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811.
by base698 13y ago
Yep, out of 17 BASE accidents this year 15 were in a wing suit. I didn't do a wingsuit BASE jump until I had over 200 BASE jumps and 1400 skydives. Now every new skydiver rushes to do it after a single year of experience, and the num
812.
by base698 13y ago
http://www.iflyglobal.net/locations.html There are also ones in NC and two near LA. Granted to do one hour by yourself is hard to do you can split it in 15 or 10 minute blocks, which was likely what he meant.
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Understanding Karl Marx(medium.com)
1 points by base698 13y ago|0 comments
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by base698 13y ago
Structs are the poor man's classes.
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by base698 13y ago
They can probably liquidate the drugs due to contacts they've made in that world faster, so even if the car was worth more it could be harder to liquidate. Stealing a car is worthless if you can't sell it or get a premium for it.
816.
by base698 13y ago
Relevant via The Wire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5za4VsskM
817.
by base698 13y ago
What, exactly, is "crazy" about it? As a renter, you don't control your own destiny. You're at the whim of your landlord. As a home-owner, or better yet, a property-owner, you have much more control over your living sit
818.
by base698 13y ago
Probably because we came of age when Fight Club, American Beauty, and AdBusters were popular and questioning the American dream. Home ownership usually implies suburbs and crushed dreams to people born in the 1980s.
819.
by base698 13y ago
Building codes and home owners associations can cause havoc on plans you have for your own home. A lot of apartments I've rented have allowed me to repaint or install ceiling fans at least, but never anything more.
820.
by base698 13y ago
We come from all walks of life. Met more than a few start up founders, doctors, and Googlers
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by base698 13y ago
You're still going about 80 mph. Just from memory it's roughly 20 mph/second until you hit 4 seconds where it's reduced to 10 mph/second due to air resistance. The greatest chance you'd have is to impact shal
822.
by base698 13y ago
Same for BASE jumping. I had a talking too with the guy from this blog. He was eventually arrested, but after getting a few things we were jumping locked up. There is a history of tar and feathering (with cold tar) people that ruin it for
823.
by base698 13y ago
Take up skydiving and then BASE jumping. I too was afraid of heights, then one night I was on a scaffold climbing 300 ft in the air. I thought then, you know this isn't scary anymore. Skydiving is a good way to ease into it, because
824.
by base698 13y ago
I have been BASE jumping for quite a while and within that community there is a strong thread of leave no trace. It reduces the legal risk, eliminates property damage, and keeps it open for everyone else. Back to Joe, I found his blog and
825.
by base698 13y ago
That doesn't mean there isn't an active role you have to play in making yourself better. Moving may get you over a hurdle of feeling hopeless, but if you aren't active in pursuing self improvement you'll quickly find yo
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PizzaCopter(money.cnn.com)
2 points by base698 13y ago|0 comments
827.
by base698 13y ago
Same goes for train crossings and green lights. Don't delegate your life to a signal that can break when all you have to do is look both ways as a cross check.
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by base698 13y ago
More comparable than you'd think... http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/survival-strat... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/ Evidence that sugar is addictive in the same way as are narcotics and cancer cells
829.
by base698 13y ago
Free information is mentioned by title all over, but he describes only the most constrained examples. There is no mention of p2p networks that could provide alternatives to the behemoths of today.
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by base698 13y ago
My big take away from this: Have a multi-billion dollar national company with 120 million locked-in users and you can negotiate however you damn well feel like it.
831.
by base698 13y ago
What you're claiming is a straw man of the processes I've personally seen. In most good interviews they ask you something specific to implement, such as how do you implement a code complete feature in an IDE or an event logger. There will
832.
by base698 13y ago
I think with equity and bonuses it ends up being much, much higher with million/year being possible.
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by base698 13y ago
Real food has the advantage of millions of years of natural selection and relationships to our genome we have only begun to understand.
834.
by base698 13y ago
I think that was what Libertarian-Socialists thought bitcoin would accomplish :)
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by base698 13y ago
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.... When you design user interfaces, it's a good idea to keep two principles in mind: 1. Users don't have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn't read it. 2. In fact, users ca
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by base698 13y ago
I think if you take away the need to it to be really truly secure it's workable. Social profiles aren't nuclear secrets, they are just posts about topics and pictures. I think if you embed the private key with a symmetric key password tha
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by base698 13y ago
What about gas stations and oil infrastructure? Why fill up at a store when you do it over night at home? Also, Service stations will be disrupted. Electric cars require much less maintenance, no oil changes, timing belts, or transmissio
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by base698 13y ago
I routinely get suggested to connect with people I've never even emailed or who used email account I closed a decade ago. It's reasons like this I wish someone would do a Public/Private key based p2p social network. Essentially you digital
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Chromatik continues to make beautiful music(pandodaily.com)
1 points by base698 13y ago|0 comments
840.
by base698 13y ago
I've lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Raleigh, NC. Raleigh was battling with food trucks when I moved, and am unsure how it ultimately turned out in terms of variety. 1) On any given day in SF and LA: I have a choice in a single

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