u/kowahchan

We’ve live near a small river for years and never had any serious issues with it before. During heavy rain it would rise a bit, maybe make the backyard muddy, but that was about it

This time though, after days of nonstop rain, the river basically decided to pay us a visit…

We saved some furniture and a few important things before the water got too high, but the entire first floor is pretty much destroyed now. Floors are ruined, walls soaked, cabinets swollen shut and the place is completely unlivable at the moment. The whole house smells damp no matter how much we air it out.

How long it takes for this kind of recovery. Not just drying everything, but checking electrical wiring, plumbing, replacing floors, repainting walls, rebuilding kitchen cabinets… all the fun stuff nobody thinks about until it happens to them.

I’ve heard decent things about restoration companies, but I honestly have zero frame of reference for timelines here. Are we talking weeks? Months? Half a year?

Anyone who’s gone through major flood damage pls share your experience

 Everyone talks about what they learned or gained over time. But Im more interested in what you let go of. Something you used to think was true or important that one day you just realized you dont believe anymore. No big fight or crisis. It just faded out.

What is something you stopped believing without even noticing until later?

it wasn't even an investment thing. a coworker just paid me back for something in bitcoin because he didn't have cash. i put it in a wallet and kind of forgot it existed.

started looking into it recently because i felt weird just sitting on it forever. I always thought that the two actual choices I have are to either sell it on an exchange, which means providing some form of identification as well as waiting for a bank deposit, or to continue holding onto it forever.

what I found out, though, is that there exists something else which I have never heard of before. gift card exchanges, where one can buy a virtual gift card with crypto and receive the code through their email address. no need for exchange accounts and no need for any identification procedures or even waiting periods.

last week, I made a purchase using a special gift card platform for my spotify membership, and it honestly didn't take as long as I anticipated.

I was looking at a continued fraction problem where x equals a nested expression. I set up the equation x = sqrt(6) / (sqrt(3) - sqrt(2) + x). When I solved the algebra, I got two possible values for x. One was positive around 1.41 and the other was negative. The original expression only makes sense as a positive number because it's built from positive square roots. My question is: why does solving the equation give me the negative extraneous solution? Doesn't the equation capture all possible self-consistent values, or am I making an assumption that breaks the logic for the negative case?