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500 Years Later, MIT Proves That Leonardo Da Vinci's Bridge Design Works(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by cmbailey 7y ago|2 comments
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by cmbailey 7y ago
The FAA deliberately uses "certificated" as opposed to "certified" when referring to pilots and flight instructors. It insists that conveys a distinct and useful meaning because they don't certify pilot quality. Ins
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by cmbailey 7y ago
Cellphone numbers do not appear in regular phone books.
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by cmbailey 8y ago
Inception/Co-Founders | Cambridge, MA | Full-time | On-site or Remote Privacy-first Location Services I'm building a founding team of engineers who are passionate about privacy. And about the potential to architect a mobile app an
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by cmbailey 8y ago
HackerNews doesn't impose any link shortening. Which is great.
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iOS bug exploits group Facetime to access iPhone's contacts without password(gizmodo.com)
2 points by cmbailey 8y ago|0 comments
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by cmbailey 8y ago
That patent could easily be defeated by showing the older Tesla designs as proof of "prior art". This could happen i) easily after the application is published through an internal submission to the examiner, ii) fairly easily afte
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Stockton, CA set to be first in nation to experiment with Universal Basic Income(foxnews.com)
2 points by cmbailey 8y ago|0 comments
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by cmbailey 9y ago
I'd been on The Old Reader ever since Google Reader shut down. Tried Bazqux thanks to a post here on HN and switched because it's much faster. Very noticeable with a lot of subscriptions (I have over 100). Only relative downside i
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by cmbailey 9y ago
Only if you physically damage it, not if it gets stuck in a bootloop (or any other manufacturing- or software-related defect).
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by cmbailey 10y ago
> A new drone video, captured by aerial videographer Matthew Roberts earlier this month, shows the 'Research and Development' facility..., the 'tantau roof' on the security kiosk in place,... landscaping taking place
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by cmbailey 10y ago
Thank you for sharing the personal experiences in your family. Admirers of Fidel Castro around the world - and all his admirers on this page - have one thing in common: they never had to live under his dictatorship.
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by cmbailey 10y ago
Obama didn't have his fellow-citizens shot by firing squad without a trial merely because they were political opponents, like journalist Yvonne Conde's uncle [1]. Agreed the sanctions were unproductive. More than anything else, US
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by cmbailey 10y ago
>I agree that Fidel Castro made many mistakes and is responsible for many atrocities. But the plight of Cuba is not his doing alone. In American English, the phrase, "He murdered thousands," can't be followed by the word &
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by cmbailey 10y ago
Fidel Castro leaves behind a nation awash with tears and blood from thousands of executions, tens of thousands of political prisoners, concentration camps for gay men, labor camps for those who thought differently, listened to jazz, or even
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by cmbailey 10y ago
What I found most valuable: what he tells entrepreneurs they don't need to spend a lot of time on, in building the company and in presenting it. I've seen so many decks and pitches devoted to the team's credentials and past
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by cmbailey 10y ago
So great to see entrepreneurs and engineers with vision take on the stodgy, stone-age California High Speed Rail Authority. I hope that Hyperloop's tests embarrass and shame them into dropping their politically-expedient, geologically-
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Hyperloop raises $80M Series B to build Elon Musk's future transport vision(techcrunch.com)
4 points by cmbailey 10y ago|1 comments