Lime scooters
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@HardwareGeek I dunno. That's the kind of thing I might crowdfund. Or donate to them on a per-scooter-destroyed basis.
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@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
@Carnage said in Lime scooters:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Lime scooters:
@Carnage said in Lime scooters:
You'd need a van with a GPS/GSM/WiFi jammer rig for pickup
Any particular reason why a homemade Faraday cage wouldn't work just as well for a fraction of the price?
I am probably wrong about it, but I have vague memories of faraday cages not properly blocking out high frequencies from my physics class.
And short range signal blockers aren't terribly expensive so if all you want to cover is the van, it should be cheap enough. Building the faraday cage inside of the van will reduce the loading volume so you can grab fewer muppetmobiles in one go, and if you want to field strip them you've also made the working area a lot more cramped.
What about just building a catapult on the back of a truck so that you can more easily throw them in to a body of water?
I do like your idea. A modern trebuchet built with steel and lead counterweights with a computer aided aiming system could throw all kinds of stupid startup clutter on the streets.
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@Polygeekery
Tsk, and here I thought you were a libertarian. Sliding off into the Keynesian realm of creative destruction... for shame! :shame.giphy:
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@izzion said in Lime scooters:
Tsk, and here I thought you were a libertarian. Sliding off into the Keynesian realm of creative destruction...
It is more akin to anarchism. They leave their shit lying around, others take it and dispose of it in creative ways. Launch it from a trebuchet in to a canal for example.
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@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
@izzion said in Lime scooters:
Tsk, and here I thought you were a libertarian. Sliding off into the Keynesian realm of creative destruction...
It is more akin to anarchism. They leave their shit lying around, others take it and dispose of it in creative ways. Launch it from a trebuchet in to a canal for example.
Speaking of imaginative disposal...
It would be a bit amusing to build a battery cell exploding device of some sort, and use the scooters for the booms!
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@Carnage
Hmm in that case we better open up a bet on how many scooters it take before city's start to ban them
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@Luhmann said in Lime scooters:
@Carnage
Hmm in that case we better open up a bet on how many scooters it take before city's start to ban themWin-win.
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@TimeBandit said in Lime scooters:
Both Lime and JUMP bikes can only be used between April 15 and Nov. 15.
Will there be e-snowmobiles for the other half of the year?
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@dkf side benefit: When they explode there is ice everywhere to soothe your burns.
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@dkf said in Lime scooters:
Will there be e-snowmobiles for the other half of the year?
For now it's covered by more traditional transport
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@Carnage said in Lime scooters:
@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
@Carnage said in Lime scooters:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Lime scooters:
@Carnage said in Lime scooters:
You'd need a van with a GPS/GSM/WiFi jammer rig for pickup
Any particular reason why a homemade Faraday cage wouldn't work just as well for a fraction of the price?
I am probably wrong about it, but I have vague memories of faraday cages not properly blocking out high frequencies from my physics class.
And short range signal blockers aren't terribly expensive so if all you want to cover is the van, it should be cheap enough. Building the faraday cage inside of the van will reduce the loading volume so you can grab fewer muppetmobiles in one go, and if you want to field strip them you've also made the working area a lot more cramped.
What about just building a catapult on the back of a truck so that you can more easily throw them in to a body of water?
I do like your idea. A modern trebuchet built with steel and lead counterweights with a computer aided aiming system could throw all kinds of stupid startup clutter
on the streets.at the appropriate startup
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@Carnage said in Lime scooters:
It would be a bit amusing to build a battery cell exploding device of some sort, and use the scooters for the booms!
Tesla has managed to build a very effective one, but the cell has to be powering the car at the time.
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@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
They leave their shit lying around, others take it and dispose of it in creative ways. Launch it from a trebuchet in to a canal for example.
The problem with this approach is that while the shitty scooters deserve destruction in creative ways, the canals (and the wildlife within them) don't necessarily deserve being polluted.
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@loopback0 if you saw the canal in our city you would realize you are talking about trying to pick fly shit from pepper.
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@TimeBandit said in Lime scooters:
For now it's covered by more traditional transport
What the hell is wrong with derp-dog in the front there.
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@heterodox said in Lime scooters:
@TimeBandit said in Lime scooters:
For now it's covered by more traditional transport
What the hell is wrong with derp-dog in the front there.
Thanks for the laughs! One of our cats (Ricky) does that with obligatory head bobbing when he thinks you’re not looking.
I believe he’s hearing ”Ding Fries Are Done” in his head most times...
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@heterodox said in Lime scooters:
@TimeBandit said in Lime scooters:
For now it's covered by more traditional transport
What the hell is wrong with derp-dog in the front there.
What you get for catching up weeks later: I was totally about to write that.
But anyways, it seems that every pack of huskies has at least one derp.
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@topspin Did they account for the ones dumped into the ocean?
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@hungrier just wait for them to come back.
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@Zecc said in Lime scooters:
I hear the average lifetime of those things around here is three months; before they wind up in a river or in a trashcan or just plain vandalized.
But it takes the scooter companies an average of 4 months to make enough money to break even on the cost of each scooter.
It would seem that the scooter problem is going to take care of itself in the near future.
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I read an article about those companies. Basically, they're all losing money. It's just that each of them hope all of their competitors run out of investor money before them, so they can be a monopoly and raise the prices to start being profitable.
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@El_Heffe said in Lime scooters:
@Zecc said in Lime scooters:
I hear the average lifetime of those things around here is three months; before they wind up in a river or in a trashcan or just plain vandalized.
But it takes the scooter companies an average of 4 months to make enough money to break even on the cost of each scooter.
It would seem that the scooter problem is going to take care of itself in the near future.
If that were true Twitter would have died a long time ago. Don't underestimate the power of VC funding life support.
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@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
@El_Heffe said in Lime scooters:
@Zecc said in Lime scooters:
I hear the average lifetime of those things around here is three months; before they wind up in a river or in a trashcan or just plain vandalized.
But it takes the scooter companies an average of 4 months to make enough money to break even on the cost of each scooter.
It would seem that the scooter problem is going to take care of itself in the near future.
If that were true Twitter would have died a long time ago. Don't underestimate the power of VC funding life support.
Send them my way please!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Lime scooters:
@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
@El_Heffe said in Lime scooters:
@Zecc said in Lime scooters:
I hear the average lifetime of those things around here is three months; before they wind up in a river or in a trashcan or just plain vandalized.
But it takes the scooter companies an average of 4 months to make enough money to break even on the cost of each scooter.
It would seem that the scooter problem is going to take care of itself in the near future.
If that were true Twitter would have died a long time ago. Don't underestimate the power of VC funding life support.
Send them my way please!
If you arent drowning in VC funds, you just havent got an
insanedisruptive enough idea.
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@Carnage said in Lime scooters:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Lime scooters:
@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
@El_Heffe said in Lime scooters:
@Zecc said in Lime scooters:
I hear the average lifetime of those things around here is three months; before they wind up in a river or in a trashcan or just plain vandalized.
But it takes the scooter companies an average of 4 months to make enough money to break even on the cost of each scooter.
It would seem that the scooter problem is going to take care of itself in the near future.
If that were true Twitter would have died a long time ago. Don't underestimate the power of VC funding life support.
Send them my way please!
If you arent drowning in VC funds, you just havent got an
insanedisruptive enough idea.I wonder how much VC funding @SpectateSwamp gets.
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@heterodox said in Lime scooters:
@TimeBandit said in Lime scooters:
For now it's covered by more traditional transport
What the hell is wrong with derp-dog in the front there.
He's just warm, okay? He's panting to cool down.
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Florida anti-scooter man:
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@boomzilla , like, two posts ago.
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@Bulb who can remember what they read 4 days ago? Not me, apparently.
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@El_Heffe said in Lime scooters:
Would they still have arrested him if he'd cut the accelerator instead?
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I find myself in a dark place...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Lime scooters:
I find myself in a dark place...
Is this dark place in the wrong topic?
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@loopback0 said in Lime scooters:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Lime scooters:
I find myself in a dark place...
Is this dark place in the wrong topic?
What the literal shit, I was in UI Bites!
And I know i was because I came from the sidebar category!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Lime scooters:
I find myself in a dark place...
Thankfully there is a cat to keep you company.
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@Polygeekery said in Lime scooters:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Lime scooters:
I find myself in a dark place...
Thankfully there is a cat to keep you company.
I do love my little pussy.
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@Tsaukpaetra thread is
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#inpiration
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Has @Polygeekery visited recently, by any chance?
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@Zerosquare Not recently. But I have gotten pretty good at time delay fuses...
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@Zerosquare I think he's been recruiting followers. The fire rises!
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@blek said in Lime scooters:
@Zerosquare I think he's been recruiting followers. The fire rises!
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@blek said in Lime scooters:
@Zerosquare I think he's been recruiting followers.
I'd love to hear how an interview with @Polygeekery sounds like...
"On a 1-to-10 scale, how would you evaluate your level of experience with flamethrowers?"
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"I understand they're fun, and they're a great way to get around, but they're also hazards," Marcus said.
She hopes Friday will be the last day she'll see electric scooters in Omaha.
"They are in the way of cars all the time. They're left helter-skelter on the sidewalks, so it makes walking rough," she said.
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@El_Heffe said in Lime scooters:
@Zecc said in Lime scooters:
I hear the average lifetime of those things around here is three months; before they wind up in a river or in a trashcan or just plain vandalized.
But it takes the scooter companies an average of 4 months to make enough money to break even on the cost of each scooter.
It would seem that the scooter problem is going to take care of itself in the near future.
I sure hope so. There are now 4 scooter companies in Memphis.
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@mott555 said in Lime scooters:
City wants to know: Should they stay or go?
Now I want to blast The Clash in the office. Damn you!
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@lolwhat If you do there may be trouble