Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Pool pump and solar panel Pentair

Turn on/off solar via Heat menu at top level, not inside of the Settings menu

Monday, September 25, 2017

Pump type - VS

For the panel it's VS stupid...:)

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Scarcity, abundance and tunneling

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

* Study showing after 6 months after being debt free, without other intervention street vendors go back into the same problem they were having before
* With time, you have too much abundance at first. You need to make distant things (like deadlines) seem more immediate.
* Tunneling is the key thing - when you're in a crisis you only see the problem, not the bigger issue.
* If you take tunneling, then the best incentives are those positively impact the tunnetl - that make you do the right long term thing by impacting your choices in the tunnel.

Loneliness study

People speak into a microphone and think that someone either is or is not speaking to another person. Those that are lonely "choke" when they think someone else is listening.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

Mystery shoppers, 401k, index funds, well diversified

Ended up being recommended active funds when people they were talking to were not fiduciaries.

https://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2016/10/27/we-put-financial-advisers-to-the-test-and-they-failed/

Steve's verses on Old Testament taxes

From Steve Converse's outline on 9/17/2017
Direct taxes
  1. Levite's tithe - 1/10, paid to support Israel's theocratic government (Lev 27:30)
  2. Festival tithe - annual tax used for cultivating national life (Deut 12:10-19)
  3. Welfare tithe - once every 3 years, used to support welfare services (Deut 14:29)
  4. Temple tax - annual half-shekel tax on men 21+ for tabernacle/temple (Ex 30:14)
Indirect taxes
  1. Gleaning tax - leave some in the field to be gleaned by the poor (Lev 19:10)
  2. 7th year fallow tax - any crops were left first for the poor and then livestock (Ex 23:10-11)