megaremote

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by megaremote 7y ago
> Just take their current flagship smartphone, double the thickness to fit a halfway-between-smartphone-and-full-frame sensor, an SD card slot, ability to export RAWs, and a compact zoom lens, and sell it for like $2000. And no one will
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by megaremote 7y ago
The rent-a-gym, I guess the west solves that by having gym equipment in a park? An interesting solution to a busy city.
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by megaremote 7y ago
Since this has a range of 4km, it requires a controller. There is now way to get that distance without one.
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by megaremote 7y ago
This is pretty good, 30 min flight time and 4km range. > 4 km for FCC compliant Model (MT1SS5) and 2 km for CE compliant Model (MT1SD25).
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by megaremote 7y ago
No one is attacking json here.
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by megaremote 7y ago
> I'm a marathoner Ok, but listening to music is cheating.
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by megaremote 7y ago
Blackmailing a hitman might not be the best idea.
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by megaremote 7y ago
Of course they do. There is only reward and no downside to doing that. They save a few seconds, and no one is giving out tickets for doing this.
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by megaremote 7y ago
It is clearly not an article, it is question someone posed. Here is the answer.
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by megaremote 7y ago
Like Youtube, which lost money every year until it was bought by Google. Or Instagram? Or a variety of others. You don't understand why people want to copy those models of growths and get those big payouts? Which part confuses you?
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by megaremote 7y ago
Get rid of your car for starters. Shop at markets where they don't cover anything in plastic. Adjust what you eat around avoiding buying plastic, as much as you can.
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by megaremote 7y ago
> Yet I observe on Twitter and other social media that these problems are considered equally important, sometimes people even treat them as equivalent. How are you even judging that?
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by megaremote 7y ago
The consumers should pay. Every piece of plastic should have a recycling cost, like they do in some states with bottles and cans.
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by megaremote 7y ago
> Ocean plastic is a problem, but comes almost entirely from intentional dumping Right, like microplastics from the tires whenever anyone drives anywhere?
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by megaremote 7y ago
> People still care about Disney’s animated movies from the 30s and even adults are nostalgic about the 90s X-men animated TV show and the original Star Wars from the 70s. Come one. Saying people is a cop out? Everyone, no way. So how m
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by megaremote 7y ago
> After people binge through new shows, the big 4 will be the ones holding all the old content. Do most people really want that old content? Apart from a few shows, I say no.
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by megaremote 7y ago
> whose residents do have motor vehicles with full access to the city; they just happen to run on separate waterways. You think everyone in Venice has a boat? No.
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by megaremote 7y ago
They kill 40,000 people every single year in the USA, and injure or disable over 2 million more. And that is not including death from the pollution the cause. And this is just one reason they are the worst invention created by man.
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by megaremote 7y ago
> They won't be dangerous, will run clean, be super convenient and unbelievably inexpensive to own and operate. Oh, they will not use tires? Which leave smalls bits of plastic everywhere they go that get washed into our waterway as
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by megaremote 7y ago
They tried in Melbourne too. A few people stood up and fought to save them, like Robert Risson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Risson
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by megaremote 7y ago
You get that billions of people already live without a car. Millions in the USA alone.
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by megaremote 7y ago
Or, you know. Catch the bus. Or the tram, or the train, or the ferry. Or walk. Or run. Or ride. Or get on a scooter. Of roller blade. Or use a skateboard.
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by megaremote 7y ago
40,000 people are killed every single year in the USA due to cars. Over 2 million are injured or disabled. And that is direct deaths, not including deaths from pollution. That is the tip of the iceberg for problems with cars. And yet, you c
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by megaremote 7y ago
So you will consume less to? Another bonus.
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by megaremote 7y ago
Sure, if you compare 1 to 1. But you have 100s to 1 on any street. A 100 cars are lot more noisy and polluting than one bus. https://www.iwillride.org/what-200-people-look-like-driving-...
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by megaremote 7y ago
> If driving into Manhattan were not an option, I would expect demand for housing in Manhattan would go up[0]. Of course, housing in Manhattan is already incredibly expensive... Why? And we recover all that wasted space on roads to build
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by megaremote 7y ago
And, they are often the worst drivers in any city.
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by megaremote 7y ago
Density of cars, not necessarily density of people.
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by megaremote 7y ago
I don't understand why people update straight away. Leave it a few weeks/months. Especially as a developer.
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by megaremote 7y ago
And drivers kill a lot more people than protestors.

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