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If you enjoy engineering marbles like that, I recommend checking out this boat lift:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederfinow_Boat_Lift

As someone who tries to build things myself, I think of it as a valid way to monetize what you have learned as passive income to make up for the time it took you to do it. Another well done example is https://faroutride.com/ . They have a very detailed and highly useful journal of their camper van build.

You mean the fiberglass-in-a-bag solution? Yeah, I can't see how you would get that airtight enough to not trap moisture inside.

I bought a wood framed house that is probably 150 years old. Nobody really knows when it was built. The framing and the fieldstone foundation are in perfect order.

It was built on the highest point in the farm field. Water flows away from the house at all times. It uses full size framing (actual 2x4) with solid boards as sheathing. The roof was maintained and the shading trees do their job to keep UV exposure low.

A building is a system. You can neglect major parts and it breaks down. Modern construction unfortunately optimises for less time on the job site and ready-made cheap materials. Easy to make mistakes that reduce the lifetime of the structure.

What's holding potential customers back the most? The quality of the work, implying you are already exhausted after your current job? Or the fact that 20hrs is often not enough time for a meaningful contribution in a development team and you have to spend time to catch up every week?

Courious to know what your experience is and if a price conscious buyer would be willing to accept the trade-offs.

>Your biggest competitor is your internal non-business efforts that distract from experimenting with what gets people to pay in a repeatable way

>Unfortunately, shiny engineering won't solve drastic product market fit iterations, and consumes the limited time & $$$ for achieving it. That's a lot of otherwise good habits and instincts to unlearn for engineers who never really had to go from idea to paying

Having worked in startups and the corporate world, I would apply this also to the role of product owner, who is often responsible for setting up those experiments to learn and also filling up the tech pipeline for the next sprint. I've seen product owners having a hard time to grasp if the technical need for things pitched by engineering is real or just premature optimization. You either need a more technical product owner or a tech lead that puts it's business hat on quite often.

Congrats for shipping, looks great.

It's been a while since I looked into GraphQL backends, so I'd love to know how it is different compared to Postgraphile, Hasura or Prisma.

I know of some electric cooperatives in the lower peninsula bringing fiber to the home, but where in the UP are fiber lines planned?

I would like to encourage people to join a local community garden program and also let others know this option might exist in their hometown. I found it to be an invaluable way to grow healthy food and meet people from all walks of life. We grow veggies in our backyard too, but the public gardens are where you actually meet nice people outside of your economic class, which is far more rewarding on a personal level to me than driving around in an expensive car to an expensive mall to buy expensive stuff.

I'm not aware of any government regulation to enforce convenience. If given a choice, most people will choose instant convenience if they are not aware of the long term effects of this decision. Hence the lack of education part.

Lack of knowledge is one prt, but also convenience plays a big role. Cooking is considered a household chore, and life should be easy. The neighborhood store doesn't offer raw ingredients to cook, and you need weekly planning to stock up on this when you drive to the big store outside of town. You get everything processed and sugared up right around the corner every day.

Might want to factor in what the US defense gets out of that continued military presence, especially as a relay for operations in the Middle East.

I don't understand it either, so I had to come up with an explanation for myself.

I think it is controversial because the cost of this transition is not priced into the modern human lifestyle. So either the lifestyle changes or it gets a lot more expensive. And it challenges the business model of fossil fuel companies and the global power balance of oil producing countries. It can't get much more disruptive than this transition.

You are thinking in terms of what is good for human society. But the world is run by capital, and now that mass disinformation is relatively cheap to accomplish, it is even easier do discredit science if you have a descent amount of money to spend.

Germany's recent past was the wall coming down and beeing reunited. That was already 30 years ago.

Stop watching US shows about that time. Watch some footage from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and think about what you can do to prevent totalitarian groups from gaining more ground, if you really want to be free.

On a side note: Germany took in almost one million refugees from the war zone in Syria in _one_ year. It is about 1.5 million in total. Have fun looking up the number for the US per year. From what I remember it has only 5 digits. So much about not helping people.

If you give parents absolute control over their kids on something as fundamental as education, the kids themselves live in a what you call a "totalitarian government". That is why the UN convention lists education as one of the basic rights for children.

I live in the US. And even though I don't agree with all the laws here, I respect them because that is what this society agreed too. Even though it makes this country, again according to your definition, a lot less free than Germany on plenty of issues. Except the right to homeschool.

Btw, I do prefer restrictions that are justified to protect myself and others. Like stop lights, or the right of way, or the fact that the people treating me at the hospital have to pass a medical exam to do that. By the law that is enforced by the government.

You can change that law in Germany if you want. You just have to convince enough people that your way is better. Good luck doing that. I won't support it, and I don't have to. That's the kind of freedom I like.

Ah, Godwins law again.

The US perspective matters only in the US. That is my point.

I'm also sure protecting children from the harmful actions of their parents has nothing to do with killing people.

Children should have someone on their side if things go wrong, and they can't hire someone. That is where child protection laws come in. See also Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A democratic society agrees on laws, that can be changed through a certain process. Germany decided that not only the parents are responsible for the education of the next generation, but also the government. Therefore the equivalent to the US child protective service has the right to enforce that law, just like in the US, where kids are separated from their parents if they break the child protection law. This has nothing to do with kidnapping.

The same reason why a lot of other industries and political parties use this playbook: It works more often than not.

It is much easier to influence a decision by catering to emotions instead of reasoning.

Modular homes that are not stick-built onsite tend to appreciate a lot less. And if your assessor or appraiser categorizes it as a manufactured home it is even less. Try to sell one to find out how much of a local stigma they have, even though they are perfectly fine and are usually built out of 2x4s too. But I heard people saying they don't shop at Ikea because it is a "cookie cutter" store. Buying a house is often a status issue.

This freakonomics episode treats the major parties as a duopoly and gives some insights how the voting system would need to change:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/

Unfortunately to change the law you need voters who vote for a party that is willing to change it even though it came into power under the current law.

And as of now, he has 2 articles on the front page. I wonder who votes for that tech keyword salad.

Property values are tied to school ratings and crime statistics.

I think the point of most other comments is that you greatly underestimate the issues in an area like the Detroit "Red Zone" aka the 48205 ZIP code.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/story-series/death-by-inst...

I have been to less worse areas in Detroit in 2015 and still decided not to be play early adopter and be "the guy with money" on the block. And I'm absolutely not upper class.

Even if you live there just for the amount of time it takes to renovate and flip the house, you will need to constantly guard your tools, materials etc. If the local community thinks you are not one of them, life gets hard. In the end I bought a fixer upper house in a solid working class neighborhood (in a different city) and life is great. But yes, a lot of people think you are only safe in the suburb, which is not true. There are safe pockets in most major cities, but you have to scout for a while until you know the area.

Divide and conquer at it's best. We, the people, are supposed to stop making decisions based on rational thinking and vote according to a social identity that is shoved into our faces constantly. And if enough people have nothing to trust anymore, and think there are conspiracies everywhere, it is easy to fill the void with just one loud person to trust. It is the last resort based on emotions and identity. Well played, well played indeed.

These are also the things worth fighting for. People change the world one life situation at a time by sticking to some core principles, doing the best they can and leading by example.

Combining trees and livestock has been done for centuries and is called Silvopasture:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvopasture

We grow vegetables in a community garden. Years ago, some silly soul planted morning glory in his plot because they look great. At least that's what the garden leader told us when we joined. To this day, everyone growing food there curses at that person (he is not there anymore) each growing season. And I pull more morning glory vines than regular weeds each year, hoping it will be less next year. By now, I can identify the vine leaves from 10 yards away.

I started programming with Turbo Pascal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

and as far as I remember I never had to leave the IDE. The step-by-step debugger felt like magic.

Germany is not equipped to go to war any time soon. They can't even keep their current forces armed.

https://www.dw.com/en/1-in-10-german-military-pilots-lost-he...

The political climate would need to change a lot for politicians to allow more military spending and budget cuts elsewhere. The current discussion about refugees and the unstable situation regarding Trump and the NATO might change this.

I still agree on Europe having lots of trouble in 10-15 years.

>I'm in southern Germany at the moment, visiting my girlfriend's family. The winding roads in the Schwarzwald area are absolutely amazing to drive,

I learned to drive there. Recommend this route:

Sasbachwalden > Seebach > Ottenhoefen > Allerheiligen > Ruhestein

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/77887+Sasbachwalden,+Germany...

Have fun! The race is always won on the corners, not on the straights ...