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It may help some also to know what an amp actually is: 6.241x10^18 protons or electrons per 1 second of time passing a certain point. A single Amp is equal to 1 Coulomb and 1 Coulomb has 1 Joule of energy. I share this from my personal documentation in comprehension of understanding the unseen resulting from a device I am building to solve a personal energy storage problem. All open knowledge certainly but graphing these relationships into a visual depiction of the correlation has greatly assisted when talking to others that have ZERO knowledge about energy and power. Humans are nearly all 100% visual so explaining it with pictures presents A LOT of AHA moments for those without such comprehension.

The inverse relationship between amps and volts can also help: 50 volts * 24 Amps = 1200 Watts 100 Volts * 12 Amps = 1200 Watts 120 Volts * 10 Amps = 1200 Watts 150 Volts * 8 Amps = 1200 Watts 200 Volts * 6 Amps = 1200 Watts 240 Volts * 5 Amps = 1200 Watts 360 Volts * 3.333 Amps = 1200 Watts 480 Volts * 2.5 Amps = 1200 Watts 600 Volts * 2 Amps = 1200 Watts

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While this sounds great in practice the reality will be far from ideal for the singular reason of security. The cyber issues are compounding at exponential rates as more and more devices that make things "easy" lack even the most basic security protocols and the production targets to generate revenue asap have zero to nil concern around protecting said devices from nefarious actors while in use. When the electrical and data transfer grid become one, as I believe it must for reasons of efficiency, we are certain to witness chaos and losses like never before. What you cannot see matters most! and in time many will pay the ultimate cost for someone else's 'easy'.

Fraud is everywhere unfortunately and will continue to wash out at an alarming rate as strong people take a stand. The future will certainly see massive disclosures as data availability spreads and gets fed into 'intelligent' technology. As with everything in life, experience is one's greatest educator and this story is no surprise to me. Is anyone aware of a public free to search site that can list these people along with the appropriate evidence?

I have direct personal experience with this as a former business partner had created a female LI profile, she was neither ugly nor non educated, and she was VP of Sales if I recall but if he is reading this, which I deduce he will, he is more than welcome to correct me. Many male folks within the industry reached out for non industry talks and he, the maintainer of this fake female LI account, ended up using this data against them for his own personal gain. Having read the comments within maybe it did start as a bare bones marketing approach but just got out of hand? Ironically today I saw the code theft article as well, that is something he also has experience with. I too have all the evidence in 'logs' that backs my claim against that person and for him there is no prison time but in this digital world he does have to live with his past choices.

Welcome to the "How much energy am I using right now club?"! Now how much is this one light bulb itself consuming I wonder? ;)

I'm clocking 2 1/2 years experience with my 12.5 Kw solar glass and 27 Kw of powerwalls. Multiple electric vehicles including all yard tools, pure torque without any power loss, I have never in my life cut the grass so fast! Look ma, no gas!

Your closing line absolutely nails my thinking which is supported by good ol Lorde Kelvin, one can only improve what one measures and an extreme few know how much electricity they use. Try it yourself, ask anyone you know how much electricity they use monthly and 99 to 1 they answer in a monetary number.

Education solves ignorance and the mountain ahead is massive.

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Superb analogy indeed as this is the same approach I use in my next pursuit in breaking through to those from a technology background. The cache sources can be anything providing energy to be stored in the rapid response system while the cache system itself is modular in design allowing ingress and egress simultaneously based on inputs and outputs of demand. The fun part is designing and writing the software to control all the "cache" hardware. I have no idea what I am talking about though but I did stay in a Holiday Inn last night... or was it a Motel 6. :)

For those with their ear on the track when that sound resonates they will see the light, everyone else will be in the dark without energy storage. Costs are spiking everywhere and the U.S. government is having meetings near weekly exactly about this coming fun. Those meetings reflect frank direct statements about coming derailments and the grid has not changed since its inception and remains to be centralized to this very day. There are enough smart technologists here that can put together exactly what I infer, significant opportunity.

For those further interested check out YT: "Environment Hearing: Clean Power Plan 2.0 Will Jeopardize Reliable and Affordable Energy". As with anything making significant revenues however those threatened with revenue loss will play the dirtiest games to preserve their position, this includes increasing the pollution output that is making that revenue.

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If not coins then how about relics? Everything that someone owned before us which was lost is below our feet and all one needs to do is study old maps to correlate the increased probability of finding one of those lost things from long ago. It happened by chance, almost 15 years ago now, that I learned something about the area in which I live that piqued my interest. As one who metal detects for exercise versus paying for a gym membership like many do, my chosen exercise pays me back quite well too if your area is significantly historic. ;) This leads me to inform those reading this far with interest that stone tools are everywhere and one just needs to know what to look for. Some of these stone tools date back over 10,000 years so if owning/holding a coin that is a 1000 years old is exciting, put yourself in my shoes when I discover and pick up a point (arrowhead) that dates back 5000 years. Now consider the last person to touch it before it was lost and how many people that relic fed. I have found hundreds of such relics and many old coins in the last 15 years, just yesterday I went for a walk and found 2 more points. My neighbors house is going up for sale in a few weeks for anyone that is extremely hard core in this hobby.

I have found through experience in explaining the utility grid problem to those that have little or no knowledge of the topic to start simply with a visual mathematical equation. Everyone understands basic math right?

Today we have:

Generation = Consumption

If generation fails, regardless of the reason, consumption fails as well. As some know, over consumption can cause generation failure and this is the finite juggle we read daily in the Summer from places such as TX and CA but this impact will be expanding globally year over year as electrical demand grows.

Now consider:

Generation + Storage = Consumption

Using a buffer, a computing concept applied to the energy sector, would allow for a place to debit/credit energy at will within the limits of the system regardless of consumption. In time any and all generation systems will feed into storage mechanisms which shifts the system reliability to the storage vectors away from today's generation focus. This concept is extremely big picture and I mentioned nothing about renewables as the current core electrical grid design is unsustainable. Those with their thinking cap on will realize also that the buffer is nothing more than a unit of consumption itself that is capable of returning a portion of what it held minus efficiency round trip losses.

Looking at it as math we can now apply logic as such

((Generation0 + Generation1 + GenerationN) + (Storage0 + Storage1 + StorageN)) = Consumption

As an analogous computer comparison that some here can certainly relate to, I fall back to those which have experienced the relief when a load balancer was introduced into their tech stack. Failure is definitely still possible but the core architectural design change allows to plan and compensate for that failure.

One thing is certain it will likely get worse before it gets better as there are many people talking about the problem and significantly less working toward a solution.

PS: Apologies if the format is jacked, I'm busy building.

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Yes, credits but money nonetheless that one would have had to pay if they were not able to manipulate their consumption at a point of great demand.

I share these words from direct experience of being a credit receiver from my utility company for several years which has been a great WFH benefit through awareness of the program. While I am now humbled and fortunate to have a renewables battery backed system in addition to multiple EVs prior to obtaining this renewable system I certainly played this money 'saving' game as well at every turn it was offered. The day before the voluntary shutdown my utility company would use this pre day as the credit baseline for the following shutdown day. I would lower the HVAC much greater than normal and charge all EVs beyond our typical SOC at a kW rate of 11 cents per. On the day of the shutdown I would use nearly no electricity intentionally and be credited at 1.25 USD per kW not used. Participating in this shutdown a few times a month would cover a whole month's bill++.

It is absolutely certain that someone will see this as "cheating" or "not fair" however everyone is equally capable of comprehending the offering as it stands and applying it to their own situation. It just takes time, which most don't want to give proactively, but those same "most" will certainly spend much more time reactively complaining. Mind your time as we all get the exact same interval of its passing however we certainly do not get the same aggregate amount.

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As energy prices continue to rise among all the other social and economic woes those motivated will continue to tinker. I am aware of many concepts in research occurring currently around mechanical advantage energy storage and here is yet another. I make no assertions as to the validity but just thought to share here as others in comments for the last several years have expressed interest in "kinetic" solutions. Everyone alive needs air, water, and energy every single day and those paying attention will soon begin to see the need to put the verb "clean" in front of each of those terms for anyone to survive. We all can likely agree however that the can will continue to be kicked down the road since everyone enjoys the beach but very few comprehend the trillions of individual grains of sand that make up that very thing we all enjoy.

All else being equal, and no large external cooling events occur as mentioned in the comments, in time we will witness a change in what seasons the majority of people look forward to. I recall over my duration of time to date that in the heart of winter the majority of people hating the cold have stated "I cannot wait for Summer to be here" however my recollection of the inverse memory from the heart of Summer with people stating "I cannot wait for Winter to be here" is slim at best yet YMWV. Consider in the last few years the large number of Americans which have relocated to Florida - why not Alaska which also has no State income tax? One thing I learned growing up as a country boy hunting game in those Winters to put food on the table is one can always put on more clothes to warm up but the inverse is certainly not true in the Summer. We only need to look at existing cultures that have evolved through millennia of evolution to realize how temperature impacts chosen residency and the Inuit's are the defining example. They have evolved to survive in extremely cold environments by using available resources to keep warm, referencing 'one can always put on more clothes', however where are the mass population of cultures that live off the land as the Inuit's do but solely in the extreme desert? Yes, they do exist but are they as prosperous as those groups living in the extreme cold?

The majority of society resists change as this is just a fact of life however when that change is forced that resistance often surfaces in negative ways and here we are in 2023 with so much 'change' beyond that of just the climate.

TLDR; patent hardware, not software.

I am fortunate to have been involved in the evolution of many founding software principles still heavily used to this day. As the creator and systems architect of several acquired SaaS platforms I have sat in more than one meeting discussing patenting my creations with executive management that saw nothing but fiat raining from the sky should such a patent be acquired for said software. Very early in my career I learned to avoid the software patent discussions as they did nothing but consume my time for something I recognized as frivolous in protecting.

As a generalist however with vast applied experience in electrical, mechanical, and technological hardware and software I do see value in patents which protect non software solutions, a physical tangible thing that accomplishes an objective in a unique derived way. With that stated, if one has a physical device which can be patented and therefore "protected" (to some degree) then patenting the physical thing as "unique" ensures one some legal protections as a timeline to execution, business evolution, and potential revenue. With this "unique physical device" patented it is of course controlled and managed by custom software. Protection by proxy for the custom software although not legally enforceable but since the device is "unique" this software has no other purpose. Modular design however through the entire hardware and software process ensures reusability at every turn; work smarter, not harder.

A lifetime of scars and lessons from these words so I hope this can help at least one person even if it's only a glancing blow answer to the OP question. My 2¢ from personal experiences which likely greatly differ from others so YMWV. Stay Healthy!

As with others comments I cannot attest to the "standard" however I was involved in the early foundational days for the multiple environments evolution.

I was the first programming hire in 1997 for a small electronic commerce company, being the first hire they had no systems and I was tasked with figuring it all out. Having written and managed in entirety one of the first API payment servers on the internet a problem quickly surfaced, near immediately actually, how do people learn to comprehend what it does without seeing it do it? Since there was nothing to look at, that mysterious 'black box' system when you swipe your payment card, the only solution was to have a 'fake' one that just didn't talk to the card networks. So the word 'fake' was not very well received in the business circles and almost immediately another issue arose - What do people code against to validate their own API client payment calls? Simple, I'll refactor the 'fake' API payment server to process API development test requests also. For those that have lived it and comprehend where this is going one can see the 'fake' payment server quickly becoming its own living and breathing platform to support. This led to the creation of four distinct separate environments all that matched from hardware up through software versioning in a staggered staged rollout window originating around 1999. I labeled the environments as DEV, QA, UAT, and PRD and each one had its own designated critical business flow reasoning. DEV was the environment the internal LAN technical parties tested against and to clarify this was NOT some developers personal system they kept running but was a match of PRD. QA was internal LAN quality assurance for all business test cases that needed stability outside of DEV along with load testing. UAT was external WAN User Acceptance Testing for new customer development as well as existing customers new feature development. PRD was of course external WAN and live production. This approach was tried and true tested leading up to Y2K and greatly alleviated countless PRD issues as I had established a code promotion procedure from Development to DEV, DEV to QA, QA to UAT, and then UAT to PRD. One can see three distinct code pushes before reaching PRD and this significantly increased uptime when such things were just becoming a topic.

"Can someone who has been writing software since before the internet remember why we started to do things this way?"

Clearly I am "old" as I sit here trying to remember how I remember this. :) Been through, done, and seen some crazy things in the last 30 years but what I'm building now…

I found the article to be sound in the fact of modularity and building upon what works as the old adage states "if it ain't broke don't fix it" holds true however there is always room for technology improvements when one monitors and measures the entire lifecycle of a transaction system. The world's systems exist in the way that they do today because someone took a risk on a design to work and the uptake of what “works” only spreads as the acceptance of said design is proven. I have wasted most of my adult life rewriting the same system in entirety five times and am now in the process of rewriting it again for the sixth however now I am applying it to a different industry. The design was proven over several decades in the critical uptime high transaction volume payments industry and now that same design is being generalized into other industries. The other industries applications may not have the same transaction volume requirements as the financial industries designs however refactoring what works ensures the critical availability portion as well as the scaling flexibility to meet potential high transaction volume should any other applied industries demand that same growth requirement.

Not answering the OP but instead sharing what I am having to do to accommodate others while learning a thing or two through that accommodation. Some here may recall the significant NASA failure where imperial and metric were mixed leading to a costly outcome(1) and that is what I want to avoid. While I am not launching rockets I do require extremely accurate calculations for my objectives. As an American, born and raised, the U.S. way is baked into everything that I do; however now that I am engineering a global hardware based solution that sees neither race, nationality, or creed all my engineering calculations are presented in metric in the final “pitch”. As an American I have done all my "internal thinking" using what I know but to reach a broader market for my potential global audience my documentation carries the reader, should they be Imperial based, through the metric conversions for those with the mathematical interest. My past experiences have guided me to spend the time now for this activity as a function of explicit documentation presenting the engineering and this is time very well spent since explicit written calculations with variables and constants clearly labeled leave much 'less' room for error when assumptions are eliminated, regardless of your unit of weights and measure.

(1)https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17350-nasa-criticised...

For those seeking official sources of direction which include these points and more I highly encourage starting with the basics of financial management. While these basics lead into many other areas of complex understanding always start with the basics. This one college class guided me more than any other outside of my career path of software development and I still have that college book. Financial management should be taught starting in elementary school but getting it into high school curriculums is good a start.

"In the last two years, five states — Ohio, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska and Rhode Island — passed legislation requiring that students take a full semester standalone personal finance education course in high school, doubling the total number of states with such a mandate."

I unfortunately regret to disappoint you that a living breathing homo sapien wrote this, me. My writing style is mine and mine alone although GPT could very well imitate my style but in this case it did not.

A great list to start with yet there are still several items missing from their projected speculations. As a core software architect and founder who has built multiple acquired ecommerce systems prior to and since the dotcom bust long ago I feel it prudent to emphasize to those that lack the experience to see what is happening yet again in an even more critical modern societal industry. The coming energy opportunities for those entrepreneurs among us here that possess the appropriate subject matter knowledge across hardware and software is significant, I cannot state it enough, “extremely significant”. Should you have the tenacity and drive to create and build something which others state is not possible then there is no time like the present to start and prove them wrong as every living person NEEDS energy. Who knows, maybe along the way you even enjoy the journey and make a little income too.

Building and vetting, through dogfooding, an energy storage concept of my own design that will in time become a business.

As a serial entrepreneur and founder in the technology realm my past matches his claim exactly.

The first founded iteration was spent observing and learning what not to do and over time grew to around 100 employees at peak. The second founded iteration I re-architected and re-coded the entire platform in about four years automating out all possible employees before going live which peaked at 7 employees under my ownership. And as they say "Third time's a charm". ;)

From my own personal past experiences, and YMMV, people are the problem. Computers only make mistakes that the software allows which comes from the human writing the code of course until GPT3 starts coding:) Computers do not know of opinions, politics, emotions, illness, image, etc and if businesses were to track and quantify this as to the impact of said business then many eye opening considerations would occur. Just because "It has always been this way" does not make it correct or, from my direct experiences, efficient. Per Edison: "There is always a better way."

I am the exception however as I have been doing real hands-on work since about age seven and have always been the first person to jump into anything to get my hands dirty learning whether that involves ICE engines, electricity, plumbing, digging, and of course anything tech related. I love to learn and have a passion for solving the hard problems which is my downfall but I don't do it for the money since that cannot buy health nor happiness.

The problem is vastly greater than being reported and for great reason obviously, copy cats. This past weekend nearly one million USD in losses alone were accrued by a regional power company at several regional substations via damage and theft. These incidents did result in power outages but not to the scale of affecting 5o,ooo people but instead only areas of several hundred. This problem is not isolated to only what you read in the news but is currently happening everywhere which in time will be impacting electrical costs and reliability for everyone. Lather in the supply chain issues and the depletion of on hand supply of drop-in replacements and some this winter, domestically and internationally, will be in the dark feeling the cold if electricity is their only means to survive.

https://www.wrde.com/news/elkton-car-fire-causes-50-000-in-d...

So maybe Motel 6 won't be leaving the light on for you as the core infrastructure problems are just getting started.

This one brought up yet another tech memory to share from the past. I was the founding architect of a real-time payments company in the mid 1990s which at the time was processing for a very well known, even to this day, ‘use your email to pay’ company. My position as the architect and critical core software developer brought me into many problems that were others, both in business and in technology. As the leading technology based payment processor at that time along with our large volume we had a relationship with a bank that had another smaller processor which suffered a breach, one of the first widely reported. This smaller processor was "consumed" by us, unknown why nor can I recall atm but back then it was much different working with the large card brands and banks, and we therefore were transferred all their assets including source code. I was tasked with finding the areas of compromise within the software systems designs having already rearchitected our core systems to XML and microservices long before such ideas were even considered. In performing a source code review of what was a monolith written entirely in Visual Basic 6 I discovered whoever had written it decided that they would treat themselves to much greater than 25K of real fiat currency. Someone had added to the if statement on checking the credit card number that upon matching a specific series of numerics no outbound card brand API call was made and this transaction was auto approved, no other checks, and this code was in production. Those reading this far can likely deduce the potential of such a single if statement.

Irony in the timing of your post as I too bought an air monitor filtering device a few weeks ago given my interest in measuring things I cannot see that may impact my families health. After several weeks of use and no ‘major’ concerns this past Saturday evening the air quality was hovering just below severe for many hours and the house felt 'stuffy' to me. I checked the devices readings and then asked each child and my SO independently how they felt after taking a deep breath and for generalization purposes they all stated 'stuffy' in a greatly shortened term. With a significant delta in temperature outside and in I too opened all the external doors and we had a slight wind that was then blowing through for about 5 minutes. Within seconds the air quality began to improve and after closing the house back up the air quality for the remainder of the weekend, and even now, has been optimal and everyone has felt much better. It is very interesting to measure something one can otherwise not see, such as one's air quality, and then take action to improve upon that thing which we never before quantified against how we felt which clearly has impacted our health in ways we may never know. Yet again, what you cannot see matters most!

A passing thank you to gjsman-1000 as his words resurfaced some history. As one with many years behind the curtain I recall an old trick that many glanced over since only 'advanced developers' long ago understood the impact: Compiling public releases as debug. Many a software would fail to strip the debug symbols from their code and so the games began. Using Softice and ollydbg along with ones favorite hex editor capable of sprinkling a few nop nops where needed and boom. The really bad ones were the companies that failed to comprehend what the pdb file was and shipped that with releases in debug mode - OOPS, there goes the i.p.

Fortuitous timing for this post /u Geeek! I wrote this up last night after a cybersecurity mentoring session I conducted as a means to analogously try to get others to comprehend since so many are blind to what is happening. Having decades of experience in technology at all levels I tried to sum up the focus points of why this is wrong in a dark humorous manner. Enjoy!

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U.S. public national big box stores look to capitalize on the rent seeking model with new internet of thing toolings. No longer will this industry miss out on the technology explosion and revenue opportunities that being smart brings. Formerly dumb tools are being modernized with cellular connectivity and features that will bring significant revenue for this brand while setting in motion the modernization of this overlooked industry. Revenue will come from the unique features and hidden charges that clients cannot live without such as in the case of the smart shovel in current testing that bills per scoop. There are no talks at the moment on bulk scoop discounts however if enough revenue is generated they stated it would not be considered. Currently protected under NDA several of the smart tools are in smart testing and the smart customers have provided overwhelming smart feedback which is showing great signs of significant income for the brand even in limited deployment. One client's happiness sums it up below.

B.K. states: "I am overwhelmed at the simplicity of using my smart shovel which doesn't really help me dig more but certainly adds weight to the tool use but I don't mind since I am strong. I do have to charge my shovel daily and the firmware updates have been a burden at times taking up to an hour of my day per update per shovel but I understand cybersecurity is important and I would hate for my shovel to get hacked. The best time is at the end of the month when I have to pay my bill for data use and features such as with each hole I dig as it charges per scoop so I have really optimized my hole digging process. The smart app is the best as it shows me nothing but I do have a cool avatar and I can connect all my shovels as well as my friends shovels into my "YouBeenScooped" social network. I have given feedback that the social network should be all tools in one place but I don't understand the internet so that may not be possible but I trust them to not rip me off or waste my time. As a local home building contractor just getting by I cannot wait to replace all my dumb tools and make them smart but I will have to adjust and sacrifice my family's life style to afford the benefits of being smart. I really look forward to the smart hammer which I have not yet tested but I am informed it has biometric authentication, remote lockout with electric shock and a gps find feature. There are even rumors that the hammer may have regenerative capture so while each swing will cost me plenty the more I swing it the longer I can go without charging! Of course I have to pay more for this regen feature which is another monthly charge but it will save me money since I also have to pay them to charge my shovel currently. All in all I am all in on being smart!"

Well folks there you have it from the anonymous testing clients feedback. The era of dumb tools is coming to an end so all hail the smart shovels, smart hammers, smart trowels, smart crowbars, smart screwdrivers and more which will be released in phases starting in the Spring of 2023 timed with the next housing building boom. We cannot wait to see the improvements that these smart tools will bring as we move into the new era of smart home building!

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Yes however my direct experience in having to walk through protesters to get to work was not based on bad software but instead religious beliefs. As a software architect for what was then the world's first biometric payments company in the mid 2000's, PayByTouch, I spent a lot of time in the San Francisco office solving reliability and system scaling issues. These techniques, now commonplace, were learned from my personal solutions in scaling my own server software which had processed all of PayPals transactions from the late 1990s up until their departure which cut us out, the EPX middleman. It is difficult to forget the first time I experienced this "vague hate" targeting me as I walked through protesters based on my employer and what I did for a living. I learned immediately to hide my badge and avoid the crowds which is something many others have learned that is even more applicable at this point in time in society.

With your knowledge that logging occurred you know at least humans occupied the land with a purpose so tools and other lost modern items are certainly present. Unaware of Washington State land deeds and mappings this is where I would start as a pointer to potential item locations. You should definitely purchase a metal detector and just go for aimless walks because before there were banks people hid their money, some is still buried hint hint. In your walking you will learn the topology and erosion patterns of your land and this is the secret to finding surface items time and again. Of course YMMV with frequency of discoveries but even the remotest places known have had human occupation or at least passage with the opportunity to lose or discard items. Should your curiosity around this topic continue to nag feel free to reach me via smtp at the same domain your about promotes.

No life is miserable if one is motivated and capable of positivity but it is 2022 which is presenting more and more challenges to be that positive.

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To satisfy my conscience I humbly make this post to save tomcam’s life. Stay with me! ;)

My findings include artifacts that are carved from stone and shell along with relics fired from clay with items that date back 10,000+ years per sources. Off topic and therefore not previously stated I only mentioned pre modern man artifacts given the discussion however I have located so much more. I live in the Eastern coastal mid Atlantic region of the United States of America which has a very long and documented history of human occupation, aka people losing things.

For those reading this that have wanted to find such an artifact I can assure that such things are everywhere however one just needs to invest the time to look and comprehend one's surroundings. Just as the article concludes "There’s more out there to be found, but they have to be looked for".

A simple and concise statement backed by undeniable proof found in monuments around the world of which some modern man still cannot explain as we continue to discover such artifacts as our technology aided exploration expands. My additional comments to this comes from personal experience in this arena in the last decade of my own local discoveries that are directly linked to Native and Paleo occupation on the land of which I live and the surrounding area. Over ten years ago now I found my first artifact laying on the surface behind my house and in that time I have done hundreds of hours of research and well over a thousand hours of walking in which I have discovered many artifacts to date. Several accredited individuals and organizations have visited my location to see my finds as I attempt to get the surrounding areas studied for preservation from what the experts have informed me on my collection. As with anything however someone must take up the preservation battle and while I continue to discover items weekly my professional background is not in artifacts nor land preservation. I'll close with another statement for one to ponder just as shipman05 did: Nearly everything humans have created that is no longer needed either gets buried by another human or by nature in time.

I have and continue to spend obscene amounts of time orchestrating the entire systems architecture from zero to full tilt in my language of interest. I start with base functionality applied examples needed throughout the systems life cycle; documentation, templates, clis, daemons, logging, cryption, networking, queuing, concurrency, databases and more as these are the teaching tools about the platform of "what, why, how". Such a simple statement does not accurately represent the details or the value however the experience of having founded and exited several technology companies using this model has proven the approach. With each passing new iteration the system's simplicity of understanding has increased while also adding value in many areas of support, new hires, and management. If it ain't broke don't fix it so after five previous complete refactors under multiple companies this sixth iteration is first for enjoyment in problem solving and then to apply this work to yet another startup. Nothing is more important than the foundation!

Information for nearly anything and everything is available somewhere if one knows where to look or has the “creativity” to obtain said information oneself. As many have commented twitter is just the mass discovery vector that those who did not know how to find this particular type of data are now made aware from a tweet. With plane spotting as my back deck hobby, along with my proximity to interesting aircraft, for years I have spelunked the web to find better sources given that some tracking services are paid by aircraft owners to remove their data. Another option is the secondary data that relates to air travel designating restrictions for VIPs, mainly political of course. Fitting timing on this hn inquiry as just yesterday our area had an out of band flight restriction in the afternoon for several hours which was for 46, or an immediate family member, from past correlation to data and news events. Then last evening nearing the conclusion of the flight restriction the house was shaking from Air Force One having just taken off from New Castle Delaware and flying nearly right over our house at what seemed like full throttle climbing through to altitude. As with anything, data can be the problem or the solution, it just depends on one's intent.