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by bsmith 3y ago
What's wrong with the Fairphone?
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Ask HN: What's your take on the surge of UFO/UAP sightings, discussion, etc.?
7 points by bsmith 3y ago|5 comments
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by bsmith 3y ago
Yes, because you are taxed based on where you do your work, not where you are from, or where your employer is from.
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by bsmith 3y ago
not enough to cover the costs of running reddit, or not enough to pay back the VC funding?
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by bsmith 4y ago
I've hated WF for a long time, but recently they closed my account due to being an expat and not having a US address. They closed the account, and I didn't have to do anything. The only time their service was top notch!
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by bsmith 4y ago
Depends on the context. Just yesterday, I called the city parking, because I had made a payment the previous day, but I never received confirmation. After the separate ten minute queues just to be hung up on really frustrated me. I sent a s
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by bsmith 4y ago
Oh no, not again.
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by bsmith 5y ago
How about spamming me with artists I have taken the time to mark as 'Do not play'? The FIRST recommended album in Album Picks is such an artist. Good reminder that I should get rid of my premium subscription, thanks!
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by bsmith 5y ago
Don't forget about the sauna on Helsinki's ferris wheel!
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by bsmith 5y ago
Couldn't have rented a van/UHaul for a day or weekend?
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by bsmith 5y ago
Almost all software consulting companies require Finnish, though, as most contracts these consulting firms have with their clients are that the developers are fluent in Finnish.
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by bsmith 6y ago
https://deadtitan.com/ https://deadtitan.bandcamp.com/releases Doom metal band from Heksinki \m/ Couple of our songs are available in bandcamp, with a few more in the pipeline.
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by bsmith 6y ago
Huh, I could have sworn his name was Hari Seldon.
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by bsmith 7y ago
If you're hiring, is there a way to reach out to you?
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by bsmith 7y ago
I may be naive, but I think the real problem here isn't Americans per se, but American corporations; once an industry in the states is large enough, taxing it (in any meaningful way) is virtually impossible because of lobbying dollars
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by bsmith 7y ago
These guys have been trying to do something like that: https://upverter.com/
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by bsmith 7y ago
Excellent points. I want to follow up with some back-of-the-envelope math on this later, if I have time. My intuition was that it takes a whole heck of a lot of fuel to get someone to even LEO velocity. Would love to see how that correspond
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by bsmith 7y ago
I disagree and actually think humans are very prone to overestimate how quickly certain technologies will develop. A good example is self-driving cars, which are still years – if not decades – away from being truly production-ready. I'
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by bsmith 7y ago
I agree that it's dangerous, but I love biking too much not to – usually just as a commuter. I always just assume every driver has either: 1) not seen me and is going to accidentally kill me, or 2) seen me and is going to intentionally
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by bsmith 7y ago
This reporting is terrible (and pretty hard to read) but here's a cool graph of the approach to Earth: https://theskylive.com/how-far-is-2019od
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by bsmith 7y ago
This. If you do anything write-intensive at all, it's not only slow, but extremely failure-prone. We moved to the BeagleBone Black, and most recently, Intel NUC, to resolve these issues.
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by bsmith 7y ago
I think "material" as used in the existing title is a bit of a pithy joke (maybe in the spirit of the journalistic tradition of crafting cheesy titles). Your suggestion is certainly clearer, but maybe at the expense of being less
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by bsmith 7y ago
It could, but undue tension on the chain vastly decreases the efficiency and longevity of the chain, and potentially, the cog/chainwheel. This would also present a safety issue because chains can (and do) break.
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by bsmith 7y ago
I acknowledge that there are definite issues at play with employment in the tech industry, but, come on; we are one of the most coddled and well-payed segments of the entire laboring economy. Maybe unions aren't being organized because
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by bsmith 7y ago
> We now use smartphones and tablets most of the time, since they are much easier to use. * since we carry them around with us everywhere.
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by bsmith 7y ago
Interesting, what is your source on that? Do they have substantial onboard fuel to boost into higher orbits at a later date? Even if they do, they are already in LEO so I'd think must be quite close to their destination orbits.
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by bsmith 7y ago
I agree that your assessment is fact- and history-based and don't know why you are being downvoted. Their claims are groundless, and a distraction from a lot of the real health issues that actually plague society.
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by bsmith 7y ago
I don't use an ergonomic mouse. I am using my keyboard probably ~20x more than my mouse, so it just doesn't seem that important. Mostly I am using my mouse to scroll around and navigate webpages, but when coding it's mostly V
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by bsmith 7y ago
BFR will launch (at least suborbital flights) later this year (if things go to schedule...). It's orbital variant will have about twice the liftoff thrust of the Saturn V.
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by bsmith 7y ago
Spot on. In other industries, the entrenched, established incumbents' products are only viable because they are "fake government-subsidized cheaper" (ah ehm...looking at you, corn). I'd not be surprised to see this hap

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