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by schainks 9y ago
You might be interested in Garmin Vivosmart HR+ (I have one). While Garmin's app is a horrible walled garden (no google fit integration, or integration with other Android APIs, like alarms), it does let you set an alarm that syncs to
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by schainks 10y ago
So, just for a different perspective, Taiwan has a relatively simple tax filing experience, and the government invests significant resources to make as simple as possible (which does result in many people paying their taxes properly, on tim
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by schainks 10y ago
The sticker model can be quite successful: http://qz.com/704768/line-sold-268-million-worth-of-stickers...
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by schainks 10y ago
This. The point is to sell a few hundred million licenses for the software, as software companies like to do. Car companies likely don't want to further increase already large R&D budgets to build their own self-driving tech, so t
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by schainks 10y ago
This highly depends on the nature of your organization and how many developers you're dealing with. I've seen it quickly break down once you reach more than 3 products and more than 15 devs. Otherwise, at some point, you need a g
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by schainks 11y ago
What Rob (the author) went through is hard, and left him understandably butthurt about oral operations. Maybe he's one of the people who didn't need the operation but had it done, and there were complications. If he posted his t
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by schainks 11y ago
Every time. Cobb's dream land from Inception always reminds me of these buildings.
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by schainks 11y ago
Seems as though that's what's happening. I just hopped on Baidu street view and found a couple new spots about 1km away from my old place. Wtf are all _these_ buildings: http://j.map.baidu.com/EPRRD http:/
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by schainks 11y ago
The point was to illustrate the areas I saw were not large blocks of empty buildings with no one in them for miles around. Surely the area has changed a lot since I was last there.
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by schainks 11y ago
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for reading!
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by schainks 11y ago
Absolutely! I used to live in one of those "cities". Just wrote a post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515003
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by schainks 11y ago
I'll dispute one data point on that map: Xiaoshan, just across the Qiantang river from Hangzhou. I lived there from 2009-2010. When I moved there it had recently been renamed/rezoned into Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou city. So
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by schainks 11y ago
Beijing, Taipei (Asia preferred) | Full-time | Frontend App Lead | REMOTE with ONSITE meetups SeekPanda (www.seekpanda.com ( http://www.seekpanda.com/) ) is a curated marketplace for hiring interpreters and translators. It is
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by schainks 11y ago
This. The number one influencer of grid tech investment is energy prices before politics (not going to discuss nuclear). Cheap gas -> we build more gas generators. Expensive gas -> we build fewer generators and even try to schedule
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by schainks 12y ago
Of all the gear and prep that was needed, they even made sure there was pie and cake. Really important. Really.
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by schainks 12y ago
The K760 is awesome for typing, and solar powered. The K480 switches between devices and can mount a mobile device. The K810 has a backlight. Can these three things be conveniently combined? Make it the size of the k760, but with the bac
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by schainks 12y ago
I think people in California should adopt an alternative to the "Ice Bucket Challenge." Make it the "dirt bucket challenge" or __<something cheeky>___ challenge to save water. Is there any connection between the i
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by schainks 12y ago
This is my opinion, not fact - I personally don't think, even with over-provisioning, we can build enough wind/solar to make it our base load at a reasonable price unless we can make solar + wind much more efficient at generating
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by schainks 12y ago
So, even with a huge overhaul of the grid, you'll still need some of the things they say they can get rid of to power it?
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by schainks 12y ago
I'm seeing a lot of misinformation on this thread, and I think it would be useful to point hacker news at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), which is a cited source in this paper. They are an engineering-based, independent,
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by schainks 12y ago
I'd like to take a moment to point out another really great "renewable" technology that is a clever arbitrage hack using power prices: Compressed Air Energy Storage. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAES )
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by schainks 12y ago
Having trouble loading first article, as it just shows a headline [edit typo] but thank you for the citation, I'll take it with a grain of salt. You're being misleading with your second article, however. > If you removed the IT
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by schainks 12y ago
> As wind is a very good base load provider. What? Please show us where the wind blows 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, every year. Not being a nay-sayer, but your comment is very misleading. "Good base load provider" means h
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by schainks 12y ago
> The latter is not particularly efficient, but when you consider that solar and wind are dirt cheap these days, it still makes more sense to do that than use natural gas as peaker. Citation needed. Solar and wind are still way more ex
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by schainks 12y ago
I'd like to clear up your terminology a little bit, since the way you use "on demand" actually means two different use-cases. You're referring to "spinning reserve" versus "on-demand" sources of powe
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by schainks 12y ago
ABSOLUTELY. I used to be an introvert white guy with no friends. I see two ways of meeting people, with 1 rule required: The Rule: Always say the first opinion that comes to your mind. Do not be afraid to say what you really feel, and have
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by schainks 13y ago
This reminds me of google hangout featureset. Better UI on top of it, though. Nice work, Hum! IMO, the fundamental challenge of feature-based "utility" apps like this is that big players will eventually implement the most useful
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by schainks 13y ago
Just some more media trolling, nothing to see here, folks. Even if he is were for a "stunning fail", let him fail gloriously and fantastically. It only means he'll be that much better at this next time around. I'm compl
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by schainks 13y ago
I think it's safe to say that the burning of something that you directly inhale is the principal killer, regardless of what's in it. When burning organic matter, there tend to be many byproducts produced. Often more harmful than
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by schainks 13y ago
IMO, this is something tax dollars should pay for. Don't use tax money to spy on citizens, use it to spy on members of congress so they have incentive to behave in a less corrupt way. I personally don't mind that elected offic

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