Diesel555

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by Diesel555 4y ago
I thought the craziest part was where in this sequence of events does the pilot say > “This is very serious,” I thought. It's just after > "The main, 24-foot parachute was just flapping in the breeze and was tangled in its o
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Ask HN: Best source to learn home renovations
1 points by Diesel555 4y ago|1 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
I like this statement. It doesn't imply ill-will such as intentional lying or selfish intent as most other posts do. This statement simply shows that people are trying to make their projects succeed in a complicated environment. From m
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by Diesel555 4y ago
I see they are partners, that looks like a good solution. I think the RUT* series routers are the solution I was looking for with a good antenna.
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by Diesel555 4y ago
What is your opinion on Starlink compared to the LTE connection? I have pretty good LTE here - but I can also get Starlink. The difference is about $40 a month.
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Ask HN: How to get fast cellular internet in rural areas
9 points by Diesel555 4y ago|13 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
Are you saying that the government should pay off everyone’s loans regardless of the cost of an institution or the value of that education? Or just that college costs are too high in general? I understand loan forgiveness in certain situati
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by Diesel555 4y ago
>They don't line up nicely with the A4 stuff. They don't go gently in the A4 folders / sleeves / pockets / ring binders (files) / etc. This statement, and the rest of the post, simply reads "I don'
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by Diesel555 4y ago
This is one of the major problems with understanding how China operates. We view China through a Western lens, and just assume we are right - which has very bad policy outcomes. If you read a lot about how the CCP operates (I specify the CC
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> Extreme right wingers want to wear uniforms and carry weapons at any cost: it's the way their brain is wired You lost your credibility here when you took a large group and applied a judgement on all of them based on how “their bra
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Ask HN: Best Paid VPN to get around "due to ... regulations in Europe"
4 points by Diesel555 4y ago|0 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
The problem with blockchain implementation is that most of them still rely on us to trust someone. It is not implemented in the distributed self hosted way people think. The top hacker news submission about Web 3 (blockchain) points out tha
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China's SMIC Shipping 7nm Chips, Reportedly Copied TSMC's Tech(tomshardware.com)
5 points by Diesel555 4y ago|2 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
I must preface my question by stating I understand it is not logical to request someone to produce evidence to refute an article which in of itself makes claims with no evidence. You could simply state the original article has no evidence,
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. From the Hacker News Guidelines [0]. Please take these comments elsewhere. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> My late friend Stan Ulam used to remark that his life was sharply divided into two halves. In the first half, he was always the youngest person in the group; in the second half, he was always the oldest. There was no transitional perio
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by Diesel555 4y ago
Even worse is when it is put into passive language to intentionally remove the subject - which is done in political speeches to address negative outcomes. It has the subtle effect of shifting blame from the subject. Examples [1]. "We a
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Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro with M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds(macrumors.com)
49 points by Diesel555 4y ago|56 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
When the author states they want to fine the groups, specifically in the US, based on violating free speech principles, it is clear that they are referencing the legal free speech in which a government would impose a penalty when an institu
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by Diesel555 4y ago
I just ran my last year's electricity. I'm around 26 kWh/d in the DC area in an old inefficient house around 1500 ft^2. While it had a gas stove, gas water heating, and gas house heating, it did have electric window AC units.
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by Diesel555 4y ago
This may work on pay to use Wi-Fi. There was a previous interesting post here about tunneling through DNS on airplane or other pay to use Wi-Fi. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511908
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Russia cuts its benchmark rate to 11 percent as the ruble hits a multiyear high(nytimes.com)
2 points by Diesel555 4y ago|0 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> India, for example, has dramatically increased its Russian oil imports. "Energy security [comes] first. If the fuel is available at a discount, why shouldn't [we] buy it?" India's finance minister, Nirmala Sitharama
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Sanctions were supposed to crush the Russian ruble. Why did it hit 2-month high?(fortune.com)
6 points by Diesel555 4y ago|4 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
If you want to try it out, how do you pick the right safety razor / DE razor? Edit: Well I got the Merkur 34C after 23 minutes of research.
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by Diesel555 4y ago
I got mine through Auburn distance learning. The main appeal to me was that it was the same degree as in-residence. You were just watching the classes online. This was pre-COVID, so many more universities may do this now, but it seemed rare
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by Diesel555 4y ago
Not that I know of. I really meant that he is following the guidelines. What were you assuming I meant?
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by Diesel555 4y ago
Following the guidelines I see > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith
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by Diesel555 4y ago
As the discussion of equity is always tied to congestion pricing, here is a study from RAND titled Equity and Congestion Pricing [pdf]. The Summary at the beginning covers most of the findings. https://www.rand.org/content&#
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Principles of Efficient Congestion Pricing (1992)(vtpi.org)
35 points by Diesel555 4y ago|34 comments

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