NaOH

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by NaOH 3y ago
Previous discussion: The Optical Mouse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7304183 - Feb 2014 (11 comments)
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On Nontrepeneurship(taylor.town)
3 points by NaOH 3y ago|0 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
The Moon Machines episode "The Navigation Computer" focuses a bit on Charles Draper's system based on gyroscopes and accelerometers. The show includes a segment on the software-development issues that led to Tindallgrams. I
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by NaOH 3y ago
“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs
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by NaOH 3y ago
>The FDIC calls people without a bank account “the unbanked.” People with a bank account but who primarily rely on alternative services such as check cashing outlets are called “the underbanked.” >The next time you see a sign in a
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by NaOH 3y ago
Someone here recently linked Connections episodes available on the Internet Archive and it's been great to watch episodes. https://archive.org/details/bbc-connections-1978
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A Philosophy of Fighting (2011)(esquire.com)
1 points by NaOH 3y ago|0 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
For Westerners unfamiliar with the rambutan, the best description I can give of its taste and texture is that they are both like eating the inside of a grape.
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Gone Bad, Come to Life (2022)(berfrois.com)
11 points by NaOH 3y ago|0 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
Related: Buffett pulls ahead in wager against hedge funds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134337 - January 2013, 27 comments Ted Seides Concedes Bet with Warren Buffett - https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by NaOH 3y ago
Previous discussion: How to Drop Out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917051 - November 2009 (95 comments)
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by NaOH 3y ago
Previous discussion submitted by the same person: Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873 - September 2021 (205 comments)
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Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights: A Scholarly Treatise(merrillmarkoe.substack.com)
51 points by NaOH 3y ago|9 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
I haven't read Finkel's book on Christopher Knight, but other pieces on Knight were discussed here, with distinct tones to the discussions. Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years - https:&#x2F
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A Life in Wonderland (2018)(mountainjournal.org)
6 points by NaOH 3y ago|0 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
Previous discussions: Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002694 - July 2013 (19 comments) Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science(arstechnica.com)
4 points by NaOH 3y ago|0 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
Previous discussions: NASA’s open source projects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427413 - January 2012 (18 comments) NASA Open Source Software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11981068 -
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by NaOH 3y ago
Probably as good a time as any to re-link the Mother Jones piece "Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge": https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsbe... Linked on HN numerous t
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Henry Kissinger Has Died(reuters.com)
73 points by NaOH 3y ago|27 comments
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Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died(washingtonpost.com)
327 points by NaOH 3y ago|132 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
Related: Tom Brown Is on a Mission to Restore Appalachia's Rare and Lost Apples (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457804 - May 2022 (18 comments)
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by NaOH 3y ago
Keyboard Maestro is an integral part of how I use a computer. I've been using it since 2005 (v2) and it's easily among the primary reasons I can't imagine using a different OS platform. Thank you, Peter Lewis.
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Burkey Belser, designer of the nutrition facts label, has died(washingtonpost.com)
107 points by NaOH 3y ago|67 comments
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by NaOH 3y ago
Related: All of the vehicle license plates available in America https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37209888 — August 2023 (277 comments)
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by NaOH 3y ago
I have one of these PowerBooks, the 500 MHz Pismo. I bought it the day it was discontinued (intentionally), using a friend who could get it with a student discount. My memory is it cost me $2,000 between the end-of-life status and student d
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by NaOH 3y ago
Here or elsewhere I’ve long followed these rules for commenting: 1. Be respectful. 2. Stay on topic. 3. Move the conversation forward. This sounds like a repetition of #2 but there is often a distinction in that, say, a discussion about a n
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by NaOH 3y ago
There was an open letter to all iPhone users when, just a few months after the device became available, Apple cut the price. https://web.archive.org/web/20070914154202/http://www.apple....
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by NaOH 3y ago
Similarly, this was a great line from the LA Times obituary for Robertson: >As the Band’s chief songwriter and grand conceptualist, Robertson turned old American folklore into modern myths, a knack that gave a timeless quality to such so
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Man who visited every country without flying has finally returned home(cnn.com)
3 points by NaOH 3y ago|1 comments

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