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The challenge is that it requires you to buy different sets of hardware to earn chia, and the high performance plotting hardware is only needed temporarily (while you’re filling up hard drives). It seems a cottage industry of plotting services is already developing so that those that want to farm don’t have to invest in the hardware to plot.
Farming requires very little CPU and slow disks are not a problem.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
He said, “If the thief stole $50, the bank would make it up to keep you as a happy customer. If it was $50,000, well, the bank doesn’t want you as a customer that much.”
My point is not for or against daylight saving time, just that shifting work hours is not a viable alternative to it. And if we do get rid of changing clocks, there’s a decent chunk of the population that has expressed a preference for permanent daylight saving time rather than standard time.
It’s worth nothing that in Russia they experimented with permanent daylight time some years ago, and at first it was highly supported. However, after some years support for it dropped and they moved to permanent standard time. However, Russia deals with some unique geographical scenarios such as cities with extreme northern latitudes.
It probably depends somewhat on latitude and longitude, I for one would prefer year round daylight saving time as I like the extra evening light in the summer and it’s dark when my kids leave for school in the winter anyway. I don’t golf.
The idea of shifting working hours to account for the season changes might work in some contexts but not others. Sure, if I’m an office “information worker” it’s probably not a big deal to shift to 7-4 in the summer. But I don’t think that’s going to work for retail, grocery, post office, restaurants, gyms, pharmacies, etc. where the public isn’t going want to constantly adjust to and guess at changing opening and closing times.
I don’t know who had more fun - the kids or me watching them.
Morning routines that run automatically:
- Turn on the bedroom lamps at a low dim level around the same time the alarm goes off. This provides a bit of light when you first wake up without being annoying.
- Turn off all exterior lights. Most are probably off anyway, but this catches any they might have been left on, or any that were scheduled to be on through the night.
- Turn up the nightlights / stair lights to 100%. In the dark winter months, this makes it comfortable to navigate from bedrooms and bathrooms without having to turn on the full hallway lights, which can be jarring and perhaps annoying to others who aren’t quite up yet. (A bit after sunrise these go off for the day).
- Turn on a few lights in the main living areas (kitchen).
Evening routines that run a bit after sunset:
- Turn on outside lights
- Turn on nightlights and stair lights at 50%.
- Turn on the bedside lamps at 50%. This provides a relaxing light level in the bedroom through the evening. Before the smart switches we never really seemed to use the lamps. (The hassle of walking to both sides of the bed and setting them at the right dim level I guess was just enough to prevent us from using them I guess).
Bedtime routines that run automatically:
- Turn off all but one exterior light.
The other thing I like is being able to control lights from my phone. When we are in the backyard playing with the kids on a late summer evening, we can turn on all the backyard lights without having to go back to the house. If the kids have left a bunch of lights on in the basement, they can be turned off with Siri “turn off all the basement lights”. I also like it from a security perspective “turn on all the outside lights” which would normally take walking all over the house to hit all the various switches.
I also have appreciated being able to add light switches literally wherever, with no wiring or holes in the wall. Want a bedroom light switch next to your bed? Peel and stick and you’ve got it, and from the outside it looks and acts exactly like a real switch. If you move the bed to the other wall one day, you just pull the switch off and stick it in the new location.
For a long time I resisted anything “smart” in my home. I found the added complexity more than offset any benefit. But with the lights, we can just use them as normal (all the switches look and act like they always did) but the automated routines add convenience and comfort while also reducing our energy usage.
At least in the United States, one of the best things that the average middle class person could do to improve their long term financial situation would be to buy cars with a lower purchase price and keep them longer.
Actually, the HOA’s right to dictate ends with whatever you agreed to by contract when you bought the property. And the HOA can enforce that contract in court, to the point of foreclosing on your home if necessary.
So, yeah, when you buy a house in an HOA, read those covenants before you sign. They are usually at the bottom of the 90 page stack of papers when you close.
For example, the default price on Stripe (and many others) is 2.9% plus $0.30. For a business with an average order value of $30, that $0.30 adds a full percent, bringing your fees to nearly 4%.
If you do high enough volume, yes, you can negotiate lower prices.
From the article:
In Lambda proxy integration, when a client submits an API request, API Gateway passes to the integrated Lambda function the raw request as-is.
...and:
You can set up a Lambda proxy integration for any API method. But a Lambda proxy integration is more potent when it is configured for an API method involving a generic proxy resource. The generic proxy resource can be denoted by a special templated path variable of {proxy+}, the catch-all ANY method placeholder, or both.
Sure, maybe initially as you work out the bugs and missing features. But you don’t go from zero users to a thousand overnight, so users 1-10 will probably have more support requests than 990-1000 because you’ve worked the kinks out as you go.
Also, if you’re able to find people that are willing to open their wallet for any amount then you have very engaged users. As they fully integrate your product into their workflows, you can find ways to increase the value you provide to them with upgraded, higher-priced plans, pushing your average monthly revenue per customer up.
I can't understand this at all. Retailers create in-house brands all the time. Do they somehow make decisions of which products to create in a black box? How would they even do that?
If you go into the Walmart pharmacy, their store-brand equivalents are full of statements such as "Compare to the active ingredient in Advil".
Yes, a certain measure of wealth is required to find happiness. Without basic needs being met, it is hard to find much more than misery.
Of course, most people want more money than they have, but different cultures place a higher emphasis on the acquisition of money than others. And studies have shown that beyond a certain point, additional money adds very little incremental happiness.
On the other hand, living in a culture that places high worth on money has significant side effects, such as people who have sufficient means spending much of their time, energy and worry on things that really don’t give them the happiness they are looking for, to the detriment of things that do (relationships, hobbies, etc.).
If the brakes on a car are not properly maintained and replaced, the car won’t stop and will be dangerous therefore “cars don’t work”.
That doesn’t make sense. How about we tell people the truth and allow them to use it to make better decisions. A lot of people want to do the right thing but are disempowered when truth is withheld or replaced with falsehoods.
But just today using the app I opened it and it asked me to confirm a time slot for my next pickup. No items in my cart - just choose a time, lock it in, and add my items later.
In my area at least, online + curbside pickup was not very common in the past, so it maybe was previously a non-issue because a slot was generally available. Glad to see they’ve made some quick adjustments.
In the days before AirBnB I rented an apartment in Paris for a week and had to wire half the money up front (in EUR, from the USA) and bring the other half in cash on arrival. The apartment was awesome, the host even better and I had no regrets. But it was a hassle, a bit risky, and certainly not something most of my friends and family would have been willing to do.
Getting in the middle of the money may not seem like much of an innovation but from my own experience it was probably one of the more complicated aspects of their platform. Dealing with currencies, escrow, risk management, settlement, chargebacks, etc. is a major undertaking. But it’s what made the model accessible to a lot more hosts and guests.
In spite of this, I have been pretty worthless the last couple of weeks, primarily due to all the distractions of what’s going on.
When you consider that for many people, WFH started immediately with little time to prepare a proper setup, who are also trying to figure out how to be part-time teachers, PLUS the distraction of the current state of events, I suspect that most companies that didn’t do WFH before the crisis will reconvene when this is all behind us and say “WFH was a disaster, productivity was trash, and we’ll never do it again.”
If that happens, it would be a sad outcome, because under proper circumstances WFH can be a great lifestyle benefit with equal or greater productivity than an office environment.
It seems that the cost of an additional passenger on a train is almost zero, so why do trains not attempt to reduce per-ticket prices to increase capacity and become more competitive against low cost airlines?
In your example, the train from London to Paris in my experience has almost always been nearly triple the cost of a flight.