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by starky 9y ago
That is absolutely wrong. There is plenty of physical things you can do in the United States right now. Large manufacturing is cheaper to do in North America than to ship halfway around the world. Manufacturing that can be automated can be
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by starky 9y ago
The values I heard some years ago (~10) was that there were well over 1000 years of known lithium reserves even when assuming some truly impressive rates of electric vehicle production and zero recycling.
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by starky 9y ago
In my case I was talking about flying with some coworkers and mentioned the entertaining safety videos that New Zealand Air had done. Probably hadn't thought or talked about it for 3 years. Opened up Facebook and had an ad announcing t
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by starky 9y ago
>You could turn it into a big city like Los Angeles or Vancouver but that just creates different problems Funny, I was reading the statements about Auckland and thinking, this sounds exactly like Vancouver's problem. Parts of downto
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by starky 9y ago
The stupid part about that desire is that most consumers put their phone in an ugly, terrible feeling case and make the phone just as thick as if they had improved the battery life. As a device designer the demand for thinness strikes me as
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by starky 9y ago
How do you propose filtering the candidates? The only way to know for sure how they perform is to actually hire them and see how they perform after some amount of time. Since you will be firing a majority of people this causes a culture of
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by starky 9y ago
Reddit was significantly more US focused and political than I remember. Wasn't surprised to see a Ron Paul article up at the top, but I remember more technology and programming type articles. It does show how much nicer the front page
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by starky 9y ago
Interestingly, I was just in China. Most of the things that used to be blocked worked perfectly fine for me. I barely used my VPN because even Facebook was working. It does seem to vary quite a bit, I've always found that Shenzhen is a
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by starky 9y ago
I agree, the list of well designed and usable OSS software is very short IMO. I suspect that most OSS software doesn't have a skilled UI/UX designer so they make due with what they have. Not to mention that GTK+ and Qt do not look
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by starky 9y ago
That is just China in general. Their only card based payments for quite some time was UnionPay. Many places were cash only though. In the past 2-3 years electronic payments through WeChat or Alipay have absolutely exploded and nearly every
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by starky 9y ago
My main problem is that because it is billed as an "investment" (where your return is maybe a slight discount on the product), you have no recourse if the product is never delivered. Many kickstarters are made by people with no ex
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by starky 9y ago
This is what it was originally intended to be, but Kickstarter long turned into a marketing platform for companies to get pre-orders for their new products.
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by starky 9y ago
What you are describing sort of goes against the tenets of LaTeX. You aren't supposed to worry about formatting, just content. You have to explicitly tell it when you want to deviate from the template. In terms of placing figures, you
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by starky 10y ago
The DSLR is on its way down and mirrorless has caught up, and even is surpassing the DSLR in many ways now. There are certainly very valid reasons why professionals would want to continue using their DSLR for now, but the differences are co
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by starky 10y ago
The size is more or less a physics limitation. If you want a fast lens then your lens elements must be larger in diameter. Then you have to add more elements for correcting aberrations that are more prominent at wide aperture, thus making t
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by starky 10y ago
Do you not think there is a CAD model of that golf ball for making the mold for the cover? It isn't even a 10 minute job for someone to measure the dimple/surface area ratio.
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by starky 10y ago
Pretty much all the larger non-Chinese companies sell pretty secure cameras. The safest way to use IP cameras is to isolate them so they aren't connected to the internet. IPVM also keeps a public up to date list on known vulnerabilitie
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by starky 10y ago
In general I find Fictiv is a really poor source of information. They seem to be mostly focused on 3D printing, have next to no electronics knowledge and their knowledge of high volume manufacturing is dubious (these teardowns are always fu
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by starky 10y ago
I just don't see it, from my perspective in mechanical design, you are at a minimum of 2.5 months from first concept to getting real parts. Hardware is just slow, and there is not much you can do about it without spending tons of money
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by starky 10y ago
The structure of Linux is really its worst enemy, having everything be a separate package results in a terrible end user experience, exacerbated by the developer fragmentation you mention. The only way to get a good looking and usable syste
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by starky 10y ago
I was a long time user of Firefox, mostly because I despise how Chrome is so inflexible and has terrible interface design. Unfortunately, Firefox has continually gotten worse and worse over the last few years. I was tired of the browser slo
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by starky 10y ago
There are a few companies that totally get it though. Protolabs has an amazing service, it is highly automated so you save the programming costs that makes local CNC manufacturing so high. They are limited in the features, but for the major
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by starky 10y ago
I can't speak for all the different ALS charities, since they are independent, but as a charity their financial statements will be available. For example, my province's ALS charity spent about $500k last year on equipment loans, w
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by starky 10y ago
There are many ALS organizations, some larger than others. They all typically split their money between support and research, but a local ALS chapter will have a larger focus on providing support and equipment for people with the disease in
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by starky 10y ago
According to the data I've seen, the first huge growth in Shenzhen was centered on 1983, with the biggest peak coming around 1991.
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by starky 10y ago
It isn't that some factories have people work, sleep, and live there, that is the standard of how factories operate over there. Most workers are from outside of the area, so they provide all this for them in addition to pay that they s
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by starky 10y ago
I can think of one device where Bluetooth has been invisible, the Surface Pro 3 pen.
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by starky 10y ago
Really glossy any colour is difficult. Glossy black shows sink much worse than light colours in my experience. Texturing fixes so many difficulties in injection molded parts.
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by starky 10y ago
When you manufacture at the scale Apple does, you can justify more expensive tooling as the cost gets distributed over many more parts. It isn't that you can't do the high quality at low quantity, just that the fixed costs make it
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by starky 11y ago
There are tons of cameras out there these days that aren't crap, though they are a bit more expensive than the cheap kits you buy from Amazon or Costco. Most of the non-Chinese manufacturers and the largest Chinese manufacturers have g

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