This is actually not true—the Google contract is pretty explicit and it's not all one-sided. Google makes some pretty good promises. However, rapid response customer service isn't one of them. If I were running this particular business, I'd have redundancy across multiple cloud providers. But that's just me.
Yeah, exactly. The study didn't check meaning/satisfaction, just whether they were willing to do some shitty task. The more you meditate, the less willing you are to waste time on useless garbage. But if you have to do it, you can do it just as well as you could before, with less dissatisfaction. You're just also less fooled by the bullshit reasons you're given for why you have to do the useless work.
Where this really comes in as a big benefit is that if you want to do something, then meditation can help you to do it more effectively.
The wealthy people there are comfortable. The poor people there are fucked, because everything is priced for wealthy people. Instead of vexing and troubling them, why not just spend the taxes they pay less stupidly? That way we all win, and nobody has to be vexed or troubled.
Actually, if you are a scientist with credentials, getting funding to study how global warming doesn't exist is really easy. Just like it used to be really easy to get funding to study how smoking doesn't cause cancer. There's a lot of money to be made proving that carbon pollution isn't a problem. Would that it were so.
Yup. I just generate another secure password (12 digits, random, high-entropy bit source), write it on a piece of paper and file it. Granted, if someone really wants to break into one of my accounts, they might break into my house, but that's not the usual threat model for online attacks.
Yeah, there was no consensus to do the PFS weakening proposal. The proponents of this work are now working on an out-of-band signaling mechanism. It was a really crappy situation—the people behind the PFS-weakening have a real problem. They were just taking (IMHO) the wrong approach to addressing it. Hopefully now they will regroup and try to do something less harmful to the Internet.
Our house is 2400sqft. We have a single 12kbtu system and a Haiku fan over the atrium. Bedrooms run a few degrees colder than the main area. Helps to have really good insulation and a heat recovery ventilator; if we didn't have these we'd need multiple head ends.
I don't know how to set that up. As a general rule, what they recommend is that you just have a head-end unit in the locations that you want to heat, so you might have a single unit outside and three or four head-ends inside. This requires running refrigerant lines, but it's a lot less noisy and drying than a ducted system, so it might be worth it. You can always run the refrigerant lines through the ducts...:)
You need to study physics before calling other people idiotic. The air outside your house is quite hot even in the dead of winter—it's very unusual for it to be colder than 250 degrees kelvin. There is plenty of heat to take out of it with the right refrigerant. Burying pipes is very expensive, and then you're cooling the ground, which transfers heat much more slowly than the air, so you need a lot of pipe to have enough surface area to allow the heat you transfer out of it to be replenished. Basically it's a bit of a boondoggle in many cases. Our system is very efficient, and our heating bills are very low. Our total energy bill for the year including plug load (admittedly with 4kw of solar) is about $500.
Nope. If your heat pump works that way, get a better heat pump. A Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, for example, or one of the Toshiba heat pumps. These use a dual-stage process, which allows the unit to actively pump heat with air temperatures down to -17F. Our heat pump has kept our house toasty through the coldest Vermont winters, and it does not use a resistive element. If the temperature drops below -17, it just shuts off until it rises again; in that case you would need to either make up the heat loss with a resistive element, or just coast through it. If we lived in Minnesota, we'd definitely have a resistive backup, and it would run once or twice a year.
We heat our entire house with a 12kbtu heat pump. It definitely doesn't suck: it blows. But joking aside, the point is that bitcoin mining is resistive heat. It's about a third as efficient as using a heat pump. So even if you use bitcoin mining to generate heat, you're still wasting energy. And of course, there's summer.
I live in a farming community in southern Vermont. We have better access to music here than in New York City, where I used to live. Why? Very high quality musicians, lots smaller audiences. Still plenty of people show up, so the musicians aren't starving, but my piano teacher is someone I wouldn't have a prayer of learning from if I lived in New York, because she'd only be teaching the top students.
I don't think every community is like this, but it seems pretty common in Vermont. A lot of those farmers also play an instrument.
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This is actually not true—the Google contract is pretty explicit and it's not all one-sided. Google makes some pretty good promises. However, rapid response customer service isn't one of them. If I were running this particular business, I'd have redundancy across multiple cloud providers. But that's just me.
What part of "you are asked when you first install" did you not read? :]
Nah, they were always barely scraping by. That's why they kept getting into such interesting jams.
Yeah, exactly. The study didn't check meaning/satisfaction, just whether they were willing to do some shitty task. The more you meditate, the less willing you are to waste time on useless garbage. But if you have to do it, you can do it just as well as you could before, with less dissatisfaction. You're just also less fooled by the bullshit reasons you're given for why you have to do the useless work.
Where this really comes in as a big benefit is that if you want to do something, then meditation can help you to do it more effectively.
In that case how did they get a car? At this point it's invitation only. I haven't noticed an issue with stopping power—it seems quite good.
The wealthy people there are comfortable. The poor people there are fucked, because everything is priced for wealthy people. Instead of vexing and troubling them, why not just spend the taxes they pay less stupidly? That way we all win, and nobody has to be vexed or troubled.
And have you ever seen a clown cry because no balloons? Heartbreaking...
Actually, if you are a scientist with credentials, getting funding to study how global warming doesn't exist is really easy. Just like it used to be really easy to get funding to study how smoking doesn't cause cancer. There's a lot of money to be made proving that carbon pollution isn't a problem. Would that it were so.
Those are also mostly carbon.
Same thing. I've had the bank ask me questions like this too. Good reason to close the account.
Yup. I just generate another secure password (12 digits, random, high-entropy bit source), write it on a piece of paper and file it. Granted, if someone really wants to break into one of my accounts, they might break into my house, but that's not the usual threat model for online attacks.
Yeah, there was no consensus to do the PFS weakening proposal. The proponents of this work are now working on an out-of-band signaling mechanism. It was a really crappy situation—the people behind the PFS-weakening have a real problem. They were just taking (IMHO) the wrong approach to addressing it. Hopefully now they will regroup and try to do something less harmful to the Internet.
But you pay to see it, not to read it. So if it's $0.02/page times the number of pages you visit in a day, are you still okay with it?
I didn't contribute anything. What part of "conversation" didn't you understand? :)
If all this run does is stimulate some interesting conversations, it will have been worth it.
Her prefrontal cortex has grown quite a bit since then...
No. It's just state of the art. We built the house to Passivhaus standards.
Our house is 2400sqft. We have a single 12kbtu system and a Haiku fan over the atrium. Bedrooms run a few degrees colder than the main area. Helps to have really good insulation and a heat recovery ventilator; if we didn't have these we'd need multiple head ends.
I don't know how to set that up. As a general rule, what they recommend is that you just have a head-end unit in the locations that you want to heat, so you might have a single unit outside and three or four head-ends inside. This requires running refrigerant lines, but it's a lot less noisy and drying than a ducted system, so it might be worth it. You can always run the refrigerant lines through the ducts... :)
You need to study physics before calling other people idiotic. The air outside your house is quite hot even in the dead of winter—it's very unusual for it to be colder than 250 degrees kelvin. There is plenty of heat to take out of it with the right refrigerant. Burying pipes is very expensive, and then you're cooling the ground, which transfers heat much more slowly than the air, so you need a lot of pipe to have enough surface area to allow the heat you transfer out of it to be replenished. Basically it's a bit of a boondoggle in many cases. Our system is very efficient, and our heating bills are very low. Our total energy bill for the year including plug load (admittedly with 4kw of solar) is about $500.
Nope. If your heat pump works that way, get a better heat pump. A Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, for example, or one of the Toshiba heat pumps. These use a dual-stage process, which allows the unit to actively pump heat with air temperatures down to -17F. Our heat pump has kept our house toasty through the coldest Vermont winters, and it does not use a resistive element. If the temperature drops below -17, it just shuts off until it rises again; in that case you would need to either make up the heat loss with a resistive element, or just coast through it. If we lived in Minnesota, we'd definitely have a resistive backup, and it would run once or twice a year.
We heat our entire house with a 12kbtu heat pump. It definitely doesn't suck: it blows. But joking aside, the point is that bitcoin mining is resistive heat. It's about a third as efficient as using a heat pump. So even if you use bitcoin mining to generate heat, you're still wasting energy. And of course, there's summer.
Can you walk me through the revenue model for this supposed scam of which you speak?
I live in a farming community in southern Vermont. We have better access to music here than in New York City, where I used to live. Why? Very high quality musicians, lots smaller audiences. Still plenty of people show up, so the musicians aren't starving, but my piano teacher is someone I wouldn't have a prayer of learning from if I lived in New York, because she'd only be teaching the top students.
I don't think every community is like this, but it seems pretty common in Vermont. A lot of those farmers also play an instrument.
You don't need to split the key to do this, so this is actually not that hard. A simple matter of standardization... :)