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by curtis 9y ago
Has anybody seen a good technical overview about the current situation in Puerto Rico? I'm not sure what that would look like exactly, but I imagine it would involve some maps and tables and some actual data. I realize that data is h
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Photos: what Puerto Rico’s unfolding humanitarian disaster looks like(vox.com)
64 points by curtis 9y ago|65 comments
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Photos: what Puerto Rico’s unfolding humanitarian disaster looks like(vox.com)
12 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico is higher than official count(miamiherald.com)
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Hurricane Maria: Tesla Is Helping Puerto Rico Get Electricity(fortune.com)
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by curtis 9y ago
Ha! But in that vein, I suggest we start referring to New Glenn as the "Moderately Sized Rocket", or "MSR" for short.
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by curtis 9y ago
I think the new, smaller BFR is still too big. It seems to me like a rocket about the size of the New Glenn [1] would more sense. But then I'm not a rocket scientist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn
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King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people(kuow.org)
183 points by curtis 9y ago|126 comments
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Concordski: What ever happened to Soviets' spectacular rival to Concorde?(cnn.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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UK metal detector enthusiast finds ancient Roman bronze artefacts(breakingnews.ie)
31 points by curtis 9y ago|10 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
At this point I wonder if it would make more sense to fly into the Dominican Republic and then take a boat.
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by curtis 9y ago
They spent 500 million dollars on something and no doubt on many different things, but it wasn't on 4 houses. There's definitely a problem in that we don't know what exactly they spent that money on, and we also have no idea
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by curtis 9y ago
Haiti was a far more difficult situation. The death toll was on the order of several hundred thousand people, and Haiti was a difficult place to work in even before that.
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by curtis 9y ago
It's also been nearly a week. In all fairness though, it seems like the airports are either shut down or operating at greatly reduced capacity, so it's hard for reporters to get in.
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Why Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico completely without power(theverge.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I've seen steady reporting about Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria but it's been exactly that -- "about Puerto Rico" rather than "from Puerto Rico". Everybody seems to think it's bad, but it's really
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by curtis 9y ago
I've seen steady reporting about Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria but it's been exactly that -- "about Puerto Rico" rather than "from Puerto Rico". Everybody seems to think it's bad, but it's really
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by curtis 9y ago
I would also add that hiring people seem to think you are always supposed to hire people away from other jobs. And they think they are supposed to contact you, and if you contact them instead, they don't quite know what to do about it
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by curtis 9y ago
I'm forty-eight, and it did take me much longer to find my most recent job than I anticipated -- on the order of four months. I really didn't have much luck until I started applying for early mode startups through AngelList. I c
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Cool Theory Finally Explains Pluto’s Skyscraper-Sized Ice Shards(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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These satellite photos show just how bad the situation is in Puerto Rico(cnn.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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How the Puerto Rican Diaspora Is Staying Connected After Maria(theatlantic.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I find the idea of an essentially clockwork rover really interesting but from a practical standpoint I still think the ideal rover for Venus would be like a cross between an submersible and an airship. When the rover starts to run out of co
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by curtis 9y ago
I feel like there's something important going on here, but it's damned difficult to understand what exactly it is.
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Disconnected by Disaster–Photos from a Battered Puerto Rico(theatlantic.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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IU freshman rescued after surviving three days in cave(idsnews.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
Some topics are know to "generate a lot of heat, but not much light". A lot of people don't want those articles -- and more importantly -- the discussion they bring, sucking up all the metaphorical oxygen on Hacker News. I p
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US student trapped in Indiana cave for three days(bbc.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Boeing seeks quick legal fix to stop Bombardier(seattletimes.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Apartment in Katayama / Matsunami Mitsutomo(archdaily.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments

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