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by zw123456 5y ago
finally, one person who read it.. but really, it's the phones on the plane that are the problem, because they are closer.
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by zw123456 5y ago
ya, been posted many times and ignored of course https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...
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by zw123456 5y ago
ok whoever downvoted, read the report, you could not have done that by now, I thought HN was better than that.. they are asking for money, come on. this is what is wrong with HN, you can downvote without talking, be standup. what are you ar
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by zw123456 5y ago
Right, so, the issue is NOT the BTS that is being raised, it is the phone on the plane, which are a lot closer to the antenna on the plane, which is on the ass end of the plane which is the low point during take off and landing. this is the
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by zw123456 5y ago
This is about money, the airlines want money from the telcos. The telcos paid off the Incumbent Earth Station operators to vacate the spectrum, now the airlines have their hand out because they are cash strapped after a pandemic lock down.
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by zw123456 5y ago
here is the report https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In... which i have posted a bunch of times. I am 40+ year experience in this area, I have run the calcs, the thing they are wo
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by zw123456 5y ago
I have previously posted this previously: https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In... which is the complete report you can read for yourself that the FAA based their "concerns&qu
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by zw123456 5y ago
I call it the "Fox Detox" for fun, but is not limited to Fox, although they are the biggest Point of view purveyor. I have challenged friends and family members to try eschewing all point of view media for 30 days and to instead d
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by zw123456 5y ago
I agree there is a delicate balance here but the thing is, if you let global climate change run wild, the salmon, and a lot of other critters, including us, don't stand a chance, with a dam generating electricity and a fish ladder, the
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by zw123456 5y ago
Don't forget, E. Washington has a lot of wind farms going, it's pretty windy, there is a reason the Columbia River Gorge is so popular for wind surfing. Also, placing server farms in northern latitudes is smart from a cooling pers
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by zw123456 5y ago
Agree E. WA is a great place for server farms. Unfortunately, lately there is a push for lower network latency, and in response to that, there are now a lot of Edge Cloud clusters being built near urban areas where various fossil fuel power
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by zw123456 5y ago
aahhhh, Down voting me for tryig to have fun... ahhhh, Loging out for the next 3 months, HN on time out..
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by zw123456 5y ago
OK, this is not reddit, but... indulge me Archimedes, Da Vinci and Einstein walked into a bar... Come on, it's Friday, we are having fun, give me your best punch line :)
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by zw123456 5y ago
When I was in high school (1974) they started a "computer" class, we logged into one of these puppies with a Teletype in a little room that used to be a storage room. There were two of us that signed up for the "Computer Clas
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by zw123456 5y ago
Thanks for all the good discussion, this actually makes sense, of course, now that I think about it, I am sure they are crashing millions of particles together and doing some analytics, so based on that we know about what the size is. Sort
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by zw123456 5y ago
OK, another dumb question from a neophyte here, doesn't the Heisenberg uncertainty principle make it impossible to know the size of a proton for sure? It seems like if you cannot not know the position and momentum of a particle then me
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by zw123456 5y ago
True, not ideal for hobby stuff. Not sure the best hobby alt for USB stuff, seems like an opening there for something cool maybe in the Arduino realm? Could be something out there on that front, but I am not super up on that space, but I b
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by zw123456 5y ago
Back when I was very first learning to use the USB driver for the PIC MCU I made something similar except it was even dumber, it was just one push button and one LED. I showed it to a few buddies and same thing, they started thinking of all
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by zw123456 5y ago
0xFEEDFACE canonical list here: https://blog.wolffmyren.com/2008/10/14/magic-number-programm...
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by zw123456 5y ago
Way back when I started with Bell Labs in 1978, my job was to go around the country and work on various special projects which mostly entailed swapping out old technology for "new" technology (new in parens because what was new th
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by zw123456 5y ago
Isn't everyone African if you go back far enough?
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by zw123456 5y ago
I've been down this road myself a time or three. It's $200 for the parts BOM, PCB, $10K for my time. Then if you want to actually make a business out of it, another $500K for Lawyers, overhead, advertising, manufacturing contracts
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by zw123456 5y ago
Bob wants US AG job. I am for all it, he has proved himself IMO. Being ambitious is OK especially when you are helping people. my 2 cents.
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by zw123456 5y ago
Agreed, the video really impressed me. He mentioned that you can't delete files yet, I am wondering what the idea would be if you delete a file that is open in an app, change it to untitled in the app maybe ? Very impressive, amazing a
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FCC Announces Winning Bidders in 3.45 GHz Auction [pdf](docs.fcc.gov)
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by zw123456 5y ago
When I was a sophomore in high school, in 1972, our school started a "computer class" which was comprised of a teletype in a corner of a former storage room. Me and my best friend were the only ones to sign up for it. The teacher
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by zw123456 5y ago
Exactly. The same rules should apply, except for CEO's it's just their company they have to disclose ahead of time because their decisions affect that company, for congress it should be any company they trade because their decisio
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by zw123456 5y ago
CEO's and officers of corporations have to disclose their trades of their company stock. It is only fair that the public officials making the laws that govern the operations of said corporations should have to disclose all their stock
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by zw123456 5y ago
One theory that I have heard a few times is that the abolition of slavery (not just in the U.S. but in several western countries) led to the industrial revolution. The timing may not be coincidental, the concept is that if you can enslave p
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by zw123456 5y ago
This is really amazing work, I found part 3 to be the most interesting https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-te... particularly the mwh/$ and other charts like capacity vs. weight etc

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