sukuriant

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Comment · 12 years ago
Related: http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking

The people's responses to the comment are telling. The Kickstarter said he'd make a potato salad. He probably has. He asked, and people gave, why do people rage about this? It just so happened that lots of people thought it was funny / wanted to give money / whatever. Who cares? The proverbial you could have thought of it too.

I don't understand the stink people have over this :/

Comment · 12 years ago
managing one's speed so as not to get pulled over for speeding?
Comment · 12 years ago
That ... doesn't seem that expensive to me, coming from someone that lives in Seattle. Then again, I tend to get the day rates, or the late-night rates, which, if memory serves me, are like $15 for the night, while only staying an hour or two for dinner.
Comment · 12 years ago
You wouldn't :) but, it can be hard to find a parking spot in, for example, Seattle on a Friday night.
Comment · 12 years ago
"MonkeyParking and any motorists using the app face fines of $300 per violation of the city’s law prohibiting selling or contracting for parts of a public street, according to the city attorney."

I was going to ask what the actual law was, but it seems I've found some version of the gist of it here. Where I live (not San Fransisco) we have privatized parking in plots of land that aren't on the public street. Would using this app on places like that in SF be legal?

Comment · 12 years ago
Wow.

And in reference to your previous comment, if a drone pilot makes a mistake, we lose money, not lives. Another advantage of the drones.

Comment · 12 years ago
Why does the airforce hate the A-10? That thing is terrifying.
Comment · 12 years ago
Could you post a link to that YouTube video? sounds awesome.
Comment · 12 years ago
614 revolutions per minute on the tire, assuming a 17" wheel, is still pretty impressive.
Comment · 12 years ago
While I understand the intent here, do taxi drivers get checked against the potential for a stroke? That could happen to either side.
Comment · 12 years ago
Then tax Uber in a special way?
Comment · 12 years ago
Indeed, and it's awesome. It's just impressive that we can detect that odor better with dogs than with some sort of engineered odor detector
Comment · 12 years ago
There's a lot of really cool information here, especially for animal lovers. From the technical side of things, though, one part stood out: the dogs are more effective at finding mines? That's not something I exactly expected; though I suppose it makes sense. Dogs and their nose, like humans and their eyes are great pattern matchers. Humans are great at seeing and recognizing faces, and specific faces to a degree, better than humans, at least historically (we have put a lot of research into face recognition). I suppose the reason that dogs are so good at this is a similar reason.
Comment · 12 years ago
There are definitely advantages to being completely wireless, building permits being one of them.
Comment · 12 years ago
My guess would be for analytics, so it knows how its own service is being used and who is accessing websites through it. It comes with a convenient feature that bad URLs can be taken down on its site.

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