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by Kadin 9y ago
That's probably possible, but you may have better luck on non-trivial circuits using the plotter with a knife blade to cut or a pen to draw masks, and then do photoresist etching. Or maybe you could draw with a Sharpie directly on the
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by Kadin 9y ago
The Space Shuttle drawing is so common that I have to believe it must have been a sample image distributed with some software suite or plotter. It comes up everywhere! Especially in old plotter ads. Sadly I haven't managed to find
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by Kadin 9y ago
Go to a local sign store, the kind of place that advertises making vinyl signage, and ask. The cutters used to cut vinyl signs can be used as pen plotters with inexpensive adapters. A busy shop may not want to mess around with one of their
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by Kadin 9y ago
> hacking 10 of these to move a long a real person’s hand so you can sign multiple pages You may already be familiar with this, but the "Autopen" is a commercial device descended from older machines which did exactly that. htt
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by Kadin 9y ago
I have an inexpensive stepper-based cutter and it has really impressed me. I had very low expectations when I bought it, but it's quite nice as a pen plotter. With an 0.05mm fiber tip technical pen, the stepper movements are indisting
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by Kadin 9y ago
Though there's a lot to be said for the old HP plotters, if eBay is any indication, there's a very thin supply and any uptick in interest is going to cause them to dry up and prices to increase. It looks like that may have alread
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by Kadin 9y ago
I think we can pretty safely assume that if they would have been willing to do this, Forbes would have been happy to report on it, because it's a damn good story. Presumably they weren't, because there's nothing in it for the
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by Kadin 9y ago
There's sort of a... thing in the gluten-sensitive community where people who have Diagnosed Celiac sometimes shit all over people who aren't diagnosed, and one of the first questions that comes up when you discuss gluten sensitiv
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by Kadin 9y ago
Well, PonziCoin did what it said on the tin.
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by Kadin 9y ago
> So people in Upstate New York don't care about mass transit in NYC, and so the representatives they elect to NY state government don't care about it. That would make sense if there were no political subdivisions below the sta
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by Kadin 9y ago
My local grocery store (Giant) has a system like this. The hardware is IBM branded, I believe. I used it quite a bit when it was first offered, and saw a number of other customers use it as well, but now I rarely use it and I rarely see ot
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by Kadin 9y ago
You can pretty much chart the downfall of OkCupid as a result of selling out to Match. When it was a sort of overgrown hobby project run by a couple of data geeks, it was fun. (Hell, even if you weren't necessarily interested in, or
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by Kadin 9y ago
I'd be interested to read a followup in the spring, about where the GoFundMe money goes. Perhaps I am just cynical, but although it certainly could be senseless vandalism, it also checks the boxes for a "bust out", wherein a
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by Kadin 9y ago
The capitalist's Nuremberg defense?
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by Kadin 9y ago
You'd presumably get the nukes to the asteroid with conventional chemical rockets, although I suppose some sort of Project Orion propulsion system is not out of the question. That's what you'd want to do once you got there;
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by Kadin 9y ago
I think this is a great idea and I'd love to participate in something like it, personally. What Mastodon does for decentralized / less-shitty Twitter, this could do for Usenet.
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by Kadin 9y ago
Not from the Earth, no (not easily, anyway). Bull's plan involved using a gun to replace the heavy first stage of a multi-stage rocket. The Iraqis didn't have the rocket technology (of course, that's why they hired Bull!), w
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by Kadin 9y ago
Difficult to say with certainty; it's not like the DPRK is going to put out a press release that they've been hacked, if they were hacked. All in all a pretty good response on Obama's part; it didn't demand immediate vis
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by Kadin 9y ago
They've demonstrated the capability of probably being able to hit the West coast of the continental US with a missile; they also have some nuclear weapon capability which may or may not be a true "hydrogen bomb". I don'
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by Kadin 9y ago
Oil is an oversimplification. The US could have just bought all the oil it wanted from Iraq at market prices for less than the cost of going to war, and the Hussein regime would have been happy to sell it at those same prices. So that doe
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by Kadin 9y ago
It's interesting, but the average web publisher doesn't care, and might actually see being able to retrieve past versions of a page as a bug rather than a feature. So it's not clear why they would implement it, or store old
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by Kadin 9y ago
If by "get too wild" you mean "achieve regulatory capture over the agencies and frameworks intended to prevent them from engaging in short-term profitable but long-term risky behaviors", then, sure. But you can swap out
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by Kadin 9y ago
> But why did bitcoin become popular with American's in the first place? Because it looked like a get-rich-quick scheme, and Americans like those as much as anyone else. More, in some cases, because there is a lot of cultural bagga
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by Kadin 9y ago
That's really only useful to a small number of users, relative to the overall size of the economy, and many of them are doing things that aren't legal. Not a market I'd probably target if I was going for mass adoption.
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by Kadin 9y ago
If you have to do that, it doesn't seem particularly advantageous over existing methods. You're meeting in person, exchanging cash illicitly, etc. If someone is willing to do that, why not just buy USD in a foreign bank account
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by Kadin 9y ago
> The Ethereum blockchain itself was funded from an ICO, and it’s doubtful that as much money would have been raised at such advantageous terms from traditional VC I'm not sure this argument is as strong as you seem to think it is.
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by Kadin 9y ago
This is basically correct. If the thing you're buying gives you a claim on the future profits of an organization, it is probably a security under US law. If the thing you are buying has only its intrinsic value, then it is a commodity
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by Kadin 9y ago
This is the (literal) textbook definition of a security: any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, co
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by Kadin 9y ago
Minimum wage laws are already supposed to work like that. The problem is that companies, Amazon and their contractors in particular, have been able to mischaracterize employees as "contractors" in order to get around minimum wage
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by Kadin 9y ago
> If we want net neutrality than make the roads a public good That would be nice, but unfortunately the same corporate interests that are presently disassembling net neutrality rules already prohibited public-sector projects that might c

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