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lol just searched "toilet clown" on kickstarter
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1017860499/potty-glo
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May 12, 2016 16:50
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i refuse to believe those are photos of real people
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May 12, 2016 17:16
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they can't be real, they aren't calling themselves the CEO, CTO, CIO, CFO
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May 12, 2016 17:56
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Sagebrush posted:well, I dunno about lightweight, but you could get a consistent 500 watts to power your water bottle from a roughly backpack-sized radioisotope generator. maybe I'll kick start that I think you're right! With a spherical-vacuum-cow RTG (0 mass housing, perfect energy reclamation, etc), let's see how much you'd need of each kind of fuel in common use: Americium-241 is produced as nuclear waste, and therefore pretty cheap (it's in smoke detectors) but its power density is 2.2W/kg so I think you'd need a trolley or something to carry the 220kg of radioactive material. Plutonium-238 is pretty good on power density, but you'd need about a kg of it (0.54W/g), which is just a little less than peak Soviet annual production of the stuff. Polonium-210 has the best power density: 120W/g, so you'd only need like 4g of it. And it's an alpha emitter so you can totally survive being close to it. Its half-life is 138 days, though, but that's a solid benefit for a kickstarter because you can sell little Keurig-style polonium cartridges. I'd invest! Strontium-90 is available in high quantity and low price because it's a waste product of nuclear reactors. It's a beta emitter, so you don't want it very near you, but it's not the *most* dangerous kind of radioactivity. It puts out 0.4 W/g, and 500W / 0.4 W/g = 1.2 kg, which is easily carryable. Its half-life is 28 years, so you'll definitely be dead of radiation poisoning by the time you'd have to buy a new one. Another solid candidate! If we start using real-world efficiencies, maximum RTG efficiency ever is around 10%, so we have to multiply all those requirements by 10, 90% of which will be waste heat. Maybe you can use it to generate steam and spin a turbine or something. In summary, your ideas are better than most kickstarters and I'd pay a few hundred bucks to back an Irradiatr.
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May 12, 2016 18:16
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thats not the stymie i know
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May 12, 2016 18:18
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don't quote good posts stymie
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May 12, 2016 18:23
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SolTerrasa posted:I think you're right! With a spherical-vacuum-cow RTG (0 mass housing, perfect energy reclamation, etc), let's see how much you'd need of each kind of fuel in common use:
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May 12, 2016 18:27
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tim schafer and some other people started a crowdfunding company that promises equity and whoooooooooops it's not going too great http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/11/11657448/fig-consortium-psychonauts-2-equity-crowdfunding-sec-delay-update i almost want to feel sorry for him but like, by now he should know better
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May 12, 2016 19:22
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Al! posted:totally an acceptable spelling and also gently caress the welsh sheep spotted 
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May 12, 2016 19:28
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anthonypants posted:tim schafer and some other people started a crowdfunding company that promises equity and whoooooooooops it's not going too great http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/11/11657448/fig-consortium-psychonauts-2-equity-crowdfunding-sec-delay-update i like the idea of fig and went through the investor accreditation and all that. the issue is, all of the projects they've proposed have looked lame. the pc port of rock band 4? please.
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May 12, 2016 21:44
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I knew fig was going to fail horribly the second I found out what the actual roi they were offering to investors was (hint, less than putting the money into a savings account)
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May 12, 2016 21:47
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Al! posted:I knew fig was going to fail horribly the second I found out what the actual roi they were offering to investors was (hint, less than putting the money into a savings account) how is that even possible
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May 12, 2016 23:29
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negative roi is a thing
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May 12, 2016 23:34
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Al! posted:I knew fig was going to fail horribly the second I found out what the actual roi they were offering to investors was (hint, less than putting the money into a savings account) uh, if they were really offering guaranteed high yields from a site where you're investing in video games that are very likely to not sell super good, they'd just plain be lying
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May 12, 2016 23:36
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actually on the fig website they're promising returns of up to 300%!!!!*********
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May 12, 2016 23:43
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thats pretty low compared to bitcoins
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May 12, 2016 23:49
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SynthOrange posted:thats pretty low compared to bitcoins id totally get into bitcoins if my giftcard scams werent going so well
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May 13, 2016 00:17
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:it's so loving irresponsible to tell people they don't need to bring water with them if they have that thing, jfc well the map does list that the device pretty much only works in all the super humid places: 
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May 13, 2016 01:22
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MrMoo posted:well the map does list that the device pretty much only works in all the super humid places: I think the device will work equally well everywhere
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May 13, 2016 01:54
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Al! posted:I knew fig was going to fail horribly the second I found out what the actual roi they were offering to investors was (hint, less than putting the money into a savings account) yeah I'm not sure what you're talking about. you can't make promises when soliciting for investments or the sec is all over you. they would show a schedule of gross earnings to royalties, and some data so that you could create your own sales estimates. my personal analyses always ended up with sales about or below breakeven. you also know from the get go that the terms they give external investors are way worse than the rates on the equity they keep for themselves which is a bit galling.
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May 13, 2016 02:03
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SolTerrasa posted:I think the device will work equally well everywhere wait you're not stymie
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May 13, 2016 06:40
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I mean those circles are "places with historical water shortages" I know Business School Graduates all believe they're the first ones to have every single idea that passes through their weirdly shaped heads, but come on, think about it for half a second, surely if it was going to solve a real problem that kills people and you can do it with off the shelf parts, someone else, like a professional aid worker or something, would have done it already.
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May 13, 2016 07:20
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Gus Hobbleton posted:wait you're not stymie Ah poo poo I knew I'd seen this av somewhere
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May 13, 2016 07:23
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SolTerrasa posted:Ah poo poo I knew I'd seen this av somewhere lomarf /sweeps hair across forehead, shaves moustache down to small rectangle, "Perfect! Everyone loves Charlie Chaplin!"
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May 13, 2016 08:32
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lomarf
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May 13, 2016 09:10
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and also lol because i had thought "man who did you piss off so much that they bought you stymie's avatar"
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May 13, 2016 09:10
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here solterasa, in case you're looking for a new one 
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May 13, 2016 09:16
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SolTerrasa posted:I mean those circles are "places with historical water shortages" you say this like you think they're being entirely honest
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May 13, 2016 10:19
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Trig Discipline posted:here solterasa, in case you're looking for a new one "shut up cga dogtits" has the same number of syllables
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May 13, 2016 11:04
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/datagatekeeper/datagatekeeper-the-first-impenetrable-anti-hacking what
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May 13, 2016 11:41
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lomarf
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lomarf
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Ian McLean posted:rly guys? We just launched. The content will come. Our objective right now is just to make something simple people will want to use for creating reports. What reason would I have for using your site, when I can get everything I need through Quandl and plot it through bespoke graphics packages in R?
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May 13, 2016 13:17
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Malloc Voidstar posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/datagatekeeper/datagatekeeper-the-first-impenetrable-anti-hacking 
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Malloc Voidstar posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/datagatekeeper/datagatekeeper-the-first-impenetrable-anti-hacking AES, the 256kb encryption technology
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May 13, 2016 18:49
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Dren posted:AES, the 256kb encryption technology packed with well-known government backdoors, such as
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May 13, 2016 19:02
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Even if we pretend the self filling bottle worked, it seems like a really convenient way for a lot of people to get Legionnaire's disease. Am I wrong about that? Because it seems like a water condenser you drink off of without continual cleaning is an easy way to get yourself sick. Not that a product which suggests "No need to plan trip around water usage" needs help murdering people.Malloc Voidstar posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/datagatekeeper/datagatekeeper-the-first-impenetrable-anti-hacking Holy crap their videos too. This whole kickstarter is solid gold. "SSL is a Myth"
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SolTerrasa posted:I mean those circles are "places with historical water shortages" this particular idea, done at the proper scale, 3 years ago, by people in a circled region: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35yeVwigQcc but access to potable drinking water is a huge issue worldwide, current solutions involve daily 10 mile hikes with jerry cans
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there's zero new technology in that water bottle. as noted you can prototype it with the guts of a dehumidifier. the problem is always cost and power, neither of which this kickstarter even attempts to address
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