India-specific Super 4G
This sounds very neat — and a pretty capable way of creating a remote work
environment. Especially in India where 4G and 5G are so cheap, you could
probably do this
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Steven Deobald
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Re: Igatpuri
here’s some photos from igatpuri... these hills are a 5-minute walk from
the plots described. the old cave/temple is around the big hill, about a
10km hike, round
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Steven Deobald
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Re: Igatpuri
There's a fellow here who's been living in Igatpuri his entire life. He
owns property in SUBK Village, across the street, and in an area to the
west of the Vipassana International Academy and was
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Steven Deobald
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Igatpuri
Hey folks,
I'll leave the "Location, Location, Location" thread in place, since I
think there are quite a few options to consider. But I wanted to start a
thread specifically focused on Igatpuri,
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Steven Deobald
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Re: Location, location, location
Hey steven,
I never went to Igatpuri. I just read about it. It actually looks like a
good place to set up our hackervillage. Greeny in monsoons and a bit hot in
summer. Well it has a railway station.
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Ragul Kanth
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Re: Location, location, location
Does anyone have any feelings about Igatpuri, one way or another?
- Fiber internet
- Relatively green
- 60 lakh / 1 acre
- Wonder: Dhamma Giri, if you're into that sort of thing
Those
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Steven Deobald
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Re: Commodity Thinking is not Disposable Thinking
I have a long overdue post on "Graceful Degradation" ...terminology I have
shamelessly ripped off from the technology world, like so many other ideas.
Plastic figures pretty heavily into this, but
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Steven Deobald
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Re: Commodity Thinking is not Disposable Thinking
This post reminded me of a sher by Ghalib
<https://www.rekhta.org/couplets/aur-baazaar-se-le-aae-agar-tuut-gayaa-mirza-ghalib-couplets>
(the link lets you click on words to get their meanings!):
"aur
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Mohit Thatte
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Re: Commodity Thinking is not Disposable Thinking
Thanks but I deleted that account. Figured out that the right way of doing this is to create an alias to your primary account on groups.io.?
steven@... wrote:
“Hi Pratul.
It worked! But I
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Pratul Kalia
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Re: Commodity Thinking is not Disposable Thinking
Hi Pratul.
It worked! But I also approved your application from pratul@... and...I
have no idea what happened there. Seems to have disappeared into a void?
Maybe try again if you don't receive a
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Steven Deobald
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Re: Commodity Thinking is not Disposable Thinking
(I'm forwarding Gmail into Hey and replying from Hey so I don't know if this will reach the list. Let's see.)
I agree on the thought of "many things should not be disposable and should last time"
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Pratul Kalia
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Re: Commodity Thinking is not Disposable Thinking
This is a vaguely related rant that I'm adding to as a person who is new to
Canada (more "in between countries", I guess).
I'm a big proponent of buying the best thing (for some value of best
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Arun Raghavan
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Commodity Thinking is not Disposable Thinking
We are staying at a friend's "spare" house at the moment and it is
thankfully well-equipped with everything we need to survive here: vessels
for cooking, a stove, water heaters for the bathrooms, and
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Steven Deobald
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Minimum X
Hi friends,
I remember having a conversation with kitty (BCC'd) years ago about
"Minimum X". That particular conversation was geared toward visual
layouts such as those which used to be popular on
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Steven Deobald
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GoalZero, USB-C, and the Apple II
I think there's something to be said for stuff that doesn't require a
soldering gun to assemble.
While I was reading through "Hackers" [1] it dawned on me that I'd
never actually seen a photo of the
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Steven Deobald
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Layouts + Shared Spaces
Last email today. :)
I'm curious what other folks think about important shared buildings in
an early village. I've attached a draft layout that I've sketched. As
it's evolved, buildings and spaces
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Steven Deobald
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Practical Wonders
This idea is stolen from _Age of Empires_, an old PC strategy game. At
least, the name is stolen from there. In _Age of Empires_, players
would build up their societies and at some point attempt to
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Steven Deobald
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Re: Location, location, location
Hi,
Just read your email on Home Base.
You kind of captured all my thoughts in the email. I am sure this is not a
coincidence.
I have been homeless for 9 years. And I had a small recording studio
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Santu Mahapatra
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Location, location, location
I was quite serious in the last thread when I said that fibre internet
would be advantageous in a location choice. Igatpuri (the location of
the U Ba Khin Vipassana Village) does have fibre internet,
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Steven Deobald
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Homeless .vs. "A Home" .vs. Home Base
I tweeted a thing recently about "hey, maybe owning a house is a really
good idea... especially in times like these":
https://twitter.com/deobald/status/1256257608614244352
SVS (for those who know
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Steven Deobald
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