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by pilom 10y ago
Yeah we were doing it anyway to keep our family in the loop about where we were and how it worked. Honestly it's probably way less that $10/hour, but we do it for the travel log anyway.
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by pilom 10y ago
I work remotely and moved into an RV to travel around North America with my wife. Started blogging about travel and working on the road at http://therecklesschoice.com and using Amazon affiliate links whenever appropriate that p
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by pilom 10y ago
Sure you'll be able to upgrade this with more efficient turbines or something, but you'll also be able to put those more efficient turbines in a hydro-electric dam or wind turbine, or coal burning plant. I'm not seeing the ma
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by pilom 10y ago
The issue is that currently the power is generated locally in Europe. In order for Morocco to export it's power to Europe, it would need the HVDC (high voltage direct current) power lines installed to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
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by pilom 10y ago
> Data Genetics came up with the numbers by analyzing a database of 3.4 million stolen passwords that have been made public over the years. Most of these are passwords for websites. But by looking specifically at those that comprise exac
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by pilom 10y ago
Can you give some examples for how the moon is more hostile? I've always thought that for both you need a pressure suit but that the temps and radiation numbers were similar? Sure it's 21 days of hot then 21 days of cold instead o
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by pilom 10y ago
There is a ton of evidence that as extremely poor people get richer they have less kids. People who earn less than $1 per day have more than 5 times as many children on average as people in first world countries
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by pilom 10y ago
If you're thinking of donating, http://www.givewell.org/donate
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by pilom 10y ago
I think you're vastly underestimating the cost of the equipment, land, operators etc. The three pieces of heavy equipment would be >$5000/day. Plus 3 shifts of 3 skilled people would be another $1500/day. Plus the cost of
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by pilom 10y ago
Digging holes requires a lot of horizontal space. Generally 2:1 width to depth is needed for standard topsoil. Go to deep too fast and you won't be able to get your digger and dump truck back out of the hole.
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by pilom 10y ago
Using Python for an API call that is basically a thin wrapper around one of our supplier's (not very good) APIs running ~500k requests per day. We've had problems twice with 500 errors for all requests at night when they do mainte
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by pilom 10y ago
The problem is when are you zooming and when are you rotating? Google Maps on the phone is a great example. I find myself using "tap then flick up or down" or just the +- buttons much more useful because they don't require my
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by pilom 10y ago
We use wildcard certs for a number of domains to support affiliate subdomains. So affiliate.example.com and affiliate2.example.com are all served by the same servers and thus all need to validate with one cert.
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by pilom 10y ago
I'd love to read more about this if you have a source?
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by pilom 10y ago
True, but if the cost of gas jumps back to >$4 where it was 2 years ago, will the cost of a supercharge go up as well?
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by pilom 10y ago
Totally agree, the transmission for the Prius is astounding. It is truly amazing that they replaced everything about past transmissions with a single planetary gear system and it works beautifully.
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by pilom 10y ago
It is only more cost effective to fly if he is the only person in the car. As soon as you add one passenger, the drive is the better value (depending on value of time).
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by pilom 10y ago
I totally agree, but your average EV driver who charges at home is going to use way more than 100 kwh/month.
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by pilom 10y ago
"Since my trade-in Tundra was 10 years old with 178K miles, let's assume that's the life of the new vehicle too." That's a terribly faulty assumption. The average age of all cars on the road in the US is 11 years ol
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by pilom 10y ago
Your logic uses the faulty assumption that you should always have a monthly payment. You shouldn't. Average live of a car is much longer than even a 7 year loan so at some point you shouldn't be making payments on it any longer. I
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by pilom 10y ago
Profits do not equal money returned to investors. These profits will be held for future capital purchases or used to pay down debt or used for R&D in the future.
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by pilom 10y ago
I totally understand the argument for the merger, I'm just saying that this announcement of one profitable quarter (because they sold the ZEV credits) doesn't change anything about that merger math.
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by pilom 10y ago
I'm not sure it does. All it shows is that Tesla, may at some point in the future be consistently profitable. It doesn't change anything about the prospects of SolarCity to be consistently profitable and if I were a Tesla owner th
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by pilom 10y ago
We use CloudFlare and after this my boss said "set us up with secondary DNS somewhere." Unfortunately, CloudFlare doesn't support being a primary DNS provider with NOTIFY messages. They are designed to handle the DDoS for us
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by pilom 10y ago
I don't understand how decriminalization is a long term option. We're saying, it's ok for you to do this, but anyone who provides the service for you is breaking the law (not to mention if you try to service yourself by growi
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by pilom 10y ago
The question is, what is the alternative? Currently the alternative is that we throw people (predominantly minorities) in prison for drug use. If the options are 1) a handful of people choose to use it habitually and they get memory issues
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by pilom 10y ago
It was originally instituted because a student drowned in the Charles river because he didn't know how to swim. Age might be different, but the majority of people who drown don't know how to swim. Teach your kids to swim, they are
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by pilom 10y ago
A successful entrepreneur who had sold businesses could theoretically just self insure. If you have paid off your house, you don't technically need home insurance (though this guy would be silly not to have it).
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by pilom 10y ago
You could, you know, teach them how to swim? The reason so many children die of drowning is that so many don't know how to swim. MIT literally has a swim test requirement to graduate college for exactly this reason.
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by pilom 10y ago
Your own link shows that Chicago had almost twice as many shootings in the 1970's and early 1990's than it has today. Sounds safer to me.

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