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by geomark 9y ago
Other items from my 11.11 shopping list: KY-008 laser transmitter module $0.32 5V stepper motor with driver board $1.82 LCD1602 I2C board $1.68 4X3 membrane switch keypad $0.52 STM32F103C8T6 dev board $1.58 K975 Micro 130 Vibration Motor (2
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by geomark 9y ago
That's not too bad. Not Amazon, but a recent experience I had. I wanted to order a kit from Vex Robotics. Cost of the kit was $80. Shipping from the US was $150. Supposedly it's available from a Vex reseller in Thailand so I conta
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by geomark 9y ago
If you are talking about retailers like the merchants on Aliexpress, many of them offer free shipping. So the prices are lower and the shipping is free. It's crazy that I sometimes buy an item that costs less than US$1 that comes with
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by geomark 9y ago
I made a mental note of some of the prices before the 11.11 discount kicked in. The discounts were around 10%, sometimes less. So the Aliexpress regular prices were already way lower. The thing is, on Aliexpress there are many, many sellers
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by geomark 9y ago
I think you have to go there yourself. Watch some of the videos by Bunnie Huang to see how. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXNv_rNGcc
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by geomark 9y ago
Among the items I ordered today: HC-06: Dealextreme $5.50, Banggood $5.99, Gearbest $6.57, Aliexpress $2.58 Arduino Nano v3.0: Dealextreme $3.46, Banggood $2.77, Gearbest $4.27, Aliexpress $1.66
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by geomark 9y ago
It varies a lot. Sometimes 2 weeks, more often 3 to 4. Currently a number of items seem overdue at more than 5 weeks.
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by geomark 9y ago
I have not noticed, but I am interested. Where are you seeing better prices?
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by geomark 9y ago
I live in Thailand and buying from US online merchants is usually a nonstarter because of shipping costs which are often much more than the price of the item itself. When I buy something from Aliexpress it is usually free shipping, or somet
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by geomark 9y ago
Probably depends a lot on what you are buying. I've been buying electronic components, Arduino compatible boards and sensors, that kind of stuff for a while. Quality has been pretty solid with all of it, about 100 orders so far across
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by geomark 9y ago
I added a few dollars to the frenzy. Been adding items to my Aliexpress shopping cart for the last week. Mostly small electronics hobbyist items and Arduino compatible boards and sensor modules. Pulled the trigger after the 11.11 sale opene
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by geomark 9y ago
Am I the only one who gets car sick when reading or using a computer in a car? Everyone keeps talking about working while on a long commute in a self-driving vehicle. Doing more than 30 minutes of it is not really an option for me.
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by geomark 9y ago
I once worked at a big electronics company at the time when TQM (Total Quality Management) was the buzzword. Senior management was on the band wagon and regularly kept dropping TQM initiatives that distracted us from doing our jobs. Once th
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by geomark 9y ago
More like a coin flip since it's about 50% effective.
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by geomark 9y ago
That's a strange notion. I live in Southeast Asia and flu shots are routine here, even offered by schools to students.
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by geomark 9y ago
"When we get to 3 nm, they can build 16x amount of chips from the same 12 inch wafer." That's only if they are not up against pad-limited die size. Long ago people were running up against the issue of pad-limited die size, wh
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by geomark 9y ago
It's so humorous. I never managed to activate my Facebook account (lucky me). Some "database error", or so it says. So I have never actually even logged in. But they do have an email address I used when I tried to create an a
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by geomark 9y ago
At first that seems reasonable. But when you know that you are working specifically on weapons systems that are currently being used to do great evil then it no longer seems reasonable. When the rationale becomes so convoluted and twisted a
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by geomark 9y ago
It's not quite that abrupt. I used to work for a defense contractor. I started as a rather naive young engineer. I worked hard for many years on projects that were not weapons systems or even fielded systems, mostly R&D and advance
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by geomark 9y ago
I suppose that is true. Then they won't have to be bothered by being asked to consider what the systems they are developing are used for. They won't have to rationalize that the many thousands of children who are killed as collate
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by geomark 9y ago
Not to mention the many (ex) friends working for "defense" contractors. Ex because I really can't be friends with them any longer. Evil quotes deployed because calling it defense is a farce considering what the systems they a
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by geomark 9y ago
What's the analogy of a fiscal straight jacket mean? BTC value could increase indefinitely but you can always trade smaller and smaller fractions of BTC.
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by geomark 9y ago
How is fastmail's spam filtering? I've been using Zoho mail for a while and like it except their spam filtering is quite poor.
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by geomark 9y ago
Up vote for that video on wired. Really interesting.
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by geomark 9y ago
My anecdata from working quite a few years at big tech companies where most of the staff began as technical and then some went off to get business degrees to advance into management, is that the biggest change was they started using a lot o
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by geomark 9y ago
Is there a business opportunity in this idea? Coworking and Maker spaces are all the rage now days. How about tailoring those kind of spaces in collaboration with a MOOC to bring labs to the students. It obviously doesn't scale like a
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by geomark 9y ago
I would assume it scales at K*T^4 where K is a constant < 1 and gets smaller as the band narrows.
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by geomark 9y ago
I almost always check the comments first. Thank you HN.
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by geomark 9y ago
As an American expat living in a developing country it seems very weird to me how backwards the US ACH system is. Where I live now it's the same as the countries you mentioned, anyone can send money to your bank account using just the
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by geomark 9y ago
There was a bit of discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035308 about a man jailed for sharing a Facebook post that was deemed insulting to the Thai monarchy. Now we have the youngest person to charged with

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