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by kawfey 8y ago
I know a person who works on Bird's freight team, they apparently have been moving 2 full Boeing 747s of scooters (I estimate that to be about 12,000-14,000 based on weight) every day from China, at one point about $150 a pop). I think
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by kawfey 8y ago
After scrolling through their website [0] I can't help but to think of Portal 2's "Official Turrets" trailer [1], except it's batteries instead of bullets. [0]: https://impossible.aero/ [1]: https:
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by kawfey 8y ago
If you rotate around that blur, it appears to have depth, like it's just above the surface. You can see beneath it at the right angle, revealing the top of the dome.
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by kawfey 8y ago
I think you're finding some semblance of pleasure in fresh air and exercise. I'd look back to your roots. It's easier than ever to get into podcasting, and with your experience it should be a breeze to podcast about something
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by kawfey 8y ago
This wasn't the "natural light" I was expecting. I thought this was going to be about a office with free cheap beer. I know of a few workplaces in the US that do feature free alcohol at work, but many times out of 10 someone
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by kawfey 8y ago
That happens in every venue where electric scooters and dockless bikes are. The company could care less, since they have millions to spend to propagate the brand in lieu of profits.
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by kawfey 8y ago
APRS has come a long way since flip phones, now you can send email natively [ http://www.aprs-is.net/email.aspx ] and SMS via SMSGTE [ http://smsgte.wixsite.com/smsgte ]
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by kawfey 8y ago
I was literally just looking into the pros and cons of P2P lending because I hadn't heard of it prior to today. I mentioned on another forum how annoying my student loans are being part mine, part my fathers, and all with high interest
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by kawfey 8y ago
To anyone wondering why people spend time watching people play video games: billions of people spend time watching people play sports.
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by kawfey 8y ago
Always make sure newer-model tech gear bought online is legit, otherwise you'll probably end up paying robbers for these stolen, and promptly bricked devices. Avoid craigslist, agree to a demonstration, meet in public (and sometimes de
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by kawfey 8y ago
anything metal in the way. I'm sure the image would be a lot less clear if the wall had metal studs instead of wood.
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by kawfey 8y ago
I'm an EE with RF design and antenna chops, but I've been hired into a few jobs where I had only the vaguest idea of what the work actually is. One was a configuration management role, and the other was a software test engineer (a
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by kawfey 8y ago
They have been used as antennas before: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/60z2av/the_of...
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by kawfey 8y ago
I have a (dumb) friend who fell for this. It was a good scam - the eth scambot used the same profile photo and had a very similar @ username to elon's (minus the "Verified" icon of course), and it looked like "real"
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by kawfey 8y ago
On an extreme side of "off flavors," a friend of mine "scientifically" brewed a few 1gal batches to see what happens when you don't follow the rules: one fermented in the heat of the summer, one without proper sanit
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by kawfey 8y ago
This, except I first tried a hefe and noticed the banana bread flavor in Public House Brewery's Hefeweizen, which is a US brewery. Its a flavor present in every hefe I've drank and brewed myself, but I won't argue the fact Ge
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by kawfey 8y ago
A number of kickstarters have started to saturate this market with semi-capable meshing text-only gadgets: GoTenna, Beartooth, and Sonnet come to mind.
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by kawfey 8y ago
China and Russia, and the general lack of democracy in certain oil-laden countries.
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by kawfey 8y ago
Getting into amateur radio is a good way to pursue these activities. GNURadio is popular and well-supported for software-defined-radio systems, and hardware can be a cheap as $10. If you're talking about kinematic control systems, buil
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by kawfey 8y ago
New Ask HN thread: where are creators migrating to in lieu of YouTube? Vimeo? Twitch? Facebook? Metacafe or Dailymotion? There are also also already dozens of dapps for streaming like dtube, lbry, viewly, lino, flixxo....(etc, just see htt
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by kawfey 8y ago
Soon to be followed by train videos, which could put people in harms way to view rare trains, then siren videos, as prolonged exposure to high intensity sound can cause hearing loss. And storm spotting as well, clearly the only safe space w
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by kawfey 9y ago
If distributed computing had a fraction of time on the millions of GPUs mining cryptocurrencies, I can't imagine how close we'd be to curing disease and finding ET.
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by kawfey 9y ago
I was 16 when I discovered this (except instead of DTMF it was a special two-tone dispatch alert), but I somehow had enough discipline to not attempt a replay attack. My (now ex) girlfriend's sister was a dispatcher who I mentioned it
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by kawfey 9y ago
Pretty sure there will be a "switch back to the old Gmail" mode, because you're not the only one.
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by kawfey 9y ago
same, or a twitter profile or service that would notify everyone when it actually happens, and if it happens to be over a populated area, warn people below it in a timely manner that they might get hit with a bolt or something.
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by kawfey 9y ago
The Nokia 3310.
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by kawfey 9y ago
One of the best productivity tools is not looking for a tool to make you more productive. Productive people create productivity tools to make them more productive. Unproductive people think those same productivity tools will magically make
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by kawfey 9y ago
add LBRY.io to the list. I wonder if anyone's developing a syndicator for posting their videos to all of these sites. It's getting pretty difficult to 1) keep awareness of every venue as they come out and 2) manually syndicate con
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by kawfey 9y ago
Yesterday I googled "path loss equation" and I was astonished that the first hit was ipfs: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m... itshappening.gif It started a rabbit hole
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by kawfey 9y ago
do they have this but for forum email? I really want my emails from forums, groups and reflectors to look and feel like reddit's threaded replies, instead it's a disorganized mess and always has been for literally 20 years.

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