IanDrake

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by IanDrake 12y ago
> I've never flooded mine Neither had I...just never let a valet, mechanic, or relative try to start your old RX-7 ;)
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by IanDrake 12y ago
The only ICE advancement that really seems interesting to me is adding an extra cycle to inject distilled water into the cylinder for an extra power stroke. The idea being that the heat from the prior explosive power stroke is used to turn
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Learned stick on my second gen RX-7... -Almost no torque at low rpm - worse -Easy to flood, then once flooded major work - worse -Feed it a quart of oil every 1,000 miles - worse
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by IanDrake 12y ago
"Help! A van with license plate XXX-123 just shot at a guy in the parking lot here...hold on, what did you say...[muffled sound]...there's a badge on his belt, I think he's a cop from (insert adjacent town). I can still see
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by IanDrake 12y ago
>Abbott and Donald smoked a cigarette in the bathroom and sorted through the grim math So they can afford cigarettes? I have a hard time feeling bad for people with low income and expensive vices.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
"Imagine three types of wealthy people. One guy is putting his capital into building his business. Then there’s a woman who’s giving most of her wealth to charity. A third person is mostly consuming, spending a lot of money on things l
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by IanDrake 12y ago
I do like the work they've done with Phantom but the API is horrendous and I found myself wrapping the parts I used. Nightmare looks more complete and probably better tested than my wrapper. Well done.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
>Shipping is massively fuel efficient That's interesting. >Mishaps are insured The cost I was thinking of was the bad PR. Ships running aground with people dying, mass strandings at sea with people living in squalor unable to fl
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by IanDrake 12y ago
>It is a beast of a ship, 1,141 feet long with room for more than 4,000 passengers "I want to be crammed on a ship with 4,000 other people" said no one ever. I wonder how these cruise ships make money between the cost of fuel,
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by IanDrake 12y ago
To me this seemed like a good strategy to force twitter to buy them.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Lots of brave down voters with no logical discourse to offer today.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Sure. Let's make sure only the government has guns. That always works out well, nothing bad ever happened with that. Our democratic government has never used force illegally, violated our rights, and has never exceeded its Constituti
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by IanDrake 12y ago
The US is still full of good people and so long as those people are allowed to have guns, I'm staying. Once the government disarms us, I'll probably leave. That will be the final nail in freedom's coffin.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
To riff off that: .net - A bad name and it was impossible to search for information in the early days. SkyDrive - Great name...but oops already trademarked. Live.com - Makes no sense. Bing.com - See Live.com.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
> and why would customers care about sales figures (except in extreme cases) ? Because most people go with the crowd. Conformity isn't as popular in the tech crowd as it is in the main stream.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
How does the iPhone 6 have widgets? I must have missed that part.
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Source?
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by IanDrake 12y ago
I'm not sure why anyone would dispute #1. Perhaps they interpret it too broadly. You can have some success basing a business on another for a while maybe, but unless you have a solid agreement as to how that relationship works, the
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Unlike real science, where a scientist would say, "you know what, we thought our model of X showed promise, but we couldn't reproduce our results in reality, so we moved on", climate scientists seems to say "hmmm, realit
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Can you say what exactly is not under your control? I hear that frequently, but most times people misinterpret their feeling out of control with not having the ability to control things in their life. At 25 I was married, had a house, a ri
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Hello from Google's automated help system. I see you mentioned the word "refund" in your long winded email which would have fully explained your situation to a human. You can apply for a refund here: https://suppo
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by IanDrake 12y ago
I think Tea Party has lost all meaning. For me, it started when Ron Paul ran for President in '08. Forget the rhetoric for a second and just look at the bills he sponsored: - Make college tuition tax deductible - Don't tax SS in
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Microsoft was known as the Borg, but that was poorly placed. Google has been more of a Borg than MS ever was. Google has decided to automate everything. There is no way to get actual help across their entire product line. Having problems
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by IanDrake 12y ago
>How would you go about stopping an autonomous semi truck that was programmed to drive through crowds? Same way you stop an non-autonomous one >Will terrorists use autonomous cars as delivery mechanisms for what were formerly suicide
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Also, the Pope is upset because unmarried people could have sex in the back seat while the car drives itself. There is really no end to the infinite possibilities. >any hint of increased risk in any possible scenario amounts to mindless
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by IanDrake 12y ago
As a husband to a female minority executive in aerospace and a brother to an engineer/executive in green tech, I have to say this is focused on the wrong issues. From what I have seen, qualified women get hired and get promoted. The
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by IanDrake 12y ago
And the point is? Did anyone else go to college with that person that seemed a little older, seemed to know how to better apply what they were learning, and asked the questions that suggested they had an advanced understanding? I did. Thes
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by IanDrake 12y ago
That is a lame excuse in some contexts. However, if Superman leaps over an entire building, then is asked to jump off a curb and declines, I think you can safely assume he could do it, but doesn't feel like it. If I jump off a curb and
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by IanDrake 12y ago
To me it's not that it's newsworthy or not, but how it's presented. It's not that Americans/Europeans can't do what the Indians did, but that we're not interested in doing what they did. The article seems
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by IanDrake 12y ago
Seems like a pretty ill conceived article. Might as well have written about how American car companies like GM are able to produce much less expensive cars than the Italians like Ferrari. Both cars have engines, tires, etc... but WOW, can

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