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seveneightn9ne | 6 years ago | on: My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting

That was my idea behind https://github.com/seveneightn9ne/dino-budgeter - you can try it out at https://dino.jesskenney.com/ - it's missing a lot of the sort of guidance/hand-holding that YNAB provides, and so far it only has the features I personally wanted, but it's at least been enough for me :)

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

Hm, I'd heard the Amazon consumes at least as much O2 as it produces; it's basically in equilibrium. Unfortunately I don't remember the source but it was something like Planet Earth.

I found a lot of sources quoting your 20% number, but it seems like that's not net produced O2 but rather gross.

I'd be interested if anyone can find a source that says either way about the net O2/CO2 of the Amazon.

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?

If you're including RSUs in that number, sure

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

How is this using end-to-end encryption? It seems like the recipient just clicks a link to download. How can it have been encrypted for that person? end-to-end encryption normally means that there's no way for the intermediary to unencrypt the data but I can't see how that's possible in this case.

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable

If you make 1.2 million a year you could literally retire after 1-2 years and live comfortably (on ~40k) for the rest of your life. Want to live on 100k? Only takes 4 years.

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Migrate Bitbucket repositories over to GitHub

This looks useful! I glanced over the code to make sure it's not gonna exfiltrate my repos. Surprisingly simple and clean code!

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees

Technically that is the point of patenting - it should be available for anyone to read how it works. Do they specify the patent number?

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk

This study looked at Americans following the Mediterranean diet.

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

Investors want to buy long term bonds because they suspect the interest rates will get worse, so they want to lock in the current rate for a longer time. It signals that investors are expecting a recession.

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Crowdsourced Language Learning Site

There are a couple of features I feel are missing. 1) ability to filter by beginner/intermediate/advanced resources. 2) ability to rate & review resources and then sort by popularity/rating.

As it is I see a ton of resources for my target language, with no way to choose between them.

Nice work overall, this seems like a really useful idea especially for less popular languages!

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Carbon Removal Technologies

Don't forget that the main use for the soybeans is cattle feed.

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Carbon Removal Technologies

It's the feed for the cattle that takes up the most space, and that is directly replacing rainforests.

seveneightn9ne | 7 years ago | on: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager

You can use keybase git as the backing storage for pass: https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone

seveneightn9ne | 8 years ago | on: Tesla Semi

Tesla's navigation system will definitely let you know if there's something close to your side.

seveneightn9ne | 8 years ago | on: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

Being together in person doesn't solve the problem of wanting to edit the same code simultaneously. For some projects, git is enough, but for something really small this seems like it would really help.

seveneightn9ne | 8 years ago | on: Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

You can totally search email contents with ProtonMail -- it just does it clientside. I just tested with my 125MB of emails and it was fast (under 1s) but maybe if you have more emails it could be slower.

seveneightn9ne | 8 years ago | on: A Guide to Intermittent Fasting

fasting hours/eating hours. So eating within an 8 or 6 hour window each day, and fasting for the other 16 or 18

seveneightn9ne | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency Without Your Landlord Noticing

That's at the bottom of the article:

Production footprint PV multicristalline: 4200kWhee/kW [1] * 0.1kW = 420kWh embodied energy

Production footprint lead-acid battery: 321kWhee/kWh [1] * 0.5kWh = 161kWh embodied energy

Total Footprint: 581kWh

Annual energy production system: 155kWh/y

Payback period: 581kWh / 155kWh/y = 4+ year footprint payback

seveneightn9ne | 8 years ago | on: The DAO, the Hack, the Soft Fork and the Hard Fork

Yeah, that's what a "hard fork" means - it requires the nodes to actively choose it.

seveneightn9ne | 8 years ago | on: Tell HN: All Quip and Evernote documents are stored unencrypted on their servers

The OP isn't surprised they don't use E2E encryption - that's mostly reserved for the most security-conscious use cases, because as you say, there's a lot of usability to gain from having read access from the server. However, at-rest encryption is a total no-brainer.