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samjetton Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

You made Dynobase? Dude such a needed product - the DDB GUI is awful inside AWS and painfully slow to work with.

Been trying to convince my manager to buy personal licenses for everyone on my team - glad to support this excellent product.

samjetton If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

Near nonexistent. Battery size requirements and battery charging rates make EV RVS either really expensive and really impractical for distance travel. You would need to put a huge battery (say, 300 KwH, which would cost $60,000 just for the battery), to get a reasonable range of 200-300 miles between charges, depending upon the efficiency of your RV. And then, even at a level 3 DCFC Charging station (providing 50 KW) you're looking at 6 hrs of charging to fully charge the battery.

samjetton Google's Project Sunroof

An incredible breadth of data has gone into this prediction tool which I had never even heard of.

samjetton Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

Fantastic and I completely agree. The book helped me to get perspective on current events and helped provide relevant historical precedent for almost everything in the world around us.

For example, I never thought about how ideas that are touted by organizations or religions are frequently argued to be "natural" or "divine" or somehow sewn into the fabric of the universe. The book helped me to become a little more skeptical by portraying how versatile and diverse human societies can be, and how there is truly very little that is "natural", "eternal", and meant to be.

Similarly, the book helped me to realize how unprecedented the current rates of economic and technological growth are. Its an exciting time to be alive, filled with almost infinite possibilities, and that fact is especially inspiring when you understand how much more restrictive previous generations and cultures were.