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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • 100% true. The absence of pain can feel like pleasure for a time. All senses including our emotional sense work by contrast.

    Anyone with rich friends knows that money doesn’t buy happiness. I have two friends who retired with $70 million in the bank 10 years ago. They are miserable. They spend money like mad trying to feel happy and it does not work. Meanwhile I work full time and have a fairly good salary for my area and feel happy more often than not.




  • If your average house only has one person showering at a time an 18 kW 3.51 GPM Tankless Electric Water Heater would work. It would cost about $500.

    To replace that with Keurigs would take some work. They draw 900 to 1500 watts depending on model. So it would take between 20 and 12 Keurigs to match the power draw. I’m not sure what the inlet/outlet tubing diameters are but it seems some replacement parts labeled 1/4" so that’s half a gallon per minute max. You’d need 7 or 8 running in parallel to move enough water. Probably 21 900 watt Keurigs running in groups of 3 would come closest.

    I estimate about $2000 in Keurigs plus another few hundred dollars in fittings and a lot of time to reproduce a purpose built $500 water heater.

    And of course Keurigs break frequently and you’d definitely void any warranty.

    Good luck!





  • For my own projects I buy whatever Supermirco platform the data center manager has a volume discount for or I find used Dell equipment from third party sellers or ebay.

    At work we rent by the month based on needs and availability. I never know the brand, just the specs. Lately AMD based servers have been more competitive.