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by pilom 9y ago
> Unless you live on an RV or a boat it doesn’t make financial sense yet If you're curious about what a system for an RV does look like, I work remotely full time in an RV and built my own system: https://therecklesschoic
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by pilom 9y ago
If I ever founded a company, we'd be remote only from the start simply so that I wouldn't force people to do silly commutes. I would see any of my employees doing a 2 hour commute as a major failure on my part.
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by pilom 9y ago
Best case, that much solar generates about 38 horsepower for about 5 hours per day. The engine generates about 4000 horsepower. I would be astounded if this lowered fuel usage by 1% after you count the added weight of the batteries and elec
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by pilom 9y ago
In colder climates where heating is as much an expense as cooling, no. Most just put black tar up there because it is cheap. That said, when you need to pay to heat in summer and pay to cool in winter, the 3% savings in cooling doesn't
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by pilom 9y ago
I would actually put Vegas as one of the most sustainable cities in the US out of necessity. Vegas's per capita water use is about 1/4 of the US average including all of those crazy fountains on the strip. They don't irrigate
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by pilom 9y ago
I doubt it has to do with the US's waning global leadership and more to do with the fact that Americans drive longer distances per year than people in any other nation. There are HUGE parts of the US where you literally couldn't g
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by pilom 9y ago
So lets say she gets halfway there and her car dies. She can't pay for the repair, she can't pay for a hotel, she doesn't know where to get services. She'd all of a sudden be in a much worse situation.
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by pilom 9y ago
2 reasons come to mind. 1) it costs a fair bit of money to move. Especially half way across the US. Saving up the necessary money for a bus ticket may be impossible (no bank account, don't want to keep that money on you for fear of the
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by pilom 9y ago
I'm a 30 year old in the US. Unfortunately all I know is that there was a protest and some of the protesters got shot and there was a person standing in front of a tank. It's not like wikipedia tells accurate information about the
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by pilom 9y ago
The Hoover Dam was build for about $800 million inflation adjusted. I'm 100% certain that you couldn't build that structure today for that much without killing people.
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by pilom 9y ago
#1 reason we wouldn't do things like that today: 112-154 people died during construction (number depends on if you believe that carbon monoxide poisioning during construction was purposely mis-diagnosed in order for the company to skip
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by pilom 9y ago
Glacier National Park is one of the few US Government organizations that hasn't backed down to political pressure about climate change. There are multiple signs in the park that say something along the lines of "See that glacier o
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by pilom 9y ago
But even with all of those advantages, you didn't make $1000 a day. You broke even and almost lost money. In order compare to someone making $100/day you need to make money consistently for a long term. No one can consistently tur
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by pilom 9y ago
Seconded! Been a customer for 10 years and I'm still extremely happy. I can't say that about any other business I've ever worked with.
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by pilom 9y ago
> Money doesn't make you happy. It makes you unhappy in a better part of town. Great quote!
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by pilom 9y ago
Computers on the internet are pointed to by special numbers. Usually the special numbers look like 4 numbers with '.' like 123.45.67.89 Each of those 4 numbers can be between 0 and 255 so (to be more simple) the lowest special num
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by pilom 9y ago
So you weren't doing it for money and you don't like travel, so what was the point? Why do something that doesn't make you happy?
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by pilom 9y ago
Gas is too expensive to move a house that way. Most RVs get significantly less than 10mpg. Ours gets about 7. Even if it drove itself, there is no way that I would want it moving that much per day.
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by pilom 9y ago
We're aiming to do all of the national parks and monuments in Utah this year, starting at the Grand Canyon and working our way towards Moab. Where abouts are you? Email in profile or on our website.
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by pilom 9y ago
While I agree with your assessment of "pretty people in pretty places" as it applies to the giant Instagram accounts, it really doesn't apply to most people who live this lifestyle. Living in a van allows you to not need to w
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by pilom 9y ago
There are also tons of people who do this without the sponsors. I've been living in an RV for a while while at the same time working remotely ( http://therecklesschoice.com if you're interested). Lots of people work as
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by pilom 9y ago
The GP's point is that Median Income would be valuable but "average" i.e. Mean Income, is much less valuable.
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by pilom 10y ago
I hope Ultra level settings add a fair bit b/c the aliasing on that screenshot is incredibly obvious everywhere but especially on the cables holding the starting lights and the barrier fences. It looks good but it isn't real by a
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1000fps Projection Mapping on Faces(cdm.link)
1 points by pilom 10y ago|0 comments
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by pilom 10y ago
Every single one of the privacy concerns listed are exactly the same as for an ID badge. No one is up in arms about ID badges. If I worked somewhere where they said "you either have to carry your ID badge with you everywhere on campus,
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Ask HN: Time.windows.com is wrong today?
7 points by pilom 10y ago|2 comments
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by pilom 10y ago
http://withouthotair.com/about.html - "This is a free book in a second sense: you are free to use all the material in this book, except for the cartoons and the photos with a named photographer, under the Creative Comm
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by pilom 10y ago
I guess I look at it as Susan gets 5 times as much benefit from a stable society (they would both lose their incomes if society collapsed or the country were bombed, etc) and thus should pay _at least_ 5 times as much as Joe.
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by pilom 10y ago
The fair tax proposal actually proposes removing Social Security and Medicare taxes as well so there would be no income tax of any kind. I stand by my numbers.
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by pilom 10y ago
I'm bothered that so many people on here see the rationing that these people do as such a bad thing. The easiest way to increase the percentage of renewable energy that you personally use is through cutting usage and limiting peak dema

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