gregpilling

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by gregpilling 7y ago
I have 4 children and I actively help them with/cheat on their homework. They are assigned too damn much of it. They are all getting good grades and I don't think it is impacting them academically.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
I am surprised that there is no automated alert to tell the webmaster that his code has changed on his website. Especially on the payments page! With 50,000,000 users a month, surely they have a whole team working on checkout, all the time?
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by gregpilling 8y ago
"It’s a response to scarce capital, and when that constraint is loosened, it’s worth considering whether other approaches are superior. With enough cash in the bank, Katzenberg can afford to create content, sign distribution deals, and
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by gregpilling 8y ago
I do light manufacturing in Arizona. In the last six months the prices of steel have basically doubled. My #1 material input now costs twice as much, and to add insult to injury, it is now becoming very hard to get in some cases. Last week
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by gregpilling 8y ago
Same for Home Equity lines of credit. I had a friend who was a banker, he had planned on using a $100K HELOC to remodel his house. He was stunned when Chase dropped his Line from $100K to $5K. Killed that remodel. When I heard that, I maxed
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by gregpilling 8y ago
My son had brain surgery when he was 6. He is now 14. The helicopter ride of 100 miles to the brain center was $25,000 and the brain surgery was $46,000. The helicopter ride took 1 hour and used 2 people. The brain surgery was 6 hours and i
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by gregpilling 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System The interstate highway system got passed in 1956. It is now comprised of almost 50,000 miles of highway, and cost almost $500 Billion in todays dollars. There wou
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by gregpilling 8y ago
You can come intern at my factory in Arizona, no charge :) I will teach you about laser cutting, robot welding, keeping the supply chain going, and how to make a profit when competing directly with China and India.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
The real scam is the ongoing, monthly, maintenance fees on your 'timeshare'. Worldmark wanted $100 per month, per week of ownership, in a presentation I saw in Vegas. Which means that 52 weeks x $100 x 12 months = $62,400 per year
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by gregpilling 8y ago
There are companies that specialize in insuring risks like that. It is a whole sub industry of insuring unlikely to win contests. https://www.holeinoneinsurance.com/how-much-does-it-cost.htm...
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by gregpilling 8y ago
Most manufacturing machines run G-code. Simply changing one of the G-code values (text editing) would cause the machine to make parts incorrectly, and this would screw up things down the line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by gregpilling 8y ago
You mean like when Kanye said he would in 2015? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9x92nwGf_M Now that he has seen Trump get elected, I am sure he knows it is possible.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/By-topic/Property-type... U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civil
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by gregpilling 8y ago
U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civilian deaths, 764 civilian injuries, and $536 million in direct property damage. Facts and Fi
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by gregpilling 8y ago
a fairly standard industrial welding cell like a Panasonic 750 is between $85 to 125 thousand dollars per unit, which includes robot arm, welding power supply, turntable, chassis that is it mounted to, and the transformer to power it. Requi
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by gregpilling 8y ago
from the link "These days companies know literally everything about you, your friends, your interests, and they use it all to sell ads." I am not surprised there was a culture clash. I am more surprised that they sold to FB, and t
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by gregpilling 8y ago
Yes. A counselor is a great idea. I wish I done that with my ex-partners. Sometimes an objective and impartial third party is exactly what you need. People can get dug into their points of view and be quite honestly unable to see it any oth
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by gregpilling 8y ago
a laser and a galvo should do it
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by gregpilling 8y ago
You still can, and they have warranties. https://performanceparts.ford.com/engines/ http://www.chevrolet.com/performance/crate-engines http://www.chevrolet.com/performance/con
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by gregpilling 8y ago
I am not underestimating them, I am planning on it. All my capital investments are in automated equipment, that I know how to operate myself, and that are flexible in their use - they can make things for many industries, out of many materia
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by gregpilling 8y ago
from the article: "In a small town, there are likely a few small restaurants run by a few people who do many things—cook, clean, manage the books, etc. “Some of these tasks are easily enough defined to soon be automatable,” Youn says.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
You could also use something like ZenBusiness which is free https://www.zenbusiness.com/pricing . They are a startup out of Austin TX.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
when I got my first home PC in 1993 there was IQ test software on it. I took the test tired, drunk, happy, caffeinated, all sorts of ways. I had huge swings in the score . +- 40 points for me personally. I came to the same conclusion as you
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by gregpilling 8y ago
I had this link open on my tabs as a coincidence. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2016/02/05/fifty-years-later-t... There still is no racing like it. Crazy stuff.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
Not as complex, but I got this for Christmas https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/BMW-R-1200-GS-Adventure-42063 . My friend gave me this gift because I have the real version too. My name is Greg, I am 48, and I still love LEGO
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by gregpilling 8y ago
As a landlord, I always request cash or cashiers check for move in money. I don't want you living there for 3 months for free while I fight your bad check through the court system to get you evicted. It may sound shocking, but some pe
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by gregpilling 8y ago
For evil purposes. Or for cutting steel and making auto parts.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
Yes, same power unit, but I have the IPG motion control and machine, not a Prima. The Prima was more than double the total cost of mine. That machine in the video can hit $1,000,000 with options. Also it is super cool.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
OP here. by power supply, I was talking about the metal box that the bright light comes out of. The thing making the 4kw of laser juice. Not just a transformer.
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by gregpilling 8y ago
I have a 4kw IPG laser. It cuts through 1/4 steel plate with ease, unless there is a piece of tape or spray paint on the metal. It can't cut that! it has to do with how the wavelength of the light couples with the material. (I am

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