SlowBro

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by SlowBro 9y ago
> I guess this refers to welfare recipients No it doesn’t, as a more careful reading of my words would reveal. I’m not interested in discussing this with someone who won’t carefully read, so I wish you good day and God bless.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Now that I think about it, I work in a four story office building and of course I never ever hear anything from the other floors. The apartments where I was were old and cheap. Must not have been built with sound dampening in mind.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I have better things to do with my time. My comment wasn’t aimed at any one company. I think you misread my comments as fanboy cheering for autonomy by the whole point of my comment was centered around the fact that the technology cat is ou
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by SlowBro 9y ago
> If you’re a fan of self-driving cars I’m actually not. I’m agnostic about the technology, and I don’t care for Uber either for or against, and am not defending them nor am I interested in attacking them. Just being realistic, looking a
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Do they do that in Paris? Or do they suffer there as well?
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Having upstairs neighbors would drive me batty. I did it — once. Do they have better soundproofing or am I just too noise sensitive?
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Whatever the outcome of this case, autonomous cars are not going away. That cat is already out of the bag. As for this accident, I think in time it will be shown in time that while machines can make mistakes, they make fewer mistakes than h
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I don’t use it as a phone. It’s just a classic PDA. Got the work phone and Google Voice for calls/Internet/email.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but where is the Azure data?
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Embarrassing admission: I still carry a Treo 700p running Palm OS 5.4.9. Not as a phone, I have my work phone for that. It's for carrying personal info. The OS fits me hand-in-glove so I love it. I tried converting to Android but every
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by SlowBro 9y ago
And quite possibly a failure in disaster recovery methods. If it was at all possible to have a replicated site it should have been failed over to it immediately. Then resolution and root cause analysis could have been carried over at their
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by SlowBro 9y ago
D'oh. Meant to say 22/7. Still somewhat Amerocentric.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I don't understand why my comments were downvoted twice. At least Paul Graham (apparently) agrees.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Straw man attack. I don't condemn garbage men, and I said so very clearly if you would go back and re-read. I want them to in their spare time pick up Lean Startup and learn what they need to start a business. You're on the YCombi
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Yes, I don't like the fact that those who work hard and honestly cannot afford the necessary work. Another dear friend in Texas may need rotator cuff surgery. She and her hard-working husband have discussed the matter; they cannot affo
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Thank you, I only skimmed the post.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Wow, looks like he concluded exactly what I concluded. Cool essay. I'm into Python but I may give Lisp a whack some day. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by SlowBro 9y ago
So me being entrepreneurial-minded, I read this as: He was no good for the common programming languages of the day used by many employers. But if he would have struck out on his own, he would have crushed the competition who were writing pa
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Those in Europe must wait for July 22nd, Pi Approximation Day. That's right, 7/22. I've always lived in the United States but I've been won over to the logic of Month/Day dating format vs. our silly Day/Month f
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I'm still waiting for an inexpensive Linux board with proper sleep support. Suspend, hibernate, etc., and come back within milliseconds instead of dozens of seconds, and under $30 USD.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
It seems we in the United States have traded inefficiencies. Though our payments are higher, from the (little bit of) evidence I could gather from other single payer systems our wait times are far lower. This CNN opinion piece offers suppor
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by SlowBro 9y ago
They mentioned the coffee lawsuit. I heard about that one many times while working at Dunkin Donuts some 22 years ago. The customers were always (jokingly) threatening to burn themselves and sue the company for millions. I thought that lady
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by SlowBro 9y ago
If this trend continues e.g. more turnover plus longer waits, it seems to me the wage necessary to attract and keep employees will necessarily rise, putting pressure on owners to automate more. Or owners will want to automate more to keep c
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Thank you. Looks like what I have in mind is called a Gyrodyne[1] or Heliplane[2]. I would expect it would have almost the same range and speed as an airplane with VTOL capabilities. As you mentioned, the interaction between the two flight
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Nope. Trying to prevent such.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Disengaging the motors adds weight and complexity? Or would the props need to also be modified?
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Would a classic helicopter rotor overhead be a better solution, paired with those classic wide horizontal wings? Lift with the rotor, then thrust with the rear prop, using both wing and auto rotating overhead rotor combined for maximum lift
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by SlowBro 9y ago
To wit: “that is the essence of science is it not?” My “heresy” exaggeration was directed toward those who might become emotionally charged at the suggestion that Hutton misinterpreted the evidence :-)
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I’m working on what Tim is calling for as a side project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16402404
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by SlowBro 9y ago
You can now eat Hutton’s unconformity. Behold: Hutton’s Unconformicake :-) http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/01/the-baking-of...

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