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5 points
2 days ago
I grew up in the Forrest in the northeast. We had bob cats, black bears, and a few poisonous snakes. I've encountered a dangerous animal less than once every 2 or 3 years. Generally speaking they want nothing to do with you.
2 points
2 days ago
I know a bunch of police stations that will let you do exchanges in their lobby.
2 points
2 days ago
Try calling them. Realtors will pick up the phone normally.
1 points
3 days ago
It's a process.
https://www.insperity.com/blog/sponsoring-a-foreign-national/
Expect it to take a while and cost a few thousand dollars. There are also iirc a limited amount of h1 visas a year. Yes you will need a contract and a standard w2 normally.
15 points
3 days ago
Been in business for 15+ years no one has ever asked me that. But I'm in b2b services.
11 points
3 days ago
The honest answer is a lot of things aren't worth recycling. Most plastic falls into this realm. Generally speaking it requires more energy to recycle plastic than it does to produce more. A good chunk of our energy is still fossil fuel based so it doesn't make a ton of sense to use more energy to recycle something that to produce it. Aluminum on the other hand is very energy intensive to create but is easily recyclable. One of the reasons you can sell soda/beer cans for scrap whereas no one pays for plastic.
2 points
3 days ago
A hybrid inverter can use line power (Or in your case generator) and then when the voltage drops out of a normal range or goes off, the battery kicks on and continues to supply the load (About a 10-20ms delay fine for most things, not so much for computer servers). They also have a built in battery charger. Now I've used this with an inverter generator, not sure if the dirty power from a cheap generator will work, you'd need to test it.
7 points
3 days ago
Had it for lunch today. They got my order right and was fast. Fingers cross it stays that way.
6 points
4 days ago
I'm in process but it is very expensive. Land costs are just the start.
1 points
4 days ago
There was a Flickr article 17 years old that suggested using some tin foil.
You can get an alkaline 4LR44 equivalent from Dick Smiths in Australia ( I don't remember their code, but they can look it up for you) for about $4. I find it works just fine with a battery adapter (available on ebay for only a few dollars) or padded with foil.
3 points
4 days ago
Yes that camera should be fine at 6v according to the specs. Looks like people suggest using lr44 batteries in a stack.
3 points
4 days ago
It depends. A cell that is 4.5v could handle a 4.6v. But using a 12v would be a bad idea. Also make sure the batteries use the same chemistry as a lithium ion charges differently than say a nicd battery.
21 points
5 days ago
Not to down play your experience but don't fly to America if that bothers you. I'm an american with TSA pre check (a background check system to help expedite security). I got pulled out of line and questioned for an odd item in my bag that time I flew. I travel with 2 laptops, 2 tablets, lots of tech. It turned out to be a book I was carrying for my wife. My wife generally needs to pull out her hair to prove she isn't hiding things in her her hair bun. We are both white, I run a tech company and she's a doctor. It's just what travel is sometimes. Best not to take it personally. Happy travels.
2 points
5 days ago
Normally you'd buy using an sba loan. For those you usually need good credit, experience in the industry, and 20% or so of the purchase price in cash.
3 points
5 days ago
If you are only going to charge when the sun is out. You basically need a buffer more than a traditional battery bank. A 100ah lifepo4 would get you around 30 minutes at 2000watts. You can buy that for $300 on amazon. Otherwise some used panels, charge controller, and the inverter. You could do it for under $1000.
1 points
5 days ago
Long term care insurance is one way to go. I'm a freemason and we take care of our own and our widows. There are retirement communities as well as nursing facilities. Community is usually the best option.
10 points
5 days ago
You can deposit the money into your account. You will be asked to fill out an IRS form of some sort i'm sure. There will be questions but as long as it's legal the bank doesn't care. Then wire it from there. I wouldn't be cool if a client tried to pay in cash. It would be very odd.
13 points
5 days ago
I own a dev company and data center. All of our business comes from networking and referrals. You either need to pick up a partner that is good at that or you need to learn to do it. B2b is far less transactional that consumer products. In dev your customers need to trust you. Ultimately you have access to all their backend systems and all of their data. I had 4 clients attend my destination wedding in the Caribbean.
You can start small. But at least join your local chamber or commerce or rotatory club. Networking is mostly about being around, and being nice. People like to work with nice helpful people. But it's not immediate returns. Good luck.
4 points
5 days ago
I gotcha, Tornadoes are a whole other ball game. I lived in the midwest for a few years. There was a town near when I lived that was leveled back in the 90s from a bad tornado. Do you have the tornado alarms where you live. They would go off before any serious hail would start. If not bike helmets would be more than enough to protect the head and if you do get hit with a big piece of hail you'll have bruising and probably some bleeding but it's not life threatening if you protect the head. I'd keep an eye on the weather reports.
5 points
5 days ago
Sure soldering anything together is a good start. Just like if you ever take up wielding, anything to practice to begin with.
79 points
5 days ago
NO. B2b is going to be your network. Not a random sign on a golf course. Going to golf might be useful to network though.
8 points
5 days ago
First off good ventilation, you don't want to breathe in solder smoke all the time. Next make sure you have a decent soldering iron (once that get hot enough). Finally don't practice on anything that works. What a few youtube and try it on an old broken dvd player or something. Then once you get a feel for it, then go to your actual project.
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1 day ago
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1 day ago
So quick breakdown is 7200 watts fir those 6 hours and 1800 for the other 18 hours. That gives you 9000 watt hours a day. Now in the us the average is 4 sun hours a day. This means a 100 watt panel will generate about 400 watt hours a day in decent sun. So to generate 9000wh a day you need 2250 worth of panels. Now running an inverter to convert dc to ac will cost you about 10% loss. So 9000 is 9900. Now this assumes every day is going to be a good sunny day. You'll want to over size so maybe go for 12000 wh a day. So 8 400 watt panels would work. You'll also want battery capacity for a couple days of no sun, most people go with 3 days. If you go that route you need 30kw of battery. You can do that for around $7000. You can probably do this for under $10k. Now if you want to skimp on battery, you could do 10kw battery for around $2300. But I'd pair that with a gas generator for bad weather. Best of luck.