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by THE_PUN_STOPS 8y ago
Read the article. The founder was an operations guy at Tesla and specifically did the numbers to justify the company based on the need of Tesla parts supply. There is room for this in the supply chain of many firms. There’s a lot of industr
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Fires of Kuwait [35:52](youtube.com)
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 8y ago
Same in Northeast US on university WiFi.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 8y ago
It’s not zero gravity but I recommend this video from an Apollo mission: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdwcLytloU
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927 in this cockpit: https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/slides... Note the lack of front window. A periscope was installed at the last mi
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Maybe it's extra material to quiet the otherwise annoying sound of the refill after every flush? (since the tank functions a bit like a loudspeaker pointed up) If so, a bit ironic in the context of this post.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
They have started to. Some curated playlists even have exclusive music videos.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
This is off topic, but why in the everloving eff are auto playing videos still standard on news sites in 2018?
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Those cars are more expensive to purchase in China/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/etc then they are to purchase in the USA/Canada/etc and import later. Additionally, exotic cars tend to hold value well and are easy to sell for
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
For now. It is textbook monopoly management to resist squeezing the customer until you’re dependent on them.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
At the height of the Instacart craze in my city, I was at a grocery store (as a customer) when an instacart shopper walked up holding bok choy and frantically asked “Is this collard greens??”
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
“‘For 67 percent of the railroad’ — that is, every lettered train line except the L — ‘we don’t actually see train movement or control any signals and switches from the control center.’ Instead, they do it the same way they’ve been doing it
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
On the other hand, Munro is a company whose ability to sell products and services depends wholly on the veracity of their reports.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Essentially, yes. The CubeSat standard specifies dimensions, weight, and max stored energy so that satellite users can focus on their payload and hand off the end result to any launch provider without complicated integration/negotiatio
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Mechanical Engineer working with CubeSats here. No CubeSat launched to date has carried a propulsion system. (Aside from air drag brakes to deorbit, I think someone launched at least one of those)
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
What’s the best way to survive an attack from a Wampa?
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
I am in Massachusetts and recently needed to purchase a generator for a DIY project. It was amazing how difficult it was to get one from any store—it took two weeks of restock tracking. According to the retail employees they’re still being
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Porosity. The metallic material is to cut down on air transfer.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Sprite_tm (Jeroen) has long been an inspiration to me. His projects are highly original and I think anyone who identifies with the hacker ethos will enjoy the projects on his website: http://spritesmods.com
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
This sounds like exactly the sort of thing which I would love to see as a "Show HN" site but lack the skills or time to do so. I wish these problems could be solved with welding :)
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
My experience (Mechanical Engineering) was that laptop banning was only an indicator as to whether the professor was "old-school." IMO, some hardcore practice-until-you-bleed cornerstone topics benefited immensely from an "ol
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
For more info on this strategy, see this study of Walmart's squeeze of Vlasic (pickles). https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
My high-visibility yellow Arai Signet-X motorcycle helmet. [1] I do believe it is my single most used item, as I use it for my motorcycle, my gas-bike and my e-skateboard. Haven't hit my head yet, but I feel confident that if/when
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
For background as to why this might have occurred, check out this excellent planet money podcast from June: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/16/533272737/episo... >MALONE: For the b
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
At my last job in Brighton, there were no less than four different address clones for our office in different "cities". One with the same zip code!! Thank goodness our shippers were on point and remembered which one we were.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Relevant and amazing link: http://eahart.com/prius/psd/ Did a project based around the Prius PSD in my Mechanical Dynamics and Vibrations class. Very cool, really opened my mind to the power of gears.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
On the contrary, I'm of the opinion that the GP's line you referenced is nearly the perfect hook for HNers. [1] [1]: https://xkcd.com/386/ Also, you really improve your forgetting a word skills.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
Entropy? Inflation?
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
I would like to vote to keep motorcycles around.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 9y ago
I have a password at work which is required to be EXACTLY eight characters, with no special characters. Took me a long time to come up with a password.

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