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barnaby33ParticipantA lot of new online mattress companies are offering mattresses for around 1000-1500. I just bought a Purple, but there are many others. Sure they are mostly memory foam, but some are inner spring as well. I like that many offer in home trials and free pickup if you don’t like it.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI’m surprised I got all the way to Blogstar before sleep got mentioned. 7-8 hours of sleep is huge part of energy level maintenance.
Change jobs, or move closer. Use the extra time for something, “exercise-y.” A bit of caffeine helps too.
Or take meth.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantAirbnb has never asked me anything like that. I rent a room in my home. They don’t ask about ownership or whether it’s legal.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantYou are trolling! I suppose it’s winter and you need a hobby.
Remember Peak Oil? A few years ago we were all told that oil prices, then over $100, would soon double and then double again, as the world’s supplies became exhausted.
Then along came fracking. Good old capitalism harnessed technology to again stymie the doomsayers. Now the US will become an energy exporter to the rest of the world. In some previous years we imported about half of our oil. Soon we will produce more energy than Saudi Arabia. Once again the market system comes through.I remember Peak Oil, I remember it well. No serious proponent of it forgets that the core of the theory was merely extrapolating the curve of a well’s production life, can be used to predict when a given well or field of wells will become unproductive, in an economic sense.
So who said a few years ago that doubling and doubling again was the course of our future? Certainly not I. Nor anyone who’s analysis I’ve read.
Then came along fracking? Came along, really? It’s existed for years. It wasn’t economically viable and still isn’t unless you ignore all the externalities. Capitalism is REALLY good at ignoring externalities. I’d say the only reason we even have an EPA is because capitalism you love so much is great at ignoring externalities.
The US an energy exporter? Wow now you’re into troll country. It probably doesn’t look anything like those Marlboro ads, but bless yer heart fer tryin! Yes we export a lot of coal and we always have. That too, we are past the peak on, but that’s a totally different discussion. We aren’t in any danger of being a net oil exporter anytime soon and if we are it’s because holy shit our economy is collapsing. That’s one place in which capitalism does work, until it doesn’t. You know when we can no longer get energy cheap enough to heat our homes, we don’t rely on capitalism, we go to war.
Never mind that the entire global energy complex is only made possible by the largest socialist enterprise in American history, our military. It safeguards all of that energy we so capitalistically want.
So when I accuse you of trolling, I’m being quite accurate. Peak Oil is still with us, no super giant has been discovered or exploited since Cantarel and the cost of extracting most of the new discoveries is high enough that our globalized system can’t afford it. So to speak in Capitalistic terms. Energy cheap enough to maintain our status quo kills the energy companies. Energy expensive enough to generate a consistent profit for those companies, kills their consuming economies. That sir in a nutshell is Peak Oil and it is absolutely with us today.
Unless somebody gets a fusion reactor working we are going to keep living with declining EROEI. Symptoms may include temporary gluts of oil as economies collapse and temporary shortages as we all fight over the scraps at the table. Your mileage may vary.
Josh
barnaby33ParticipantDeflation.
barnaby33ParticipantI make predictions as well as the next schmoe. Here’s mine, the Democratic candidate wins. None of the Republican candidates is addressing the core concerns of what are historically swing voters.
That being said, I hope it’s Bernie, I’m voting for him. I don’t like all of the things he’s promoting, but his record is flat out unimpeachable. He is the only candidate talking about the real issues. Poverty, lack of access to education, health care. Hillary is smart, but far to wedded to the groups that enabled the predicament we are currently in. At this point for someone like me to vote for her I’d have to see her go on national television and say, “elect me and I’ll close Citibank down,” which is not going to happen.
Josh
barnaby33ParticipantSorry, I meant tendentious. As in clinging to your opinion, but offering no proof yourself.
barnaby33ParticipantActually in the late 90’s a freshly minted MCSE made more than a new Software Engineer. It didn’t last much more than the early 2000’s though.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantDeadzone, you are partially correct. There are lots of people doing basically the same thing, in terms of beer. It’s definitely a bandwagon effect. However that is still a far cry from the homogenization of past decades where you basically had watery soda pop flavored mass produced beers.
Inside every boom are people doing things of quality that are different. Those things, beer in this case hardly ever come to light without existing at first on the margins of crap for the masses. I could point you at 10-15 world class beers, 2 of which are made by Ballast Point. Modern Times has even started a sour program, yay!
If you think there is a bubble in beer, and I am not disagreeing that overall there probably is, where is your evidence? Because every brewer I talk to has growth pressure problems. It simply isn’t true yet that there is too much craft beer, even if most of it is mediocre. When we start to see breweries going out of business then you’ll be right.
Based on the way businesses behave in cycles if were are in a bubble it still has lots of legs, as the growth by acquisition phase is just starting to get underway.
Also you are sounding like a pedantic schmuck.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI graduated in 98 and was the lowest paid of my cohort at 45k. She must have worked for that one company that always seems to find low self esteem programmers that hate looking for a job; they’ll take anything to avoid looking. In 99 most people even the idiots were making 100k.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantWell Deadzone, so far they’ve remained popular because they make a good product and they’ve maintained quality control even with their meteoric growth. So short away. Craft beer fills a hole in peoples desires to a)get drunk b)experience something “authentic” c)enjoy a local product.
Me I’ll just lament that quality will decline. It almost always does as public companies are driven by the aforementioned different set of rules.
Josh
October 18, 2015 at 9:06 PM in reply to: OT: How to build a cost effective outdoor data network #790421barnaby33ParticipantI wasn’t suggesting a known solution that for instance I’ve seen. I was suggesting it based on the general guidelines for the type of project. Moisture data doesn’t need to be secure. The transmission doesn’t need to be real time and you want low power consumption so that each sensor lives a long time on a single battery. Since the information, or most of it is going upstream, RF seems the way to go from my perspective.
So with RF you get a lot of benefits and of course low cost hardware!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI do! I’ve been running this scam for years! Also I’m disabled and a veteran.
JoshOctober 12, 2015 at 7:47 PM in reply to: OT: How to build a cost effective outdoor data network #790165barnaby33ParticipantI would suggest RF as well, it scales well. There are then public repeaters that you can use so the project could in theory scale to a commercial farm.
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