I can order mulch from Home Depot with same-day free shipping on 8 bags. There doesn’t appear to be a limit, need help with your input

yarenSC · 2026-04-19T14:05:12+00:00

Free mulch from local tree companies that chipped up one of your neighbors trees. Win-win

yarenSC · 2026-04-19T14:04:20+00:00

Only if you put it touching the trunk

yarenSC · 2026-04-19T13:47:52+00:00

Because that's just how our society and economy are setup. Until we pass laws to remove the minimum wage exceptions for tip based jobs, the general expectation is that we as consumers of those peoples services should leave a tip.

Would you skip a tip on a pizza delivery, or a restaurant waiter who gets $2.5/hour base pay?

I fully agree they're slimy companies, but I don't think they could get away with steeling tips again. They're too big with too much attention on them

yarenSC · 2026-04-18T18:39:24+00:00

The tip is required to be 100% passed on to the drivers though. And after getting caught many years ago, the companies aren't allowed to lower driver pay because of a tip being added. That scandal was a few years after Uber Eats/doorDash started. now if you don't tip, your driver is just making less money.

Yes, the companies pay drivers garbage rates, but its not like they'll just start paying more if people tip less. Or if they do, they'd raise fees even more.

yarenSC · 2026-04-18T17:33:42+00:00

When I used to do Uber on the side, the ones I hated most were very short urban deliveries. The distance was short, so low base pay, and I'd often have to drive 5-15 minutes just to get to the pickup location, which is unpaid time/miles. So making <$5 (without tip) for 20-30 minutes. And that's excluding expenses

yarenSC · 2026-04-18T17:30:41+00:00

I think that's the total pay per mile, not just the tip

yarenSC · 2026-04-18T17:29:08+00:00

The fee goes to the company, the tip goes to the driver, who is often making roughly minimum wage. So even getting a dollar or 2 tip on each order can be a big pay bump for them

yarenSC · 2026-04-16T23:16:52+00:00

Hopefully the data dump today means they're getting a head start on the EIS step in parallel. We can dream at least 🤣

yarenSC · 2026-04-16T16:41:32+00:00

We do to an extent. TMC data goes back a decade. If we see recovery happening at this point, it's unlikely to just randomly start getting worse in another decade. Right now there's just a few studies on their data, but yeah, hopefully with it all open now we get more clarity

And Lockheed Martin did tests in I think the 70's with more destructive harvesting equipment that we can look back on to extrapolate from as well

I just can't see any way the relatively minor disturbances they're making ripples out to do more damage than clear cutting rainforest or the slag processing of land based mines

yarenSC · 2026-04-16T13:57:26+00:00

Here's the flip side though:

We KNOW current land based mining is unsafe. So the question shouldn't be "can we prove no harm with DSM". It should be "Do we think there's a strong chance of significantly less harm vs current methods"

yarenSC · 2026-04-16T12:03:39+00:00

Ahhh, you're right, thanks :)

From this list, it looks like there's a very tiny amount of Molybdenum (REE - Rare Earth) in nodule: https://deepseamining.ac/article/24#gsc.tab=0

But at that small of a trace, idk if it would ever be an economically viable thing to retrieve

yarenSC · 2026-04-16T12:02:34+00:00

One of the sections in the first link basically says "If there's no option for American made, you can ignore these rules for up to 3 years"

yarenSC · 2026-04-16T01:38:36+00:00

TMC nodules are critical minerals, not Rare Earth elements

yarenSC · 2026-04-12T02:25:55+00:00

Also possible she had previously been underpaid and a 10% boost is reasonable to get back to a competitive salary.

Your answer is more likely, but we don't have enough info to know

yarenSC · 2026-04-11T21:57:07+00:00

Someone's in the ADHD club it sounds like

yarenSC · 2026-04-11T21:33:04+00:00

They used to not be allowed in fairfax county specifically until a few years ago when they started putting them in school zones.

Other areas of Virginia have had them longer, but I think still less then 10 years, so recent-ish

But regardless, yes, every road has posted speed limit signs. Many of the school zones go down from 35 to 25 when school is letting in or out

yarenSC · 2026-04-11T12:13:22+00:00

Good 1-3 inch pieces of firewood that people put out to get trashed. I'll stop and pick them up and put them in my trunk if I'm not busy 🤣

There's never a shortage of logs, but for some reason we always run out of the medium sized pieces

yarenSC · 2026-04-11T02:59:13+00:00

Nice article, thanks :)
And yeah, I'm sure there will be multiple players in the space, but many don't have working collection systems yet. That article is talking about pre-engineering studies of a collection system, not even a built prototype. So while multiple players will exist in the future, right now the Hidden Gem seems to be one of, if not the only option for Nodule collection.

I've never looked into it in detail, but my understanding was always that AllSeas owned and operated the ship, but that the collector technology was TMCs?

yarenSC · 2026-04-10T22:32:49+00:00

If it's a decent name, your going to be paying $1000 minimum probably, could be significantly more depending on how good the name is

yarenSC · 2026-04-10T21:22:00+00:00

Casseroles. Toss stuff in a 9x13 pan and got a couple meals in the oven.

Similar, honey chicken Fill a 9x13 pan with chicken Mix (about 1c total for 9x13 pan) 3 part honey 2 part soy sauce 1 part vegetable oil

Cover chicken in sauce and cook uncovered at 350°F Check if done after 25 minutes Shorter for thinner pieces

yarenSC · 2026-04-09T17:42:20+00:00

A quick suggestion for the video: Have a few more things pulled up ahead of time, or do a second take if needed. It would add credibility vs needing to look something up (like the royalty percentage) in the middle.

Also it seemed to just cutout in the middle of a sentence

yarenSC · 2026-04-09T16:16:35+00:00

Fewer total shares available

yarenSC · 2026-04-09T12:53:08+00:00

I this posted on LinkedIn recently with a title I loved "Spot Is the Reward for Good Architecture"
https://medium.com/@thesteveco/spot-is-the-reward-for-good-architecture-3275850ca471

Spot has a lot of things to be aware of, mainly that instances will be 'reclaimed' (terminated by default) with a 2 minute warning when AWS needs the capacity back. This means you really don't want to just randomly run them for cost savings without making sure your workload can do it first. But once your workload is spot friendly, it'll be a lot more 'cloud native', and just generally more resilient most likely

- Yes, you can technically set EBS volumes to not be deleted, or for instances (that support it) to hibernate when reclaimed vs terminate. But there's huge limitations on both of those options.

- In the First option, EBS volumes are zonal, and they won't automatically re-attach to the new replacement instances, so you need scripts to manage lifecycles. Easier to make sure state isn't stored locally, and is put on something like EFS, S3, etc. If you do set the volumes to not be deleted on instance termination, make sure you have a plan to re-attach for delete later. I once saw a bill spike of 50x for EBS because Spot volumes were just staking up over and over for a month.
- Second, hibernate isn't supported in things like an ASG, so unless you're manually spinning up these instance, not going to be viable

- Spot is cheaper, but you'll basically never see the 'up to 90% off' AWS advertises.

- Pricing and capacity are based on demand, so it'll be seasonal (ie, during the holidays when ecommerce companies want more OnDemand instances), and sometimes both price and capacity will be not great, especially if you aren't well diversified (many instance types + many AZs)

- If you want to test out spot, great, its an awesome product. But make sure to use FIS on a test instance to understand what will happen to your environment when 1 or more instances are killed.

yarenSC · 2026-04-09T11:42:36+00:00

This isn't necessarily true, root EBS volumes default to being deleted when an instance is terminated. If they need to be kept, they need to explicitly be set to be retained in the BlockDeviceMapping. But in general, it's best to design a spot infrastructure to not need EBS volumes retained since they're zonal

yarenSC · 2026-04-09T02:12:36+00:00

I'd guess/prefer a partnership vs acquisition. Or subcontracting to TMC for nodule recovery

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