evjim

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by evjim 2mo ago
I have never had success using Freecad or librecad on xubuntu. Tried a couple times and couldn't figure it out. I became very proficient in AutoCAD/inventor in school. But qcad is very straight forward to use, runs on Linux, and i
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by evjim 4y ago
Use the IRS free fillable forms. It autofills information from one sheet to the next and is pretty easy to figure out after reading the PDF instructions for each IRS form. Makes way more sense then filling bubbles on a tax website that alwa
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by evjim 6y ago
I bought an Alibaba well drilling rig for $3k plus shipping and tariffs. I drilled 130ft deep with it. It took months to fix problems the machine came with and get proper drill bits adapted to it. Then at 130 ft I hit a void. All the drilli
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by evjim 6y ago
Also refrigerant has a very high carbon cost and installing piping on site between all of these appliances would require more refrigerant to fill those pipes and a higher potential for leaks.
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by evjim 6y ago
President Garfield died from blood poisoning too. But interestingly, they think if he wasn't well to do he would have survived. Many poor people who fought in the civil war walked away with bullets still inside them and no healthcare t
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by evjim 7y ago
The fact that doing a drug once compelled you to move countries and become a distributor for drugs does not convince me that it is a good idea.
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by evjim 7y ago
I have a few friends who I just visited in that valley. They bought 40 acres for 5k and are starting to build a straw bale house. We augered a 25ft deep well with brackish water at the bottom in a afternoon.
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by evjim 7y ago
Animals don't eat vegetables. They eat hay and grains that can be dry land farmed on undesirable land with minimal labor.
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by evjim 8y ago
How did you learn freecad? I really want to switch to it from auto desk inventor but have spent hours messing around and can't even make a cube. The YouTube videos I was watching assumed I knew too much.
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by evjim 8y ago
Biodiversity, I think is the biggest problem. The potato blight spread so rampently because mostly one clone of the exact potato was being grown everywhere. Some sort of rice or corn blight would be catastrophic.
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by evjim 8y ago
Golden Rice is cool. And it's "nice" that the intellectual property owner has relaxed royalties for now. But it will be interesting to see how fast ancient local strains of rice disappear and there is less biodiversity. How h
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by evjim 8y ago
You just said it. They do their shopping in Oregon. So they probably buy the bottles their tax free. Save ten cents on tax, spend it on deposit. It's a wash to the consumer.
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by evjim 8y ago
It is cheaper to install solar than run electric. For under $2,000 I have built solar systems that power an efficient fridge, led lightbulbs, normal electronics, and the occasional power tool (even stick welding). Thats only ~2 years of po
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by evjim 8y ago
I have friends that have lived in the national forest for a significant amount of time. Know people who live in cars and RVs in cities. None of them are mentally ill or drug addicts. I know techies and rednecks who are held back by the cost
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by evjim 8y ago
I used k9mail for awhile until I realized it had sent every temporary draft of an email as I revised something and changed between apps. Was super embarrassing. Hard to trust it now even though the ui seemed great.
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by evjim 8y ago
I did the whole flip phone thing for awhile and you can load a version of google maps onto most phones that run Java applets. Also, I worked on an epaper feature phone startup. But as a company we never got it to take off. I open sourced it
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by evjim 8y ago
But then if the password is reset, the original scammer has no access to the account! And the scammer cannot reset the password because they do not have access to the email.
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by evjim 8y ago
I was just checking out the harbor freight air nailers. The main concern I had was for the triggers, the plastic seemed really thin and poorly connected. I'll have to check out this video
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by evjim 9y ago
Sounds like what you can already bounce off amateur space APRS repeaters already for free. Just would be nice to have a few more.
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by evjim 9y ago
You can add dense pack cellulose insulation pretty easily to an uninsulated house. Home depot rents the machines to do it. Use a hole saw at the top of the drywall, shove in the blower tube and fill the cavity up with low cost cellulose.
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by evjim 9y ago
Hydrogen creation using electrolysis is really inefficient. Somewhere under 50%.
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by evjim 9y ago
Not 50 acres. Give people a quarter acre to 10 acres. So they could still live in or around a small town.
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by evjim 9y ago
Homesteading act could still be applicable in modern times. Ownership of real property is low and a large part of most American's budget. If people didn't have to pay rent and mortgages every month, everybody but banks would be we
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by evjim 9y ago
I spent two years living on a small permaculture farm. The place took on wwoofers and so I got to meet a ton of young people who wanted to farm. But most couldn't afford their own land, so instead they roamed around and worked nearly f
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by evjim 9y ago
The two times I have been with people with fake ish service dogs it made me way more anxious in public. I do not want to stand out. I would not want the stares or attention from a dog where it is unwelcome, cannot understand that these peop
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by evjim 9y ago
I disagree. Currently, people's food and goods travel thousands of miles before reaching the user. Not too long ago, people grew most of their own food or it came within 50miles. With technology, it would not be hard for people to retu
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by evjim 9y ago
Industry was concentrated in these centers not by choice of workers. Peter Kropotkin makes a strong argument in "Fields Factories, and Workshops" on how the decentralization of manufacture would benefit the craftsperson. There act
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by evjim 9y ago
Utilities aren't needed. Solar is cheaper than running new electrical. Wireless internet is affordable and fast. Henry George has some good ideas on valuing and taxing land. Maybe even negatively taxing the worse land.
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by evjim 9y ago
Space is as necessary of a life resource as water and air. We should look at the 1800's and the Homesteading Acts as a template for a new land distribution program. There is more than enough land for everyone to have a small chunk. Wit
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by evjim 10y ago
A fully open source RTOS that is trusted and only running this single application. The only external communication is the encrypted messages.

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