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DRTA, but I listened to the podcast. In it, they say that if the Citicorp tower fell, it would topple nearby skyscrapers like dominoes.

Out of morbid curiosity, what's the worst case scenario for something like this? Let's assume terrorists could detonate a bomb large enough to knock over any one skyscraper in the world. Where should they put it to maximize the chain reaction of destruction?


I think most skyscrapers fall straight down under the load rather than topple. Similar to what happened to the WTC towers. Not that I have any credibility in this area, but according to that documentary people seemed especially concerned that this particular building would topple instead of collapse straight down.


tl;dr


Or, you know, I could do that myself without paying you to intermediate.


The point is maybe not everybody can do that on their own and are you going to like woken up for a key in the middle of the night?


Losing keys should be fairly rare, to the point where one call in the middle of the night ever five or ten years should be OK... especially when the alternative is a monthly fee.


You can put this on your glasses, books, dvd's (if you have them and lend them out ;-), walking canes (now that's an image), all for a single subs.


Hmm, makes me think of making an ex libris [1] stamp with a QR code on it...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookplate


If I were still single, I would be all over this.


If that's what they want, then let them use the money to hire an Exec. If not, don't force it on them.

This just limits the charities options, and only benefits exec.


Is it possible that after various administrative costs, they don't end up getting $100 worth of labor out of someone, vs. $100 worth of labor by hiring Exec?


Exec also takes administrative costs out of that $100. Either way, the charity will have to train the person. But the person the charities hires is likely to come back, so that time is not wasted. The Exec worker may never come back, rendering all of the time spent training them wasted.


Having to open the app to update the weather rather defeats its utility.


Can I specify a zip code? I went to it on my desktop and my phone, and both show different, wrong temperatures.


WTF is this site?


Looks like some looney cult. Check the section on UFO's http://www.thrivemovement.com/the_code-et_ufo

I think this HN post is just a spam trying to bring people to their site.


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