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Just because the economic system we have has always been shitty for a high percentage of our neighbors doesn’t mean it always has to be that way. Other top economic countries being similar doesn’t excuse it.

For those wanting more inspiration for similar builds, this reddit community is pretty good: https://www.reddit.com/r/shedditors/

Honestly, I would recommend just doing it yourself. Especially if you have a contractor pull in the electrical connection for it. I installed a pre-charged unit in a much more complicated attic setup (condenser mounted to outside wall on second floor, 20' of refrigerant lines run with lots of angles) and the whole thing took 6-8 hours with no experience. Mounting it to a shed where you're basically just cutting a hole in a wall and the indoor unit and outdoor unit are in more or less the same location should be extremely straight forward. The unit cost me less than $1k five years ago and has been running perfectly ever since.

One thing I will point out is that some of this partially due to coming to Germany with a US passport. Specifically, banks in Europe are increasingly weary of allowing US passport holders to open full account due to the international reach of the IRS and the additional bourdons it creates for banks. A US citizen living abroad still has a responsibilities with regard to reporting financial activities to the IRS. This is an extra liability and risk for foreign banks so in many cases they chose to simply not deal with Americans.

I was born in Germany and have a German passport. When I was a teen my family moved to the US and and have since also gotten my American citizenship. I have been considering moving back. I talked to my aunt who lives in Switzerland who told me not to bother trying to open a Swiss account it’s virtually impossible as long as you have a US passport. Germany is slightly better but at most there are 2-3 (mainly online only) banks where you might be able to get a basic (ie bare bones) account.

The IRS has the ability to compel foreign banks to freeze assets of US citizens living abroad or at least to make it a paperwork nightmare for them. I can understand why a company might not want to promote an individual to senior positions if banks are weary of dealing with them.

50 years on and still perfectly apt:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5t...

Makes you wonder who our gods are ;)

When it comes to Flock in particular I’ve been seeing a lot more in terms of resistance and pushback in local Reddit communities. At least in my cities sub I see posts regarding anti-flock messaging or related activities at least once a week now.

The market in general has gone completely off the rails

“AlBirds, they are in fact real [shoes]!”

Third Reich vibes

lol. They make formulations you can buy but I make my own. A cup of ground mustard seed, which I buy fairly cheap online, and a few tablespoons of baking soda, plus some essentials oils mainly to cut through the mustard smell.

Pour that in a warm bath and soak for 20 mins. Then get out and wrap yourself in a towel and continue sweating for 15 mins or so.

This is one of the primary reasons I use a sauna; the cardiovascular benefits. I hate doing cardio exercises at the gym or elsewhere.

I take a mild bleach bath sometimes and it’s quite invigorating. Seems to kill off a lot of skin surface bacteria which can sometimes be beneficial (there’s good and bad bacteria on your skin).

Not to be done too often but every once in a while I find it helpful. Not all that different from a strongly chlorinated pool.

Another cool one, especially if you don’t have a sauna, is doing a mustard bath. You will sweat like a stuck pig

It seems pretty simple:

Funding Round A: VC “A” invests 200M (100M immediately and another 100M if sales grow 10% or whatever)

At 6 months the company will either get the other 100M automatically (meaning they grew sales 10%) or they don’t (meaning they grew less than 10%).

Assuming it’s the later they can then do another round during which they try to get the other 100M. In all likelihood VC “A” won’t be interested (or interested at a lesser amount). They could go ask VC “B” for an investment but it will likely be less than 100M as well because they didn’t grow as much as “the market” anticipated.

Nothing complicated at all.

I’ll give you $1 dollar for your banana today and another dollar in a week when it has ripened. If it’s rotten when I come to get my banana I won’t give you the other dollar. You have your original $1 and you can still try to sell your rotten banana to another HN reader but you probably won’t get another dollar this time.If instead you have a ripe banana I’m sure you could easily find a buyer.

At this point I get about 1-2 emails a year telling me some company has exposed my private data in some way. It’s completely routine.

We need a law mandating the company pays at least $1k per exposed record per customer or absolutely nothing will change. The current cost of “here’s a years worth of credit monitoring” doesn’t even amount to a slap on the wrist.

Trump is a known liar. He had been for his entire adult life. It looks like the people got exactly what they voted for.

If both are checked it only displays “sold” items. For some reason the eBay UI used to auto-check “completed” whenever “sold” was selected.

Well we teach kids not to yell “Fire!” In a crowded theatre or “N***!“ at their neighbor. We also teach our industrial machines to distinguish between fingers and bolts, our cars to not say “make a left turn now” when on a bridge, etc

I kept hearing the term “constitutional crisis” thrown around all last year. However, every time this administration blatantly ignores the law there are zero consequences.

I have to assume at this point none of the laws apply to us citizens either.

Straight theft from the taxpayers of this nation. 10B$ to a made up group he himself controls (with absolute veto authority and sole succession selection).

It’s time for some generals to start making moves to save what’s left of the US as a democratic institution.

The software engineers of today are what craftsmen and artisans were at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It will be interesting to see how similarly this revolution will play out.

People then also largely worked on family farms and having kids was the economically sensible thing to do. Times change and people expect differently for both their own lives as well as the lives of their children.

FWIW I have one child and financial strain is a big reason I don’t have more.

Donald “Grab em by the pussy” Trump? Probably just a big misunderstanding.

I can already see our made to order, LLM generated, VR/neurolink powered, sex fantasies come to life. Throw in the synced Optimus sex robots…

I can see why Elons making the switch from cars. We certainly won’t be driving much

I imagine you could just send a rocket to the specific orbit and just start metering out 100s of thousands of small steel (or whatever) BBs like seeding a yard; seeding a Kessler event.

Something just a bit bigger than:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

Some guy on X recently commented on how “dystopian” Flock’s nationwide surveillance is.

Response by Garry Tan (CEO of YC)[1]

“You're thinking Chinese surveillance

US-based surveillance helps victims and prevents more victims”

[1] https://x.com/garrytan/status/1963310592615485955

Exactly. Imagine the extreme case of public surveillance. Every human is assigned a silent video drone that follows you around 24hrs/day all day everyday the moment you are on public land. Would anyone be okey with that?

Exactly what’s happening at my company

I like hanging upside down which seems to get a lot of fluid flow to the brain. Using ankle hooks and an electric hoist or just hanging by the back of the knees over a bar.

You’ll never know that you died