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Check my karma: It's not spam. It really is really well built. Should be: took them years to get it built, I bought into their kickstarter early. That said, I learned huge amounts about building hardware from their engineering blog, strongly recommend it.

This is deeply impressive.

You take the stairs up, but the elevator down.

I wouldn't bet against dumb in the short run: see brexit.

I've tried to buy things with crypto.

It's easier to barter. By a longshot.

Getting a 404 error...

And also: Poor folks don't survive long enough to become seniors who vote. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/poor-people-often-do...

If it's useless, I'd be happy to take it off your hands!

The math here is pretty straightforward, however, it doesn't look like all of the components necessary to do the math are available.

1. How long do I "own a solar panel"? Indefinitely?

2. What is the wattage of the solar panel and where is it located? i.e. what wattage will it produce consistently YoY? What power market?

3. What percentage fees does Legends take?

Frankly, #1 is the most important factor here by a long shot.

There are a couple of interesting options in a similar space: BedrockDB ( https://bedrockdb.com/ ) Dqlite ( https://dqlite.io/ ) Rqlite ( https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite )

I'm interested in how this performs and particularly, what are the tradeoffs relative to the other options above.

The key component that is missing from many of these digital voice assistants is multi-listening device coordination: which device should answer if there are many devices listening.

It's a hard problem. From my understanding, homepods use bluetooth to coordinate who is going to answer. Google Home, at least in my home, is terrible at this problem. Often devices in another room will answer.

Once someone has solved this problem, I'm on board!

Um, because moss is awesome?

You can make a moss "milkshake" or "slurry" out of moss and beer, and then "paint" moss on whatever you would like to be delightfully green and fuzzy.

They have.

Exxon's 1982 predictions about the global average temperature in 2022 are pretty spot on.

https://xkcd.com/2500/

Do yourself a favor and read the writeup about the perfect home automation system by founder of Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io)

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-a...

An app per device class/vendor is beyond useless. A centralized, single controller that mostly has no interface at all is the solution.

If your Mitsubishi uses IR for it's remote, this probably would work: https://github.com/geoffdavis/esphome-mitsubishiheatpump

Or, you can use a Broadlink IR blaster to clone the remote.

If your heat pump talks to MEL cloud (Mitsubishi's cloud thingy) then this should work: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/melcloud/

I have yet to buy a "smart" device that I haven't been able to control through HA. The Broadlink RF/IR bridges even makes anything with a remote automatable.

Seriously, If it wasn't for Home Assistant, the "smartness" of smart devices would be next to useless.

Well, the gun control argument is that guns are inherently dangerous, far moreso than lawn darts or kinder eggs, which are currently banned for sale in the US.

A gun is far more likely to kill a member of your own family than it is to protect a member of your family in a violent altercation.

Furthermore, evidence from the lowest crime and gun death countries around the world seem to indicate the gun ownership is strongly negatively correlated with gun crimes and gun death, unsurprisingly.

It's strange that folks epistemic horizon ends at the border.

And some of the lowest Per Capita gun deaths.

Stop using anecdotes as data.

SF and NYC have some of the lowest per capital gun violence rates in the country.

Let me post the whole second amendment for you:

`A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.`

Your interpretation above, of an individual right to bear arms, derives from DC vs Heller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller) which is relatively new: 2008.

It also doesn't comport with the contemporary writings of the framers, nor the fact that the term "militia" in the constitution refers to the National Guard, which was at the time imagined as a body made up of all able bodied men between 18 and 45 years old. Additionally, at the time, only men were considered "the people".

Seems to not be supported by the evidence.

States that do not allow unlicensed carry of handguns have lower per capita gun death.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-deaths-...

Looks like they need to Share the Safety:

https://theyesmen.org/share-the-safety

Virus particles do not travel naked in the air, instead they are colloidally suspended in liquid, both droplets and aerosols.

So, if your filter catches the droplets and aerosols, which are much larger in size than the actual virus, the filter works.

Not that this will settle anything.

Anecdotally, I've not gotten even a slight cold while being socially distanced while consistently masked.

If your identity was used without your consent, I wonder if you could sue?

Burning coal causes cancer. A lot of cancer.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/reliance-...

This is fundamentally incorrect.

Vaccinated people have a lower viral load, thus are less contagious, thus lower the R1.

If the r1 is below 1, then you eventually get to herd immunity. The more vaccinated people there are, the less dangerous the disease is, and the less contagious it becomes.

Herd immunity is not binary: it's a gradient, and if you are on the right side, things get better.

Vaccination is variolating: it lessens the impact of the infection, not preventing the infection, and thus the potential to be contagious.

A vaccinated person who has been infected is still contagious, just less so than an unvaccinated person.

"Google won't get back to the mojo that gave us search, gmail, and maps before the petro curse is cured." - DHH

Search, email and maps are essentially all search products, just with different domains, that's why google invests in them.

Yes, but until then, the dam is still leaking like a sieve, and any hole that can be plugged needs to be plugged.

This. 100% this.