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by 205guy 7y ago
This is an excellent observation, it sums up nicely some "big picture" thoughts I had myself on this topic. In fact I think it works at the individual level as well: I think climate-change skepticism/inaction comes from peopl
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by 205guy 7y ago
That air around you, it's difficult for me to see how you've claimed it. I'm officially claiming it can be claimed, and it's mine now.
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by 205guy 7y ago
I agree that this is an elegant lens with which to view the world, and I love writing and computers and all that. But I don't think that oral histories are necessarily worse in both content and process. From my understanding, indigenou
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by 205guy 7y ago
Exactly, it's a slightly different set but for all intents and purposes, Lego can just reissue a set that is so poplular/expensive in the aftermarket. Frankly, I'm glad the Lego company is not playing the scarcity and collect
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by 205guy 7y ago
Is Khosla Mexican or descended from the Mexican landowners? Why were the special property rights of the Mexican landowners under the treaty passed to subsequent US owners of the land? So now there is land in CA that is not federal or native
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by 205guy 7y ago
I think both Excel and Libre Office have their place. Excel has the power and refinement for professional users such as accounting, actuarial, and the commenter's data analysis. Libre Office is for home use: tax prep, budgeting, graphi
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by 205guy 7y ago
The feds run various websites and create content for various reasons. NASA images are free to reuse with attribution, and lots of astronomy sites do. But you wouldn't want someone making a copycat of the reservation site and scamming p
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by 205guy 7y ago
Please don't be that EV owner that mooches off of "free" sockets. Or at least ask first. RV parks aren't expecting people to use $5-10 of electricity overnight, and they'll get upset at EV owners. Just get the 200kw
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by 205guy 7y ago
To sum up: respected dev helped a relative in the past by setting up a second account with same credentials, this second account had thousands of review fraud, so Apple shut down both accounts without warning. Upon communication, Apple agre
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by 205guy 7y ago
> Rambo hasn't, AFAICT, even had it confirmed that his account is suspended at all. In the original article, Rambo is complaining that his dev account has been limited in some way. Anyway, how is that relevant when no one in this th
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by 205guy 7y ago
There is still time for a creative person to enact (not re-enact) the "Tears in the rain" scene on a Los Angeles rooftop tomorrow night. Just so the two timelines share a special moment.
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by 205guy 7y ago
HN readers obviously have a mix of opinions, from software pirate to corporate shill. But certainly many work for FAANGs and the thousands of other companies in tech and have some ideas how companies work. Their pay and employment and produ
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by 205guy 7y ago
The problem is that the OP seems to have used his dev account to get access to information and divulge it against the TOS. He used his financial source to profit in other ways against the interests of his financial source. If my company had
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by 205guy 7y ago
Actually, every time an app dev gets to the front page with a story like this, one of the top commenters has more info that paints them in a much more negative light. Which is exactly what happened in this case (using dev account to access
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by 205guy 7y ago
Write more details about the tech, potential hurdles or challenges, and how they might be addressed. Don't mention or quote investors (literally people with vested interests). Now that I think of it, the idea of the wiki-tribune crowd-
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by 205guy 7y ago
I agree this is a better headline. In the original, I was left wondering if it was possible for a black hole outside of our Galaxy to eject a star from ours.
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by 205guy 7y ago
Since when are we supposed to read the articles? /s Seriously though, I do not have a NYT subscription (my guess is only 10-15% of HN readers do), and I don't even bother trying to get around the paywall. I just go straight to the
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by 205guy 7y ago
Thanks to all replies for the tips.
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by 205guy 7y ago
Exactly. I can't wait until I can do this with my own drone--though maybe I shouldn't hold my breath for the open source package because it seems to have military applications right now. There's a 1000-ft hill behind my house
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by 205guy 7y ago
I suspect the default focal distance for smartphone cameras is a bit too wide-angle. I haven't tried recently, but zooming in a bit (say 1/4 to 1/3) would help, as would tracking the target (panning slightly so the main subje
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by 205guy 7y ago
You can do this yourself crudely from any airplane window. Before you get too high, take two pictures of the same target (building or mountain) within 1 or 2 seconds (try both, so 2 pairs of photos, because it depends on your altitude). Th
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by 205guy 7y ago
"moving around the thing at precisely the right velocity" would be the rotating frame of reference that gives you the horseshoe orbits seen in chmod775's 2 links. My point is that for people like myself, referential frames ar
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by 205guy 7y ago
I agree with the first half of your comment: humanity will be (mostly) Earth-bound and energy-bound, trying to deal with a fragile ecosystem in a humanitarian way. However, I disagree with the pessimism in the second half. To explore the o
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by 205guy 7y ago
Those are horseshoe orbits in a rotating reference frame (your link does not provide the caption). Janus and Epimetheus do orbit around Saturn elliptically (except when they switch positions) when seen from an inertial frame. https:/&
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by 205guy 7y ago
Exactly, Manifest Destiny is over, the world is full now and we recognize we can't just take land from others anymore. Time to learn how to live together without depleting or destroying our biosphere.
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by 205guy 7y ago
This is so much hyperbole, typical of manifest destiny escapists. You start with a pop-interpretation of an edgy existential statement. The point of Sartre's "No Exit" was not to glibly quote the punch-line, it's to thin
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by 205guy 7y ago
I think the solution is to ban the "algorithm" that determines your feed. People sign up for posts and photos from friends and family and groups, instead that is held hostage and released as a trickle with ads and fake endorsement
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by 205guy 7y ago
I'm no expert, but one of the blogs I read had detailed posts about putting a heatsink and fan on a RPi3B+ and using it as a desktop and dev machine: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/09/raspberry-pi-3b-flirc-c
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by 205guy 7y ago
I think it's a bit harsh to call an article by, for, and about British and Australian map-making "privileged" and "west-centric" in the sense that it's tautological. It would be another whole article, and a fas
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by 205guy 7y ago
Here we go with the nuclear debate again. Frankly, I'm against how the US/UK handle nuclear as a decentralized, privatized business. If we could have the French model for nuclear (and I know it's not perfect either), I'd

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