wyatt_dolores
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Comment · 11 months ago
Good to know! I had never read that America's Test Kitchen actually recommended them. I heard pennies minted after 1982 had too thin a coating of copper and when scratched would release zinc. I guess you need much higher temperatures though. Ha! I've always just used a bag of dry black beans and recycled them for years.
Comment · 11 months ago
Oh my goodness please no one take this seriously. Heating pennies will result in harmful zinc off-gassing. You do not want to breathe this in.
Use dry beans for blind-baking. They are almost infinitely reusable with no harmful effects.
Comment · 1 year ago
Most people in the US live beyond their means through credit card debt.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is it really competition? Do American workers get paid in cash from employers who don't ask for their Social Security number? Skilled jobs require documentation. Unskilled jobs require documentation. Working undocumented means being paid in cash by an employer who doesn't tell the IRS about you. Are citizens really lining up to work these jobs that undocumented immigrants perform? Food prices will increase again when all of the migrant farm workers are deported.
Comment · 2 years ago
He has literally said "Vote for me, and you'll never have to vote again."
Comment · 2 years ago
Many do take credit cards. In The Netherlands and Belgium, the pay toilets in train stations allow tap to pay with a NFC card or your phone. Toilets in the airports are always free, though.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tesla has implemented a virtual power plant in California using people's Tesla PowerWall batteries: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/virtual-power-plant/pge
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah this. Several countries in Europe have seen negative electricity prices during the day this past spring and summer because of abundant solar and wind production: Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Portugal to name just a few.
If you had a variable electric contract (rare but possible), you were paid to use electricity during those hours. Got a battery at home? You can be paid to charge it during the day, and paid again to discharge it at night.
Comment · 3 years ago
First thought: Otis the dog was improperly put into the some kind of vacuum hold on a flight to Acapulco and burst wide open.
Comment · 3 years ago
Stocks do have a natural lower bound which is the actual value of the company.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah the process is to run a full backup weekly, and keep four weeks of backups. This mimics the old rsnapshot system, but sends the data directly to S3. In this particular case, the total amount of data is only less than 50GB, so the cost of a weekly backup is not great. The goal was to eliminate the dedicated backup server which ran pull backups via rsync/rsnapshot. Having each host back itself up to S3 directly is cheaper than paying for a backup host (including the time spent maintaining the backup host itself). As far as I understand, borgbackup requires a dedicated backup server.
Comment · 3 years ago
I had to setup a quick backup to s3 storage to replace an aging rsnapshot setup. I looked at Borg, but Duplicity (https://duplicity.us/) was easier to configure and connect to S3.
For syncing S3 storage across providers, I went with rclone (https://rclone.org/). Note that using rclone to sync across providers (e.g. from Amazon to Wasabi) does require the files to be downloaded to the client machine and then uploaded again. Not ideal, but if you have extra bandwidth it is a convenient setup.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not FUD, man. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544
Native American Brittney Poolaw was sentenced to 4 years in prison by Oklahoma in Nov 2021 for a miscarriage in a hospital.
The court said her meth use constituted manslaughter, not drug addiction.
If the mother smokes cigarettes, drinks alcohol, etc and a lawyer can show a reasonable expectation that this can harm a fetus and the mother can be reasonably expected to understand this risk and know doing so could harm her fetus, she could now be prosecuted for manslaughter in those states.