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oblongx commented on Ask HN: How to get fast cellular internet in rural areas · Posted by u/Diesel555

oblongx · 3 years ago

I only had about one bar on the phone and I used one of these for a while before I found a WISP in the area. It worked pretty good, gave me about triple the bandwidth going from about 1.5-2 mbps to 6-7. I plugged it right into the verizon mifi puck and just bridged the wifi it outputs to connect it to my home network. Used a weBoost for inside the house to improve other phone signals and still have that setup, it kind of worked for the puck but the external mimo was a lot better.

https://www.waveform.com/products/mimo-log-periodic-hotspot-...

You can call them to get more details on the ideal setup for your towers/network.

oblongx commented on Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers (2016) notechmagazine.com/2016/1... · Posted by u/hacsky

pfdietz · 4 years ago

Pigeons don't fix nitrogen, so how is this an alternative to synthetic fertilizers? The N has to come from somewhere.

oblongx · 4 years ago

Pigeon, like most bird poop is very high in N.

oblongx commented on New Secret Service report details growing incel terrorism threat cbsnews.com/news/incel-th... · Posted by u/DocFeind

mattzito · 4 years ago

FWIW, for the people rolling their eyes at the "waste of government time", the actual report is very interesting:

https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/20...

As far as I can tell, the word "terrorism" appears nowhere in the document, though it's possible my pdf search is broken (certainly I didn't notice it in my read of the document). Nor does it really say that it is "growing", though that's a little bit more subjective (it talks about the rise of online misogyny, but doesn't directly tie that to violence, per se). That seems to be all created by the news website.

Instead, the point of the doc is to say "here are signs that were missed in this particular case, and you should consider keeping an eye out for them".

Those signs, for what it's worth, do not seem particularly subtle:

- the killer's parents were so concerned about him that they slept with their door locked

- he was fired from multiple jobs for inappropriate touching

- (dishonorably) honorably discharged from the military for inappropriate behavior

- sentenced to court ordered counseling on four different occasions for interactions with women

- a friend's wife reported him to law enforcement with concerns that he might be violent

I could go on and on - this is not some poor, sex-deprived misfit who just couldn't hack it in the cutthroat world of modern dating - it's someone with deep mental illness who happened to turn it towards women, maybe because he was bullied (or maybe that was his post-rationalization).

The real lesson here, as far as I can tell, is that we need to destigmatize mental illness, we need to encourage parents to get their kids mental help, and we need to shift law enforcement from a reactionary system to a preventative system.

Unfortunately, the other thing that would have been really helpful here would be to have one central dossier on this individual that encompassed all of their different negative interactions with law enforcement, their military discharge, etc. - but that very quickly gets into a level of big brother that I am uncomfortable with.

EDIT: I put dishonorably discharged when I should have put honorably - fixed.

oblongx · 4 years ago

Yet I don't think this is what CBS wants people to take away from this. The CBS headline says terrorism and goes on about the government's report confirming but most folks won't even read past that headline.

oblongx commented on Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam? · Posted by u/jc_811

0goel0 · 5 years ago

This annoys the hell out of me. I'm in the same spot getting spam emails even though I've unsubscribed from everything. What's worse is that I also get their marketing emails even though I've been unsubscribed.

Most recently, "Just for you: Save Big with Xfinity Mobile " and "Welcome to your new Xfinity Retail Store.".

Like fuck you comcast.

oblongx · 5 years ago

To be fair and for what it's worth, xfinity mobile is pretty great. It's on the verizon network and most months I pay $12 for the single gig plan. unlimited is 45, then again you just read another ad for Comcast. sorry i guess

oblongx commented on Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained hillebrand.com/media/publ... · Posted by u/luthfur

hourislate · 5 years ago

>North America currently faces a 40% imbalance; which means that for every 100 containers that arrive only 40 are exported. 60 out of every 100 containers continue to accumulate, which is a staggering figure considering the China to USA trade route sustains on average 900,000 TEUs per month.

>The scrapping of containers now exceeds the building of new ones, causing inventories in factories to plummet. It will take months before more vessels and containers are built, meaning capacity likely won’t normalize until Q2 2021.

Interesting, try to buy one and they are charging and arm and leg. About 10-15 years ago you could pick up an old 40 FT container for about $500. Today you could go to a yard that has 10000 stacked and rusting containers and they want $2k plus to buy a beat up one.

Here is a 20 Ft beat to shit for $3600

https://northerncontainersales.ca/shipping-container-prices/...

oblongx · 5 years ago

I'm currently trying to buy one, best quote I got was 3k U.S. for a 20ft but that did include $900 for shipping.

oblongx commented on Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders eurekalert.org/pub_releas... · Posted by u/CharlesW

mc32 · 5 years ago

Do people who work on Septic tanks (or nightsoilmen) and such share a common profile in regards to their immune system?

Or is transplanting a requirement?

oblongx · 5 years ago

How would it work? Airborne poop particles? I've never seen my septic guy get poop on themselves and certainly not in themselves.

oblongx commented on How the union busting consulting firm Google hired compiles employee dossiers vice.com/en/article/pkdqa... · Posted by u/contemporary343

oblongx · 5 years ago

How do they collect this information? Are they conducting interviews with staff? under what pretext?

oblongx commented on Danes Get 20-Year 0% Mortgages bloombergquint.com/onweb/... · Posted by u/harambae

qppo · 5 years ago

Point 3 sounds made up. Banks are in the business of lending, I can't really imagine a scenario where they have an incentive to lend less.

oblongx · 5 years ago

How does the bank make money when it's zero interest loan? Serious question, the article didn't mention anything about it. I'm sure it still costs a few bucks in fees to get the loan but isn't the interest where the real profit is?