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by eaurouge 13y ago
That's cute. A man dedicates his life to freeing his people from their oppressors, including spending 27 years in jail on principle, and upon release (and with overwhelming support) calls for "truth and reconciliation". We&#
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A few corrections: - Yes, airplanes need more room for takeoff, but you don't need a dedicated airfield. Most streets would do fine, provided you don't have to scale nearby structures, such as tall buildings in NYC. - You can fly
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Are you doing force reflection with the Falcon? Doesn't seem like it from your videos. It sounds like I'm being dismissive but I think you're overhyping your tech, just a bit. What I see in your video is not cutting edge (ye
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Telemetry translation API? Seriously? You're recording 3D motion inputs, transmitting over UDP and playing back on a Novint Falcon. State of the art is much more advanced than that.
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I'm working thru it in order. I didn't feel the need to jump around, but it would be nice to know how much longer I have to go, i.e. how many more screens.
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Let's stick with drug possession. Up until 2007, first time conviction on possession of 5 grams of crack cocaine, a drug supposedly used predominantly by blacks (supposedly, but not really), would result in a mandatory sentencing of 5
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Three strikes on drug convictions is unfair - especially given the disparity in sentencing for crack cocain vs. other drugs. Do you have any idea how many privileged celebrities would be in jail (some for life) if drug crimes were enforced
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All of us with privilege need to stop referring to the place as just 'Africa'. It's an incredibly diverse place, and just smacking that label on it to refer to every place on the continent trivializes the population. Exactl
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Is there a way we can be sure his donations (and the donations of people and companies that decide to donate because he is doing so) are not furthering his own agenda and creating a market for the companies he invests in? Even if they are
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If you're saying VCs won't fund semiconductor companies today, you're wrong, they will and they do. VCs aren't as clueless as HN comments make them out to be. They still make risky investments, not because they like ri
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by eaurouge 13y ago
I don't know what you do or don't understand, but your post isn't entirely accurate. VCs invest in early-stage companies with strong potential for high growth. That means companies like SnapChat, yes, as well as companies l
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I find it increasingly hard to relate with the "We should dampen our judgement of these people, because they are poor and their families are starving" argument. Are you referring to Somali pirates or pirates in general?
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It may be that some people with complex scenarios prefer rvm. It would be interesting to hear from them. (for real! I'd be interested!) I like the sandboxed gemsets that RVM provides. It seems you can do something similar with rbenv
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by eaurouge 13y ago
Thanks, krakensden, for the clarifications. I think reading a few books on operating systems and on the Linux kernel would be a good start.
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Perhaps a bit off-topic, but I would like to get to the point where I can make intelligent comparisons between technologies like CoreOS and ZeroVM, and in general better understanding of containerization, virtualization etc. Can someone sug
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I'm sorry, but why shouldn't RVM still be around? Did it suddenly become obsolete the minute you switched to rbenv?
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He won his first two titles in a Benetton Ford that was widely considered to be inferior to the Williamses. At Ferrari, it took the team four years after Schumacher joined, to build a car that was truly on par with the best on the grid. Bu
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Or maybe their technical team is just better. Adrian Newey[1] has designed some very fast cars - at Williams, McLaren and now at Red Bull. Michael Schumacher managed to win seven championships in his career, but he was often racing agains
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20% - buy property: a house, condo etc 20% - invest in self: runway for a startup, education etc 20% - invest long term: index funds etc 20% - invest short term 15% - take care of current wants: car etc 5% - help others
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by eaurouge 13y ago
Here's an idea. Let each box 'expand', perhaps to its own page. This way, if you want to dig deeper, you can find more resources in the expanded box. You can let users suggest resources with an 'add' button; users
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by eaurouge 13y ago
Really? I still have my iPad 1. Browsing HN on it as we speak. It's running iOS 5. The only downside is that the percentage of apps I can install is diminishing rapidly. Still, I bought it primarily to consume media: audio, video an
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Not true. Carbon fiber props on even a 'toy' drone will cut deep like a knife. The solution to this madness is to attach effective prop guards, at least on multicopters.
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I guess we'll just have to read it twice then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6298264
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It originally said: Is Hacker School/App Academy/ect worth it? (MBA builds an app in less than 2 months) Let's flip that to: Is B school worth it? (Engineer builds a business in less than 2 months). I agree with what jmdu
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Here's the statement I have the biggest problem with: That’s because willpower is a finite resource. No amount of willpower alone will make you get up every morning to run if you hate running. You're just making excuses for your
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I am sorry to say, but you're (probably) an anomaly. I doubt that he is. Count me as another 'anomaly'. Of course, conscious rap is an entire sub-genre of rap, and Jay-Z is not a conscious rapper. He rapped about this (a
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Nonsense! To start with, "startups are about growth" is Paul Graham's thesis, and it's just one way to define a startup. There are others; see jt2190's comment for a reference to Steve Blank's: "A startu
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-- The US intelligence fugitive Edward Snowden has arrived in Moscow on a flight from Hong Kong. But he is only thought to be in transit before leaving for Venezuela or Ecuador, via Cuba. The US wanted him extradited from Hong Kong but the
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For whatever reason, you feel the need to defend the value of your degree. You forget that people have various reasons (some personal) for seeking knowledge. It's not always about gaining marketable skills or about learning all there
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You sound a bit defensive. The title of the post is "Building a Modern Computer from First Principles". It's a book; the author doesn't claim equivalence to a computer engineering degree. The areas of study you'v

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