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by comrade1 11y ago
Hit the virtual pavement. When I decided to take on a new consulting client I researched the local businesses and created a list of around 10 that could potentially need programming work and matched my area of programming background. I then
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by comrade1 11y ago
I would like to remind everyone of hn's policy against negativity and by extension of negative posts. Or does that only apply to YC related posts?
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by comrade1 11y ago
Are you talking about a vernor vinge story? I can't remember the name.
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by comrade1 11y ago
Changing the world through government grants, subsidies, and prison labor...
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by comrade1 11y ago
One thing I'm looking forward to with self-driving cars is to be able to step into a street anywhere and have all the traffic stop automatically. Every inch of street now becomes a crosswalk. Even highways. (This is an ironic statement
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by comrade1 11y ago
The Harvard endowment is $36B. When you get to that level you can force change in governments through investment policies.
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by comrade1 11y ago
I remember where I was when the towers fell (working at home that day in s.f.). I remember where I was when Reagan was shot (playing mini golf in junior high). I don't remember where I was when Osama bin laden was killed. It just felt
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by comrade1 11y ago
I wish tesla would do these batteries under a different name. It confuses and harms the brand. Unless their focus in the future will be batteries and the cars a side project.
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by comrade1 11y ago
Yes, sorry, RC-135.
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by comrade1 11y ago
There are used in drug interdiction and other coast guard functions. My brother was an Air Force test pilot that tested these for that purpose (he was originally a surveillance pilot flying kc-135s). They are basically a kc-135 in a small j
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by comrade1 11y ago
Do blimps have to file flight plans? I lived in DC when they first started testing surveillance blimps there around 2005 or so. They were completely white with a black box on the bottom. I assumed that they had a similar function to rc-135s
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by comrade1 11y ago
Puts our current comfortable lives in perspective, the chemist and others destroying a Nobel medal to keep people alive. I guess the equivalent of risk these days is leaking information on illegal activities by your government. I suspect ma
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by comrade1 11y ago
Red blood cells are pretty useless for forensic/archeology science. There's no nucleus and no mitochondria and therefore no DNA. There may be some hemoglobin left but not very useful. There is DNA bound to and stablished in the bo
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by comrade1 11y ago
It's incredibly risky taking on a project like this. In the u.s. copyright violations at this scale are now a criminal offense. And the u.s. has shown no qualms about enforcing their internal laws outside the u.s. And there have been r
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by comrade1 11y ago
I've worked off and on on those types of projects over my years as a developer - defense dept, military intelligence, NSA - and every time at the end of the project I tell myself that I'll never work with them again. But I get suc
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by comrade1 11y ago
Yes exactly. You'd think that a condom company would take the 'build a better mousetrap' adage to heart and see the potential market. You can find condoms everywhere, even in the Congo and the Amazon. But perhaps they think t
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by comrade1 11y ago
Condoms are probably one of the most widely used products in the world. Not just now but throughout history when they were made of intestine and sheepskin. I'm really surprised that there needs to be a grant like this to stimulate (eh)
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by comrade1 11y ago
My father and uncles used to bring their deer every year to a professional butcher that produced beautiful cuts - butterflied rib, nice roasts, perfect steaks... But then.... I still remember the year they decided they could do it themselve
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by comrade1 11y ago
A robot peeing? Preposterous!
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by comrade1 11y ago
If I remember correctly, it was a way for the investors to cash out on their Google value indirectly. The same VCs (Sequoia I think) that funded Google had funded Youtube. It's been a long time so I may be remembering incorrectly. OK,
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by comrade1 11y ago
There's been so many data-wanking articles posted on HN lately I find it hard to believe that everyone wants to read yet another. Maybe they got this one through by posting at the optimal time? (sorry, I know humor is not allowed on HN
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by comrade1 11y ago
I guess this is here as commentary on the Apple watch and the associated hype? Personally, the thing that disappoints me about the Apple watch is that Apple is no longer even trying to talk about bringing computing to the masses through eas
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by comrade1 11y ago
I'm a former s.f. resident that has been living in Switzerland the last 7 years. My observation is that the engineering talent in Europe is very good. My opinion is that it is significantly better than in the u.s. With the developers m
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by comrade1 11y ago
It just depends on the distance. Fro Zurich and Basel we take the train to Paris, Milan, Frankfurt, even Lille, but to go to Berlin, Hamburg, San Sebastián, we fly. So 3 to 6 hours we take the train. More than that we tend to fly. I can get
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by comrade1 11y ago
It probably depends on the method. With waterboarding you pass out, they wake you up and waterboard you more, you pass out again, they wake you again, waterboard you some more, pass out again, wake you up, repeat over the course of tens of
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by comrade1 11y ago
There's been articles the past few months about Costco's relationship with Amex, with the conclusion being that the Costco Amex cash-back card will be cancelled in 2016.
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by comrade1 12y ago
Good luck to him. There have been tricks to fake aged flavors wine, whiskey, and other aged alcohols for centuries. In CA mass-produced Chardonnay is aged in giant stainless steel with wood chips. Others make Bourbon with charred wood chips
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by comrade1 12y ago
One big difference between the u.s. and china is that chinese politicians tend to have engineering backgrounds while american politicians tend to have law backgrounds. I'm not completely disagreeing with you that chinese politicians ma
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by comrade1 12y ago
This man is cancer. The fact that he is back at Zynga shows just how far they've fallen. They've lost all of their good execs - people from ea, from google, etc and now it's just the dregs. And the bung hole plug has finally
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by comrade1 12y ago
Cheese is an awesome food. It's high-protein and high-fat and is perfect if you're a farmer or in some other way burning a lot of calories. Where I live (switzerland) we eat a ton of cheese and it's seasonal, with Spring&#x2F

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