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by jblok 6y ago
Fair enough, it exists in some regard... let's change that to pollution caused by the powerplant of the vehicle. I'm not wholly informed here, but just by using common sense, I can only imagine we're talking fractions of a pe
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by jblok 6y ago
Correct, the potential CO2 emissions are externalised but the electricity can come from wind, sun, nuclear, or even fossil fuel power stations that run more efficiently and cleanly than an ICE. Also, I'll take the emissions from tires
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by jblok 6y ago
The UK government is doing the complete opposite in fact. They’ll give you a grant towards the cost of a new EV, a grant for a wall box to be installed at you home, 0% tax on company car benefits if it’s an EV, 0% road tax, etc. They’ve eve
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by jblok 6y ago
Seems like a great solution to streamline your personal online presence. If you don’t have a Twitter you could probably do the same thing with GitHub or Instagram
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Launch HN: Computer vision solutions to keep stores safe during Covid-19(auravision.ai)
1 points by jblok 6y ago|0 comments
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by jblok 8y ago
Amazon are currently more focussed on supplying services to developers through AWS, e.g. Rekognition that do one small, technical part of what we do. That and Amazon Go which is a cool concept that works really well for groceries/conve
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by jblok 8y ago
Thanks! We've certainly explored that avenue in the past, working with city centres & BIDs to get street footfall data. We're also talking with malls, who are trying to get footfall traffic data in myriad of different ways alr
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by jblok 8y ago
Interesting questions - we haven't actually come across them before so I'm just going on what I learnt from that blog post, and I may not have the greatest appreciation for their specifics. - Our strategy is to not start with larg
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Launch HN: Aura Vision (YC W19) – Google Analytics for Physical Stores
88 points by jblok 8y ago|41 comments
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by jblok 8y ago
guscost correctly describes the limitations of MAC address tracking. In my experience building Aura Vision [1], we've also discovered MAC tracking is no longer GDPR compliant, because an identifier about a person is stored indefinitely
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Is Bitcoin a Million Dollars?(isbitcoinamilliondollars.com)
1 points by jblok 9y ago|1 comments
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by jblok 9y ago
Out of interest, how did you work out that you could make $10,000 MRR?
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by jblok 9y ago
1. This is essentially the same as the T Charge which comes into effect in October this year. Diesel taxis are exempt, which is a shame seeing as they are very high polluters, and also drive around all day long. 2. That would be nice, but 2
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by jblok 9y ago
186 days ago I posted my app Dongle Daddy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13434787 On this day, it was also featured on Product Hunt and The Next Web leading to around 30k uniques across 2 days. Traffic is now nothin
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by jblok 9y ago
I get all of that. You're spot on. My point was just addressing the main theme of the article which is trying to make out that if we just got rid of these companies, we'd cut emissions by 71%. Well yeh sure, but then the world wou
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by jblok 9y ago
This article makes out like the companies themselves are directly responsible, rather than the customers of these companies, i.e. you and me. We cause these companies to pollute by creating a market demand for their products or services. No
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by jblok 9y ago
Hey, I'm just getting into weightlifting. I think this might be a really cool tool! Going to use it for a bit and see if it's helpful.
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by jblok 9y ago
London has been doing a great job lately at improving cycle infrastructure. There is a new concept of a "cycle superhighway" - sometimes that means a segregated bike path, like CS3 that goes from The Tower Of London, straight thro
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IT company boss threatened staff with redundancy if they voted Labour(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jblok 9y ago|0 comments
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by jblok 9y ago
> We want to try new ways to motivate employees that don’t revolve around stock options with unknown value. How about salaries?
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by jblok 10y ago
The main Olympic Stadium is now used full time by a local Premier League football team, West Ham. The Olympic pool is now a public swimming pool anyone can go in for £5. Not sure about the other venues, but the whole surrounding area is a n
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by jblok 10y ago
Those areas cover probably max 0.1% of total land area in the USA. Since these are some of the most sought after real estate areas, it seems these areas would be the preserve of the top 0.1%, or 1%. Back of the napkin maths here I'll a
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by jblok 10y ago
Why do you need to use Turbolinks, when you can just do a normal page load, and set the correct cache headers for your javascript bundles, to stop the browser re-downloading the same script.
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by jblok 10y ago
What are your reasons for declining to opt-out, out of interest? I looked into this law (the actual wording of the law itself even) and found it to be mostly harmless. I also came across the wording which nullifies the entire regulation f
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by jblok 10y ago
Any app that tries to make me talk to strangers is an instant no from me. I can do that quite easily without an app and I choose not to, daily.
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by jblok 10y ago
That's a pretty shameless plug, but I might have use for this service, so thanks for sharing I guess. I especially like the 'freeloader' pricing plan xD
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by jblok 10y ago
Old people love inuendos too :)
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by jblok 10y ago
As many have mentioned, this is missing some key connectors (USB C, DP, etc). I wanted to launch with an initial subset of connections just to get going. Also I found USB C hard to distinguish in a photo compared to Micro USB. But I will pu
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Show HN: An app for your older relatives, helping them find the right cables(dongledaddy.com)
113 points by jblok 10y ago|62 comments
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by jblok 10y ago
With functioning clocks, Galileo is accurate to within a metre, according to this article. That's crazy - I had no idea it was that accurate.

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