Readit NewsAptSeagull commented on Ask HN: How to spend a winter at home with the least amount of energy? · Posted by u/eimrine
Fuel: Biomass, pellet, wood,
Cooking: Rocket stoves
Insulate yourself: Hats, robes, slippers, socks. When in doubt - layer up.
Tape seams, cracks, flues, poorly insulated windows, doors. Someone once told me that if you add up all of small cracks and air leaks in a home, it would be the equivalent of an open window. We lived in a 105 year old home at the time. Most of the wooden window frames had expanded/contracted throughout the years, and a rubber mallet did wonders for resetting the frame and moldings to airtight status. Taping plastic over the worst windows helped until we could repair & replace the worst offenders, heavy curtains helps as well. Castles used heavy woolen tapestries to help.
Check your local tenant laws, landlords may be required to heat your home to a certain degree if heat is included in the rental charge.
1. Figure out what you can do better than anyone else
2. Figure out which types of potential clients would benefit the most from this
3. Ensure this isn't performed by someone internally
4. The marketplace is the web. Self publish, tell the world
There are 6000 hospitals, 20% for profit businesses, 17 of which are publicly traded. They write off procedure costs to some degree. The amount written off is so widely variable and lopsided, the IRS or the SEC would have a nearly impossible task of determining what is true. I'm curious, do hospital CFOs sweat the risk of IRS discovery that write offs are artificially inflated if/when the data becomes easily known and calculable? How many years and how many procedures were written off to which extent? To what end did asymmetric data play in avoiding taxes or violating SEC regs?
Borax is incredible stuff. I used it as an insecticide in Florida. I could puff it into places behind cabinets and appliances. It doesn't kill by chemical means, but by getting stuck in insect chitin, ripping it apart and then desiccating it. It's safe for pets too. Amazing.
Diatomaceous earth work by getting under the carapace and puncturing the insect - causing dehydration which kills the insect.
AptSeagull commented on Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing · Posted by u/scottfr
Really nice work
AptSeagull commented on On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994) latimes.com/archives/la-x... · Posted by u/undefined1
>"Fundamentally, there’s not much difference between ordering a pizza over the phone and ordering one on-line. "
Except for dealing with people, friction is constant
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