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Congratulation on turning your fortune around.

Side note: I always find it super-weird when people use cars as a proxy for success and happiness. A cultural thing I guess.

Damn. Well, that _does_ sound like something a 18-year old would do!

TIL Ken Silverman was 18 freaking years old when he started working on Build.

Throw money at _everything_ that’s not your core competency - ivocing, bookkeeping, sales, marketing, virtual assistants.

You can sell your invoices to factoring companies and have the money within 48hours for 2-3% of the invoice total.

B-b-but that's communism!

Access to higher dimensions? Aliens shaking their heads as we waste enormous amounts of energy to travel through R3 in a straight line instead of taking a short walk in R7.

Reminds me of this short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)

What if you forget to fill your ICE up?

What if you and your spouse or roommate have two ICEs and a one car garage?

You probably won't buy the EVs without checking you have the charging capacity before hand.

Ughn, I really thought that this rah-rah pseudo-masculine tough guy aesthetic was something we've collectively moved on from?

Hmm, you right. You could also build a Dropbox clone yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

That's fascinating, thank you! Excellent site as well, looking forward to dig throuhg it.

I really don’t want to come off as some sort of condescending euro-snob, but is the state of tap water in the US so bad so that you have to purchase plastic bottles of water?

Considering there’s a viable business in Wix consulting, as in talking to customers and building the Wix site for them, I’d say we’re still good.

What options are left if you need a simple website builder that's not

a) Wordpress, which is a swamp filled with mines in the form of plugins b) Wix, which forces hosting and bad HTML on you

Basically I want a Wordpress-like frontend + the rich template ecosystem and for it to spit out static HTML files.

I took a different approach to this - I started my own company a offer contracting services. I tell my clients "I work 40 hours a week, including communting. If you want ass-in-seat, that's ~30h/week. Want more? Let me work from home." (I tell them this in my most sale-sy, honey-dripping voice).

None have objected. I now work on average 6 hours per day, 30 minute lunch, 2x40min train+walk commute where I space out with music or podcasts. I make more money, am happier and in better shape then ever. Can highly recommend.

Great feedback, thanks! I actually plan on promoting the job as an interview during a podcast I'm hosting!

I bought the 3G version. It was bad. Really bad. I think we've collectivley forgot how much of a UI bump the iPhone was.

I ended up never using it because there wasn't any way of of getting my contacts from my iPhone to it and I'm not spending several hours keying in my contacts.

Just wanted to say I really enjoyed clicking through "Web Design in 4 minutes", every click brought a deep satisfaction of a task accomplished.

Awesome work!

You leave Dave Mustaine out of this!

I'd say that resturant-grade induction stovetops perform as good as or even outperform gas.

Keep in mind that 1 kW worth of gas gives out 0.9 kW, while 1 kW of electricity entered into a heat pump gives out AT LEAST 3 kW of heat.

Also, no one uses gas for heating in Sweden. Very old houses down town use it for cooking only.

It's a nice round number that the manufacturers use a reference point, it's not a hard limit. In 99% of the cases, the out door unit will be connected to a indoor counterpart that has a 9kW resistance heating element what will aid with heating as the outdoor unit loses efficency with dropping temperature.

I do, it's fantastic! Just make sure to get a good installer for it.

95% wooden frame, typically 45mm+190mm+45mm insulation.

There's a huge difference between air-source heat pumps and rebranded AC units running in reverse. We have a Mitsubishi FH35 6kw heat pump that easily heats 80 m2 (800 sq feet) down to -13 C this winter.

It is indeed critical and all new houses in Sweden are tested for leaks under pressure. Those that leak sufficiently little get to call themselves Passivhus and you have some taxation benefits.

Modern heat pumps are truly a marvel, especially when you get one designed for heating and not just an AC-unit running in reverse. They're very common in Sweden and can easily warm an entire house even at -20 C.

Whenever this topic appears on HN I want to get on my soapbox and yell "INSULATION PEOPLE, INSULATION!". Most houses I've seen outside of the Nordics have shit-all insulation and that's depsite it working both ways - house stays cooler in the summer. It's such a small cost to add during construction and it pays off in a year or two, tops.

Modern, newly built houses in Sweden, way above the arctic circle, require less than 5000 kWh per year to heat and generate hotwater.

My wife and I both dabble in Buddhism and like GP said, it’s a great tool in navigating frustration and stress.

It therefore saddened me to find out that Buddhism isn’t immune to the same corruption other religions are prone to:

https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world...

I have to say, the first day at work after 9 months of parental leave is... sublime. To be able to go to the bathroom and close the door is a pleasure you don’t know until you have to go without.

As an aside, what happens to children in the US between 1 month until they start kindergarten (and at what age)?

Its paid by the government, funded by taxes, at the same level as sick leave/disability. Some (most) companies actually chip in a little (or a lot) to ease the income loss as a perk.