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by andor436 11y ago
Yes, I am unfortunately. I am in the midst of protesting an assessment now for a system I installed last year. See this pdf (sorry), page 17: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mpsc/marketbarrierssolarin... Solar s
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by andor436 11y ago
I also live in Michigan, and can tell you it will be a money loser for one major reason: the full cost of the system you install will be added to your local property tax valuation, as the state tax exemption on renewable energy equipment wa
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The Mine-Sniffing Rats of Angola(nytimes.com)
26 points by andor436 11y ago|0 comments
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Swedish Brothers Launch Doughnut into Space(popsci.com)
4 points by andor436 12y ago|0 comments
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by andor436 12y ago
Wow were they ever close to landing! Completely amazing.
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by andor436 12y ago
How are you going to sense thunderstorms with a smartphone? Temperature / Barometric pressure changes? User input? Weather Underground has been doing the latter for a couple of years, although it doesn't seem to be altering their
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by andor436 12y ago
Aha, you're right! Same behavior for me.
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by andor436 12y ago
They're there for me (I'm in the US-midwest.)
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by andor436 12y ago
Yeah. Once we found the car we couldn't move it or even open it since it had been reported stolen a few days before. My memory is foggy but I recall it taking a couple hours for an officer to show up, and they were really confused that
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by andor436 12y ago
I once recovered a stolen car with ping. It was 2002 (2003?), and we had just launched Zipcar in New York. Being a naive start-up we had perhaps not the most stringent security measures in place to prevent fraud and theft. Sure enough, a co
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by andor436 12y ago
I didn't downvote you, and your point is valid. Relevant: http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/12/governor... So some good news! I haven't read much on plans for restructuring
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by andor436 12y ago
One major issue for Detroit, assuming it can emerge from bankruptcy and state management, is how to provide reasonable levels of services to a vastly-reduced population density. Other Michigan cities (like Flint) are facing similar issues.
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by andor436 12y ago
Aha nevermind! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651303
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Craigslist hacked?
1 points by andor436 12y ago|1 comments
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by andor436 12y ago
It looks like it's $6/month, not $15. Did I miss something?
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by andor436 12y ago
I think they're trying to show an example of how you can use their browser plugin to auto-fill payment forms.
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by andor436 12y ago
Hello from Windows on a MacBook!
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by andor436 12y ago
Interesting. David Hughes at the Post Carbon Institute said roughly this same thing in 2013. PDF here: http://www.postcarbon.org/reports/Drilling-California_FINAL.... At the time he pointed out that much of the origi
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by andor436 12y ago
That's funny, I stopped in to say the same thing. At an "extreme" (high gravity) beer festival in Boston a few years ago he was more intoxicated than my wife and I, and yet managed to make perfect sense. (Maybe I was just t