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by tristanb 7y ago
Cool - you're welcome to your opinion, but I disagree. I do the same in an airplane, though reaction time is less important.
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by tristanb 7y ago
I don't agree with many of the points here. My partner bought a Tesla, I had little interest in them. I now would buy no other car. The autopilot has changed how I drive forever. We regularly take long three hour drives to get to a sce
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by tristanb 7y ago
I found this article after receiving an email from (him?) telling me slick wraps had been hacked and were doing nothing to prevent the loss of my data.
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Slick Wraps Data Breach(archive.is)
4 points by tristanb 7y ago|3 comments
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by tristanb 7y ago
I use and love privacy.com - and the fastest way for me to not sign up for your service is when you tell me I can't use one of the card numbers. It happens occasionally, but no way in hell am I giving out my real CC
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by tristanb 7y ago
FWIW my thoughts: 1. Rear prop strikes. 2. Wing tip prop strikes. 3. Wing tip inertia 4. Prop wash over a wing is a good thing If (big if) this thing ever flies, it won't be in this form
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by tristanb 7y ago
My links were bad - fixed.
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by tristanb 7y ago
The design is "sound" ? It is ridiculous! Those engines are at each end of a wing. That is a 100% no no. They are feet from the ground, and would make one engine out operation impossible. Even someone with a cursory understanding
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by tristanb 7y ago
https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106484220091004108... https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106485722028904038... https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/st
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by tristanb 7y ago
Have you driven one? I find I am far more alert and less with less cognitive fatigue when it is on autopilot. People may misuse the technology, but they text and drive a car without it. (and have far more accidents). It is far far better.
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by tristanb 8y ago
I had the opposite upbringing, and lived my childhood years knowing my father was terminally ill. Whilst hard, it made me into whom I am, and I'm thankful for knowing exactly what was going on so I could enjoy each moment I had with hi
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by tristanb 8y ago
It's never going to fly, its a scam. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=18620766&goto=item%3Fi...
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by tristanb 8y ago
0 volts. See my other comment its a scam. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=18620766&goto=item%3Fi...
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by tristanb 8y ago
I'm afraid this is a nonsense. https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106484220091004108... https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106485722028904038... https://twi
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by tristanb 8y ago
SpaceX has landed more than a dozen rockets post-flight. - Its 20 (5 failed)
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by tristanb 8y ago
Yes it has been solved, thats the advantage of LEO - it's currently at 25ms https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/space...
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by tristanb 8y ago
you don't need a quad/octo copter to do this, it could be a winged aircraft, and those are several orders of magnitude more efficient.
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by tristanb 8y ago
I have one in my car - pumpkin audio. It does the job great. Talks to my back up cam - smart mirror, and i've written scripts so it takes pictures of the driver at ignition, opens my last spotify track, last google map search etc
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by tristanb 9y ago
I immediately thought what about webmail, like gmail? Gmail doesn't run JS in emails, would it in an SVG?
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by tristanb 9y ago
Or you know, he could let the justice system run its course.
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by tristanb 9y ago
I wish it rendered things correctly.
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by tristanb 9y ago
I have a symmetrical 100mbs wireless connection to my home (for $35) from Monkey Brains, a wireless isp.
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by tristanb 9y ago
""“They have to land for you to get the contraband off of them,” he said. “They can’t drop it like a bomb.” This doesn't seem logical. I mean, (if) I were to attempt this, I'd fly a drone very high out of site of the gua
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by tristanb 10y ago
Well a 0/0 safety system seems like a solvable problem in the scheme of things. airbag + chute? Who knows.
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by tristanb 10y ago
Let me clarify that, you can dead stick a cessna and land it outside your local bar in NYC (someone did) but its not easy.
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by tristanb 10y ago
You cant dead stick a cessna in an urban environment, and current ballistic parachutes aren't that heavy. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24946/what-is-t...
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by tristanb 10y ago
Rockets, balloons, most military aircraft? Shove a ballistic parachute on it.
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by tristanb 10y ago
Helium is really hard to contain, (just ask SpaceX!) Do these leak and degrade, or do they have some magical way to keep the gas in?
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by tristanb 10y ago
This is ridiculous. Becoming an Ostrich is never a solution. Shame on you.
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by tristanb 12y ago
Great post

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