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ParameterOne/Drop# We are going to send out a "one time use" Sim Card sticker to registered voters that you can stick on your regular sim card and Vote in the next election from your phone. Great for absentee ballots, disabled community, lazy people :-)
is it recyclable?
http://kitex.tech We're building a new type of wind turbine that generates energy using significantly less material, making it much cheaper to install. We do this using huge fixed wing kites made of carbon fibre, and drone technology.
This is an awesome idea. I remember reading about kite-based propulsion systems for large ships a few years ago, do you see any overlap with that area? How do you deal with the possibility of the kite breaking free of the tether, or breaking up in the air? I guess it could be quite dangerous if there's a populated area downwind.
But as far as kite power goes the principles are quite different. They use the pull (or "lift") of the kite to directly help propel the ship, while we have generators installed on the kite and harvest energy that way. This is called "drag mode" kite energy, vs "lift mode" where you let the kite pull on the tether and let it reel out and thereby generate power (or pull a ship).
We haven't looked into it but I have a feeling it would be more efficient to use drag mode even on a ship and generate electricity that would be fed into a hybrid engine system.
The scenario you mention is not really a major concern, for several reasons:
First of all the tether is of course designed to withstand all reasonable situations, with a wide margin of safety.
Secondly, the way the kite normally lands and launches itself as the wind drops and returns is by flying as a drone using the rotors-generators (see the website), so as long as the kite isn't completely broken it would just return to earth in a controlled manner.
Furthermore, in a worst case scenario, an untethered kite is actually much _less_ dangerous as it can't travel faster than the wind, whereas while tethered it can go 10 times faster or more. (As a kite surfer the first thing you learn is that if something goes wrong you should release the kite.)
While in use the kite will be some 200 m up, but several kilometres from land, so it will not be able to get very far in the time it takes to fall to earth.
https://www.60secondseveryday.com , the fastest way of keeping track of your memories. You get a phone call every night and record your 60-second response to the question "How did your day go?". From there, your response is archived into your private online journal and displayed alongside your photos, twitter posts, check-ins, etc from that day. Soon, you'll start getting Flashback emails (ex. "Here's what you were d…
I also saw this tagline or similar on PH, and I got to say I'm not a fan. If you look at everyday on it's own, for most of us, it's pretty boring stuff. Why would I want a record of that? If something hugely important happens, sure maybe I'll want to be able to access that memory / my thoughts at that time in the future.
But 10 years (let alone 50) from now, I might not even know what year big events happened. And so I'll be digging through maybe 100s of hours of recordings/text if I'm looking for a specific event.
There's definitely some product in this space that could be great, but I don't think 60 second recordings is it, especially without some way to filter through the boring crap. I imagine looking through my old calendar would be more helpful than my 60 seconds of nightly drivel.
Cool thread, very inspiring! No one else? :-)
Mine ended up in the middle instead of at the end of the thread....why does it do that?
https://www.60secondseveryday.com , the fastest way of keeping track of your memories. You get a phone call every night and record your 60-second response to the question "How did your day go?". From there, your response is archived into your private online journal and displayed alongside your photos, twitter posts, check-ins, etc from that day. Soon, you'll start getting Flashback emails (ex. "Here's what you were d…
"We want to help people stop forgetting 90% of their lives." I also saw this tagline or similar on PH, and I got to say I'm not a fan. If you look at everyday on it's own, for most of us, it's pretty boring stuff. Why would I want a record of that? If something hugely important happens, sure maybe I'll want to be able to access that memory / my thoughts at that time in the future. But 10 years (let alone 50) from now…
But apart from this, very soon (if not already) it will be possible to transcribe these messages and extract some useful metadata from it, even put together a kind of biography. That will be interesting even to sceptics like you!
Also consider journaling, many people, that live relatively uneventful lives, do that. This sounds like an alternative for them.
Microverse. We are launching a tuition-free and remote software engineering program based on ccollaborative and project-based learning. Our mission is to train 1 million software engineers by 2030. Not everyone can afford to spend thousands of dollars or was born in the right place to get access to a college degree. On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching v…
great. Let's turn programming into a blue collar job. Increase supply so that we all get paid 7$ per hour.
I don't think that is quite the situation we are in though. Computer programming is an unusually easy industry to enter. I didn't study computer science, only started working as a developer much later and my experience is that potential employers and definitely clients if you're freelancing care very little about _how_ you learned it, they just want to know _what_ you can do. A portfolio is much more important than a diploma.
This is why i really take issue with this statement: "On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching videos online for 8 hours a day during a year."
If learning programming entails you watching videos 8 hours a day for a year, I submit you are have chosen the wrong profession. You will be competing for jobs with people who love coding, people that it would require a "superhuman" effort to _keep_ from programming.
Anyone with a real interest and access to a computer with internet, can _easily_ learn to program. Not so much by watching videos full-time, but by a combination of actually programming, reading tutorials and yes, watching some videos.
Then there are people who are not passionate about programming, people who are not naturals but just want a decent job. I suspect this programme is aimed at them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that of course, but it's unlikely that they will be competing for the $200k jobs in Valley startups.
https://tuiqo.com Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj8ezqLCOs Tuiqo - Document versioning for humans Tuiqo allows you to work on many versions of your text at the same time, from within one document. It is the easiest way to revise your text and organize document versions.
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"We want to help people stop forgetting 90% of their lives." I also saw this tagline or similar on PH, and I got to say I'm not a fan. If you look at everyday on it's own, for most of us, it's pretty boring stuff. Why would I want a record of that? If something hugely important happens, sure maybe I'll want to be able to access that memory / my thoughts at that time in the future. But 10 years (let alone 50) from now…
Of course most of it will be "drivel", but it's _your_ drivel, the drivel that your life is made up of. For most people that _will_ be interesting, or at least emotional, as they look back on life later on. For starters this group includes everyone with children. Just think of all the "pointless" photos we take of our children, they mean so much to us. But apart from this, very soon (if not already) it will be possib…
This exercise seems more about focusing your day/priorities, clearing your thoughts and taking some time to feel some good vibes. It's not about remembering 100% of your life.
Yeah - If I'm going to look back on life later on at things, it will be 100x in favor of things like my kid's photos/videos vs words I spoke that were transcribed to text.
https://tuiqo.com Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj8ezqLCOs Tuiqo - Document versioning for humans Tuiqo allows you to work on many versions of your text at the same time, from within one document. It is the easiest way to revise your text and organize document versions.
Beautiful and sorely needed! But how do you handle versioning (if at all), as a separate dimension of just like the "Google" vs "Facebook" versions?