Who said anything about not trying things? All I said was everyone who has tried it has found it to be a huge pain and moved on when they could. This thing's cool, but It's a tiny demonstration unit. We'll see if they've solved the problems at scale.

Indeed, tons of people have done this before and all stopped doing it as soon as they could because it's a huge pain in the ass.

I guess I should have been more clear. The original articles about this stated that those who contacted customer service were able to have the device remotely unlocked, and it could be bypassed with a flat head screwdriver.

They did. If this guy had called customer service instead of freaking out, they could have remotely unlocked it or told him how to easily bypass the device without harm.

We know of a star that is estimated to be older than the estimated age of the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's possible that the two estimates overlap, but it's also possible our methodologies are off in either or both cases.

Hard to say for certain, but I was a donor for the original two rounds and probably would have given more if there were options. It wouldn't take that many donors to keep it running on their low cost all linux footprint.

I haven't been using the site for a while because it slid way down hill under Putt's neglect. It used to be a really great place to have honest conversations. Turned into nothing but the stuff people couldn't say elsewhere.

If you are actually interested.

The users of this site have been begging the admin to take their money for years. He has repeatedly refused to ask for or even except readily offered money. His partner had two donation drives before he departed the venture and that kept the site afloat till 2017 when it was announced the site was out of money, mostly because they were running on licenced .NET servers and paying a ton of money for them each month.

After that a single person came forward to fund the site secretly. The users of the site also ran a volunteer effort to rewrite the site code in .NET Core and switch to all Linux servers to save money.

That kept the site afloat until March of this year when apparently the funding stopped. Rather that tell anyone about this, the site admin just started paying for the site himself until now, when he announces he does not want to pay for it anymore. Users still begging to give him money.

I think he just wants to be done with the site.

" They would use it everywhere except that asphalt is cheaper and faster"

The cost is a surprisingly small part of it. While asphalt roads are cheaper to lay down, they also don't last as long before they need replacement.

The main reason we use asphalt for most roads is freeze tolerance and maintenance time.

Modern asphalt formations are able to be and flex even at low temperatures, preventing freeze damage and cracking that can result in total failure the next season. Concrete is laid in small individual blocks that have filled expansion joints in between them to allow for needed expansion and contraction. The problem with that is when the elastomer dries out and cracks, road authorities don't get it sealed in time, letting water get to the underlay. Once water penetrates the roadbed, you are counting down to the toad's destruction.

Additionally, concrete roads need to be cured for an extend period of time after laying, requiring road or at least lane closures durring any maintenance. Asphalt can be driven on within minutes of being laid. Making it much more maintenance friendly.

They are basically saying "shining high intensity lights into your eyes is bad". Well no shit.

They have come out and said this.

They actually love when people do not log in because not logged in users count as unique visitors each time. They also count un-logged in as a new unique user every time they change cell towers.

Careful there, that'll get you banned for hate speech on twitter.

Private companies still have shareholders. It's just an invite only affair.

Everyone keeps comparing this to what Hillary did. Not sure why.

She was using a non-government account for government business. Hillary set us her own email sever in an unoccupied house and transferred classified information on to it.

These things are not comparable.

This is basically the same concept as any other kinetic energy storage system. You could be compressing air, lifting water, lifting rocks, or spinning a flywheel, it's all the same idea.

Personally I think pumped hydro is the best idea, as it can scale very large with the least risk of catastrophic indecent.

Pumped hydro electric power is a similar concept but even simpler to setup, as it uses pumps and pipes instead of robotic cranes.