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by avenoir 9y ago
Giving preferential treatment to anyone based on their skin color, gender or sexual orientation instead of the value they provide or the skills they posses is exactly how not to address diversity issues. This line of thinking only fuels mor
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by avenoir 9y ago
Overexposing and underexposing (formally known as Bracketing) is typically a great technique in landscape photography too because it captures as much of the dynamic range as possible. Most DSLRs can bracket right out of the box. Set it up t
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by avenoir 9y ago
We carry these things on our bodies damn near most of the day. We use them in our down time to read books and news. To communicate with others and consume information in a matter of seconds. To remind ourselves of things occurring throughou
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Ishi – The “Last Wild Indian” in America(en.wikipedia.org)
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by avenoir 9y ago
I don't follow BTC news often but it seems like anytime the price goes up or down it is somehow tied to an event in China. Makes me wonder how much of bitcoin's skyrocketing value is actually based on China's market rather th
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by avenoir 9y ago
I'd imagine that most of the wall has been metal detected by hobbyists throughout the years. I don't know how much of it is under protection but from various videos on YouTube it seems like a great section of it goes thru farmland
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by avenoir 9y ago
I have a strong suspicion that Denver will become the next San Francisco in the next 5-10 years.
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YETI How it works(youtube.com)
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by avenoir 9y ago
While I agree, how do you apply software engineering practices in a field where a good chunk of the workforce doesn't have formal computer science education?
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by avenoir 9y ago
I wonder how much money is spent on students playing catch-up after enrolling into colleges because they can barely read, write or do basic math. I've seen plenty of this kind of thing in study groups during my 2 years of community col
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by avenoir 9y ago
Perhaps many years ago? Eastern Kansas has a pretty massive tech sector now. So do some parts of Kansas City metro.
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by avenoir 9y ago
If they're after tax breaks and cheap land they can follow companies like Sprint and Garmin and build open headquarters somewhere in East Kansas.
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by avenoir 9y ago
So I think the article is about Wingsuit Proximity Flying, and what you're describing is Wingsuit BASE Jumping. Are these two considered 2 separate, albeit similar, sports? Can any pilot practicing BASE Jumping leap off a cliff or do y
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by avenoir 9y ago
There is apparently a petition [1] to formally recognize Antifa as a terrorist organization which amassed 290k signatures. [1] http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article168734272.html
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Air blast injuries killed the crew of the submarine H.L. Hunley(journals.plos.org)
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by avenoir 9y ago
The winters aren't too bad and I'd say pretty mild actually. You get more ice storms than snow in KC. It's not like Chicago or Minneapolis by any means. Lightrail expansion is coming in the next few years, which I think will
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by avenoir 9y ago
The DNC Charter [1] states numerous times that it is their responsibility to establish processes which ensure the office of President of the United States is selected by a fair and equitable process. However, being a private entity they are
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by avenoir 9y ago
I actually have a buddy who's into Tai Chi and also recommended this to me as a way to meet new people when i first came out here. This completely escaped me since. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by avenoir 9y ago
Hey, Thanks for the offer! I just updated my bio with email.
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by avenoir 9y ago
This is basically me in a couple of decades. 8 months ago I moved out to Denver and made an uncomfortable realization - I haven't made friends since high school and I have no idea how to make friends. I tried Meetup and other random so
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by avenoir 9y ago
> When a business accepts bitcoins for payment, there generally is the need to convert them to the currencies used for paying suppliers, employees and shareholders. Some merchants set prices based on the current market rate at the time t
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by avenoir 9y ago
> Who is claiming that there are no gender differences across the population? About a quarter of comments on the original manifesto thread here on HN were from people who explicitly stated that there are no differences between genders an
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by avenoir 9y ago
If I remember correctly, most Puerto Ricans aren't interested in the statehood status (wasn't there a referendum?) probably because it's a pretty major cultural shift.
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by avenoir 9y ago
YouTube. There are a lot of survivalists channels with plethora of information about building shelters, starting fires, finding wild edibles, cooking and even trapping. I'm not a survivalist, but as someone who lives in Colorado and pl
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by avenoir 9y ago
I think Richard Proenneke is a better example of someone who survived in the vastness of Alaskan wilderness for decades. His survival story is truly fascinating and level-headed compared to McCandless who was a hippie vagabond more than any
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by avenoir 9y ago
Original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913
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by avenoir 9y ago
Err.. Didn't bother to check dependencies. So this is just a UI generated on top of swagger. Thanks for pointing that out :)
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by avenoir 9y ago
Is there some kind of a template out there to create the API documentation used by this project?
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by avenoir 9y ago
intext:"index of /.git" reveals a ton of those.
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by avenoir 9y ago
This is the laptop I have. The biggest (and the only) complaint is that after about 3 or 4 days of use the track pad stops scrolling and starts doing a "click-and-drag" instead. A restart takes care of this.

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