jack-r-abbit

> Convincing a huge population of people to change their lifestyle is far more difficult than solving a scientific dilemma.

But the only plan they have currently is basically just trying to get a huge population of people to change their lifestyle: let your lawn die, take shorter showers, don't wash your car. Most (if not all) of the "conserve water" suggestions involve convincing people to change their lifestyle. Why are they picking the more difficult solution?

That is brilliant. But nothing says they have to stitch the video for you. Giving you access to all your clips would be enough, specially if there is some footage overlap. You might want to transition from one clip to the next in a unique way.

The problem I see with that setup though would be deciding which person to follow when two trackers are competing for camera time. I imagine the base has some sort of logic to make that decision but it would suck to be the person that keeps getting missed because you are always right behind someone that the base gave a higher priority.

I get what you are saying. But really, not all of your income tax goes to take care of the poor. Sure the government wastes a lot of it on bullshit but there is no reasonable scenario where 100% of your income tax could go to help the poor.

Also plenty of wealthy people that completely earned their money themselves but still ended up poor once the fat pay checks stopped coming. Athletes and musicians are probably the most obvious examples.

> And logically, if the poor as a group were good with money, they wouldn't be poor.

Sorry, but that is not really logical. Many people are poor simply because they don't earn enough money. There is a difference.

> It's likely that no Tesla owners have AAA, because the car comes with roadside service, including towing.

That assumes the Tesla is that person's only car. I own 3 cars and have AAA. If I bought a Tesla I would still have at least one additional car. (Simply because my wife needs a car at the same time I do so we are pretty much a 2+ car family.) I would still have AAA.

> you can be specific or generic

Well... there you go. I thought when you said "you" you were specifically referring to me. But then I reread it and it turns out you were saying "[the word] you." English is a pretty complicated language. No wonder we're always pissing each other off. (Edit: "we're" was not meant to refer to specifically you and I. It was a more general "we as a people."

See? I guess I wasn't clear enough. I meant to say: He didn't clarify if making a woman cry was a generalization or something that had actually happened to him (like the falling in love part). But yes, he did speak to it further in the context of "you need to be able to criticize people without them crying."

An equally valuable lesson is if something can be taken different ways, make sure you are taking it the same way the other person meant it. He didn't say it was or was not a generalization. He didn't say it was or was not only personal experience. Everyone just made their own assumptions.

FTA: Hunt reportedly said: "Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry."

Has anyone stopped to consider that he may have been talking about trouble he has actually experienced? He does say "my trouble..." not "the trouble...". Later, he went on to clarify that he has fallen in love with someone and someone has fallen in love with him. If those actually happened and they were trouble for him, then his statement is accurate. He didn't comment any more on the crying part but it doesn't sound implausible that he, at one point, criticized a woman and she cried.

Kevin Rose irked me when he was appearing on and hosting The Screen Savers. Maybe he just wasn't coming through accurately on TV but he always struck me as kind of a dick. I've never really changed my opinion of him since then.

I've seen many Kickstarters that have limits on certain rewards. I've never created one so I can't say for sure... but perhaps if you can set all your rewards with limits you could at least keep it from being a runaway. That would at least give you a window and certainly an absolute top end (if all reward levels sell out).

If you don't value "culture fit" then a company that does value "culture fit" is probably not a good fit for you. ;)

What happened to my LEGO? This is a question I ask myself from time to time... and kick myself (a little) because I know part of that answer. I'm the youngest of 3 and all the various LEGO trickled down to me. My brother and I were big into the space themed sets. We had a bunch of those base boards in grey with moon craters and what not. When I left for college I had amassed a large suitcase full of bricks. One of my best friends in HS had a significantly younger brother that was the coolest little kid I knew. I gave him my suitcase. He was so happy. I think I quadrupled his collection. It felt good then and it still feels good now when I think of how happy little Elwood was. But now as an adult with kids of my own, I kick myself a little bit for not seeing the future. What I would give to go back and tell 18yr old me to hang on to those sets. Even back then I probably had at least $1k worth. Today that suitcase would probably be worth several thousand. But most of all, I would love to be sitting on the floor with my boys, building (non Star Wars themed) space ships with the same bricks I used 30 years ago.

People keep talking about "power tab users" are in the minority. But you don't need to be a power tab user to want better tab management. I usually only have 10-15 tabs open but I really wish Chrome let me manage them better. Chrome has that setting to reopen the last tabs used when you close the browser. But it often gets confused when multiple windows are open. It only remembers the tabs of the last window closed. I feel like once every couple weeks I find myself re-opening/re-pinning my main tabs. I'd love to be able to just store/open a group of tabs I want to use.

I can't imagine the air sensors working very well. Can it pin point which person is the source of what ever it sniffed? What happens when the driver is the DD to her four drunk friends? I would think the four drunks would set those sensors off pretty quick. Does the car know who is drunk?

I was thinking the same thing. I've seen all those elements in other papers before. I guess the issue is that they used all the same elements in all the same ways. shrug

heh... I didn't even know they were tax exempt. Not sure why "professional football leagues" were specifically given the exemption by the IRS. Seems odd.

Maybe they can use their voice to boo him off the stage.

Sure everyone does it. But the rules are the rules. Just like a lot of people speed. But when you get a speeding ticket, you only have yourself to blame. The part about not entering the crosswalk after the hand starts flashing has been there for awhile. And they are just starting to enforce it more. I can understand getting upset about it but ultimately, they only have themselves to blame. I witness every morning what this does to traffic. We have an over-zealous crossing guard at my kids' school. And she is constantly caught out in the street against traffic because she was motioning more kids to cross far beyond what would normally be ok. And this causes turning cars to have to wait even though they have a green turn arrow. It can get bad. There is no excuse for crossing that way just like there is no excuse for speeding or rolling through a stop sign or any of the little infractions that many people do everyday. It is pretty simple: Just wait for the next light cycle.

I'm wondering if comparing one crass site to another crass site is the best defense here. The OP's comment could be just as valid for either site.

Got Hef* Outside?

* Nickname of Hugh Hefner

In some ways you do want to freak people out a little. There are people that are a danger to themselves because they haven't the first clue what they are doing. They don't know that they need a good cold weather sleeping bag and not just some "sleepover sack" from Walmart. People can die when they don't know what they are doing or what they need. The stories I've heard from a couple SAR friends of mine... shudder

Maybe make it so that adding the package to your cart actually just adds all the items. Customization then takes place by deciding which of those items to remove from the cart. It might work as a good "upsell" as people realize they need more things than they first thought.

Edit: Case in point. I was looking to get a Sparkfun Kit[1] but they were out of one item that made the whole "kit" out of stock. Down at the bottom they have a link to a "wish list"[2] that lists all the individual items in the kit. And a big button at the bottom of that page that says "add it all."

[1]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12060

[2]: https://www.sparkfun.com/wish_lists/96686

Having been tasked (in a former life) with adding questionable "customer" testimonials to a company site, I now place exactly ZERO faith in customer testimonials on sites. YMMV

I've seen a few people running this type of thing (in a much smaller scale) via Airbnb. They seem to mostly cater to people visiting the area that want to camp in Yosemite or similar but don't want to travel with all their own gear. I've thought about doing that since my gear sits in a closet most of the time.

Of course this is different. I like the idea. Good luck.

To be fair... it is in the FAQ right there on the front page.

I agree. I've seen a few places in Berkeley that have a common mirror/sink area in the middle of 4-5 uni-sex toilet closets. Great design.

I guess I'm screwed either way. I have an office currently but I still use my headphones as much as when I didn't have one.

I know. I was being a bit flippant on purpose. Having every body in one giant room doesn't mean there is no rhyme or reason to how things are laid out and labeled. Instead of moving between Building 1 & Building 4, you might go from Section 1 to Section 4. Only people that work there are going to need to know where Sections 1 & 4 are.

Probably the same way people do it at companies that occupy several separate buildings in a complex. You walk.