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by DC-3 1y ago
I wasn't being sarcastic? I heard they're making a new Koenigsegg and I'm genuinely concerned that without corporate sponsorship it might be out of his price range.
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by DC-3 1y ago
Glad to see them sponsoring struggling indie developers like DHH.
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by DC-3 1y ago
Given that this is Hacker News, I think it is worth pointing out that Durham's strong suit traditionally is the humanities. In my opinion a CS degree from Oxford, Cambridge, or ICL is considerably more impressive than one from Durham.
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by DC-3 1y ago
Not saying the theory is bunk but I think that basically everything about this on Wikipedia is written and illustrated by the researcher who devised the theory. So it's that guy.
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by DC-3 1y ago
My heart bleeds.
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OVH Currently Experiencing an Outage
17 points by DC-3 1y ago|5 comments
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by DC-3 2y ago
Yeah bro I'm sure you know more about handling precious manuscripts than a Cambridge University archivist.
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by DC-3 2y ago
You think at the time they openly said they were trying to take the vote from black people? Or did they say exactly what you're saying now, that they were simply trying to ensure that only smart and educated people could vote.
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by DC-3 2y ago
I'm not even American and yet where I'm from it's common knowledge that literacy tests were used to systematically disenfranchise black people from voting.
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by DC-3 2y ago
My Danish is not very good but I read Politiken sometimes and it seems quite good.
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by DC-3 2y ago
I doubt it will be sold in the US, there is not really any appetite for small cars with limited range.
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by DC-3 2y ago
There's healthy scepticism, and then there's wondering whether VW can do volume production of hatchbacks.
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by DC-3 2y ago
true
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by DC-3 2y ago
> just rewards * liberalised labour market rewards unless you think there is inherent moral justice in being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to write software
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by DC-3 2y ago
No one ever asked us that which is good because I don't think either of us would have been much impressed by the suggested :p
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by DC-3 2y ago
I have my own mildly amusing story of breaking systems with my name. I have a twin with the same first initial. Any time we had to use a system at school which constructed usernames from some combination of first initial, surname, and date
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by DC-3 2y ago
It's the natural extension of the startup ideology to non-software industries. How many times on this website have you seen 'founders' be celebrated for doing 'epic demo hacks' at least this fraudulent? How many tec
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by DC-3 2y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a very wide angle camera and the operator is panning through the recording in a software viewer.
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by DC-3 2y ago
What a life, huh? Captain, you're 84!
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by DC-3 2y ago
Sure, the Aeroflot Sukhoi crash a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWSwbXMehI
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by DC-3 2y ago
I was recommended to do it by my Year 3 (age 7/8) teacher because my handwriting was so poor.
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by DC-3 2y ago
It was on the day he died, too.
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by DC-3 2y ago
Sounds like a really good way to get a robust implementation of a fiddly and novel algorithm.
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by DC-3 2y ago
This study is about prehistoric Steppe peoples, there are no Indo-European inscriptions from this time period nor would there be any until several millennia after this time.
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by DC-3 2y ago
An extremely capable and heroic man. But also an out-and-out racist who was an unabashed supporter of apartheid Rhodesia. People are complicated.
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by DC-3 2y ago
Sometimes they are called 'cliffs' - in the UK people talk about the tax cliff at 100k income where your marginal rate increases and you lose free childcare.
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by DC-3 2y ago
That's where people come into contact with other Simians.
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by DC-3 2y ago
I always thought this was pretty kitsch but it's cool that he made it public domain.
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by DC-3 2y ago
A previous discussion on HN regarding whether Humans are really the best distance runners in the world [1]. TL;DR we're pretty good, but probably beaten by some animals, including Kangaroos and Sled Dogs. [1] https://news.yc
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by DC-3 2y ago
Most people have better things to do with their time than maintain mental lists of which technology companies have better and worse track records for product maintenance and support.

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