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Gnomish8633 karma

Tax season comes around.

Business related expenses:
1x Gatling gun
2x Suppressors
1x Firing range
1x Home Office

"This guy claimed a home office. AUDIT!!!"

Gnomish8134 karma

And Alpha Centari is about 4.3 LY away, while this is at 40 LY. 40/4.3 = ~9.3. So, this is 9.3x further away than Alpha Centari. If their predictions are correct (20yrs to Alpha Centari), then it should follow that it will take us 9.3x as long to get to this system. 20 * 9.3 = 186 years. Still a fucking long time, but nowhere near as long as the hundreds of thousand + estimates.

Gnomish895 karma

Exactly -
IT guy here that supports a county police department. The actual cameras themselves are cheap from a business/government perspective. The real cost of ownership is either building the infrastructure yourselves to store all that data, or outsourcing it. Ended up doing the math for LAPD (granted, a large agency, but it illustrates the point well), and with standard data retention laws, they'd be on the hook for storing ~71PB (yes, Petabytes) of data at a cost of ~$0.12/GB/mo, or about $8.5m/mo.

And even then, that's not taking in to account FOIA requests and how to get that data to the requester, bandwidth needs, etc... etc... etc...

Gnomish853 karma

Question for both Kerstin and Berthel:

Working in IT, I often see lots of push-back about learning new technology from my users and family. Berthel: How do you encourage users to keep trying in a successful way. Kerstin: Did you ever feel overwhelmed by this new adventure, and if so, what caused that feeling and what caused you to continue anyways?

Gnomish846 karma

In 2 weeks, it'll be a year since my fiancee miscarried. There's a few things that stand out more than others. The first? The doctors nonchalant attitude about it, and specifically, the "You two are still young, so you should have no trouble trying again." That comment stung. So did the "it all happens for a reason" comments. Bitch, please.

The second, the nurse who came in after. Discussed painkillers and what we could expect in the coming weeks, and then just gave us a hug. No words, just simple understanding. And that moment meant a lot.

Then, how friends rallied around us. They did a fantastic job keeping us distracted. We didn't want to do anything other than sulk, and they did a great job of pulling us out and keeping some semblance of "normal."

Everyone's different, but in my experience, help keeping some level of "normal" really helped. Had a friend pull us out to go to a harvest festival. Had plenty of dinners dropped off and stuff along those lines. Those gestures meant a lot to us.