kingsloi

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   by kingsloi 5y ago

   for anyone interested, we have terrible air quality in the "steel city" Gary, Indiana. I track the air quality and industry https://millerbeach.community in/around my lil community using a PurpleAir II
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   by kingsloi 5y ago

   For anyone interested, the nice guys at https://aviation-edge.com supplied me access to their flight API so I can track how many flights fly directly over my little community in Gary Indiana: https://millerbeach.commu
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   by kingsloi 5y ago

   Thank you for sharing this. Anecdotal, my wife and I became parents to a beautiful baby girl in September last year. Our lil girl was diagnosed with heart disease, and ultimately we discovered she has a rare genetic disorder called Kabuki s
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   by kingsloi 6y ago

   interesting, could you embed a pdf into a webpage that has some JS which triggers automatically? Even if you have noscript?
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   by kingsloi 6y ago

   I think I've automatically double-clicked the back button every back-button click since the back button could be hijacked, like years ago. Same with iOS. I try to use my iPhone less, so I uninstalled all apps, and access everything thr
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   by kingsloi 6y ago

   edit: I hadn't really woken up when I first read the article, so I read it again after my morning coffee. I can't express how nice it was to read it, it sums up my experience perfectly. I'm teary eye'd writing this, I ha
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   by kingsloi 6y ago

   I posted something along the same lines last week about my own struggles with the cost of healthcare in the US. https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-... https://news.ycombinator.c
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   by kingsloi 6y ago

   Hey, I appreciate the wisdom! Maybe I'll do another blog post in 6 months, or whenever I get to the bottom of how much I owe. We were in the ICU for 147 days, then home for 2 weeks, then we took her back to the ER and then were re-admi
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   by kingsloi 6y ago

   I wish I didn't have to lawyer up, I wish I could be permanently lawyered down youtu.be/PtnLAUcqVBc I appreciate the advice. I'll do some digging, ping some emails/make some calls and see what the deal is.
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    So, that’s where I am now, I’ve questioned the bill, and I’m waiting for a return call from both the hospital, and my insurance. People have suggested getting divorced, or selling my house. One ends my immigration here, so bankruptcy/s
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    Thank you. I’m sure it’s just a snag, but why not just investigate before sending me anything, if I may not actually owe it, why stress me out saying that I do?
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I mean, the city isn’t the best, but the surrounding area is beautiful, I get to see the Chicago skyline from my living room, from 50 miles away. I walk(ed) my dog on the beach every day, I think I’ve mentioned in another HN post, but those
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    The staggering cost of surviving heart disease in the USA(kingsley.sh)

    23 points by kingsloi 6y ago|21 comments
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I think it was in reference to it going past the required amount of signatures for it to be brought before parliament.
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I had just read about Dutch meth. That's one thing I never thought I would hear about, Dutch meth. However, a Breaking Bad European spin off would be interesting.
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    That's awesome! I run a little community monitor for my little community in Gary, IN. https://millerbeach.community . I track PM2.5/10 with a PurpleAir, but want to start tracking other pollutants/gases/VOCs,
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    That's awesome! I'll join the Slack channel
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I actually discovered Freddie when I lived here in 2011. Big fan! I fly TinyWhoop to Freddie's songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCpyVrdt3c
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    No, not a complicated tech stack at all Hardware: - PurpleAir PA-II (wifi) - FleetMon AIS (Ethernet) APIs: - Avaiation Edge API (Flights) - MapQuest API (Traffic) - forecast.io API (Weather) - etaspot.net (Trains) App: - node/express&#
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I agree! I always liked the phrase "be the change you want to see" or whatever, every little helps in my opinion. If bringing awareness to a few strangers on the internet about the air pollution in my poor city helps, then I'
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    @selimthegrim I actually discovered Freddie when I lived here in 2011. Big fan! I fly TinyWhoop to Freddie's songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCpyVrdt3c
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    Hey, so the air quality sensor is a Purple Air PAII https://www2.purpleair.com , after you mount & register it, the sensor communicates to a 3rd party (wunderground I believe), processes it, and updates the map & API, whi
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    In 2011, I was in college in the UK, managed to score a year internship in Chesterton, IN, a few miles from Gary. Lived in Valparaiso while I worked in Chesterton. Revisited same city in 2016, met my now wife who is from Crown Point. We got
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    Shameless plug, I've been working on a community air quality monitor for my little community https://millerbeach.community I live a few miles from steel mills, oil refineries, who take advantage of Lake Michigan, constantly
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I didn't read the post sorry, just the title. I didn't see it was related to crime, I thought you were asking generally speaking. I can't talk about decreasing crime as Gary has a pretty bad reputation for it, but I'd be
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I haven't officially "launched" it yet as I still have a lot more to do, but I've been working on a community website to track air quality & industry in my community, as I live in Gary, IN, nestled in the the middle
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    I ran a little one man band shop in the UK for a few years, my accountant provided me my own FreeAgent ( https://www.freeagent.com/us/ ) account, which I really loved. I'd track my time, attach it to a contact, crea
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    Ah, yes I am running it on macOS Mojave
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    by kingsloi 6y ago

    Hmm, if I copy/paste this, I get a different output: ~ ~/certdays.sh google.com 14 date: illegal time format usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [- v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... [-f fmt da
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    by kingsloi 8y ago

    You actually hit it nail on the head. I'm a British guy who married an American woman and I've been in the US about 3 years now. I live in Gary, IN (the nice beach community, south of Lake Michigan) but the I hear the daily horror