Heat pumps are pretty common, at least in new construction, here on the west coast of British Columbia, fwiw.
The general recommendation is to size them for adequate air conditioning load in the summer, which is going to be less than your total heat requirements, and then supplement with backup heat in the winter (usually natural gas, here).
Gas is so cheap right now though that it hardly makes sense to heat with the heat pump.
Postfix doesn't do POP or IMAP. It doesn't do a lot it doesn't need to do to send and receive SMTP, though, not sure how much more minimal you want. OpenSMTPD, maybe?
Give up on the left and the right. It described one parliament in France for like 3 months in the 1700s. Nazis and Communists are both statist douchebags.
I could see that as an average. One $10k vacation adds up quick. Gas, food, clothes, pet expenses, car insurance, phones, internet, cable, car repairs, home/garden tools and stuff, going to movies, buying electronics, video games, everything else, it all adds up if you have the income to support it. My wife and I probably spend $3k a month on our shared card on average, and we're not anal about putting everything on it by any means.
I just say Merry Christmas. Christmas is about feasting and spending time with family, not to mention movies we've seen a hundred times before, a pagan tree/light display and gross consumerism. Why anyone thinks the word Christmas has anything to do with Christianity is beyond me. The only reason Christians claimed the date as their prophet's birth was to co-op the existing holiday, anyway. Just take the word, it doesn't mean anything.
You missed the part where the corporations knew there was no chance the insurance could pay out, but only bought it so that they could legally not have to count the debt against their balance sheet. And the part where none of those criminals went to jail.
That's OK, Canada has carbon taxes. Our %1.5 of global emissions may go down to 1.4%. Someday. But we subsidize poor people so they can still buy gas and heat, so probably not.
I am all in favour of helping a few people with mental health problems find someplace to live. Maybe not downtown in the most expensive real estate in the country, but somewhere.
At $17K you could make money mining at home today. You have to do it on specialized ASICs (the most popular are from Bitmain). You'd never actually mine any bitcoins, but you'd join a pool and get some BTC as pool payouts.
If you like having a 1.6kw device that sounds like a jet turbine running in your house for the next 8 months, that is.
I'm in a new place, moved in last fall, and the installer evidently didn't do much setup, so I ran on heat pump only last winter. It doesn't get all that cold here, it went to -12c a couple of times. It kept up, but it had to work at it.
This year I did a full cost calc and set the cutover at +4.5c. It should save me maybe $150 bucks over the winter. Gas is so cheap I think it actually costs me almost as much to run the fan on the furnace as I spend on the gas.
I have thought about the extra cycles and wear, and might actually set that cutover higher. Considering we only need AC maybe 6 or 8 days a year, too, I'm not sure I'll even replace the heat pump when it wears out. I guess I'll see what the price of gas is, then. Carbon taxes are going up, too, though.
Regrowing the wood takes the CO2 out. CO2 isn't naturally a bad thing, it's just releasing hundreds of millions of years of sequestered reserves in fossil fuels is a good way to change the climate abruptly.
Mine works to -20c supposedly, but natural gas is so cheap it doesn't make sense to run the heat pump below about 4c. If the option was resistive heating, though there's no choice, heat pump all the way.
You could explain that illegal is not necessarily immoral, especially in a case where you've paid for the content.
You could encourage him to choose books from authors who don't publish with DRM, which is probably the best way for any individual to influence the market. But won't get him this book and is probably over his head.
Or you could just put the book on his Kindle and not tell him how you did it, since it sounds like he's going to drop a dime on you if you tell him you downloaded it. Maybe download 1984 for him while you're at it.
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Heat pumps are pretty common, at least in new construction, here on the west coast of British Columbia, fwiw.
The general recommendation is to size them for adequate air conditioning load in the summer, which is going to be less than your total heat requirements, and then supplement with backup heat in the winter (usually natural gas, here).
Gas is so cheap right now though that it hardly makes sense to heat with the heat pump.
Mortgage interest is deductible in the US. The tax reform bill halved the eligible amount.
I had to abandon Kmail, the update to work with KDE 5 made it not work at all. I abandoned KDE completely, in fact.
I've been using Evolution for 6 months, it's not as good as Kmail used to be, but it's the next best thing.
Postfix doesn't do POP or IMAP. It doesn't do a lot it doesn't need to do to send and receive SMTP, though, not sure how much more minimal you want. OpenSMTPD, maybe?
Give up on the left and the right. It described one parliament in France for like 3 months in the 1700s. Nazis and Communists are both statist douchebags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
I could see that as an average. One $10k vacation adds up quick. Gas, food, clothes, pet expenses, car insurance, phones, internet, cable, car repairs, home/garden tools and stuff, going to movies, buying electronics, video games, everything else, it all adds up if you have the income to support it. My wife and I probably spend $3k a month on our shared card on average, and we're not anal about putting everything on it by any means.
I just say Merry Christmas. Christmas is about feasting and spending time with family, not to mention movies we've seen a hundred times before, a pagan tree/light display and gross consumerism. Why anyone thinks the word Christmas has anything to do with Christianity is beyond me. The only reason Christians claimed the date as their prophet's birth was to co-op the existing holiday, anyway. Just take the word, it doesn't mean anything.
My local potholes disagree. And I even think municipal last-mile should be tried.
Oh I know a couple of relatively rich people who are 7 figures into Bitcoin and alt-coins.
Social Security can be fixed. Medicare, not so much.
Almost 2/3 of those are in fact suicides. Look it up, you might learn something.
The first waves of millennials will be over 60 by then.
Like Eisenhower? Or Kennedy? OK.
Mattis. I'd take a Marine Corp general over any politician.
You missed the part where the corporations knew there was no chance the insurance could pay out, but only bought it so that they could legally not have to count the debt against their balance sheet. And the part where none of those criminals went to jail.
That's so last week. Laconia has it now.
That's OK, Canada has carbon taxes. Our %1.5 of global emissions may go down to 1.4%. Someday. But we subsidize poor people so they can still buy gas and heat, so probably not.
I am all in favour of helping a few people with mental health problems find someplace to live. Maybe not downtown in the most expensive real estate in the country, but somewhere.
You go visit any native reserve with no local industry and see how your community will look.
You'll give them $10,000 more heroin. Or more like $7000, I guess, since UBI will drive up the price of street drugs.
At $17K you could make money mining at home today. You have to do it on specialized ASICs (the most popular are from Bitmain). You'd never actually mine any bitcoins, but you'd join a pool and get some BTC as pool payouts.
If you like having a 1.6kw device that sounds like a jet turbine running in your house for the next 8 months, that is.
I'm in a new place, moved in last fall, and the installer evidently didn't do much setup, so I ran on heat pump only last winter. It doesn't get all that cold here, it went to -12c a couple of times. It kept up, but it had to work at it.
This year I did a full cost calc and set the cutover at +4.5c. It should save me maybe $150 bucks over the winter. Gas is so cheap I think it actually costs me almost as much to run the fan on the furnace as I spend on the gas.
I have thought about the extra cycles and wear, and might actually set that cutover higher. Considering we only need AC maybe 6 or 8 days a year, too, I'm not sure I'll even replace the heat pump when it wears out. I guess I'll see what the price of gas is, then. Carbon taxes are going up, too, though.
Regrowing the wood takes the CO2 out. CO2 isn't naturally a bad thing, it's just releasing hundreds of millions of years of sequestered reserves in fossil fuels is a good way to change the climate abruptly.
Mine works to -20c supposedly, but natural gas is so cheap it doesn't make sense to run the heat pump below about 4c. If the option was resistive heating, though there's no choice, heat pump all the way.
There are a lot nuances to this.
You could explain that illegal is not necessarily immoral, especially in a case where you've paid for the content.
You could encourage him to choose books from authors who don't publish with DRM, which is probably the best way for any individual to influence the market. But won't get him this book and is probably over his head.
Or you could just put the book on his Kindle and not tell him how you did it, since it sounds like he's going to drop a dime on you if you tell him you downloaded it. Maybe download 1984 for him while you're at it.