Won't work here. Coup de Grace is all that we have left. Promoting a Coup d'état is an act of sedition and *technically* is a hanging/firing squad offence in federal law. With our current oligarchy any attempt of Coup d'état is as likely as not to get you black bagged.
And there is the added benefit that while Google is not the government and thus them blocking your vid isn't a first amendment issue, that won't stop people from trying to say it is. By leaving the videos up and just demonetized no one can say "Google's trying to silence me man!".
I find that resistive heating (or wood stove) is needed at about 3C (I'm in an all electric house courtesy of nuclear making electricity "too cheap to meter" back in the 80's). Sure the heat pump will work lower, but there are two issues: 1) it can't actually keep up very well with the load (meaning my delta T starts dropping from ~12C to ~8C and possibly lower) 2) because of the massive cycling it has to do there is added wear on the unit that I'd rather not have.
Again I could remedy that by installing a bigger unit (say a 5T instead of my current 3T) but *why* when it's less than 10 days a year:)
I got even worse repayment numbers:) Given that the average system needs a major service every 10 years (pick from the following failures: Compressor failure, leak in freon loop, thermal liquid pump failure, leak in thermal pipe loop, leak in exchanger, mechanical damage to any) and that I only see a maximum of 20 genuinely low efficency days/year the breakeven point was outside my expected life expectancy.
The nerd in me would *love* to do something like this, but there are many other vastly cheaper projects to scratch that itch with.
You do realize that air conditioners are just one-way heat pumps, as are the basics of your fridge right?
Heat pumps are fantastic in temperate climates (where I live) and only at the extreme bounds of my climate do they suffer from efficiency issues.
The money saved via heat pump efficiency gains by burying pipes in my yard would take *decades* to repay the cost of said system. I looked, did the math, and thought better of it.
If you saw this coming 5 years ago, buying in was wise. Now selling is wise, soon all will be moot and it will finally return to being a currency, not speculative asset.
I could even see Latin America starting to try and woo tech, simply based on: We don't like the US government either, come build your product here and we'll leave you alone.
Yes it can prevent icing, but if it's too cold for the refrigerant to boil effectively then the unit has to continually reverse, killing efficiency. We hit -2C about 6 days a year tops, so my system is not designed for continuous duty in cold weather. It's about 7 years old now. Same as in summer, we have a week or two of 46C and the efficiency in cooling the house drops dramatically. That said, for the other 345 days a year it's a great system that's reliable and predictable.
Heat pumps have a sharp fall-off in efficiency outside of their designed temp range. I have a heat pump based HVAC and in the coldest days of winter it is unable to heat the house, because the outside air is the same temp or colder than the evaporator coil temp, leading to liquid freon hitting the compressor. Since that is a BadThing(tm) the heat pump shuts off. Resistive heaters (labeled as supplemental heat on the thermostat) then kick on. At that point mining BTC is no different from an efficiency standpoint.
Now, there are still better ways to heat, in my case I fire up the wood burning stove and use that, but still, heat pumps are not the be all end all in wide swing climates (I have the opposite problem in the hottest summer days, unable to condense the vapor back to a liquid very well).
Of course I have logs, I also have physical remoteness and a couple other measures (remember everything is moderated through IPFire, which supports RADIUS authentication).
There is *no* intentional back door in Intel ME up to version 9 (I left the company before 10 shipped, so can make no comment).
I am not gagged about not revealing anything via any NSL, and while I will respect my NDA with my former employer (even though the current CEO is a top shelf Asshat) I had full access to the source code, and had direct work with the authentication subsystem of the ME portion (NOT AMT) and I can categorically state that there was *NO* back door for any government in the codebase.
If something was patched in after release to manufacturing I would have no way of knowing this, so if you have a citation that proves your statement and undermines a whole bunch of damn fine programmers that I worked with, all of whom honestly took security seriously and all of whom tried to make the best product they could then please show it here.
Whether or not ME should be forced to be installed on all platforms was a matter of serious debate internally, but in the end the engineers were overruled by marketing, and we all need to eat. In the end we did the best we could to provide a secure base product (ME) for applications (AMT) to run on.
Already do. I have three networks at my house: * Internet connected (through IPFire and PiHole) LAN access (Wired/WiFi WPA2) * Internet connected (through IPFire and PiHole) WiFi open (NO LAN access) labeled GuestMonitoredConnection * Isolated. No Internet connection, different physical layer, no WiFi. Accessed through Bastion host that has IpKVM type connection to internal LAN. The bastion is able to RDP to all machines on isolated network, and it is connected to through use of a Raritan IPKvm on the LAN. The KVM is easily turned off to provide hard isolation if really needed.
Actually I predict a new software Si Valley in some country that won't require back-doors. Parent company can remain in the US or can leave, but the subsidiary company (not just a division of the parent) exists outside of jurisdiction of these asshats.
The long game is that this likely *will* push the highest talent out of the US and into these haven countries. This generation will be here, but the newer generations will migrate elsewhere.
if the internet is too balkanized even VPNs won't really help. Internet 1.1 will be where it's at, via mesh networks... *if* it can reach some level of critical mass.
Internet 2 folks were *smart*, no commercial access, ultra high speed academics only.
I have never paid for cable. I've enjoyed it sometimes when others have footed the bill for various reasons and it's free to me. Price for what I want is the overwhelming reason. I want a small number of channels that are only available in the highest tier packages, and have no desire to pay that much for really only a couple shows.
I get why you're calling it inferior, but I would argue it's such an orthogonal design that it isn't the same class.
Chromecast offers what has to be the most minimalist interface possible. Dead simple, pretty darn reliable, and *very* feature light.
FireTV devices offer a more STB type experience, and try to be feature rich.
I like them both, depending on the user and desired interaction level. Expect lots of pause and resume? FireTV. Launch the stream and not planning on pausing, even if I need to do something else while it's playing? Chromecast.
Additionally Chromecast is great for "projecting" my phone screen to show others my photos.
I *love* my chromecast's Every HDMI enabled device has one in my house. Ultimately I caved and bought a FireStick for Prime video because I couldn't cast Prime to Chromecast. I felt dirty doing it because I knew I was enabling this petty-assed war, but damnit I wanted to see GT on my TV easily.
All that said, Amazon started this feud, and hopefully Google prevails. I honestly believe that Google should allow Youtube to FireTV devices, but set all the ads to unskippable *and* make sure there is a 15 second ad about Amazon blocking Prime Video on Chromecasts and not selling google products in every single video. Petty as fuck, but it would be absolutely hilarious. "Want these ads to stop? Use your Prime account to tell Amazon to quit blocking Prime video on Chromecast and to stock them in the store".
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Won't work here. Coup de Grace is all that we have left.
Promoting a Coup d'état is an act of sedition and *technically* is a hanging/firing squad offence in federal law.
With our current oligarchy any attempt of Coup d'état is as likely as not to get you black bagged.
They need both... The doll for the TC comps and the bag for the techies.
You know William Shatner?
And there is the added benefit that while Google is not the government and thus them blocking your vid isn't a first amendment issue, that won't stop people from trying to say it is. By leaving the videos up and just demonetized no one can say "Google's trying to silence me man!".
I find that resistive heating (or wood stove) is needed at about 3C (I'm in an all electric house courtesy of nuclear making electricity "too cheap to meter" back in the 80's).
Sure the heat pump will work lower, but there are two issues:
1) it can't actually keep up very well with the load (meaning my delta T starts dropping from ~12C to ~8C and possibly lower)
2) because of the massive cycling it has to do there is added wear on the unit that I'd rather not have.
Again I could remedy that by installing a bigger unit (say a 5T instead of my current 3T) but *why* when it's less than 10 days a year :)
I got even worse repayment numbers :)
Given that the average system needs a major service every 10 years (pick from the following failures: Compressor failure, leak in freon loop, thermal liquid pump failure, leak in thermal pipe loop, leak in exchanger, mechanical damage to any) and that I only see a maximum of 20 genuinely low efficency days/year the breakeven point was outside my expected life expectancy.
The nerd in me would *love* to do something like this, but there are many other vastly cheaper projects to scratch that itch with.
You do realize that air conditioners are just one-way heat pumps, as are the basics of your fridge right?
Heat pumps are fantastic in temperate climates (where I live) and only at the extreme bounds of my climate do they suffer from efficiency issues.
The money saved via heat pump efficiency gains by burying pipes in my yard would take *decades* to repay the cost of said system. I looked, did the math, and thought better of it.
yup, I laid a NASDAQ composite graph for 1990's to 2000 over a current BTC graph... Pretty awesome match.
If you saw this coming 5 years ago, buying in was wise. Now selling is wise, soon all will be moot and it will finally return to being a currency, not speculative asset.
Yup, non 5 eyes, non EU countries.
I could even see Latin America starting to try and woo tech, simply based on:
We don't like the US government either, come build your product here and we'll leave you alone.
Yes it can prevent icing, but if it's too cold for the refrigerant to boil effectively then the unit has to continually reverse, killing efficiency. We hit -2C about 6 days a year tops, so my system is not designed for continuous duty in cold weather. It's about 7 years old now. Same as in summer, we have a week or two of 46C and the efficiency in cooling the house drops dramatically. That said, for the other 345 days a year it's a great system that's reliable and predictable.
Case in point: I complained about an ethics issue.
I no longer work for the company (not by my choice, but I am happy with the result).
Heat pumps have a sharp fall-off in efficiency outside of their designed temp range. I have a heat pump based HVAC and in the coldest days of winter it is unable to heat the house, because the outside air is the same temp or colder than the evaporator coil temp, leading to liquid freon hitting the compressor. Since that is a BadThing(tm) the heat pump shuts off. Resistive heaters (labeled as supplemental heat on the thermostat) then kick on. At that point mining BTC is no different from an efficiency standpoint.
Now, there are still better ways to heat, in my case I fire up the wood burning stove and use that, but still, heat pumps are not the be all end all in wide swing climates (I have the opposite problem in the hottest summer days, unable to condense the vapor back to a liquid very well).
Of course I have logs, I also have physical remoteness and a couple other measures (remember everything is moderated through IPFire, which supports RADIUS authentication).
Citation please.
There is *no* intentional back door in Intel ME up to version 9 (I left the company before 10 shipped, so can make no comment).
I am not gagged about not revealing anything via any NSL, and while I will respect my NDA with my former employer (even though the current CEO is a top shelf Asshat) I had full access to the source code, and had direct work with the authentication subsystem of the ME portion (NOT AMT) and I can categorically state that there was *NO* back door for any government in the codebase.
If something was patched in after release to manufacturing I would have no way of knowing this, so if you have a citation that proves your statement and undermines a whole bunch of damn fine programmers that I worked with, all of whom honestly took security seriously and all of whom tried to make the best product they could then please show it here.
Whether or not ME should be forced to be installed on all platforms was a matter of serious debate internally, but in the end the engineers were overruled by marketing, and we all need to eat. In the end we did the best we could to provide a secure base product (ME) for applications (AMT) to run on.
Already do.
I have three networks at my house:
* Internet connected (through IPFire and PiHole) LAN access (Wired/WiFi WPA2)
* Internet connected (through IPFire and PiHole) WiFi open (NO LAN access) labeled GuestMonitoredConnection
* Isolated. No Internet connection, different physical layer, no WiFi. Accessed through Bastion host that has IpKVM type connection to internal LAN. The bastion is able to RDP to all machines on isolated network, and it is connected to through use of a Raritan IPKvm on the LAN. The KVM is easily turned off to provide hard isolation if really needed.
Actually I predict a new software Si Valley in some country that won't require back-doors.
Parent company can remain in the US or can leave, but the subsidiary company (not just a division of the parent) exists outside of jurisdiction of these asshats.
The long game is that this likely *will* push the highest talent out of the US and into these haven countries. This generation will be here, but the newer generations will migrate elsewhere.
if the internet is too balkanized even VPNs won't really help.
Internet 1.1 will be where it's at, via mesh networks... *if* it can reach some level of critical mass.
Internet 2 folks were *smart*, no commercial access, ultra high speed academics only.
I have never paid for cable. I've enjoyed it sometimes when others have footed the bill for various reasons and it's free to me. Price for what I want is the overwhelming reason. I want a small number of channels that are only available in the highest tier packages, and have no desire to pay that much for really only a couple shows.
you mean like Amazon intentionally blocking their Prime TV app on all android TV/Cast devices but no other Android devices?
Can't install, can't sideload, nothing.
Nice!, just looked and the only google home stuff is a book, some mounts, and a Google WiFi range extender.
I get why you're calling it inferior, but I would argue it's such an orthogonal design that it isn't the same class.
Chromecast offers what has to be the most minimalist interface possible. Dead simple, pretty darn reliable, and *very* feature light.
FireTV devices offer a more STB type experience, and try to be feature rich.
I like them both, depending on the user and desired interaction level. Expect lots of pause and resume? FireTV. Launch the stream and not planning on pausing, even if I need to do something else while it's playing? Chromecast.
Additionally Chromecast is great for "projecting" my phone screen to show others my photos.
I *love* my chromecast's
Every HDMI enabled device has one in my house.
Ultimately I caved and bought a FireStick for Prime video because I couldn't cast Prime to Chromecast. I felt dirty doing it because I knew I was enabling this petty-assed war, but damnit I wanted to see GT on my TV easily.
All that said, Amazon started this feud, and hopefully Google prevails. I honestly believe that Google should allow Youtube to FireTV devices, but set all the ads to unskippable *and* make sure there is a 15 second ad about Amazon blocking Prime Video on Chromecasts and not selling google products in every single video. Petty as fuck, but it would be absolutely hilarious. "Want these ads to stop? Use your Prime account to tell Amazon to quit blocking Prime video on Chromecast and to stock them in the store".
or cars...
well, we Yanks are experts at fucking it up and blaming the other guy, so... In this case I think it may be ok? /quiet sobbing
lulz...