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by pontifier 3y ago
looks like a high voltage generator using capacitor plates similar to a Wimhurst machine.
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by pontifier 3y ago
It's a very real possibility. I believe this is the gunfire I heard: https://katv.com/news/local/pine-bluff-police-searching-for-... This is one block east of my new warehouse. I am making progress though. It
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by pontifier 3y ago
This is fantastic! I have been thinking about building something like this myself. I'm definitely going to deploy this in my area. I hear gunshots almost every weekend. Heard 2 sets of gunfire about an hour ago.
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by pontifier 3y ago
I lost a court case several years ago in Utah because the judge decided I was not a person. I was merely an individual.
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by pontifier 3y ago
Read this a long time ago, then re-read it a couple of years ago. They called the pods "stoners" and it made me laugh. Can't remember the name though. It must have been in a collection of short stories. Edit... Found it for y
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by pontifier 3y ago
I've been flying a lot recently, and have been thinking about why it is so slow to get off of a plane sometimes. The majority of the slowdown seems to be from people who aren't ready to move down the aisle blocking those who are t
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by pontifier 3y ago
I started Crossies to solve this problem. My plan was to store physical media for people, and give them remote access. When I heard about Murfie shutting down 4 years ago, I couldn't let it happen and had to get involved. I'm pass
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by pontifier 3y ago
Perhaps with that time dilation and the slow evaporation of the black hole, nothing ever enters the event horizon. The horizon would seem to retract away from you as you approached it until it was gone. Side note, I watched this almost B mo
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by pontifier 3y ago
That was about how much data Murfie had. Surprise Google cloud storage and egress costs were the final straw that broke the company 4 years ago. It wasn't economical to save the data when I took over, and Murfie still hasn't fully
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by pontifier 3y ago
Interestingly, I just found out a week ago that applications for new low power FM stations will be open from the 6th to the 13th of december. I'm thinking about applying as it's something I've been interested in forever, but
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by pontifier 3y ago
I've bought at least five brother laser printers because I wanted one everywhere I go. They've all worked great except for the last one (HL-L2390DW). That sleep problem has caused me to consider other brands instead of just buying
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by pontifier 3y ago
During an overnight power outage several years ago in Provo Utah, I was able to read a book near a window solely via light pollution from Orem Utah reflecting off of snow and low lying clouds. I wrote at the time that we might be able to so
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by pontifier 3y ago
I remember contacting them about 10 years ago... Can confirm it was way out of my price range.
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by pontifier 3y ago
I've been interested in book scanning for a while. I think I remember seeing your software! I built one of the early versions that I saw on the site, and then happened to meet Jonathon Duerig and do some waterjet cutting for him a few
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by pontifier 3y ago
Thanks, it's been incredibly frustrating dealing with this place. Pine Bluff is one of, if not the most crime ridden, corrupt town in the US. Some of the things they do just seem unreal, but there's a sort of learned helplessness
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by pontifier 3y ago
This is a topic close to my heart. As I fight to restart Murfie, my goal is to make physical media ownership the basis for legal digital access that can't be taken away by the whims of copyright holders. I truly believe in this solutio
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by pontifier 3y ago
Back in around 2008 at the University of Utah I participated in a study someone was doing about detecting touches on any surface using a camera. When you touch a surface, the blood under your fingernails moves, and that movement can be dete
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by pontifier 3y ago
This is similar to the vanity address generation for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency addresses.
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The Federal Helium reserve is for sale(gsa.gov)
275 points by pontifier 3y ago|263 comments
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by pontifier 3y ago
This is the entire system including the facility, hundreds of miles of pipeline, helium rights for many helium producing wells, existing storage and delivery contracts, and 800 million cubic feet of helium. A stockpile of 1 billion cubic fe
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by pontifier 3y ago
The whole point is that if it's securely contained the alphas wouldn't penetrate the shielding around it. As long as that shielding is intact you're not getting any radiation dose. A cookie would be bad because you're ac
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by pontifier 3y ago
For a long time I have had this idea of finding a radioactive decay chain that produces mostly alpha particles, then encapsulating it fully in an inert pill. My thought is that you could swallow these pills when climbing Everest, and these
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by pontifier 3y ago
There are so many people in things for a quick buck that people that truly care keep their treasures hidden. Some meth head probably took the shelves to the scrap yard for a couple bucks after dumping the slides illegally by the side of the
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by pontifier 3y ago
This sounds like an amazing project, and the first 2 minutes of your stream had me hooked: "...I'm going to do it, because I said I was going to do it, and I have to!" That's the spirit of perseverance in action! Might t
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by pontifier 3y ago
The philosophy of identity is quite interesting to me. I've been thinking about it for a long time. I like the idea of proof of personhood, and proof of location. These are both concepts that I have explored extensively. I looked at re
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by pontifier 3y ago
Many years ago I hypothesized that foamed metal with a high pressure inside the cells might be useful as a strong but lightweight building material.
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by pontifier 3y ago
We really need to allow people to build their own houses again.
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by pontifier 3y ago
When I drink alcohol, I've found that it disrupts more recently evolved cognitive function before the older, more core regions. I now use alcohol as a way to "call upon my ancient ancestors to guide my actions".
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by pontifier 3y ago
There's a pattern I've noticed of outsourcing code requirements. Most municipalities seem to adopt the international building code, and then because that code book is updated all the time, and none of the local officials actually
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by pontifier 3y ago
Location Location Location is not everything it's cracked up to be... or maybe it is. I moved to one of the cheapest places in the country a few years ago and I've been buying real estate like mad. Granted, the crime is horrific a

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