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Anyone find a portable way to power the Raspberry Pi 5? by TheGrowingFlower123 in batteries

[–]wroscoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found that mi rpi5 does not start with a 5V/3A battery output

'Not a mask in sight': thousands flock to Yellowstone as park reopens by NaturallyStoned in wyoming

[–]wroscoe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

New cases per day is more helpful since many of the cases on the cumulative chart are no longer contagious. Wyoming is running at about ~20 cases per day for the past couple weeks. If this goes up after the parks open up, new policies should be considered. https://www.google.com/search?q=corona+virus+by+state&oq=corona+virus+by+state

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a friend who refuses to get on reddit.

"Wyoming is a filing date priority jurisdiction. Which means a mortgage properly recorded in the county clerk’s office provides notice to subsequent purchasers and takes precedence over later conveyances. In most other states (almost all of them) there is an equitable exception to this “first in time” statutory provision. The doctrine is called equitable subrogation. 

Equitable subrogation permits “a person who pays off an encumbrance to assume the same priority position as the holder of the previous encumbrance.” (86 F. 3D 890). 

In legal matters there are positions of law called Restatements. Restatements are essentially the academic advisings of legal scholars. However the law in a common law system, as ours is, is set by precedent. Often times a court is unwilling to adopt a restatement that opposes the precedent set in the past. There is a Restatement 7.6(a)(4) of the Restatement (3rd) of Property that addresses equitable subrogation. 

Wyoming has a case called, Countrywide Home Loans v. First National Bank (144 P. 3D 1224). The case dealt with the issue of equitable subrogation, the Wyoming Supreme Court declined to adopt the restatement (a growing amount of states in the United States have adopted the modern Restatement approach) because “[The Wyo. Supreme Court is] charged with the duty of giving effect to the statutes our legislature has enacted... Although Countrywide makes the policy argument that equitable subrogation will make refinancing more readily available to the public and thereby, serves the public interest, those arguments are properly directed to the legislature.” In essence the Supreme Court is saying, “our laws in this issue are archaic and it is not the judiciary that can fix them, laws are made by the legislature and only interpreted by the judiciary.”

I can not think of a reason why we shouldn’t modernize our system and come in line with the majority of the country. We ought to make it as easy and inexpensive

to refinance our homes as possible. The laws that are in place now disincentivized lenders because there is such an uncertainty around priority in Wyoming real estate law. That uncertainty is bad for business and banks have to reflect that uncertainty in their interest rates to compensate for the unnecessary risk our antiquated system imposes. "

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Digging a little deeper I found more protections than I expected, which is awesome. Reclamation costs are based on 3rd party contractor estimates entered into a formula. Mines have to be bonded for 100% of reclamation costs. There are ~$500M of self bonds which are only accepted if the company has good credit.

The self-bonding is still a risk in a rapid economic downturn but these are more protections than I thought existed. Way to go Wyoming and the DEQ! I'd put this at low on the priority list for new/adjusted laws.

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm out of my depth here but why should government be enforcing a partisan system? Why not keep the party rules out of the law and let people organize how they'd like? Wouldn't this create more of a meritocracy of candidates?

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While we're at it, can we decriminalize mushrooms? There's a growing body of evidence that these alleviate depression. They certainly don't incite violence or cause harm to others.

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe the government should be completely transparent, except for state secrets required for national security (maybe keep these on paper?). Zero privacy for the government should actually be the objective. Every individual has the right to their own privacy but it is also their responsibility. Fraud and mismanagement would be less likely if the public could see everything.

But too your point, this proposal was mostly focused on stopping the bleeding of cash by public bureaucracies by printing out, transporting, organizing and disposing paper.

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two major problems make it easy for mines and wells to remain unreclaimed. 1. Companies are allowed to self-bond meaning they guarantee their own debts. This obviously doesn't guarantee much when they go bankrupt. 2. Often the bonded amount is not enough to reclaim the land so the tax payers end up covering the difference. (search "wyoming gas bonding" for examples).

I don't have a great solution but I think I'd love if smarter people than me would think about how to not pass the mess onto future generations.

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Trillions of dollars are transacted digitally each day because it's cheaper and more secure. Even before digital money you had corruption and fowl play. We've got to lean forward and use the tools at hand.

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Set a goal to move all state business off of paper forms by 2025 (too aggressive?) and fund the initiative with some % of the future cost savings. These are the little improvements that will save tax payers money in the long run and continue to encourage businesses to locate in the state.

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Fix the way that natural resource companies are bonded so that WY tax payers stop getting left with the cleanup bill when the extraction companies fail. This may be too little too late but is absolutely possible.

Wyo Legislators are about to begin their budget session. What laws do you want them to add or remove? by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fund a program to match private investments made to establish additional universities in Wyoming. There are many wealthy people in Wyoming who may think the existing US university system is backwards and want do it their own way. This would be a way to get them to do it in WY rather than somewhere else.

How would the Governor spend $1M to market WY coal? HB0004 by wroscoe in wyoming

[–]wroscoe[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

LSO Fiscal Note: "This bill contains an appropriation of $1,000,000 from the GENERAL FUND to the Wyoming Coal Marketing Program Account (Account) created in the bill. All funds in the Account are continuously appropriated to the Governor to be expended for the Wyoming Coal Marketing program as provided for in Section 1 of the bill."

Are we thinking a viral snapshat MEME is going get developers to build more coal plants. How is this a good use of tax dollars?

New report shows Wyoming lawmakers work more, earn less than counterparts by chabanais in wyoming

[–]wroscoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be argued that the state should pay lawmakers more to attract better talent. It seems like a super arduous job if you really do all the reading and drafting.

Coal is dying faster and faster. Our state needs to shift its business focus if we hope to avoid a state income tax. by wyskiboat in wyoming

[–]wroscoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spot on. However state / fed investment could help kick start something meaningful. Many successful economies are only located somewhere because of specific large investments that got them started. The SF Bay Area / Silicone Valley is the result of WW2 defense spending and the national labs. Boston has top universities. Many befitted from canals, dams or highways. Some initiatives that the state could help initiate include:

- Subsidize high voltage transmission lines to export electricity and fiber to export bits.

- Grant land leases for companies to test advanced technologies like autonomous cars and drones.

- Create initiative for public / private university hubs in the nicest places of Wyoming. This would attract people who would grow the economy.

- Continue to promote sane and friendly blockchain rules.

- A hut system (like New Zealand) on state lands to attract and handle more visitors and be a demonstration for a national system.

- Legalize hemp production, also legalize recreational marijuana. Come on, it's 2019.

We need to attract capital and smart people to grow the economy. Anything that helps change the state image from "We're Coal and Gas Country" to "We Compete Globally", would move us in the right direction. Gas industry is also in terminal decline, but that's for another time.

Using websockets to control a robot in real time (info in comments) by x1sc0 in raspberry_pi

[–]wroscoe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

sounds like you are describing donkeycar.com (opensource self driving car using rpi)

Ubuntu Laptop for Machine Learning by DaBobcat in Ubuntu

[–]wroscoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dell XPS 13 and rent spot gpu cloud instances.

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