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I’ve been at it over a decade now and still found the only reliable way to make money from offline App Store apps is good old fashioned paid apps, $2.99 being a nice sweet-spot. If…

I answered something similar above, but I'll paste it here too: This was for a largish (40,000L) above-ground pool with no hookup to my home's plumbing system. The water was all pu…

Yeah, absolutely. The YouTube guides have all been very helpful, a lot of them are done by actual paid professionals promoting their pool brand. The fellow who'd done it originally…

What do you think it's telling of? I'm not sure if the sites you linked would have been immediately very helpful in my specific case. You know this is for a pool, right? The first …

Definitely! My understanding is everything I did has been pretty well established pool maintenance for decades now. I'm sure there are loads of good books on the topic, though I'm …

> I run a not-for-profit pinball museum Yeah, I would imagine pinball machines are at least an order of magnitude more complicated to maintain than above-ground pools are. That sit…

A pool filter is for removing physical debris, it's not really for preventing bacterial or fungal infections. I guess what you're talking about is sanitizer, in my case we use chlo…

That's a good point - I've heard people make the same one whenever LLMs are brought up. I hope someday you're able to get more value from them. Anyway, my pool's looking great and …

This was for a largish (40,000L) above-ground pool with no hookup to my home's plumbing system. The water was all pumped in from a water truck. The previous system was also install…

I hope your DIY projects go well and you don't need any repairs at all.

> It’s likely it missed some crucial subtlety that will come to bite you in the ass down the line. Maybe, but that's part of the experience of learning. I plan to maintain pools fo…

We have a similar list in America [1] and Canada [2]. Unfortunately, like any regulation, its efficacy is only as good as its enforcement, so my understanding is they're both routi…

Last month I rebuilt my pool's plumbing system with the help of YouTube and GPT. I was quoted $6k and it ended up costing me about $1k of materials and a few days of work. This was…

This is very true. There are a handful of countries, South Africa comes to mind, where the government lost that monopoly and security is a type of commodity which has to be purchas…

From my perspective, the difference is that we societally condemn the Sackler family in the same way we societally condemn Robert Pickton or Ted Bundy. It is absolutely failing of …

The government has a monopoly on violence and companies do not.

MacKenzie Scott? Jensen Huang? Bernard Arnault? The Walton siblings? Even ol' BG - he may be a billionaire but I think he's in general a very reasonable, liberal, secular, and fair…

About 70% of American adults can name all three branches of government. That leaves about 81m Americans who cannot. I'm sure you were a very clever 8yo, many of the people here spe…

What were the changes?

Oh, they're crowd-sourced internet UGC - of course they're subject to manipulation. But frequently having something is better than nothing. I think it's ultimately a positive thing…

> The flipping robots underneath this post which have nothing to do with his message demonstrates to me the ridiculousness of X, that is a reminder of the cess pit that these socia…

My aunt was recently hit by this scam, they used a deep fake of a teenager and she really believed it was my cousin. The lie was that he was stuck in Montreal and needed money for …

My understanding is that while the stories of foreigners being kidnapped to work in a pig butchering compound are much more likely to make international news, the reality on the gr…

It’s an English translation of a Chinese phrase. The method began in China before it came to the west. “shā zhū pán (杀猪盘) translates literally to "killing pig plate" or "pig slaugh…

> It's illegal to be homeless. Where?