kyteland

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by kyteland 2y ago
I believe you have those inverted. Bronze has tin and brass has zinc.
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by kyteland 2y ago
Nothing out-of-the-box that I'm aware of from the manufacturer. But all of the data is stored locally on the base station and you can try putting into a model.
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by kyteland 2y ago
I'm the wrong person to ask, as I'm fairly new to this. This is my first foray into home automation in general, but this platform has a Home Assistant integration that I'm playing around with. But the included base station is
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by kyteland 2y ago
I own this* one and it is set up on a pole off of my deck. I connect it to wunderground.com and anyone can look up data from my station. I'll be sharing with this service as well now that I know about it. * https://ambientw
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by kyteland 2y ago
pokies = slot machines cardies = video poker
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by kyteland 3y ago
I do it the opposite way myself. If the stock is increasing there's a nice tax bonus on most ESPP plans by holding it 2 years from the start of the plan. If you have a lookback provision, by holding 2 years you shift more of your gains
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by kyteland 3y ago
Something that commonly happens is that your brokerage sent you the cost basis for those sales at $0 on your 1099 form. There's typically an adjusted cost basis buried on their website which is what actually needs to be entered into yo
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by kyteland 3y ago
While income tax and short term capital gains do work like that (an increasing marginal rate) long term capital gains (LTCG) do not. They are paid fully at the bracket you fall in to. When calculating tax rates (US federal, states may vary)
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by kyteland 3y ago
Temps, Vendors, and Contractors
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by kyteland 3y ago
I'd describe it as being a mashup of voting machine development with game design. Gambling is a form of entertainment for most people who do it. When they go to a casino they vote with their dollars on which games they find entertainin
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by kyteland 3y ago
It applies to all regulated gambling devices in a jurisdiction that has that rule. Virtual dice/card decks must behave like a fair version of their physical counterpart. And they basically all have that rule because Nevada has it. Ever
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by kyteland 3y ago
It is regulated. If it looks like a die in a game of chance then it is a fair die. If it looks like a deck of cards, it is a fair deck of cards. This is written into the gambling laws of each regulated gaming jurisdiction. And like most reg
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by kyteland 3y ago
This guy wasn't proposing anything as crazy as pay-per-bullet. There's lots of games with limited ammo and you find more in the environment. Even in Doom you might run out of ammo for your favorite gun and need to put it away unti
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by kyteland 3y ago
Thanks, that was the context I was missing from the parent post. Makes total sense.
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by kyteland 3y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here, but I'm assuming you mean they run each source in separate lines. That's the same in the US. The point is that these pipes aren't well insulated so the line has probably
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by kyteland 4y ago
I believe what you're calling the "outer wall" is just the edge of the excavation grid, not a wall in the original city. The grid plan used by the archeologists won't necessarily align to the city plan.
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by kyteland 4y ago
As someone leaving Austin after 10 years, one limiting factor to growth here is water. All of the municipal water for the metro area comes from Lake Travis. There's a hard limit to how much growth the city can support even if infrastru
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by kyteland 4y ago
A shower doesn't have to involve soap to be a shower. I generally stick to using soap just three times a week (M/W/F) otherwise my skin dries out. The best thing that ever happened to my skin was realizing I didn't need
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by kyteland 5y ago
I'm the design lead on Woz Slots. I'm sorry it's not your cup of tea. Our players love it. :)
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by kyteland 5y ago
They feared that because people were being poisoned. Pewter plates were common at the time and the tomatoes acid leached the lead out causing acute lead poisoning!
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by kyteland 5y ago
You should read about the step up in basis loophole that happens when you die. That's the biggest one I'm aware of where your estate doesn't pay taxes after death that you would have owed in life. I'm sure there are man
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by kyteland 5y ago
Climate change doesn't necessarily mean everything will get hotter and scorched and we all have to move to northern Canada. It means things will be different than they were historically in ways we don't necessarily understand tha
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by kyteland 5y ago
That's basically how tea cultivation has historically worked. If you let a goat loose on a tea field it will eat literally everything but the tea plants.
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by kyteland 5y ago
I think this was covered in the article. His assets have grown 20% (inflation adjusted) since retiring and that's with a number of years having higher than average expenditures due to unplanned medical issues. His financial plan didn&
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by kyteland 5y ago
Nitpick: Average IQ cannot increase by definition. The median IQ value is defined to be 100 IQ points and one standard deviation in either direction is defined to be 15 IQ points. It's normally distributed so median==average as well.
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by kyteland 6y ago
I guess at that point you just need to start doing it. I have a lot of outdoorsy types in my family and we've been doing long, multi-day backpacking trips most summers since 1998. On my first trip I bought a cheap sleeping bag, pad, an
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by kyteland 6y ago
For not having any experience this is a lot like a non-runner asking how to run a marathon. You should probably start smaller with a couch-to-5k approach and work your way up to it. Going too hard too fast is an easy way to have a terrible
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by kyteland 6y ago
These games are extremely random, by law. The card game itself is truly random, short of any unknown bugs that escaped testing by both the manufacturer and the regulators. The only thing that affects the payouts in a video poker game is the
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by kyteland 6y ago
It's a common line of thinking that a system is broken if there's a single instance of failure when the right measure is if it does more good than harm. I've heard that excuse in the US with regards to giving to the poor, &q
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by kyteland 6y ago
Tons of stuff is being rediscovered these days thanks to LiDAR. If you can get past some of the gimmicky stuff (and have Disney+) There's a National Geographic documentary called Ancient China From Above that gets into this in the thir

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