You can easily deactivate it. Would I use this for sensitive data? probably not as I use a password vault, but for non sensitive sites this looks like quite a slick approach.
Also interestingly, how much money you need to have to be able to invest 10K into a single risky investment. Realistically you would either have to be irresponsible or be quite comfortable already.
500K today is a very nice sum, but it is only life changing if you are in the category that would not have had the 10K to invest in the first place.
Jobs made several poor decisions around Apple's stock, including after he came back. A few choices cost him billions of dollars (which would now be tens of billions for his wife). Fortunately for him, money wasn't something that he obsessed over.
You're talking about a guy who got in trouble for having his subordinates make up a fictitious board meeting to get a better strike price for his options.
I think there are some advantages. No gas fuel, no noise, maybe less maintenance. Insurance vs. a genset should be different. I'm assuming you hook these up with a bypass switch, so you effectively have a whole home online UPS; this would eliminate brownouts and dirty/noisy power. I wonder if there's a power factor advantage on the utility side as well.
Yes, but do you think there would be any benefit in it there being less variability? Right now a utility deals with a bunch of random stuff drawing power, presumably at different factors. I don't know what the right language is to describe this, what I was thinking is that if everyone effectively had a big UPS then that variability would be seen by the UPS, and the power company would see a more uniform draw.
If you watch the gold video (or read the article), you'll see they're not using anything remotely similar to the process in that MMC patent. It's essentially a conventional alloy, mechanically hardened.
A Rolex submariner weighs about 135g. Let's pretend that all but 35g of it is gold (it's less, but w/e). So we're at 100g of 18k gold. Now, 18k gold is 75% by mass, equal to 75g of 24k gold or $2900.
The cheapest, non-gold submariner costs $7500.
Buying gold watches to get the gold - or even considering the value of their alloys when buying them - is as dumb as doing the same with computers.
Sorry to be this guy, but how much are you earning from your side projects? And also how do you know which side projects to work on?
I've done a few side projects before and it hardly earns me any money (< $500 revenue per year). It really destroys my motivation when the cost of hosting/etc are even higher than my revenue.
After digging around OP's site for a minute, it seems he created a really cool database of all the asteroids in the known universe which was acquired by a company that is actually planning to mine asteroids.
I can't imagine what kind of money they paid him for it, but I bet it was /astronomical/.
I told a recruiter this one day, and all he said was: "Telling you which company we are recruiting for is like you giving everyone on the street your source code".
> "Celebrate your birthday, goddammit. You are lucky to have each one."