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If someone wanted to do this but didn't know how to make schematics is there any recommended intro material?

I feel like I'm in a bizarro world the number of people supporting the forker or trying to make it off like its just an innocent mistake.

Well on average it's eating closer to twice a week. People fast for much longer. I think at most I've done 3 in a almost a row - doing stuff with friends will mess stuff up - I fit them in where I can.

You can look into it if you want but there are a lot of people that think its actively good for you. I'm more in it for the weight loss and take anything else as a bonus.

Fast for 72-100 hours. Eat normally for 1 day then fast again. Works better with WFH (you want to be near a toilet after breaking a fast). But you can also just time it so your fast ends on Sunday and do it once a week. You do have to be a bit careful about not binge eating after a fast. I don't count the calories on my eating days but I am also conscious about not stuffing my face all day.

Magnesium from random supplement I got at target, potassium from no-salt salt alternative.

I can't recommend fasting enough. I do rolling 72-100 hour fasts to lose weight and its by far the easiest thing to do. Are you familiar with water? Yeah. Good to go. (You probably want to add in a bit of sodium/magnesium/potassium)

Yes the first day and last bit suck, especially the first time. But its also ~3-5x more time efficient than most calorie reduction diets and you save time and money.

Pumping seems like something that could run intermittently with renewable energy. Have to overbuild capacity I suppose.

Hmmm interesting. I have camelcamelcamel alerts for a couple air conditioners but they have never gotten down to the price I set. I guess that explains it. Maybe another summer of a fan and wet t-shirts for me.

And how much of that money is flowing into buying up residential housing now because every other asset is so inflated? Basically every index is at all time highs. The stock market more or less recovered last summer and they keep buying? WTF is the plan.

Thanks to the Fed for low interest rates and constant QE. Can't wait for tomorrow's inflation numbers - just kidding they'll juice the numbers like they always do with hedonic adjustments so they can pretend the standard of living for the middle class isn't in decline.

Cannot say enough about their customer support. In 1:45 I called and got a replacement part shipped to me free of charge. That's one minute, 45 seconds. About 30s of that was me telling them I had ordered something earlier that day and them checking if it had shipped already.

Great products as well.

If you own your own home it would be pretty trivial to hide something that wouldn't get noticed in most burglaries. The average burglary is 10 minutes.

They aren't digging into insulation in your attic or going through multiple boxes of kids clothes in your basement.

I imagine most safes get burgled because their owner can't keep their mouth shut.

I think the unaffordability of housing is a driver of this. At the rate prices increase saving a couple grand a year is basically pointless so might as well yolo on some crypto/gambling on the off chance of making it big.

It's not entirely illogical either if you assume the marginal utility of money is discontinuous and there is a jumps around at certain thresholds such as being able to afford a reasonable home.

I wonder if there could be an "excess power coin" that could only be mined when there was an excess of green energy. I suppose the utilities would have to be in on it to validate power delivery. Even then can't think of a way you could prove a certain block was mined with a specific allotment of energy...

> Obviously a lot of moral hazard issues and complications

Yes it would be difficult to implement. You would encourage people to seek higher paying jobs by progressively phasing the wage subsidy out. Or just not phase it out at all. No real difference between the two depending on income taxes.

On the other side you could also target a certain cyclical unemployment rate and have a minimum wage employers must pay that fluctuates with that. That way there isn't an incentive to have "wink wink nudge nudge" pretend jobs.

My problem with the UBI is I think the amount needed to be meaningful (1k+ a month) gives people enough money to check out of society and not be a contributing member. Its super inexpensive to live with friends somewhere kind of crappy and just do basically nothing productive.

I've never liked the idea we should expect businesses to provide a living wage.

If we, as a society, think there is some sort of minimum standard for living. (We should) Then we, as a society, should pay for it.

Increasing minimum wage seems like a roundabout unfair way of doing that via selective inflation. Which as far as I can tell would be largely a wealth transfer from the middle class to the lower class. Who spends a larger % of income at places people make minimum wage?

I think the government should guarantee some minimum wage and top people who don't earn that. Obviously a lot of moral hazard issues and complications with a system like that but I think it is better to have businesses worry about employing people and governments worry about welfare.

What seems to always be left out of these "if a business can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business?" discussions is what exactly are people going to do instead?

I'm ok subsidizing people's labour. I'm not ok subsidizing people's leisure.

~200,000 is number directly employed by McDonalds. They have 5-10% of stores. There doesn't seem to be a current accurate number for total including franchisees - but seems to be in the 1.5 - 2 million range.

I wonder if there will be a similar article in 4023 when someone discovers a maven archive.

Is there any decent way to filter PFAS and other chemicals without a RO system? It seems like filter jugs at best filter heavy metals. Very hard to research with the amount of blog spam.

Hmmm - I just paid 2 months deposit in 2021. Googling seems to say that is allowable.

"Effective January 1, 2020, landlords may not request a security deposit of more than one month’s rent for an unfurnished unit, and two month’s rent for a furnished unit, if the unit is rented to a service member."

The one month limit seems specific to service members.

US pick up truck sales are ~15x Europe. My guess is they skip it entirely.

Interesting - unfortunately less useful than the website. [0] Doesn't even list download speeds. Just has the ever so helpful names like "Blast! Pro+" and "Extreme Pro+". Admittedly there is one called "Gigabit".

[0] https://comcaststore.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/wk/urc/585bc3605b...

My modem is docsis 3.1 which supports gigabit upload. 3 supported 200 mbit. Maybe something to do with intermediary infrastructure.

Choices were between xfinity and sonic dsl (25 down) for my building. Nob Hill SF. Tried to get monkeybrains or webpass to install in building but didn't hear back from either.

Please do. Had to go up to full gigabit down with xfinity to get 35 up. Next highest was 15 I think? Not that you can figure that out easily - their website doesn't list upload speeds. Or maybe it does - the website is terrible to navigate, slow and I got 404s off their main internet landing page.

Anyhow at the risk of this turning into a multi page rant about comcast I'll cut back to upload speed. I see it as upload is for creation and download is for consumption. What do the cable companies want people to be doing?

If you look at the popularity of twitch/youtube/(things I'm too old and unhip to know about) it is a direct threat to cable/traditional content creation. I'd wager the current state of affairs holds a lot of people back from getting into content creation, especially poorer/larger families who have to share a limited connection.

I've always bought android phones but this genuinely makes me consider buying an iPhone.

Are you doing some sort of clean power thing?

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

I see 17 and 15c off peak. Part peak is 23 for EV-B.

You would have to be on one of the EV/battery storage plans for prices that high - which have off peak prices of 15-17c.

Bunker fuel for the most part I believe. Puerto Rico is very similar.

Depends on your contract but a lot the time no. Interesting article:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Tex...

900/Mwh is 90c per kwh. Normal wholesale is about 5-7c. Retail national average is about 14. Higher cost states are around 20c with Hawaii near 30c.