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But that is how deed restrictions are enforced. If you didn't have that mechanism, then they would just not exist upon death, etc.

Thank you for posting this - I couldn't figure out the intent of the initial post without this comment.

I'm there for my kids, and I am consistent. Consistency is something that I felt I never had from my dad, and it's so important to just do what you promise. Kids have good days and bad - they're volatile as they are growing. You just have to be the ever-present dad.

I hadn't considered outside council. That's a good idea. The issue with everybody being remote is that our corporate safe is difficult to get into (we are on a two-key system), but an outside entity is worth looking into.

That's an interesting idea, thanks. And I agree- we do not use the root accounts for anything. I'm much more concerned about the bus factor with physical key access.

Yes, you are totally correct. We don't use our root account now, and we keep our our corporate Yubikeys in a safe with a 2-key access lock. The issue is that fewer and fewer people have access to the safe due to geography. I'm worried about our in-city bus factor.

What's even more interesting to me is that HEB has a chief medical officer on staff at all times as well.

I disagree. If everybody held the opinion that their actions wouldn't amount to anything, nothing would ever change. Climate change is the single largest event that will occur in our lifetimes, and we all need to help pitch in to stop the raise in global temperatures.

On the Reddit post this originated from [0], it says that the motivation from the ex-employee was "help us identifying wifi problems and tracking users in the area around the Managers office". Makes me wonder if it was malicious or just stupidity.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9xveq5/rogue_rasp...

I have really enjoyed reading peoples recommendations on what they have learned and how they have grown, this post on "What has the past 12 months taught you?" is really interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17316120

I agree - I know that my organization would see an increase in performance, as 90%+ of our transactions are committed. I am excited to see this in action.

Having been taken for a lot of money by contractors in the past, getting the local DA to issue criminal complaints are near impossible. Recently had a GC on a job fake receipts, fake bank statements, everything you could think of to steal money from us. In the end, the DA wouldn't make it a criminal case, said it was just a civil matter.

A lot of the power that a fridge consumes is related to the defrost of coils. I don't care when my fridge heats up the coils, so that would be an easy load shift for a fridge that would not change the interior temp one bit.

I know that where I live, if the power factor is below .4, the meters can't accurately record the consumption. Kind of rare, but it does happen.

Yeah, you are right. I think what they were trying to say is that the transformers are fed on the high side by one of three phases (as is typical), and that the residential step-down is a split phase 120/240.

I wish it were that easy. I am an ex-foster parent, and the thought of losing my children when I had them as foster children tore me up. It takes months and months of waiting, courts, CPS visits, parent visits; and, all the while, you (the parent) are living in a limbo. Should you plan the Christmas vacation for 3 people or 4? Should you buy birthday gifts a few months out if a gift is on sale? Every single one of the families in my foster placing agency felt the same way.

I am sorry, but your statement just doesn't hold true at all. I think that when people report facts like those, it makes it that much harder for foster parents, and for the system to recruit parents and volunteers.

I think that you forget that most of the people on Orcas are retired, and don't have the same fears that we have regarding snooping of data. My parents retired to Orcas over a decade ago, and all of their neighbors are 60+. Also, their internet habits are very different than my household - they check emails once per day, and that is really it.

I have had a Volt since 2012, and typically fill it up about once every 4 months.

The one interesting example when I think about domains is Nissan.com. Nissan (the auto manufacturer) was unable to secure nissan.com, but it really hasn't hurt them in terms of searches. Of course, if people go to Nissan.com directly, that doesn't work for them, but it is interesting nonetheless.

Having said that, I do personally find a domain first before any type of branding or naming.

Every few months I go back and read this thread to help center me again on expectations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7473787

I have about 10 threads bookmarked, but this one gets the most views over time.

The refresh concurrently materialized views is huge. I am glad that it was introduced since I currently have to use tables with functions to create/drop to get the same functionality.

The only place where you are hidden from them is at work.

Of course, at work we have Gigapower as well.

As a recent Austin subscriber to AT&Ts GigaPower, I opted to let them snoop on my traffic for the discount. I really didn't see the difference in what they were doing versus Google or any other search engine. That, along with the significant price reduction ($320/mo versus $140/mo - they didn't let me bundle any services without the deal) led me to allow this.

As another poster mentioned - if I get really paranoid, I will eventually set up a VPN, and tunnel all of my traffic through that.

I did want to add that once Google Fiber comes to my neighborhood, I will be jumping ship though. We have had two significant outages in the first month of GigaPower.