In sinks with T fittings, a snake fed through one sink drain can run across the pipes and into the other sink, rather than running down the drain toward the clog. This will break the clog up and push it through the pipe.įor bathrooms with dual sinks, the sink drains often meet together at a T or Y fitting. Once the snake makes a bit of progress, advance a bit more wire from the snake and continue. To use a drain snake, remove the pop-up assembly in the sink and gently feed the wire into the drain while cranking the handle. When the plunger won’t do the trick, it might be necessary to use a wire drain snake. Cover this hole with a rag and hand pressure while plunging to take advantage of the hydraulic pressure. All code-compliant lavatory sinks have overflows an inch or so from the rim, and plunging often results with pressure coming back through the overflow instead of pushing the clog. Plungers are excellent at unclogging sinks, but it’s important to use the right technique. These augers can bust up clogs or hook the clog and pull it back through the bowl.
Instead, a tool called a closet auger fits down inside the toilet bowl and allows the user to feed a cable through the toilet without scratching the coating. The suction can help pull the clog back up toward the bowl, breaking the blockage and allowing gravity to take over.įor stubborn clogs, a plunger might not do the trick. Instead, create a seal and slowly push down on the plunger before pulling it back sharply. Anything else but Bitcoin the idea would have been developed out five years ago… It kinda set me back.” While Harmon has many stories of being ridiculed and dismissed for his research in Bitcoin, there were also many professors and colleagues who were open-minded and civil.Attempting to force a clog through a toilet with a plunger can often make the problem worse. Everyone liked the idea until you mentioned it was Bitcoin mining as the buyer of last resort, shrugging it off after that. Harmon recalls how pervasive the knee-jerk reaction against Bitcoin among academics was, recalling: “I learned to avoid talking about Bitcoin as much as possible, instead I talked theoretically about a buyer of last resort. Or, if you prefer, quit grad school and go work for Winklevoss twins or the Libertarian Party.” Read Paul Krugman on bitcoin… You’re wasting your time and others. They are *tiresomely* old ideas, that are seriously wrongheaded. Michael Roberts, a prominent professor there, who told him: “These are not new ideas. After submitting a 17-page abstract detailing how Bitcoin can subsidize the development of untapped clean and renewable energy sources in the oceans, Harmon was summarily dismissed and insulted by Dr. This included sites Warmke says would be directly beneficial to his academic work.Īs a graduate student at University of Hawaii, Nathaniel Harmon received very strong pushback from many at the school for his desire to do research involving Bitcoin. Warmke explained that his institution, Northern Illinois University, blocks access to some useful informational sites on Bitcoin such as “ Bitcoin Wiki” and previously blocked access to many more, including Bitcoin Magazine. Lawyers with basic knowledge of Bitcoin are well paid and in very high demand, yet NYLS denied its heavily indebted students the ability to pursue acquiring such knowledge or job roles via email without their knowledge for months.Īssistant Professor Craig Warmke has also encountered university IT restrictions around bitcoin. Students, staff and faculty at NYLS can now again freely email about “bitcoin.” Unfortunately, despite my repeated pleas that informing the NYLS community of the block was the right thing to do, NYLS has still not informed them of the block and not given them an opportunity to recover missed communications. The email block was eventually lifted after I told NYLS I would be writing about it publicly.
Instead they found Professor Strossen a work-around and continued blocking all email discussion of “bitcoin” for the rest of NYLS without their knowledge. NYLS did not change the email block upon complaint, considering it a normal part of their email security.
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I expressed concern directly to the NYLS president that this email block constituted “a serious breach of free speech principles” and was “an unusually broad and coarse security measure that unacceptably (though completely inadvertently) curtails academic inquiry and reasonable/productive communications.” I explained that bitcoin is “a critical tool for human rights” that’s highly relevant, but my arguments were apparently not persuasive.