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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that wouldn't be hard with the normal voip.ms call routing. But my intent was for it to be as visually and functionally identical as possible to a phone booth you would've found on a street corner a few decades ago, just in an unusual place (and free). I've avoided anything in the normal usage of it that would deviate from that.
You could make it 99% of the time a normal phone booth and 1% you get the Matrix easter egg, that would be even more fun.
And the other 1%, a call from the Machine (Person of Interest) with a Dewey Decimal System number callout. It would be even better if the booth itself rang and when somebody nearby answered, you get the numbers.
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#224Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. Not trying to be flippant, genuinely curious if my impression is based on reality or am I making things up.
If you actually look at the statistics the income distribution is not much different than the US.
The well off narrative makes it an interesting news story. There is no news story about how burning man has the same income distribution as the US.
I have wanted to go since 1996 but never have. When I was younger, being on the east coast always made it so very remote.
Now with age I wouldn't even want to go to some weekend festivals I went to as a kid let alone burning man.
I think if you are young and really want to go you have to seize the moment. The moment might not come again and not because you can't but because you won't.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's still the best party going on anywhere in the world that week. That's a bold claim, but maybe it's true :D
It's absolutely true. When you're there, there is no doubt it is absolutely the best place to be as far as party and creativity goes. That being said, it depends on what you're looking for in life. But the energy, time and investment that people put into this thing is absolutely mad. It doesn't compare to anything else that exists in the world, not even by a factor of 1:10. It's just insane. And there are also honest…
Dude, check Kumbh Mela before making outrageous statements. 70k is a family meeting in backyard in comparison.
I get it, you dig it passionately and all the power to you, but a bit of modesty and/or world experience would only serve you well.
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#226This phone is my project. I'm happy to answer questions.
Is the base really made of cement?
That was the look I was going for, but the base is actually 1" plywood with a 45 degree bevel and rounded corners, painted with a few coats of a grey deck paint. There are 6 massive bolts holding the booth pedestal to the base. Assembled, the whole thing is pretty sturdy.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the phone more used for inbound or outbound? Calling the phone seems fun, but I wouldn't want to get in the way of a bunch of people standing in line to make a call, or use it for emergencies.
Last year, it was roughly 2/3 outbound vs 1/3 inbound, based on total talk time in the 6.5 days it was set up. There were 1,460 outbound calls successfully made to 835 different numbers in 23 countries, with a total talk time of 34.8 hours. (This is down about 40% from peak years ago, now that there's more cell service and Internet available at Burning Man.) There were also 5,658 inbound call attempts, and 676 (12%)…
Did you restrict any of the expensive international destinations in the voip.ms control panel? I imagine you wouldn't get that many people who wanted to call really weird places and have a 2 hour conversation from the playa, but some very costly destinations in per minute rate do exist in the voip.ms rate table.
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#228An old injury, but I'm always devastated to see BRC stuff on HN. It's like watching Elon snap a Nazi salute at inauguration: an unwelcome but undeniable admission that something (or someone) admirable can shift smoothly to moral horror without losing (or perhaps even burnishing) its reputation. BRC was an artistic rebellion, and now it's where people like me go to network. I can't take me anywhere.
It's really not that entirely. I've been attending for the past 20 years without networking once. I design and build and run and strike my camp. It's great and zero people try make do anything else. I am sure there are certain percentage of networking striver types but they're flotsam on the sea of the ongoing "artistic rebellion" required to make it happen.
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#229This phone is my project. I'm happy to answer questions.
You need to have a rotary dial on it. ;)
Good show!