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by blhack 6y ago
If anybody on hacker news is in any way connected to this project or can get Elon Musk or somebody else at starlink's ear: PLEASE please see if there is any way that they can get some starlink equipment out to the thousands of kids who
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by blhack 6y ago
What is the reference I'm missing here?
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by blhack 6y ago
Good. There is a broader philosophical idea being put to work here: your professional life and your personal life should be able to be separated. That goes both ways: let me "leave" work when I'm done, but also ask employees
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by blhack 6y ago
Wow that's exactly what I want. Thank you!
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by blhack 6y ago
Does anybody know of something like this but for outdoor use? If I had a relatively large (100 acre) or so property: is there a drone that I can buy that will be available whenever I want to check something out (without having to get up fro
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by blhack 6y ago
You're in a car. The speedometer reads 50mph. How fast are you going?
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by blhack 6y ago
Get them an arduino and a strip of LEDs and teach them how to attach the LEDs to their clothes. They're going to have to learn a lot about programming, and some about electronic circuit design as well (eventually).
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by blhack 6y ago
I'm curious: does anybody seriously think that if the positions were reversed that the Democrats would honor this? Let's say that Biden wins, then Trump runs against him again in 2024. Somebody dies or retires right before the el
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by blhack 6y ago
I do make a habit of trying to understand what somebody meant instead of trying to twist their words into something inflammatory. It’s worked out really well for me so far.
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by blhack 6y ago
Let's look at the possible interpretations of the officially recorded question and see if we can figure out what the congressman meant. Question: "how does this show up on a 7 year olds iPhone". Interpretation 1: >"Ho
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by blhack 6y ago
No, it's not a terrible question. It is a general question about the business of online advertising, something that Sundar Pichai is unquestionably an expert about since he is the CEO of the largest company in the world that sells onl
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by blhack 6y ago
Some of us just used to include the next images as 1px squares to speed up loading of images that the user might click on next. Back then the images really were the only big bandwidth hog.
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by blhack 6y ago
When was the last time you read a news article about a topic where you are an expert, and walked away from it thinking that it would help laymen better understand the topic? Journalism is a bit of a personal frustration of mine. It's
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by blhack 6y ago
>To an atheist, uncertainty is the source of all hope. Isn't that somewhat backward? To an atheist, the certainty that they won't be going to an afterlife seems to be a source of hope, and for the religious person, the idea th
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by blhack 6y ago
> I can't help but imagine how different it would be if the US and EU/Britain (as leads) would have strongly denounced their approach. What? What could the US have done beyond what we did other than all out war? The US respon
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by blhack 6y ago
Yes that’s exactly what I mean! Just curious if there is a name for this sort of thing. Irony, I guess? “We say satanism , but really what we mean is the opposite of satanism ;-)”
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by blhack 6y ago
Do you mean for non-native speakers? It seems like this bizarre “anarchy doesn’t really mean anarchy it actually means the opposite!” Sort of stuff would just further confuse somebody. Funnily enough: this is why I think AI is so hard. Ho
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by blhack 6y ago
Is there a name for this type of thing where you label yourself as something that everybody already understands, but then try to bait and switch the definition on them? Anarchists: we don’t believe in anarchy! We believe in the human spiri
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by blhack 6y ago
Well yeah, what kind of garbage MP3 playing software wouldn't have a built in app store, social integrations, a pro version that removes ads, and its own mail client?
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by blhack 6y ago
I think your comment here perfectly illustrates exactly the problem I'm talking about. >rather than the 10s of right-wing livestreams. These aren't "right wing livestreams". It's people, at the protests, with ca
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by blhack 6y ago
It's just so sad. The biggest one lately for me has been watching the riots which are happening all over the US. The really crazy thing is that all of these things are livestreamed usually by 10s of people in every city, who are stan
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by blhack 6y ago
In 2020 the sitting US president was impeached, we saw a massive stock market crash, a global pandemic, the worst civil unrest in the US in 50 years, massive wildfires all over california, and are heading into what will almost definitely be
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by blhack 6y ago
One of the ways that the USFS will negotiate with the loggers is essentially to require them to do forest management in the areas that they are logging.
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by blhack 6y ago
It's frustrating that such an obvious solution to this problem exists. Logging will create jobs, stimulate the economies of rural towns, help the forest ecology. Imagine this: what if we could create a biomachine that pulls CO2 out of
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by blhack 6y ago
Climate change is real, but climate change includes both changing temperatures and rain patterns AND change to the local climate of the forest. When we prevent small fires from happening that burn out all of the small bushes and trees on th
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by blhack 6y ago
It genuinely makes me happy that this exists. When I was a teenager this site felt so mysterious and cool. I wish there was more stuff like this in the world. Side note: if you live in Phoenix: take a trip down to Apache reclamation somet
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by blhack 6y ago
Distributed IT/office that services remote workers in their homes. Pay a fee and you get access to a pool of desks, chairs, computers, and an IT/office staff to come to your house and maintain it and set it up. In that vein: tooli
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by blhack 6y ago
Some person with a legitimate concern about how this effected their disabled sister is not "hilarious".
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by blhack 6y ago
Lot of my friends who work in non tech jobs use driving for Uber or Lyft as a way to either get a little extra cash, or bridge themselves across gaps in employment. This would devastate them. Absolutely heartless move on behalf of the Cali
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by blhack 6y ago
I would highly encourage you to reassess where you are getting your information about the world if you genuinely believe this. I’m seeing this sentiment expressed more and more, and it seriously concerns me. If you look at the data, almost

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