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New comment by mike50 in "U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels"

mike50 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:55:44 +0000

https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2019/pb22530/html/upd...

New comment by mike50 in "Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests"

mike50 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:23:07 +0000

And the time for cleanup?

New comment by mike50 in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

mike50 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:37:43 +0000

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

New comment by mike50 in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

mike50 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:29:54 +0000

Personally owned folding shopping carts exist.

New comment by mike50 in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

mike50 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:27:46 +0000

This has to be astoturfed or something. There is literally a Costco in Manhattan and several in suburban Queens and Staten Island. Nothing stops you from going to Costco and just getting a cab back for a once a month trip.

New comment by mike50 in "From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access"

mike50 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:12:35 +0000

Example I'm running my personal academic website and I research something like human sexuality or transgender people how will this be enforced since the website is just one person? Remember people in high school have been credited authors on research papers.

New comment by mike50 in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

mike50 — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:41:54 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch#Criticism

New comment by mike50 in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

mike50 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:23:19 +0000

With the exception of firmware development those are all designer tasks that have never required a degree.

New comment by mike50 in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

mike50 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:13:19 +0000

This person knows nothing about RF and is just another applications monkey. Without taking fields and waves you are at best a technician. Anyone who actually worked in defense knows that minicircuits is a notorious company that pays very poorly and has massive turnover. Many of the other defense/space RF subs are just the same. The author is just mangling all RF communications applications into one big ball. And of course the authors pathetic theory background means that RADAR is the only sensing application they "understand".

Read this https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/where-are-they-n... and tell me how well this next big surge is going to work out any differnt.

New comment by mike50 in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

mike50 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:12:59 +0000

The meta is that Wired (Conde Nast) is peak psyop.

New comment by mike50 in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

mike50 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:57:52 +0000

Not the money laundering, the mined bridges the fact that major international banks are based there or being a major supplier of weapons and formerly troops.

New comment by mike50 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

mike50 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:50:11 +0000

Because the students learned that school is designed by old morons, without understating why writing book reports and doing math drills has the intent of creating students that can read and write or learn other transferable skills.

New comment by mike50 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

mike50 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:37:52 +0000

This has been replaced by a webcam on a stick and a computer monitor.

New comment by mike50 in "Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat"

mike50 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:31:18 +0000

Unless there has been some change recently those have never had the bandwidth or software support needed to capture DV.

New comment by mike50 in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

mike50 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:02:20 +0000

Automotive, space and defense happily use older processes at scale. Also embedded electronics in all sorts of electronics.

New comment by mike50 in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

mike50 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:00:48 +0000

It's just an attempt to copy Taiwan and the Philippines by starting with the labor intensive low value add part of semiconductor manufacturing.

New comment by mike50 in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

mike50 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:11:24 +0000

Let alone the compressors or the flow measurement equipment. Also significant portions of the pipesline (especially in neighborhoods / last mile) aren't metal anymore.

New comment by mike50 in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

mike50 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:35:09 +0000

They do sell ir dongles for android but the reviews on amazon don't look great.

New comment by mike50 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mike50 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:01:27 +0000

100% no subway link to Manhattan, pretty car friendly and mostly two or three family attached homes.

New comment by mike50 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mike50 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:00:35 +0000

Again go to Queens or Brooklyn plenty of suburban size and shape supermarkets.