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by dskrvk 4y ago
Yup, they were especially great during the fuel shortage days when car traffic mostly ceased.
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by dskrvk 4y ago
The first story in this issue, Crazy Maro , is by the author of Flowers for Algernon ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31875692 ). Both great stories.
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About Time (By Isaac Asimov)(archive.org)
5 points by dskrvk 4y ago|1 comments
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by dskrvk 4y ago
Philly did this too, though in the recent years the city started bringing some lines back. Heck, when the full tram network was around a 100 years ago, it could take you pretty far out into the suburbs, while today you either have to take t
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by dskrvk 4y ago
They probably can’t produce enough AM to power them autonomously, so still rely on stellar radiation. More importantly, it’s kind of fun to have a large star in the sky.
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by dskrvk 4y ago
That’s why in The Culture sensible people live on orbitals.
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by dskrvk 4y ago
How would one even test a feature like that?
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by dskrvk 4y ago
But that would create a mass panic, while this device lets the owner quietly proceed to their private shelter without alerting the neighbors.
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by dskrvk 4y ago
> Lots of returns end up in the trash too. Yup, apparently until recently Amazon didn't bother finding a new buyer for the returned products and simply trashed most of them. Now there's a cottage industry of people buying retur
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by dskrvk 5y ago
This article explains the result better both from a conceptual and a technical perspective: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk1781
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Using an event-driven architecture to improve Jira Software responsiveness(2019)(medium.com)
1 points by dskrvk 5y ago|0 comments
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Call for Ukrainian cyber defense. Stop the war(hackenproof.com)
2 points by dskrvk 5y ago|0 comments
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by dskrvk 5y ago
The Polish word https://doesnottranslate.com/kurwido-ek/ seems like a great explanation for why some people took too long to leave, as described in the neighboring “Great Resignation” thread: https://news.yc
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Is There Enough Lithium to Make All the Batteries?(medium.com)
4 points by dskrvk 5y ago|1 comments
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by dskrvk 6y ago
They appear to be: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/health/covid-vaccine-left... The lack of mainstream coverage was intentional (I guess they've decided it's time to go wide): > Mr. Masso
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Adam Grandt-Nesher on Modernizing (Legacy) Infrastructure(logicmag.io)
1 points by dskrvk 6y ago|0 comments
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An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft(mattstoller.substack.com)
4 points by dskrvk 6y ago|0 comments
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What tech is like in “Rest of World”(stackoverflow.blog)
2 points by dskrvk 6y ago|0 comments
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by dskrvk 6y ago
Also, many of them were killed by praetorian guards. Obvious fix: disband the praetorians. Oh wait, actually we need those to protect against assassins!
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by dskrvk 6y ago
I prefer https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules which is more complete and doesn’t use unnecessary swearing.
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Dealing with Intermittent 502's Between an AWS ALB and Express Web Server(adamcrowder.net)
2 points by dskrvk 7y ago|0 comments
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Woman takes 70k federal student loans in 2008, pays total of 60k, still owes 70k(twitter.com)
10 points by dskrvk 7y ago|10 comments
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Show HN: Have I Been Pwned donations page is awesome(haveibeenpwned.com)
47 points by dskrvk 7y ago|5 comments
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Developer Roadmaps(roadmap.sh)
362 points by dskrvk 7y ago|136 comments
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Simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects(doi.org)
1 points by dskrvk 7y ago|0 comments
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Norilsk: Otherworldly Photos of an Arctic City(bbc.com)
128 points by dskrvk 7y ago|53 comments
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Netflix's Bright Future Looks a Lot Like Television's Dim Past(theconcourse.deadspin.com)
1 points by dskrvk 7y ago|0 comments
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Exploring Arecibo Radio Telescope in VR 180 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by dskrvk 7y ago|0 comments
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Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts(twitter.com)
242 points by dskrvk 7y ago|103 comments
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by dskrvk 7y ago
Debt is a type of liability, so the second number already includes the first one. That said, their liabilities are ~3x their current market cap, and that’s assuming it is real, which the article argues is likely far from being the case. So

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