnick 5y ago
South Florida has has an unusually dry summer so far and I think that has kept the due points down. As another comment said, give it time and it'll catch up to you. I'm in Boca Raton and it feels wonderful, but by July/Augu
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by drewnick 6y ago
Great points on managing expectations. In my experience the new voice repeater is quite busy on 437.800 output. While you won't be talking to astronauts, you'll be hearing it and often can see it move across the sky while listeni
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by drewnick 6y ago
HF Radio is #1, PC, and some antenna.
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by drewnick 6y ago
I agree with this assessment. We moved from FL (0% income tax, 1.5% property tax) to CA (9% for us income tax, 1.05% property tax) and the quality of the infrastructure is at best on par. Which was surprising. Our SALT taxes went up 5x a
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by drewnick 6y ago
A combination of FOMO and the never-ending flow of passive money into the market, which is 45%+ [1] and probably growing. Passive investors do not analyze their investments, they blindly buy market indices like the S&P 500. With all of
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by drewnick 6y ago
Same thing in SoCal. Same exact house model selling for $200,000 higher than a few months back, under contract in 1 day. Demand high, supply very very low.
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by drewnick 6y ago
I tried to migrate a bunch of smaller images to this service several years ago, and then again about a year ago. The performance was not satisfactory back then and I found their docs recommended using it only for larger files [1] which to
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by drewnick 6y ago
Good question. We have an interesting situation developing, for sure. In Person will be valuable for the foreseeable future. While it is the pipe dream of HN crowd to be able to work from anywhere / WFH, there is still value in face
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by drewnick 6y ago
Yep. Ordered a freezer in March from Costco, delivery scheduled for June.
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by drewnick 7y ago
Fair point, but it depends on where you live. Many places have lots of smaller animals like squirrels and rabbits. Even some deserts have rabbits and field mice, etc.
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by drewnick 7y ago
My Spectrum voice service is $10/mo and has a 30-number white list. Everyone else is blocked.
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by drewnick 7y ago
I'm not arguing, but we've cut private car use, and it seems like the world is ending, economically speaking. Hoping this creates habits that are good for climate beyond the immediate disaster. WFH, school changes, etc. Good ca
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by drewnick 7y ago
Yes, which is why no matter who your provider is, you should have an off-site backup.
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by drewnick 7y ago
DO has more managed services like databases, k8s, etc. Otherwise they are very similar. Vultr has more locations in the US.
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by drewnick 7y ago
One nitpick on the transfer. DO offers 5TB which at $.12/GB on GCP would be $600 worth of transfer not $8. If you need lots of egress DO wins hands down. Realistically few are going to need the full 1TB and most will be closer to 2-1
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by drewnick 7y ago
Not OP but I can setup DB of choice on an instance or group of instances and access directly from the Cloud Run containers. Our particular main stack is on MongoDB 3.4 so we deployed Atlas on the VPC and the containers access it just fine.
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by drewnick 7y ago
It just 301's you to Google so they'll still be tracking.
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by drewnick 7y ago
Growing a tree and burning it is carbon neutral.
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by drewnick 7y ago
Anecdote of one but my one-year-old XPS 13 doesn't have it. Returned the '17 model it was terrible.
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by drewnick 7y ago
Each state has a Guaranty Association that provides up to several hundred thousand dollars per policy for failed insurance companies. We've seen this story before with Penn Treaty which was liquidated in 2017. In California it's
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by drewnick 7y ago
Agree. With tools like Remote VS Code it's definitely as good if not better than in person because you each have your own creature comforts but share the same workspace (even terminal) and can edit the same file at the same time.
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by drewnick 8y ago
If you’re moved by money, you would choose New Hampshire for the no income tax if choosing between the two. Vermont is 6.8% over 37k.
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by drewnick 8y ago
I just tested it with two phones in different states and it was within .54 miles. An SMS consent was required first. (Reply YES to consent)
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by drewnick 9y ago
New Hampshire also has a pretty unique culture regarding hunting on others' and public land: "Based on long-standing tradition, nearly all lands in the state of New Hampshire are open to hunting. The "rule of thumb" in N
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by drewnick 9y ago
I wonder what happens if someone calls the phone number after receiving an SMS text. The FAQ/docs don't seem to address this.
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by drewnick 9y ago
I'm not sure if they've recently changed something, but I just started using Google's Cloud Platform and the interface is really easy to use. In just a few clicks you can provision a VM with any amount of storage and then cl

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