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by abakker 8y ago
ball lightning?
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by abakker 8y ago
A lot of companies are really tightening their belts to deal with the cheap debt they accrued over the last few years that they now need to pay off.
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by abakker 8y ago
Take a look at Festool’s MFT 3 table system. It is a grid of 20mm holes, spaced at 96mm on center. There are many time saving and convenient tools made to take advantage of them, and many more custom stuff that craftsmen build to make thing
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by abakker 8y ago
You are certainly allowed to buy a car, fix it, and sell it.
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by abakker 8y ago
I make and sell custom tabletops compatible with the festool woodworking products. I cut them locally on my CNC router and advertise exclusively through craigslist. I do 3-5 per month of those, and another 10 projects / month that come
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by abakker 8y ago
https://www.apple.com/support/exchange_repair/ - looks like a battery and SSD program currently on that laptop. Maybe check in?
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by abakker 8y ago
It was a special repair extension program that they only put in place 2 years after the original warrantee+Applecare timeframe ended.
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by abakker 8y ago
Well, it took a non-working laptop - video glitched and unusable, to one that was working for 3 months. Was it a permanent fix? No. But, it sure beat buying a new laptop on short notice.
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by abakker 8y ago
FWIW, I did this with a 2011 MacBook pro 17" 7 times, and it worked every time. Each time it worked for about 3 months, and then the video card would glitch out again. Finally, apple did a warrantee extension on that logic board and re
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by abakker 8y ago
Yeah, but that seems pretty rational. VCs are only slightly less short-term than public markets. While rockets are awesome, it is not clear that there can be a 10 year positive return on them. It could be possible that a startup with a bunc
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by abakker 8y ago
Exactly what I did. I’m not sure the original homeowner knew that it mattered. I first noticed the issue with a stepper motor project I was working on. It was very interesting to hear the reduction in audible noise from the motors when the
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by abakker 8y ago
Have you actually checked the ground for continuity? IN my house, I found that many of the upstairs outlets (wired with BX) had their grounds bonded to the water pipes in my house, instead of run directly to the box, and then the water pipe
853.
by abakker 8y ago
except when the checks are very large or if you need to deposit a lot of them. I've never hit these limits, but it constantly tells me that I can only do up to $10k/day I think.
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by abakker 8y ago
Not a direct response, but in the case of modern automotive paints, especially 2 part urethane or epoxy ones it is exactly right - they're even based on the same chemicals! Of course, that doesn't really mean that paints work as g
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by abakker 8y ago
You’re right - I was a bit unclear. What I mean is that ETF balancing activity ends up being untaxed. Effectively, you get diversification, gains, reinvestment of dividends, etc but never have to realize the gains unless you sell. The avoid
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by abakker 8y ago
I suspect that this would be good for the economy. I can’t prove it, but I strongly suspect that cap gains deferrals over time are an important component of encouraging asset bubbles. A huge benefit of The benefit of ETFs have been to encou
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by abakker 8y ago
If you can tolerate bulk, lead acid batteries can work pretty well. If you can tolerate a lot of bulk, liquid flow batteries (vanadium) can work too, but I’m not well versed enough in current tech to describe why things might not be in wide
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by abakker 8y ago
I’m rent controlled, from about 7 years ago, and am at about 60% of market for my neighborhood. However, I’m handy and have been pretty good about fixing/improving the house on the cheap for him. Still, my own landlord aside, the enfor
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by abakker 8y ago
It is always interesting to me to contrast the presence of laws, which enforced feel like privacy violations. At least in SF, I have to give my landlord notice if someone is going to stay with me longer than 2 weeks. But, my landlord and I
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by abakker 8y ago
You might be careful about that last paragraph. Many people would expect you to know that it was “Gartner magic quadrants”.
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by abakker 8y ago
As long as the door opens vertically (vs being the lid on a trunk like a deep freezer) it doesn’t much matter. Refrigerators really need to recover cold air more than focus on absolute perfect insulation. I’ve always thought that we should
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by abakker 8y ago
Maybe so - I looked around on practical machinist and on some of the website before making that statement and found that few items that really looked like forklifts were available that had load capacities under 3-5K, so those probably weigh
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by abakker 8y ago
I think unity is in demand for VR/AR rendering and CAD work. I think of geospatial data get presented that way, too.
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by abakker 8y ago
Yeah - those robotics company do exactly that stuff which is too dangerous or too repetitive for humans. There's also the issue of strength. Robots are a good candidate for handling materials when people literally can't. But, yeah
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by abakker 8y ago
I wrote this a while ago when this was first mentioned: “JP Morgan says that it is trialling crypto-currency and blockchain in order to speed up payment transfers, as well as reducing clients' counterparty and settlement risk, and decr
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by abakker 8y ago
This is definitely one of the greatest responses I’ve seen here in the last 5 years. Thank you!
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by abakker 8y ago
Why would you rush to make this comment on HN? It isn’t even clear what point you were trying to make. This account seems to have a history of trolling.
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by abakker 8y ago
- Smart camera for a doorbell? Train it to detect a person or a package? - Smart camera to detect your posture, and message you when you slouch for more than 3 minutes? - buy tons and tons of sensors and just hook them all up to see if you
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by abakker 8y ago
Usually on pages with no indication otherwise what the product in question actually is. It’s the modern equivalent of “ask your doctor about XXXmedicine” when they don’t tel you what it treats.
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by abakker 8y ago
>The systems Galois designs won’t be available for sale. But the prototypes it creates will be available for existing voting machine vendors or others to freely adopt and customize without costly licensing fees or the millions of dollars

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