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by avenoir 10y ago
I'm a little bit surprised that nobody addressed overbooking in this particular situation. It's not just United, it's all airlines that overbook their flights and it's hard for me to believe that it's a completely l
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by avenoir 10y ago
Sub7 had an editor back in the day that would allow you to build a custom client. I don't remember the technical nature of it. I believe it was just packing configuration and the client into a single executable w/o recompiling, bu
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Man's half face is forever young after getting hit by particle beam(gizmodo.com)
1 points by avenoir 10y ago|1 comments
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by avenoir 10y ago
The front shots aren't bad but the car looks ugly as sin from the sides. Big and bulky in the back with a short front end. And what's up with the suspension 3 miles off the ground. It's got some rally car height there. I&#x27
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In Poland’s Crooked Forest, a Mystery with No Straight Answer(nytimes.com)
3 points by avenoir 10y ago|0 comments
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by avenoir 10y ago
> “Every time I look at an old mail, I feel weird, like I prefer the memory I have of a thing than the accurate recording,” he told me. I do have to say when I and my ex broke it off, reading that first conversation logged in my Facebook
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by avenoir 10y ago
Escape from Tarkov has an outstanding AI. Probably one of the best I've seen. You can rarely tell if the enemy is another player or a bot.
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Online tracker for Yosemite’s black bears(keepbearswild.org)
1 points by avenoir 10y ago|0 comments
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by avenoir 10y ago
Do we? Sept. 28, 2015 - We found water! > These downhill flows, known as recurring slope lineae (RSL), often have been described as possibly related to liquid water. The new findings of hydrated salts on the slopes point to what that rel
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by avenoir 10y ago
I was in Thessaloniki, Greece 2 years ago visiting friends. The city is unbelievably congested and similarly to Istanbul a lot of city expansion plans are stopped because sooner or later the construction crews start unearthing ancient ruins
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by avenoir 10y ago
Thanks for sharing that link! I've got some weekend reading material now :)
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by avenoir 10y ago
I know next to nothing about investing and this is exactly why I'm using Betterment. Even with the recent hikes in fees they're still cheaper than hiring a financial adviser. I really feel like I have very little choice but to sta
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Study finds genes involved in education are becoming rare(theguardian.com)
2 points by avenoir 10y ago|3 comments
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by avenoir 10y ago
We went from jquery to backbone to angular to react and every single time there is a post like yours telling everyone that the future of web development is this new thing . Get real... The future changes every 3 months.
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by avenoir 10y ago
We're engineering new species, not resurrecting extinct ones. I remember either seeing a documentary or reading somewhere that cloning extinct species is pretty much impossible. Even the Woolly Mammoth "clone" would end up be
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by avenoir 10y ago
I'm contemplating to get certified for mountain guiding and rescue. The problem is of course going from making 6 figures to somewhere around 40k and likely much lower at the start. On the upside I would be in the nature and mountains a
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by avenoir 10y ago
I have read multiple sources over the years that her remains were found at a place that was searched numerous times. The strange thing is that a lot of these missing people cases mention the same thing - body found in a heavily searched ar
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by avenoir 10y ago
Logan Pass in National Glacier Park gets similar accumulations of snow. Thia is off topic, but I would highly recommend this drive in the summer. One of the most stunning roads in North America.
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by avenoir 10y ago
This got me thinking. I have BitLocker on my XPS. If the same thing happened to me while it's powered down i would be screwed.
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by avenoir 10y ago
Outside has published a number of columns on this usually accompanied with crazy stories of treasure hunters. If nothing else, it's a great way to get some folks into the wild :)
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by avenoir 10y ago
I can only comment about the years I spent in school there. I think Soviet era of education pretty much ended with my generation when the old school staff reached retirement years. I have no idea where Russian schools rank nowadays. I heard
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by avenoir 10y ago
Chekhov was very popular in Russian schools up until early 90s because of his writing style. You're absolutely spot on that he writes in very plain Russian. Dostoevsky has some mindfuck-inducing way or getting across to the reader. His
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Ask HN: Do you live in a car/RV?
2 points by avenoir 10y ago|1 comments
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by avenoir 10y ago
> Applying for immigrant visa of Canada under the Independent Class. Canada Immigration. > This class has become very popular and also known as professional class or skilled worker class and the application is assessed based on a poin
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How Does a Nepalese Sherpa Carry So Much Weight?(npr.org)
1 points by avenoir 10y ago|0 comments
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by avenoir 10y ago
I find that the side-to-side motion is nearly natural. However, the up-down movement seems to introduce clipping between the lower eye lid and the iris in addition to slightly smudged upper lid. Still very cool technology. And here I though
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by avenoir 10y ago
I share the pain. I'm incredibly productive at my day job architecting and tying together a plethora of microservices to deliver a platform of unified products. Outside of work i am absolutely freaking worthless. My problem is largely
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by avenoir 10y ago
I know a lot of you guys/gals here are very successful and have your "shit" together. Do you ever ask yourself what a man or a woman of your interest has to offer to you when you seemingly have everything? I started doing thi
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by avenoir 10y ago
Same here. Console shows syntax error after loading a stream.
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by avenoir 10y ago
Awesome resource. Thanks for sharing your work!

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