ChrisBland

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by ChrisBland 7y ago
If you have access to a Parrot AR Drone or other programmable drone, you can have them script out how to make the drone fly. I'm dating myself here, but you can use the Logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(prog
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by ChrisBland 7y ago
The keyboards would work fine on the touch screen, but every 2 years you'd need to buy a new dongle to plug in your battery
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by ChrisBland 7y ago
Each person is different, honestly have a sit down with your trainee and ask how they have been successful in the past learning new skills. Some people like to read theory and understand it fully before ever putting pen to paper, others lik
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by ChrisBland 8y ago
How would you have handled taxing commercial/investment property (illiquid asset) from 2006-2012. Do you mark to market? If so, how? How can you do this at scale so the process is fairly applied in all regions, repeatable and trackable
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by ChrisBland 8y ago
As long as they take federal grants/loans the dept of education will have a sit down with them. The interesting point will be if the NCAA steps in or not as this was an abuse of the student athlete admission procedures. To me this scre
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by ChrisBland 8y ago
If any private company wanted to sell a financial product akin to public sector pensions they would be arrested and charged with fraud. Come to IL -- plenty of pension games to play here
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by ChrisBland 8y ago
To the single cell organism; the worm looks to be advanced and complex. To the worm; the human looks to be advanced and complex. Its possible we are still way down on the intelligence chain and too dumb to realize that we are in fact the wo
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by ChrisBland 8y ago
I have the same issue with Apple maps (chicago). If we (tech community) can't figure this out or its a painful UI for us; what hope does Jane Doe have in middle america? Google makes it super easy to find and navigate our train system.
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by ChrisBland 8y ago
If you are up against someone or a state that wants this info, you can't really stop them. They could get your credit card info from the bar, follow you home, hack your phone, socially engineer anyone around you to find that out.
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
Not agreeing with OP but have studied this and want to provide color to it. Most of the proposals I've seen that promote a consumption tax deal with that by giving cash back to everyone in the form of refundable tax credits or block gr
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
I understand that they are doing this to help keep housing costs affordable, but Detroit needs tourism income more than they need affordable housing at this point. They have plenty of land and run down houses that can be fixed up if AirBnb
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
To me its not the quality of the maps, but trying to extend their walled garden to my car
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
I think I'll pass, too many restrictions and gotchas. This is why we left Hong Kong after the handoff in 96.
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
That is exactly what I believe will happen.
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
The more I think about our future with self driving cars/busses; I wonder at what point will subways no longer be needed? If you look at the capital cost of a new bus compared to the cost for the operator(s) who work it, we could great
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
Wait until you have kids and are traveling. There is always a snack that was forgotten, a meal missed, or something left at home.
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
How hard would it be to put this behind an Amazon auth so I don’t have to fill in all of this data which amazon already has?
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
You can't discharge student debt in bankruptcy so no one has done it
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
I couldn't agree more, but should credit hours cost the same for engineering vs the arts? Could programs be 2 years instead of 4? I don't understand why we try to put education in this one size fits all bucket. The goal should be
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
You and I are the bank, these loans are federal, no private bank is giving these loans out, you and I are and we are footing the bill when the natural default occurs
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
Education costs have risen faster than health care costs, you have to try to find some way to contain it or every generation becomes more indebted. As long as the feds are going to throw free money at this, we need to find some way of contr
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
If we didn't prevent it, then you'd be stupid to not go to college take out $120k in loans and then declare bankruptcy at 22 prior to taking a job (you'd have no income and no assets). You'd be 29 by the time the bankrup
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TSA fails most tests in latest undercover operation at US airports(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by ChrisBland 9y ago|0 comments
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
Somewhere, someone has thrown away a copy of Javascript the good parts, that will be humanity's saving grace.
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
I think you are overestimating the need for the payoff to be ridiculously high for someone to commit a crime. For that to work the criminal justice system needs to follow through and charge and incarcerate the person. As an example, here in
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
I'm glad someone pointed this out. There were many offers to get EC to join CLE proper, EC was negotiating like they had some form of power; for fans of Parks and Rec it reminds me of the Eagleton Pawnee merger scenes where the Eagleto
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
Well I mean that one person must have been paid $40 million + a year right? If they were the sole source of protecting a multi billion dollar enterprise surly their worth is more than that of the CEO...oh wait they didn't get paid that
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
Someone who can talk through a problem, ask questions and think critically. I know HN hates the "consulting" type interview questions; but I find for jr devs its a great barometer of how they would react in the real world to a pro
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
What about those who do not own a mobile device, or those not comfortable with technology. We live in a large country, and we must have support for ALL of our citizens, not just our younger tech-savy ones. Go to a community of 65+ year olds
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by ChrisBland 9y ago
As a little kid at Space Camp in the late 80s/90s we would 'dream' about what a moon base or a mars base would look like. I grew up thinking that it would be something my grandchildren would see. To even have this as a possib

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