acchariya

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acchariya,

Nah mobile homes are built to poor standards with poor materials, while most tiny houses are built to the same standards as a stick-built regular house. It’s more like exchanging size for quality.

FTC bans most noncompete agreements between employers and workers (www.npr.org)

The FTC estimates about 30 million people, or one in five American workers, from minimum wage earners to CEOs, are bound by noncompetes. It says the policy change could lead to increased wages totaling nearly $300 billion per year by encouraging people to swap jobs freely.

acchariya,

If your friend paid a competitive wage with the other company using the same equipment, while also providing an equal or better working environment, he would be able to retain the employees, and find an equilibrium for those moving to and from his competitor.

The only reason he would need a contractual limitation is if he was offering worse wages or a worse working environment.

acchariya,

Unscrew the aerator on the kitchen sink, bend the paperclip so it makes a loop that holds it tight inside of the faucet, and push it up inside the faucet. Then reinstall the aerator.

You can’t metal detect it, it won’t affect water flow, and it would be simple to retrieve.

acchariya,

I understand where you are coming from. First, procure some psilocybin mushrooms and take a dose of that. If you don’t still feel better after 24 hours, plan a bank robbery. I mean it- If you are going to die anyway, rob the tellers drawers for 5-10k, and then fly to Bangkok and party in a place where you will be embraced.

acchariya,

Planning a bank robbery and the things you will do after it are a good distraction from suicidal thoughts even if almost nobody actually robs the bank

Is there a gadget or something that helps find, kill or repel mosquitoes?

I read there were genetically modified mosquitoes that only bred males. Is that commercially available? What about that laser that zapped roaches, has it been improved to zap mosquitoes too? Maybe there is a guide somewhere on how to build a DIY Anti Mosquitoes Air Defense System?

acchariya,

I live in an area of the country where mosquitoes are a year round nuisance. Think mangroves and tropical weather. Thermacell devices actually work, unlike just about every other device out there.

acchariya,

Do you have a source for this? I’m not doubting you because it seems plausible, it just seems like interesting reading

acchariya,

The cheapest lease in America of any car, not just EVs, is a Hyundai Ioniq 6, with 300+ miles of range. And 20 min dc charging. I have one and it sure doesn’t feel like a cheaply made car.

acchariya,

We used it to heat our house growing up. But only on the very coldest nights, normally we’d use wood since the coal would actually put out too much heat. This was the 80s through early 90s in New York state, us.

acchariya,

Hey this is vanishingly unlikely. We don’t eat many turnips in the US.

acchariya,

It’s changing, but not because of the education system. 22% of Americans speak a language other than English at home, and many, many more are likely bilingual enough to speak to immigrant relatives.

It’s hard to find numbers on third generation immigrants, but anecdotally seems very common for grandchildren to be able to speak to a non-english speaking grandparent. Almost 1 in 3 are either an immigrant themselves or are a child of an immigrant parent, so it stands to reason that the number having at least one grandparent to speak a language other than English is significantly higher, perhaps 40-50%.

census.gov/…/languages-we-speak-in-united-states.…

acchariya,

Most US citizen, never interact with people who don’t speak English as most Americans never leave the US.

Well, except for the 68 million people inside of the US that speak another language. If you live in New York city, California, Texas, or Florida, it’s damn near impossible not to be exposed to languages other than English. And statistically most of us do live in one of those places.

acchariya,

You said they don’t have exposure. Exposure is everywhere in the US. I’d argue that Americans are exposed to far more Spanish than the average Italian is exposed to German. I suspect you’d find few Americans who don’t know what Agua means and would be confused if someone said Adios to them.

acchariya,

I really want a green car, but only Hyundai bmw, Audi and Porsche sell them, and it’s big money for the custom paint on the German cars.

acchariya,

Spending a few hundred a week for the two of us to eat a basic equivalent diet to that available in Europe. I brought back all my shampoo, body wash, moisturizers, etc in a 50 lb suitcase which I loaded up at carrefour on my last trip to France.

acchariya,

The whole site around Verdun is very moving and I highly recommend a visit. You can feel a sense of doom approaching the red zone there, as you look out into the beautiful forest and realize the ground still looks like moguls on a ski slope from the shelling more than 100 years ago.

So I finally did the math on data brokerage and worked out how much we're all being robbed

I know this isn’t strictly piracy related, I apologise, but I think it is tangentally related in that piracy protects you from data theft by avoiding the services the biggest thieves operate. Also, I feel like people here might be very interested in this take....

acchariya,

Disclosure: I’m affiliated with this company.

There’s a platform where you can add personal data in the form of questionnaires, documents, and integrations that pull profile data from social media, then allows you to sell the data to buyers at your discretion. The platform does not own your data, does not access it, and simply acts as a broker directly between you and the buyer. Not a ton of activity on it at the moment, but it’s picking up as clients shift spending from big tech to pay users for their own acquisition.

tartle.co

acchariya,

You are right about not getting Facebook to pay for the data, but each time a company pays you $2 to be referred to their site, that’s $2 Facebook didn’t receive. Anything you earn on TARTLE comes directly out of the purse of big tech.

acchariya,

I’d spend $600 on a 2023 windows phone

acchariya,

Now that student borrowers aren't getting a "free ride", I want PPP loan recipients to be required to pay back the full amount, plus say, 9% interest, retroactively. Why should my tax dollars pay for your free business loan?

acchariya,

They will still ask him to invert a binary tree, just to be sure he can code

acchariya,

Here's a crazy idea. What if down voting a comment/post resulted in a weighted random float between 0-1 while upvoting resulted in a weighted random float between 1-2? If you virulently hate a comment or post, ignoring it is the surest way to bury in completely. Posts and comments that Garner attention become the most visible, but gaming the system for visibility could become difficult if the weighting algorithm was tuned appropriately.

How do server upkeep costs look like for fediverse stuff?

I'm pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

acchariya,

Just reading through this it seems crazy to me that lemmy.world is being scaled vertically, is there something about how it works that prevents horizontal scaling (like, load balancing across a number of servers all using the same db)?

acchariya,

You can scale app servers surprisingly far before you need to shard a decently sized single master postgres cluster. Like, probably 20-50+ times the current write traffic it seems this instance has. It was probably due to the websockets thing, thinking about it. With 0.18, that goes away and requests can be stateless, cached, and you can throw a load balancer and n app servers at it.

acchariya,

I can't see how keeping we sockets open for everyone on the site is scalable- if it were me I'd want to be aggressively caching everything possible

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