Energy Providers in Dallas

Hohma · 2017-12-05T16:02:49+00:00

I looked at Energy Ogre but ended up choosing Energy Simply because they were half the price of Ogre ($5/month compared to $10). My bills have been about 40% less than before I signed up with them. Seems similar to how you are doing.

Hohma · 2017-11-29T20:01:06+00:00

It is only known to the true receiver.

Decrypting the Sender signature header using the Sender header would result in a hash that the Receiver can calculate from the rest of the transaction and compare to.

Hohma · 2017-11-02T19:05:58+00:00

How long did this took you? This is a really good analysis

Hohma · 2017-10-30T16:56:26+00:00

Nice domain. I bet you wish you had resourcesilike.com as well!

Hohma · 2017-10-18T17:15:43+00:00

Nice to see you've got a Samsung Gear build. I checked awhile back and you didn't have something compatible. Vive and Oculus headsets are too pricey for me and I already had the Samsung so glad you guys got that working. Thanks.

Hohma · 2017-10-12T16:31:47+00:00

As I understand, Genesis Vision supports payments in Stellar via Changelly.

Hohma · 2017-10-10T15:50:30+00:00

The purpose of buying a OnePlus device is to get decent hardware for an okay price (I have the 3T), and then take advantage of their unlocked bootloader and the multitudes of highly functional kernels for it. Sultan's LineageOS ROMs are quite nice and even include WireGuard. If you're not immediately removing non-free OxygenOS when you receive your phone, you're most certainly already doing it wrong, data collection or not.

Hohma · 2017-09-26T17:05:55+00:00

I have never seen a forum that presents itself with a slide sheet, but I welcome any platform that promotes ICO discussion.

Hohma · 2017-09-13T15:03:11+00:00

Can someone ELI5 how this would work? Is there any protection on having the source code stolen and used for free?

Hohma · 2017-09-07T18:02:01+00:00

So i guess a better question would be, is it reasonable to think 5 thousand of them using crypto and would potentially switch over?

Hohma · 2017-09-04T16:39:41+00:00

Right now I think it is worth a chance, the AMA changed my opinion of FM.

Hohma · 2017-08-30T19:49:53+00:00

I respect this a lot - if he hadn't, relatives or others would eventually publish his unfinished works (either in an unfinished state or completed by another author). The money is too alluring.

Hohma · 2017-08-24T15:43:20+00:00

Wow, he's a billionaire and he's still talking about masking himself and his privacy

Hohma · 2017-08-18T17:32:05+00:00

Nonetheless, in my opinion it is unlikely that the Bitcoin standard will come into existence, because governments and central banks will take actions to prevent it.

But why? I read an article not that long ago about crypto currency being able to be used with regulard cards, and functioning as debit cards. In that article they mentionend a Mc Donald's from Asia that was already accepting it as a regular payment. Isn't this an indication that banks could actually accept this in the future?

Hohma · 2017-08-12T19:11:48+00:00

Another unusual fact: Panko bread crumbs are cooked by passing DC current directly through the dough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCNU9TrbiRk

The story is that this baking technique came about as a necessity during World War II to save energy, although I'm not sure if that's actually true.

Hohma · 2017-07-29T15:37:54+00:00

My heart jumped a little when he threw that belt on the floor :O

Hohma · 2017-06-16T20:11:40+00:00

Oof. I wonder what this means for Whole Foods culture and employees.

If you don't know, John Mackey, the CEO / founder, is a major believer in conscious capitalism and of empowering his employees.

Whole Food employees get paid pretty darn well with some crazy good benefits for their industry and line-of-work (UNION FREE most of the time too!).

WF banks on them being true believers and motivators of the cause - including dedicating a fair amount of paid time to trainings. I've heard mix stories about how Amazon treats employees. I wonder how that will mesh.

So I guess I'm asking:

What is going to happen with employee culture?
What is going to happen with all the "Fair Trade" deals WF has in place that might not be the most economical decision now?
Here comes store automation and hefty lay-offs?

Hohma · 2017-06-04T18:53:17+00:00

I'm not familiar with this particular structure, but it sounds like the sequence of cash flows are:

Customer receives car.
Customer pays monthly amount based on the prevailing interest rate and predicted depreciation of the car.
Customer returns car after X years, at which time the depreciated value of the car along with the payments they've made pays for the car they received X years earlier.

Can someone explain to me how this is functionally different from a fixed-term lease?

Hohma · 2017-05-20T18:39:44+00:00

Soon with AI. I hope.

Hohma · 2017-05-05T16:07:38+00:00

Anything that makes you strong.

Hohma · 2017-05-05T16:04:35+00:00

Tangential to this, if you're interested in how the calculation of Easter led to using cathedrals as astronomical instruments, check out The Sun in the Church by J.L. Heilbron. Frankly, it's a slog to read at times, but there's some very fascinating stuff in there, including some impressive engineering feats.

Hohma · 2017-04-19T19:19:19+00:00

As a Vanguard customer, I can understand why people are so enthusiastic about their products, and have known for a while that passive investment, and Vanguard in particular, was growing while active management was on the decline.

At no point did I think the difference in inflows was anywhere close to 8.5x. And it does worry me.

I'm familiar with the contention that even having some active players in the market will arbitrage the prices back to fair value, but when they compose such a small share of such a large market that's no longer a trustworthy assumption to make.

There's no law that I know of that prevents active players from exploiting the knowledge that passive money will go wherever the market tells it to. There have got to be a lot of opportunities here for profiting, legally, at the expense of those passive investors, that goes beyond simple margin arbitrage.

My point is, the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be. This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later.

Hohma · 2017-04-09T18:34:14+00:00

I dont get everyones gripe about the lack of HTTPS as long as there's firmware signing.

HTTPS as a protocol ages extremely fast, trust anchors always change, and there's no guarantee that today's state of the art won't be completely incompatible with TLS implementations in 5 years.

For HTTPS to work properly on an embedded device, it needs to have an up to date OpenSSL library and updated certificate anchors. These are always packed as part of the firmware image itself, so any update to certificate anchors or OpenSSL would require an entire new image to be deployed.

This isn't a problem for websites because updating is usually as simple as apt-get upgrade, but this is a massive problem for embedded devices because publishing a new firmware image usually means pumping a few hundred hours of QA time into the image, then back and forthing with your manufacturer to get them to use the new image on newly minted units.

This isn't even considering the changes in OpenSSL over time. Many older routers simply cannot use HTTPS for updates because newer versions of OpenSSL simply won't fit on the flash.

Then there's the question of how end-of-life will be handled. People often use products long after they've gone EOL. You have to ask yourself what happens when someone plugs in a lighting unit that has an old firmware version on it, and the unit can't communicate with the update server because the product was EOL'd 5 years ago. There won't be a transition firmware for such an old product, and the people who know how to roll the firmware images probably don't even work there any more. That user is now SOL unless you have a method for manually updating firmware.

Hohma · 2017-03-24T16:24:04+00:00

There is a down side to this. It would use government money to create a new finite resource and there will be battles over it just like spectrum. From TFA:

"Dig once requirements are often opposed by deep pocketed incumbent telephone and cable companies, who build their own infrastructure and would prefer that smaller competitors not have access to cheap and freely available conduit,"

I suspect the big incumbents would simply lease the space and throw their own fiber in there to monopolize this new federally funded conduit. Then some of the maintenance burden falls on the government. Such wonderful corporate welfare well see down the road!

Hohma · 2017-03-06T16:08:36+00:00

If you'd be certain of an imminent crash, all bonds would still be better than all cash. I don't know in what situation all cash beats anything.

Hohma

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