I’ve done that - moved out of a mold infested house into a brand new house and kept some but not all belongings. Can you elaborate on risks? What do I need to watch out for?
Mold can stick to some of the furniture even if it's not a large, visible spot. When mold developed on the wall behind your large wardrobe there's a good chance that the wooden back of the dressed caught a bit of it. You move to a new place and carry the spores with you. At worst the new place also has a humidity problem and the spores you brought accelerate the mold development process.
Anything that sat around a mold infested area is something you should look at closely, at least to proactively give it a thorough scrub and dry in a well ventilated area before bringing in the house.
An air filer with a real HEPA filter will help catch airborne spores but if you already have mold growth anywhere in the room you need to take care of that before blowing air all around.
I wouldn't worry if you have no symptoms. I'd advise to regularly monitor biomarkers of your immune system (monthly/quarterly bloodwork with vitamin D etc), take approriate supplements which take into account any genetic metabolism defects (MTHFR), and listen to your body, especially the magic tingling of your nose and any symptoms of seasonal allergy.
Generally a DIY HEPA filter and a CO2 monitor should be enough to keep good air in a home which does not have water damage. If you have ventilation then remember to swap your filters.
So this might not be the answer you were looking for, but from my digging into this ozone treatments can supposedly kill the mold spores but they are still able to somehow harm you when you breath them in. Mold is one of those things that is supposedly so bad to have around, even when dead in the furniture, can continue to harm you.
We have mold in my family's basement downstairs too and I run the ozone generator a lot to freshen the air. But unfortunately parents would never throw out the things.
If you have too much water in the basement a very easy fix that might work for you is to remove anything that blocks drainage on the outside of your house. E.g. there should be a strip of 1m all around your house where there is only earth or light crushed stones, but no tiles or plastic. I have seen two houses where there were tiles in the garden right up to the house wall, and the cellar was wet. Once the garden tiles outside directly next to the house wall were removed, the humidity from the cellar wall was able to evaporate to the outside air and the cellar got dry again.
It might be a very easy fix before you start buying expensive solutions. Maybe you have old pictures of the house before there were problems and you notice there was actually a strip of garden all around the house instead of concrete or tiles.
Be very cautious with ozone generators. Mold might or might not damage you but ozone will definitely damage you even at very low levels that you don't notice.
What would be a good strategy to prevent companies from cottoning on to this and gaming the system? They could for example change packaging on production runs for a product that’s undergoing laboratory.love funding campaign.
It's an interesting thought. Companies do change packaging somewhat regularly. However, the underlying skew usually remains the same. Changing the packaging and/or the SKU is very expensive. It's probably cheaper and more beneficial to your company to do your own Plastic Chemical testing and get ahead of the problem.
My suspicion is if this was gameable, this would be a solved problem by a number of companies. The truth is there is no single simple or even hard step to take, it’s mostly like numerous steps that multiple actors would need to do.
I might be generalising but in some countries (UK) it's common to not rinse soap/washing up liquid off dishes after washing them by hand. Being hypochondriac I was always curious about health aspects of this and feared something similar to what's described in the article.
I’m surprised that people don’t taste that in the food/drink they consume off their soapy dishes. It’s a distinct unpleasant taste that I tend to over rinse somewhat just to avoid, especially with cups/mugs where transfer is maximized.
VS's windowing system is better than Rider's. I often use VS with a layout which takes up two full screens (editor on one and Tests Explorer/Solution Explorer/Output Window/Find window etc on the other). I haven't yet found a way to replicate this in Rider.
I use Rider, and often have a code editor on my main monitor, debugger at the top of my secondary monitor, and tests at the bottom of my secondary monitor - it all works great.
At the top right of each window pane is a popup menu that let's you change the window mode, it's that simple.
Sir Francis Maude and the team he had around him untill about 2016.
I don't have the links to hand but there was some really great thinking going into what it meant to provide government services online at the time.
Unfortunately when he and the original team left and more people joined GDS / departments started to develop their own services a lot of direction and momentum was lost.
There used to be a twitter account @govdigirati that was great at satirising GDS after around 2017
Unfortunately GDS is now mostly toothless in all honesty
The GDS, even today, has an intrinsic beauty to it. It's really a marvel of engineering, though not the prettiest.
A big problem is that now a lot of designers, particularly among the contractors, who are several generations removed from the creators, simply don't understand it and don't follow the guidelines.
Shameless plug: I wrote a template pack for Django Crispy Forms so you can get fully GDS compliant, fully accessible pages with zero effort, https://github.com/wildfish/crispy-forms-gds
> Unfortunately when he and the original team left and more people joined GDS / departments started to develop their own services a lot of direction and momentum was lost.
If this is true, then it proves everything that comes around, goes around. My first ever professional web development job was rebuilding the England and Wales Housing website[1], which was around the time that gov.uk was beginning its work to bring all central government online activity into the one site. The resistance from Government Departments - who all greatly value their semi-independence from the clutches of the Cabinet Office (and HM Treasury) - was immense!
I'm glad gov.uk won that fight: allowing each Government Department to have its own online presence, and their individual policies and procedures surrounding that presence, can never lead to a good outcome for people who have to access and use government services online.
Same position here. Pro is compelling because I own an old iPad mini that's due an upgrade and I wonder if Pro would provide that for me. But for size I like my current SE gen 1.
All the other major retail brokerages do this, unless they allow you to provide specific routing instructions (which usually comes at a cost, but I haven't checked lately). Everybody's doing it doesn't make it right, but it makes it unavoidable.
It's actually usually good for you --- your brokerage has a duty of 'best execution', so they can only route your trades to the HFT when the quotes are the same or better and they expect the HFT trade to complete as well as if they routed it to the other market. Often that means you'll get a better price, or more likelyhood of a complete trade, but some tradea might have executed better at another venue.
There's much bigger things to care about, like your brokerage's track record of availability or lack thereof during the trading day, how confusing their UI is for the things you want to do, if their means of access work with you (some people want local offices, which excludes some brokerages), fees and charges for services, including hidden fees like below market interest on deposits or above market interests on margin loans (but please don't have margin loans, cause it's usually a bad idea), etc.
not investment advice: no, you shouldn't. the spreads you get can be tighter (good when you want to buy and sell), and any hypothetical front running of your order would lead to miniscule slippage over the long-run. buying SPY and TLT is more or less the same experience in robinhood as it is in schwab, TDA, etc.
even as a day trader i wonder if it matters. i would be more annoyed that RH doesn't allow options on indices or futures, which leads to RH traders loading up on similar-but-not-identical products (eg USO as a substitute for oil futures or whatever VIX etf's remain standing)
