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by eksith 13y ago
http://www.lynetteabel.org/L-ABEL-Seminar-Appreciate.htm Eli Siegel explains in his great essay "The Serious Aspect of Snobbery": Snobbery is the unwillingness to like something, unless at the same time
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Hi-fidelity Homemade Loudspeaker(josepino.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
There has been a spat of comments criticizing stories along the lines of "what use does it have?" As pointed out previously on all of them, and at the risk of sounding redundant, this is "Hacker News", not " Only Us
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Federal Background Checks Faked by Some Investigators(businessweek.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Indeed. That's a transmutation circle of awesome.
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by eksith 13y ago
It's a higher priority in the same vein as exploration was a priority before Europe discovered and exploited all of its natural resources. Some of that stuff wasn't where they were. E.G. Coffee wasn't a European thing in the
907.
by eksith 13y ago
It's not in the same category as CSS art in the sense they're equivalent accomplishments. I imagine a helicopter failure has a potentially lethal outcome vs. carpal tunnel for repeated CSS hacking. They are in the same category as
908.
by eksith 13y ago
You mean this guy? https://www.google.com/search?q=Tatsuo%20Horiuchi&um=1&tbm=i...
909.
by eksith 13y ago
This has less to do with some vast conspiracy pertaining to RFIDs and more to do with preventing proprietary technology (and their shortcomings) from becoming public. This of course prevents none of the amateur tinkerers from going out and
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by eksith 13y ago
Very apt comparison considering I have the same problem with Lisp (and Erlang) as Sanskrit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5452038
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by eksith 13y ago
If you're feeling adventurous, there are quadrocopter kits now that are quite reasonably priced and not too difficult to build and maneuver. With a bit of tinkering, I'm sure someone will find a way to create a web based interface
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by eksith 13y ago
There's a fella who built a helicopter for himself out of a whole bunch of small electric motors and a battery pack that looks bit like a pilates ball. ...because he can. These types of demos exist to show what can be done with a bit o
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by eksith 13y ago
That's an interesting perspective. I've never considered polygraphs to be beyond anything more than a fancy stress meter (cause be damned), but now that I think about it, it does function quite well as such an instrument. Goes so
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by eksith 13y ago
Sadly, I fear you're right. At the most they'll probably get a slap on the wrist and those who were complicit in buying the Snake Oil (knowing they were bunk or not) will get scarcely above a stern word or two. Rather depressing t
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by eksith 13y ago
There's a special place in hell for people who do things like this. And a special place in the corner of the room and Dunce hat for people who didn't convict them and who paid good money to buy crap when lives were at stake. Edit:
916.
by eksith 13y ago
Unless you're being targeted as a potential customer or a member of the audience, your mobile performance is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the majority of the devices being used to access sites don't have the performance
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by eksith 13y ago
Tinsy nitpick. The universe technically didn't exist back then (at least not in the form of spacetime), I believe. Existence itself was confined to a singularity which then expanded with tar -xzf singularity.tar.gz
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by eksith 13y ago
I thought this is what black holes did.
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm guessing this is with MTFB rates given by manufacturers. With continuous use, it's not that uncommon to for hard drives to reach EOL fairly quickly.
920.
by eksith 13y ago
Somehow I felt like network/usb disabled computers and typewriters would have sudden spike in sales. How long that will remain is the question unless there's an ink reservoir feed system for the print head (cause everyone hates ri
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by eksith 13y ago
When I read "throwable", I thought it implied "disposable". This, in a way, reminds me of the scene in Prometheus where the scientists map the interior of the cave/ship using a pair of floating censors than scan the
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In Kenya, Bitcoin linked to popular mobile payment system(itworld.com)
5 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm sure we can look forward to a Linux Mint phone pretty soon ;) On a more serious note... People who say, " Linux , therefore it can be hacked to your liking" really don't understand the public at large or aren't
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by eksith 13y ago
It's fairly common among a lot of developers, sadly. Linux/OSS folks are less prone to it, but I've seen kitchen sink setups there as well. An old colleague used to joke: "Developers should never have fast machines"
925.
by eksith 13y ago
How about we ask a former communist? http://lunardefensecorps.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-ussr-women...
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by eksith 13y ago
"Houston, We've got a problem" is form 1972 : http://archive.org/details/HoustonWeveGotAProblem I don't claim Mr. Lloyed initiated the policy, but by the matter-of-fact tone of the letter itself, I
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by eksith 13y ago
And barely over a year later, Valentina Tereshkova kicks NASA in the teeth. Wonder how Mr. Lloyd felt when that happened. > Original Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton wrote in 1970 to future NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins, ‘The exact time when
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by eksith 13y ago
The thread that initiated the hellban seems to have been plucked right out of Reddit. A case study of how not to behave on HN.
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Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval(salon.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Pretty much everyone I've run into who has used Slim seems to love it. Very nice indeed.

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