durkie

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by durkie 9y ago
so this has been an issue that keeps coming up for a while, but i don't really understand the issue. * As others have asked, how much is bitcoin supposed to use? What's the right amount and why? How is that number better/wo
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by durkie 9y ago
Japanese companies are still largely unaware of this, with Mazda having their head in the sand about EVs and Toyota/Honda continuing to push fuel cells.
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by durkie 9y ago
i'm also kind of surprised it's as high as 16.9%. Not having a vehicle in Atlanta is horrible unless the stars really align with your work/life situation.
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by durkie 9y ago
any chance yall are hiring? :)
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by durkie 9y ago
my understanding is what you're talking about only applies for traditional conduction/convection, where you're expecting moving air/water/... to act as a heat-transfer medium, so you want to maximize your surface ar
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by durkie 9y ago
you should check out www.maskau.dk/projects/electronic-nose -- he's doing amazing stuff with $2 sensors (and we're working with him to try to smell fruit growing on trees)
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by durkie 9y ago
based on...?
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by durkie 9y ago
I believe this is somewhat how gorilla glass works, except by s different process called ion exchange, where large ions are forced in to the glass in place of smaller ones at high temperature, causing the glass matrix to have to compress to
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by durkie 9y ago
> Embedded devices that are pinned to certificates issued by a Symantec public root to communicate to resources over the Internet or Intranet. Replacing these certificates would result in immediate failures and the need to recode and rei
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by durkie 10y ago
Haven't received this camera yet, but it advertises as 0.3MP, which I assume is 640x480 (640x480 = 307,200). We might have to play some with camera placement too in order to actually get relevant images. I'll drop you a line!
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by durkie 10y ago
Currently we're using Twilio Programmable Data. $2/month/sim and then $1 / megabyte. I think we can get by with 640x480 photos, but that's what we'll be experimenting with this season.
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by durkie 10y ago
they should just take up mountain biking instead, cause then you're still biking really hard, but winning isn't totally about who's a bigger genetic freak, and chance and technique have a much larger role in your performance.
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by durkie 10y ago
This is awesome! Are you hiring/accepting volunteers/do you need help? It's a really interesting project.
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by durkie 10y ago
currently making low-cost and low-powered tree cameras that will hang from Atlanta-area fruit trees and send us once-a-week tree photos. The idea is that we can hang them in trees all over the metro area and keep an eye on when they ripen.
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by durkie 10y ago
totally sharing with all the rest of my friends in atlanta. sometimes fun and simple ideas are the best!
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by durkie 10y ago
This is super cool! The clackety-clack is soo satisfying. I'm working with someone on developing electronic noses (arrays of gas sensors to identify compounds, do process automation), and he too is concerned on keeping the boards easil
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by durkie 10y ago
presumably because there are other ways to obtain the active ingredient and bypass a high price.
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by durkie 10y ago
Unfortunately the sleepy pi only accepts voltages greater than 6V I believe so we're using 6 eneloop AA batteries in series.
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by durkie 10y ago
I have a similar project for monitoring fruit trees. We use a SleepyPi add on to our pi zero (basically an Arduino with a rtc module) in order to shut down the pi zero during the downtime and save battery. Should be able to run for several
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by durkie 10y ago
(Also relevant: the introduction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znt5KTOClWY ) I found out about the Seeker last year via a YouTube video recommendation and went out and volunteered with Doug in June. He's an amaz
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SV Seeker: The boat the internet built(svseeker.com)
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by durkie 10y ago
In a similar vein: www.lyricstraining.com Watch YouTube videos in whatever language you're learning and fill in missing words. No connection to it...Just discovered it a few weeks ago and it's super fun and addictive: you get to h
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by durkie 10y ago
I imagine these amazon drones are at least quieter than most consumer drones just based on their larger propellers. This is operating on the assumption that a larger propeller can spin slower to generate the same amount of thrust as a small
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by durkie 10y ago
i don't really know of any aside from the brokerage itself going under. i would imagine brokerages want to make this as low risk as possible as it encourages more transactions, so they can charge more fees. and they also get their cut
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by durkie 10y ago
The only ones I know of off the top of my head are Fidelity and Interactive Brokers. Maybe Schwab as well? I think in general Fidelity and IB have similar rates.
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by durkie 10y ago
There's a FAQ here: http://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/node/1838/
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by durkie 10y ago
That's true. The only point I would add is that my loan is with the brokerage and they put up cash collateral. I'm not having to deal with individual short sellers and whatever risk profile they might have.
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by durkie 10y ago
also, as a side anecdote about short squeezes: people were really expecting one these past few months with Tesla regarding its SolarCity merger. The thought was that since there was a potential merger coming up, shareholders were going to n
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by durkie 10y ago
If you were set on doing it, you could compare this list of heavily shorted companies ( http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3062-nasdaqshort-hig... ) with the rates paid by your broker. if you're usin
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by durkie 10y ago
Yes, but I would think that's always a risk.

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