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by DC-3 5y ago
It's a difficult coordination problem. I wouldn't be so quick to ascribe malice.
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by DC-3 5y ago
As a comment on the linked post notes, this is impressive enough that it could probably be the basis of a degree thesis. An astonishing exhibit of technical skill, very much a masterpiece in the original sense of the term.
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by DC-3 5y ago
There are also companies that will recondition a DC-3 so thoroughly that from a regulatory perspective it is considered a zero-hour airframe.
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by DC-3 5y ago
League tables can declare what they like, the fact of the matter is that Oxbridge has been considered the gold standard of British university education since the Plantaganets, and I don't see that perception shifting easily.
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by DC-3 5y ago
> a lot of downforce from the wings Not unless the plane is upside down, surely...
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by DC-3 5y ago
Looks like you've gotten a good product for your use case. But flat pedals like that are generally intended for mountain bikes and I bet I know which of those two products is more likely to shatter into pieces if it glances off a rock.
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by DC-3 5y ago
> the cheapest kids bike they sell was $200 To be honest this is not an unreasonable bottom-end price. If your budget for a bicycle is lower than this you are better off looking at buying second-hand.
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by DC-3 5y ago
O(nlogn), but with very large constants :-)
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by DC-3 5y ago
11th is the current equivalent.
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by DC-3 5y ago
> the average black American has an IQ about 85 This is uncontroversially true. The controversial opinion that Raymond holds is that this implies an inherent genetic deficit in intelligence rather than simply being reflective of socioeco
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by DC-3 5y ago
The problem here is that a vowel is split in some dialects but not others. Phonemic spelling would not solve this problem.
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by DC-3 5y ago
Hope they have the brains to not burn their income as soon as it hits their bank accounts. This sort of popularity can surely not last more than a few years in almost all instances.
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by DC-3 5y ago
Natural immunity was never a dangerous conspiracy theory. It was simply the case that it was too early to have blind faith in it. No-one credible ever denied that it was possible or even that it was likely that people would gain natural imm
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by DC-3 5y ago
I daresay Serenity might have the edge on Abaco and perhaps even Dillo. Servo I totally forgot. I didn't realise KHTML was still a thing.
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by DC-3 5y ago
I see your point. I guess I was trying to make the point (that perhaps everyone on HN is already aware of) that there really is an incredibly limited number of active browser projects even marginally capable of being used for the modern web
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by DC-3 5y ago
Eh, it kinda is. The Serenity browser has seen a huge amount of grassroots development work that most projects couldn't dream of and it's still quite a way off usable for what most people consider every-day browsing tasks.
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by DC-3 5y ago
Unless anyone can name a counter example it's probably the most advanced open source browser engine except for the WebKit family, the Gecko family, and NetSurf. Never mind the whole OS - that alone is worthy of Andreas being able to wo
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by DC-3 5y ago
This problem generalises and is why building more, bigger roads is not a silver bullet solution to congestion. More road capacity pushes people towards using cars for all their journeys so increases traffic, sometimes to the extent that con
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by DC-3 5y ago
You know buildings also require maintenance, right?
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by DC-3 5y ago
Peter Doherty, more like Pete Doherty!
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by DC-3 6y ago
Hey! My brother used to write answers to maths questions on Yahoo Answers when he was 12 and they were quite good, I think :-)
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by DC-3 6y ago
Standard rule of thumb for the non-linguistically inclined: if a layperson tells you an etymology for a word and it involves a 'flash of inspiration' type moment of synthesis then four out of five times that etymology will be fals
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's not impossible, obviously, but while it was natural for steam-engines to appear when they did, there is no good reason to expect an essentially arbitrary word to be synthesised many times nearly simultaneously. A weaker version of
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by DC-3 6y ago
Time to take up GOMAD :-)
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by DC-3 6y ago
I honestly believe these sorts of blindspots of morality and critical thinking are due to under-exposure to the humanities. A lot of guys in tech could do with reading something - anything - that isn't 538 or a tech blog.
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by DC-3 6y ago
These projects are usually driven by vanity not reason. They don't always fail though - Australians may want to weigh in but as far as I know Canberra works alright?
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by DC-3 6y ago
Cool, I guess. But you're probably better off just downloading a real textbook. The PDFs aren't hard to find.
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by DC-3 6y ago
When I say 'correct', I mean correct in the eyes of the person using the word 'based'. It's worth bearing in mind here that imageboards for the most part have a wilful cultural neglect of the difference between &#x2
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by DC-3 6y ago
The usage on MAGA/Q sites is entirely a consequence of the huge cultural influence that boards like /pol/ have exerted on the online far-right. After all, the entire Qanon movement basically sprung out of a /pol/ fa
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by DC-3 6y ago
I think you're right that the term originates in hip-hop culture but when it was borrowed by imageboard culture it evolved into a descriptor of ideas and not of people - for the simple reason that imageboards are mostly anonymous. Now

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