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HGL  ·  1693 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 7, 2019

Serious question where in Seattle would you farm out brake work to without getting ripped of?

HGL  ·  1839 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 13, 2019

My casual observations in no real order.

They make actuators with a fluid that passively expands when it gets hot for greenhouse applications. Kind of pricey but really cool. Also think about the edges of the window, idk what yours look like are they channels or some other shape that will trap moisture and mold?

You will want an upper beam thats not in the sketch on the roof, that will prevent the panels from taking a bunch of shear load.

You are missing a window retention ledge i think, those windows will take a ton of load, you will want a strip of wood or something to distribute load into them.

You probably have too many windows, you don't need that many since at least 1 side will very little sun.

Figure out what the available angles are for metal roof brackets at the hardware stores. Use one of those if not using one already.

The center span will sag way too much. Youll want to put posts every 24" or closer. 4 post wont cut it with that long of a span.

HGL  ·  1839 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Andrew Yang on Joe Rogan Experience — I think this guy could win

I predict racism against Asian Americans is way too strong to overcome in this election cycle.

Sadly its still basically ok in American society to be racist against Asian Americans so its going to take a couple more decades to overcome.

HGL  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What This Seat Bracket Says About the Future of Automotive Manufacturing

All the properties of a casting, waste to usable material ratio of a hog-out and a part geometry so damn complex it can only be verified by proof testing. Whats not to love about this? If you think this is the future of manufacturing i have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

HGL  ·  1905 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 9, 2019

Start us off with a song from 2016 because its so much more relevant right now and its such a fantastic fit for this week in US politics.

HGL  ·  1946 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US life expectancy drops again as opioid deaths and suicide rates rise

Good news for states and pension funds. Actuarial payout expectations are going down.

HGL  ·  1946 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 28, 2018

You buy a house because you want to stay put and raise a kid. Or because you bought a du/tri/quad-plex and that makes financial sense. It is hugely isolating because houses are rarely located in central city hubs and services and so you end up living far away from everything.

HGL  ·  1952 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Grubski! Thanksgiving edition! What did you cook? Share here.

Have you all heard of stuffing waffles? Its where you take the stuffing that you made for thanksgiving shove it into a waffle maker and make the best savory sausage waffle ever. Every year I make a whole casserole pan of stuffing just so that i can make waffles out of it later. Maybe upload some photos tomorrow.

Otherwise just the usual. Turkey, gravy, stuffing, taters, salad and pumpkin pie. It takes an awfully long time to get that all done from scratch as it is. Almost no pre made ingredients this year minus the stuffing bread. Stock, pie, gravy, all from scratch.

HGL  ·  1956 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your Children’s Yellowstone Will Be Radically Different

Damage due to Instagram vs Damage due to climate change... yeah things are going to change not for the better. Thing is climate change is inevitable, its happening and it cant be stopped. We need to spend more money researching how best to mitigate the impacts and preserve as much biodiversity as possible not trying to prevent that which cannot be stopped.

HGL  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 14, 2018

I dont get it KB, why waste your time on a formal education? Why not just go out, buy some equipment that will hold value and spend you time building things, learning from practice and maybe doing workshops with real pros once in a while? Do you need that piece of paper to get a loan or something?

And create their own...

HGL  ·  1968 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 7, 2018

Call the insurance and take your free money. I called insurance for minor bumper damage and got 1k in compensation. Replacing and color matching bumpers is really expensive and you can legaly take the money and not do the repair. Totally worth it

HGL  ·  1970 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Forget About The Candidates. What Else Is On The Ballot This Week?

We have 50c a gallon gas tax to fund brand new government agency that will do something about something related to global warming. All major polluters are of course exempt.

We have a horribly misguided gun storage initiative.

A ban on taxing poor peoples eating habits

And an initiative to crapify the police force and make them do a bunch of worthless mandatory training videos.

HGL  ·  1975 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sailfish 3 is here!

This is the only sailfish for me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_(sailboat)

I was thinking this was a Turkish power play. Erdogan is an absolute monarch as well so the fact that they are releasing so much footage and data to the media means his interest are in getting this to blow up as much as possible. The coverage this is getting on social media, reddit, etc makes me think that there are a lot of powerful actors at work spreading the outrage for their own purposes. I agree that its an outrageous story but the fact that its being talked about so much in spite of so much Saudi money looking to make it go away makes me wonder if there is some other powerful actor moving behind the curtain.

I'm surprised you attribute this to an independent move by the WaPost and the 4th estate. I could see that being the spark, but someone else has provided the fuel and keeps pouring more onto the fire.

The question is what changed? By all logic this should have been a non issues especially in comparison to all the other issues you mentioned so why weren't they able to get away with it this time? Is this Turkey hitting back or is more powerful factions hitting back at Saudi? I dont actually think that the world truly gives a shit about Khashoggi so why do they? Someone is mobilizing conventional and social media to strike back MBS and the house of Saud but its unclear to me who or why now?

Whats the real story here KB? There is some sort of geopolitical upheaval going on behind the scenes and this is clearly just a proxy war of sorts. Any idea what kind of political shift and infighting is actually happening?

HGL  ·  2005 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elon Musk settles with SEC over fraud charge

maybe it will fit in the pedo submarine

HGL  ·  2019 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to Buy a House the Wall Street Way

Sure you could use an algorithm to do this, but realistically how many houses actually get listed in any of the top 20 real estate markets on any given day in a price range/size that is suitable for renters. You could manually scan through all of them with a peon that gets paid $15-20 an hour. So really what they are selling is a promise that an algorithm can do it better so they can sell themselves for 100-300x of what they are actually worth

HGL  ·  2022 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 12, 2018

Saddness, maybe hes worried that is social media postings could negatively affect his work. The Portland social justice gestapo is a powerful force.

HGL  ·  2039 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Random Quotes of the Week (Aug26-Sep 1 2018)

Sounds like the perfect time for investors to cash out and find a greater fool

HGL  ·  2039 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Uber gears up for shift to bikes on short trips, CEO expects short-term financial hit

    And they're for profit.
- citation need.

Not really UBER is desperately expanding revenue at any cost, paying $1 for .25C of revenue seems withing their normal operation.

There are a lot of infrastructure related problems for bikes as well. Most cities arent designed for them and keeping a bike safe outside is next to impossible. The car-to-go business model wouldn't really work either if a large percentage of cars ended up with slashed tires, cut breaks and submerged in the lake.

HGL  ·  2044 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 22, 2018

    They rounded up all the homeless. Because of course they did. They won't tell you that, though. Didn't make the news. Anaheim cleared their homeless out and faced no blowback so LA did it on the DL. No hotels needed. Prolly a public vagrancy/public trespass bust, followed by some Greyhound therapy. And nobody's come at me with a pool cue since but it don't sit right.

So good or bad? I think most people in my neighborhood would be ecstatic if that happened.

Gay bond incoming? Good or bad I think when that happens it will cause such a social media circus that most people dont want to be involved in that.

HGL  ·  2047 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This article isn't even vaguely about Fortnite

If the kids agree to play fewer hours/do homework in exchange for me paying for coaching I might consider it.

HGL  ·  2058 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later.

Maybe, or maybe she will decide that she doesn't want to work in tech because its not very fulfilling to her and she doesn't want to work 60+hrs a week for a 35 year old boy, in a company where sexual harassment is normal and accepted, where her coworkers think that the only reason she has this job is because the company has a diversity quota. Maybe, just maybe she wants to have a kid and a life outside of work. Money is a good reason to choose tech, but there is a whole lot of other reasons to stay away.

HGL  ·  2080 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Japan, EU sign massive free trade agreement

This is a win for japan and a loss for Europe. Japan will export high tech high quality stuff that will completely crush lagging European manufacturing. In return they will get booze and cheese.

HGL  ·  2096 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US Corporate debt tops $6T

Doesn't the government own all the student loans? The corporate debt unraveling will be nasty though I think that will be fuel for the next financial crisis. If corporate bankruptcy courts get clogged up and become unable to clear the backlog that will become really nasty really quickly.

Think about that... people living paycheck to paycheck suddenly not getting a paycheck. People who dont have $500 of float would loose 1-2 weeks of salary and wouldn't even be able to file and collect unemployment fast enough to soften the blow. Having that happen in mass is downright scary.

The thing about the housing crisis is that it was really slow to happen and people who were affected by foreclosure actually ended up with a short term income boost due to not having to pay rent. If companies go bankrupt suddenly accounts just get frozen, employees abruptly loose income, and it sends shock waves though the entire system.

HGL  ·  2116 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: California's largest lake is dying, leaving toxic dust behind

Ha thats funny it does look like the fallout video game.

HGL  ·  2120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After Evergreen

Probably the best article ever published in the stranger. Its actually completely out of place with their other content.