Can anyone recommend a decent Backblaze alternative in case things really go south? Not so much for storage but for the automated computer backups that I have Backblaze doing. I'm okay paying more than Backblaze's $9/month.
I suspect the quotation was due to that inside their own head — that they were actually going to say "on one hand" but stopped themselves because it wasn't correct.
I'm inclined to agree simply because "friend" is too gentle of a term. But, if that's true, then which country has America really been friends with? It seems like if not Canada, then there's none. That may be true, but at least initially surprising.
I had this problem – near 24/7 noise – but moved 20 miles west to a suburb that has speed bumps and significantly less through traffic. The average dBs outside went from ~65 to ~45. Maybe in the US, at least, the issue is that the quiet urban/suburban places are much more expensive than the loud places and so are relatively inaccessible?
Though, now that I think about it, the depths of New York City will be both very expensive and very loud.
I live in a place that was very similar to what you describe. In the last couple years it's become as bad as where I moved from some days.
A lot of it is the surrounding areas have been surrendered to the noise makers and residents in my town are friends with them and they come and go as they please at all hours, unhindered by law enforcement.
But dismayingly, more of the residents are getting louder themselves for whatever reason. The worst part is they by and large follow the speed limit but are still insanely loud so the police just look at it like I'm just annoyed and need to get over it.
It's truly the easiest thing to catch. I can't fathom why there's so little interest at any level of government to tackle this problem.
Does anyone know if the shadow of the Washington Monument actually reaches the Potomac River in the morning? [1] That'd be cool to see, but seems like the sun would never be bright enough at 6:30 AM.
Yeah, the kid's calendar is very much fixed. I don't have sick leave that I can use in order to not take care of my kid for the day. Work is infinitely more flexible in that way.
You can search for blasphemy laws here [0]. I just looked for countries that are predominantly Catholic.
Only obvious one where this may be currently enforced is El Salvador? Though I can't quickly find any recent examples, so maybe that's not true. And places like Monaco still haven't repealed those laws. Edit: also Poland – from a sibling comment.
While this website claims several countries have statutes that allow incarceration under blasphemy convictions, I couldn't find a single instance of a person being jailed in the past few decades under any of them.
Yes, restricting scope to jailing for criticizing the Catholic Church, I only see suspended sentences and fines in places like Poland. Expanding to other religions, there are people currently in prison for Quran burning, and religious prisoners in NATO countries (Turkey).
I don't know about the difficulty, but you can look at the complexity of this ETA 6497 movement on GrabCAD [0]. After seeing this a while ago, it made sense to me why small/new brands generally use a Seiko NH35 or something similar that they can buy in bulk.
This has been my experience using Obsidian and many other similar tools. I've settled on text files sync'd using iCloud. There being whole books, podcasts, courses, etc. about what I'm doing with a lot of .txt files really supports the idea that it's mostly procrastination. (And, yes, I'm procrastinating by replying on HN.)
