Man that is really selling it. I lived in a car and it was my house. I will meet you in the middle there. But a tent is not a home. Even by my liberal standards of calling a vehicle a home.

I think the best term that has the most impact is Sleeping Rough Outdoors. You read that and it does not matter what side you are one, you now how the person is living and it describes the plight that many homeless face when just needing to get some rest.

The concept you are describing is a "homebum" which describes a person who sticks to one area. This is different than a "hobo" who keeps moving and is not as much a nuisance of homeless. A "rubber tramp" is a homeless person who lives in a vehicle.

While his work is inspirational it is really not moving the needle on solving this problem. He is a tinkerer, wish he would put his idea's into motion to produce his designs like the dude making the wheelchairs in Utah.

Is there anything stopping anyone from doing that with his designs?

Nice design!

It is the 4th iteration of the design, I've honed it in.

Looks too nice for a stealth shelter. Make it look like a dumpster and nobody will be complaining.

I don't know about that. I feel like the cat is out of the bag with cannabis and that it actually has the net effect of making the population more docile and accepting of the status quo which is good for power (individual experiences may vary of course).

Isn't there research showing that people are smoking less weed in the places it's been legalized? It lost its "cool factor" after that.

That is what happened to the local feed for the city I live in. Their mapping data was trash. I went through fixed the GPS, found the typical focalized center of frame, built a basic frontend, and then they shut it all down.

I found the dude that ran it and emailed back and forth with him for a few years. They made excuses about how it is an IT issue.

Enable ad's. Companies, show more ad's.

Sorry to be pedantic, but I'm drunk and got annoyed by your contraction use. WORD + 's = WORD + is. So, "ad's" = "advertisement is". Which shouldn't make sense. It should be "ads".

Sorry to be pedantic but WORD + ‘s = WORD + is, is not always true. If the word is a singular noun you can add an ‘s to form the possessive form of a singular noun;

Jane’s books

All the comments here are so short sighted about how the fediverse functions. Instead of one big app doing all the aggregatation by interests the fediverse is naturally divided by what makes that group cohesive.

You do not need the algorithm when each users feed is being pumped by what has been siloed within that fediverse.

Just let the platforms show their ad's. That is how I quit. See and ad then close the tab. Went from hours on YouTube to minutes.

Why is everyone complaining on the price tag? It is a product that someone made for profit just like everyone else here is trying to do.

Did Hacker News turn into Daily Deals?

So because everyone wants to make profit, nobody can complain about any prices regardless of how insane they are? What kind of logic is that?

It's honestly not even that expensive considering all the functionality you get and the tech included (which is something HN should understand)

The functionality is a small screen with a timer and a few API calls to set the timer for you sometimes. $189 for a timer is not a lot of functionality for more than 1% of the annual salary of a minimum wage worker. You can get a full android phone for that much which has 10000x the functionality.