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Not if it's unknown _which_ month. Then you'll have to keep a stockpile year round, which is precisely the objective of grandparent.

There are lots of books that changed the way I think. An example that may be of special interest to the HN community is "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport ( http://caln…

There's a lot of good descriptions in this book: Backup & Recovery - Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/backup-recovery/0596102... I…

Yes, in the book Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark! (An AGI is implemented that makes money on Amazon Mechanical Turk.)

What age were your kids when you started with this style of traveling?

The parallels with the "Daemon" in Daniel Suarez' novel are scary. small spoiler ahead This Daemon is an AI that keeps data of big companies hostage - it will destroy all that comp…

I only visit https://news.ycombinator.com/best . The articles there don't change every time you press F5.

> Now, if someone lets me put images in comments, that would be amazing. Good for state transition diagrams and random scribbles That's exactly what JetBrains MPS ( https://www.jet…

Taleb investment advice: put almost all of your savings in super stable investments, like treasuries. Use the rest to bet on unicorn startups, or highly leveraged options (as long …

I always use https://awwapp.com/ for that purpose.