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by newman8r 3y ago
> technical challenges, such as keeping melting cheese from sliding off while the pizzas baked in moving trucks. Wouldn't the answer just be to always keep the Gs of a turn under a certain value? I'd have assumed that they woul
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by newman8r 3y ago
You could probably set this up at county fairs and charge 20 bucks a pop. really cool setup.
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by newman8r 3y ago
Whatever your opinion on these particular substances, I think it's becoming a popular opinion that people who use them shouldn't be going to jail. I'm hoping the CA police unions don't interfere with this bill too much l
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CA Senate passes/sends psychedelic decriminalization bill (sb-58) to Assembly [pdf](senate.ca.gov)
3 points by newman8r 3y ago|1 comments
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by newman8r 4y ago
That's also around the time when smartphones started to see huge adoption. It became something you'd never be able to get away from.
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by newman8r 4y ago
There are many types of prefabs. With https://parcelplot.org we're using sky bubbles for our off-grid vacation rental projects. They're a fairly luxurious solution and let visitors get a pretty neat view of the stars,
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by newman8r 4y ago
Are you referring to services like https://www.acrartex.com/406link/ It's interesting because it was never intended to work like that, it's basically just a hack that uses a test signal to dispatch an "I
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by newman8r 4y ago
Hah. No I don't think so. You actually run into a lot of legal issues if you're trying to meet up with any significant number of people.
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by newman8r 4y ago
I can share a few if anyone wants to email me although it's common practice not to post them in public. These areas are sensitive and tend to get trashed/destroyed as soon as they gain enough popularity. You can find your own secr
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by newman8r 4y ago
Cool lifestyle - I might have to give it a try some time.
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by newman8r 4y ago
Oops, thanks for the heads-up. Yeah I'm in California and I like to travel all over, to Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon,Washington, etc.
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Ask HN: Any outdoorsy HNers who want to do a wilderness meetup?
8 points by newman8r 4y ago|8 comments
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by newman8r 4y ago
And if you want fresh product for any reason, ordering directly from the company is the best way to ensure that.
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by newman8r 4y ago
> I can't even afford to toss a few bucks into side projects so I at least have something to do with my time... Lots of people work on side projects with no money nowadays - the situation is different than it was 10 years ago. Even
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by newman8r 4y ago
I have privacy settings ramped up for their website, so it doesn't track my streaks. My behavior has been to come back to it sporadically, maybe once or twice a week. Could be better long term behavior from a developer perspective.
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by newman8r 4y ago
> In the case of the debit card example (or credit cards) banks could do what they used to and actually decline the charge. I use citibank and they've recently announced that they're going back to the old ways of just declining
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Ask HN: Anyone else looking for people to post to producthunt for them?
1 points by newman8r 4y ago|0 comments
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by newman8r 4y ago
Is WFH actually more productive? I've heard conflicting reports, but haven't seen any data.
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by newman8r 4y ago
A good linux alternative is VYM (view your mind). I always have one open to jot down my random ideas.
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by newman8r 4y ago
You can still find great deals at university surplus sales. more fun than goodwill ever was. Scored a $1500 RF amp for $25 at one of those.
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by newman8r 4y ago
Yeah, they're intrinsically safer vehicles but obviously much slower and less maneuverable. A lot of the r&d over the last 20 years has been to make these wrecks relatively safe, and they've done a good job with it.
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by newman8r 4y ago
> If someone claims to be a race fan and likes the crashes, they are by definition not a race fan as there is no racing in a crash. That's true in open wheel racing like F1, but in stock car racing like NASCAR, contact and wrecks ar
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by newman8r 4y ago
This is probably an interesting way to group people - those who care vs those who don't. I tend to be very conscious of the noise I'm projecting - I always prefer for people who I can't see to not be able to hear me. I'm
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by newman8r 4y ago
> Would you say that it is therefore OK for me to dump it in the ditch? I'd say no - because it's decreasing the intrinsic value of a shared resource (whether or not it can be measured). Downloading a movie, on the other hand -
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by newman8r 4y ago
In those cases, your mere presence costs the operator more (fuel cost/ wear and tear/limited number of seats) - so sure, those cases could be considered stealing, but I don't think they're in the same realm as downloadin
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by newman8r 5y ago
as a reminder, california SB-519 could decriminalize this substance in 2022 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xh... I'm not sure what the best way to support it is, but I'm following t
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by newman8r 5y ago
I'm one of those people who's rarely affected by mosquitoes - but I'll still get bit. I'd estimate I get 1 bite for every 5 that anyone else I'm hiking with does. People will be complaining about how bad the mosquit
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by newman8r 5y ago
For a long time, you could get into any voicemail account by spoof calling that phone number to itself - most of the time they weren't password protected.
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The Future of the Psychedelic Decriminalization Bill in California(pharmacytimes.com)
2 points by newman8r 5y ago|0 comments
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Is off-grid a viable option for everyday people?(parcelplot.org)
2 points by newman8r 5y ago|0 comments

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