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The First Space Ave: F-15 vs. Satellite (2018)(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by bgun 4y ago|0 comments
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by bgun 4y ago
Governments make unjust laws sometimes. When they seek to remedy the negative effects of those laws, that should be applauded as a good thing.
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by bgun 4y ago
(2017)
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by bgun 4y ago
If you think iOS opening mailto: links in the Mail app represents some kind of security breach then I have bad news for you.
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by bgun 4y ago
This comment has the same energy as people who still use a dollar sign when spelling "Microsoft".
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The Current Mental Health Pandemic Is Inevitable(karlastarr.medium.com)
2 points by bgun 4y ago|0 comments
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by bgun 4y ago
Remittance is money sent back to the country by expats - like, for example, from a family member who left the country to find a better paying job sending regular checks back to their family in their country of origin.
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by bgun 5y ago
You missed it. For about an hour after the car was stolen we were able to follow it around on my app’s map because my asset tracker remained undetected in the backseat. After that, the thieves discovered it and ditched it ... Over a month
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by bgun 5y ago
Is one guy on Substack now "the media"? If so then I'm starting to understand why "the media" has become the go-to bogeyman for any cause we want to complain is under assault.
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by bgun 5y ago
While HN complains that we want cars without chips to begin with.
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by bgun 5y ago
and also "a thousand dollars", but I think we're both straying from the computer science purpose of the article.
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by bgun 5y ago
The lesson here is not that chartered party flights are evil, but that posting about it on social media is stupid.
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Making Lego car climb obstacles(youtube.com)
24 points by bgun 5y ago|2 comments
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Across the Multiverse(across-multiverse.com)
4 points by bgun 5y ago|3 comments
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by bgun 5y ago
Some would, certainly not all and likely not even most. The same was true for Afghanistan and Vietnam and the list goes on.
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by bgun 6y ago
> Maybe you haven’t discovered the good 10% yet. Keep looking. Keep in mind that 90% of your own opinions are crap, too - so you aren't likely to know the good from the bad even once you're exposed to it. To put it another way,
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by bgun 6y ago
That makes the very big assumption that the density of other things to hit doesn’t massively increase.
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by bgun 6y ago
Is it possible that in your work experience, the distinction between work and leisure was already being undermined? As others have said, Slack often amplifies toxic workplace culture, just like any effective tool tends to be a "force m
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by bgun 6y ago
This is a form of poetry that I would like to see more of.
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by bgun 6y ago
The un-subtlest attempt to get more people to enable microphone access.
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by bgun 6y ago
Languages, especially English, are democracies - if enough people say octopi , it eventually will be (and may already be) octopi .
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by bgun 6y ago
Perhaps "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" doesn't carry the same meaning when no better life awaits. The exodus will happen slowly, then suddenly.
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by bgun 6y ago
This sort of cowboying is how cool technologies end up getting banned and set back years.
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by bgun 6y ago
> The only thing cell phones have on copper land lines is portability. In all other ways they suck Isn't that a little like saying "The only thing boats have over cars is that they can go on water. In all other ways they suck&q
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The Dubious Quick Kill: Swords wounds and the circulatory system(gwern.net)
2 points by bgun 6y ago|0 comments
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The Goiânia Radiation Incident (1988)(web.archive.org)
2 points by bgun 6y ago|0 comments
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by bgun 6y ago
https://outline.com/fYEDgZ
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by bgun 6y ago
If the worst possible application of a law is insane, then the law itself is NOT perfectly sane.
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Wanted urgently: COBOL programmers to help process state unemployment claims(cnn.com)
1 points by bgun 7y ago|0 comments
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by bgun 7y ago
Reminds me of a recent HN post about the uncanny survival of MS Access https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21401198

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