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Ask HN: Has anyone worked as an embedded developer at a rocket/space company?
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by c54 5y ago
My brain is apparently poisoned, I thought for sure this was about financial hedging, or maybe brexit as a hedge against the rest of Europe, or some other political-economy hot-take garbage. Anyways, glad it's about plants. Happy Thank
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by c54 5y ago
One use case that got me interested in browser automation is the task of creating a new twitter account which follows everyone followed by an existing twitter account. Aka automating clicking and scrolling the same button down a page. Somet
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Yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS(github.com)
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by c54 5y ago
This was a nice little read to remember the good things we’ve got going for us in the world of tech. It’s easy to get caught up in the battle of the month, or to get sad about the state of the sad things. But there’s a lot of good too! It’s
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by c54 5y ago
Website isn’t loading for me, what’s the dead butterfly scale?
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by c54 5y ago
This is pretty inspiring to hear. I really do notice that my productivity is highest in the morning when I get time to have a shower, meditate, walk a short distance (10m) to the office, and have a cup of coffee-- I'm basically at peak
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by c54 5y ago
You’ll be able to see your fingers and arms and keyboard/mouse/trackpd/desk surface/chair all in vr. Even current gen oculus has a front facing camera.
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Ask HN: What's it like to write C++ for work?
2 points by c54 5y ago|0 comments
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Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by c54 5y ago
This is referring to amazon’s warehouse jobs, not tech jobs
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by c54 5y ago
The truth is that government is fully capable of being exploitative and abusive, but so is private enterprise . We dont want either to be exploitative or abusive, but the ideology that the “free market” is our savior and that “government b
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by c54 5y ago
Sure! The work week and similar working legislation is a form of negotiating for one’s own contracts. It’s just that people got together and negotiated for their contracts in a group, and then wrote down that rule so that we don’t have to g
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by c54 5y ago
Cryptos are interestingly the one example of this, and they’ve been around for a really short time. One of the fundamental reasons this is the case is because trading requires enforcement of property ownership, whoever is doing the enforc
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by c54 5y ago
Common misconception, examples are the 40hr work week and banning of payment in scrip in the 1800s. Another example is that monopolies require legislation or they have the effect of “seizing up” the dynamics of a functioning marketplace and
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by c54 5y ago
I see what you’re saying, but it’s just not true. Trade takes the form of exchange of the rights of ownership, and this is a right enforced by government. For example, if I own a house, the house doesn’t care who does what. The owner is the
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by c54 5y ago
This is a common refrain but just false, restrictions and regulations are very often the only thing guaranteeing liberty. We’re often told “free market good, government bad” but the reality is somewhere in the middle (without even getting i
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by c54 5y ago
Lightning network and power consumption have been discussed in countless HN threads
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by c54 5y ago
This seems… fine? And a lot less FUD-y than the original article. I find that talk of the “freedoms” being taken away often is propaganda by the corporate interest youre paying to exercise the supposed freedom
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by c54 5y ago
> Bonus question: what did the U.S. give to China in exchange for its china?) Anyone know? Suggested here are gold/silver bullion/coinage, unsurprisingly. Furs and sealskins. And probably a lot of opium: https://en.w
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by c54 5y ago
Unfortunately no, there’s no law of nature which says companies/competitors will appear to serve this kind of function. Mostly bc short term profit maximization can be thought of as a greedy optimization which is blind to long term gai
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by c54 5y ago
I agree, the stigma around legality is just a breeding ground for panicky experiences. “Is that the cops?” “Do they know?” Etc.
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by c54 5y ago
This is exciting! As others have mentioned it’s important to use psychedelics in the appropriate context. These medicines are powerful tools which can really help in self examination and course-charting but like all powerful tools can also
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by c54 5y ago
Is this legally perilous to buy? Like will facebook somehow figure out a way to take me to court and owe them millions of dollars if I buy it
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by c54 5y ago
Does anyone know of any analysis of Tesla’s quality control? This[0] thread on twitter was pretty interesting but I’d love something more encompassing [0] https://twitter.com/snazzyq/status/1434936396096028674?s=21
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by c54 5y ago
Very cool! For people interested in plants and where they come from, I’d recommend the youtube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t And for books I’ve been going through Botany In A Day and the really highly recommended Plant Systematics
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by c54 5y ago
Is this the next housing bubble? Deferred rent payments by tenant, and deferred mortgage payments by debtors means if tenants and owners get liquidated we'll see a flood of properties hit the market, driving down prices. Thusfar the bo
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by c54 5y ago
Are you referring to the ethnic cleansings performed by the US government in the 19th century? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Walk_of_the_Navajo
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by c54 5y ago
Er sorry, you misunderstand me-- I mean customizable by downloading new software, not by turning the itty bitty knobs they give you out of the box. You know, same as linux! (Unless you're one of the cool people who has written their ow
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by c54 5y ago
I would love to be able to plug in two locations and visualize on a map the path my packets would take travelling from here to there. A sort of visual traceroute. One problem I've had with existing tools is that it's hard to find

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