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by blhack 8y ago
There must be a name for a concept that seems like it would be obviously true, but actually isn't. I don't think it's a bad thing that google ha a diverse set of products that didn't work together. I don't need m
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by blhack 8y ago
Forgive me for being a bit daft, but: What do all of these messenger clients and things bring to the table that didn't already exist on AOL instant messenger 20 years ago? Slack seems like (badly) redone IRC. My computer 20 years ago
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by blhack 8y ago
The problem is that facebook has so much money, that they can just buy any startup that might threaten them.
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by blhack 8y ago
You know how people have been warning us about unrestrained AI? We already have it, and "the press" is an example of one (so is facebook). The press is a gestault that can ultimately take actions beyond what any individual compon
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by blhack 8y ago
Because then you have to worry about it getting stolen, and you have to remember to charge it. Part of the magic of the birds is that when you're done, you just get off of it and park. 0 anxiety about somebody stealing it.
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by blhack 8y ago
Why not do the exact same thing with cars? Heck, why not just break into people's homes and rob them while you're at it!
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by blhack 8y ago
Razor has these in Tempe, AZ. Basically a scooter with a seat on it.
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by blhack 8y ago
There are currently about 30 people at my house for a family dinner. We aren't an actual, blood family, but we are close friends that crisscross paths through our various jobs and life events. We keep track of each other via Facebook.
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by blhack 8y ago
Dick's hideaway on 16th street and Bethany Home. Some of the best food I've ever had! Really lovely place but...just why on earth they have TVs in there? It just doesn't fit at all with the rest of the fantastic ambiance
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by blhack 8y ago
Even worse is television in restaurants. There is this GREAT restaurant with near me with a little side room that has a really cozy fireplace in it (VERY rare for Phoenix). The lighting for the room, however, has been destroyed by the TV.
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by blhack 8y ago
How much time have you spent in the woods? It's definitly far, far from quiet. At least where I grew up. Maybe in the dead of the night, but here in the middle of the city, on a Main Street, it is also so quiet in my room that I can
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by blhack 8y ago
That unpaved parking lot and rundown building are part of the aesthetic, and probably part of what makes the shop so appealing. If the exact same bagels were coming out of wal mart, or out of some glassy office building and made by a robot,
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by blhack 8y ago
But YouTube, gmail, etc. all drive people to advertising. That's like saying the words in the NYT don't "work".
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by blhack 8y ago
WTF are you on about here? YouTube doesn't work? Gmail doesn't work? Search doesn't work? Android doesn't work? Maps doesn't work? This is just absolutely a ridiculous stance to take.
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by blhack 8y ago
What applications are you talking about? Just for a general example of the sort of thing I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/EWqThb9Z1jk?t=137 They're resurfacing a surface plate, which has to be very flat. If
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by blhack 8y ago
Well I also don't particularly care about how many feet are in a kilometer, since they are different units. A mile is...a mile. A half a mile, a quarter of a mile, an eighth of a mile, etc. Yeah, there are 5280 feet in a mile. There
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by blhack 8y ago
Well I actually grew up with the metric system. I'm also not the religion I was raised. I do love my nation, which is easy because I'm American and there is a lot to love. Imperial units are just better for humans to use. I wou
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by blhack 8y ago
We use the decimal system for imperial units too. Thousands of an inch, millionths of an inch, etc.
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by blhack 8y ago
>They're more ... human, maybe, in that a foot is about one human foot long, and that an inch is about one human thumb width, and how 0F feels "pretty cold" and 100F feels "pretty hot", and to me the charm of imp
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by blhack 8y ago
I'm one of the weird people that actually really likes imperial units. For instance: 1 foot -- base 12. This is a superior base to 10. It can be easily divided into 4ths, 3rd, and 2nds. Base 10 can only easily be divided into 2nd
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by blhack 8y ago
Uber launched a self driving car service in Phoenix like 2 years ago. It recently hit and killed a woman and the governor of the state shut it down.
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by blhack 8y ago
Just to throw my dead-simple blogging software into the mix: https://github.com/blhack/blogeyBlog It's written in go. You write text files and put them in a directory. It applies a template and serves them. Tha
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by blhack 8y ago
It can't. Twitter makes people unnecessarily simplify arguments. Unnecessarily simple arguments -> People get upset because you're misrepresenting them -> essentially screaming at each other instead of discussing. The funda
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by blhack 8y ago
It's pegged to the USD, isn't it?
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by blhack 8y ago
Because mars is a dev server. Earth is prod.
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by blhack 8y ago
I'm not sure I'm following your point. What percentage of parts of a bird were necessary for the first successful flight? I don't know, less than 1%? Maybe less than 0.1%? But you do have to understand [generally] how a bi
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by blhack 8y ago
It's better than good now. It's incredible now.
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by blhack 8y ago
>is this a serious comment? Is this a serious comment? VR isn't around the corner, it's here. I'm sitting in my living room right now looking at the vive lighthouses on the wall, and my wife and I frequently use VR for
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by blhack 8y ago
Great question. Better yet why not have both and use whichever one suits you the best at the time?
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by blhack 8y ago
Here maps is fantastic in my opinion. I think you can download map data in google and others (maybe?) but in here it is a first class feature. Hugely useful if you are traveling and without data.

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