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by eric_h 10y ago
I would not, personally. Yeah prison in the US sucks, but at least I would finally be able to find the time to read everything I wanted to.
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A new, independent review of the Orion spacecraft is pretty damning(arstechnica.com)
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by eric_h 10y ago
> Outrage politics is basically like steroid use. It can aid in quickly bulking up (a group) but it has detrimental long term effects on the body politic. That is an extremely pithy statement of the current state of politics (at least as
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by eric_h 10y ago
Perhaps, but I have to say the view of San Francisco from Alcatraz makes it look like one good shake could send the whole thing tumbling into the bay. I'm not a seismologist, but the city really doesn't look like it should be buil
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by eric_h 10y ago
It's only pretentious if you're a native English speaker. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142643 "I didn't know it was different in english"
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by eric_h 10y ago
> they're in between a rock and a hard place. This is completely OT, but I've always enjoyed the spanish version of that idiom: "entre una espada y la pared" (between a sword and the wall).
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by eric_h 10y ago
> It's ok to take a little more time with power tools to avoid cutting off an arm. This is what I find interesting about the Amish. They are not, as I understand things, truly anti-technology, they are anti-adopting every new thing
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by eric_h 10y ago
personally, google is how I always end up on stack overflow, so I'd imagine the same will be true for this product.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'm afraid not. I'd intended to hold onto it, but it fell through the cracks during a move.
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by eric_h 10y ago
This post actually puts to rest (and confirms) a theory that my coworker had when I thought I had a truly unlimited metrocard. Basically, I bought an unlimited monthly pass from a machine. By the third day of using it, I noticed that every
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by eric_h 10y ago
I don't think the two hypotheses are mutually exclusive. A place well suited to a ritual burial (for the reasons of not attracting carion feeders or otherwise not poisoning resources normally used) would also be well suited to burying
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by eric_h 10y ago
> The type of people to exclaim "I've never done anything wrong in my entire life" If anyone ever said those words to me, I would do my best to never, ever, interact with them. It's prime facia a false statement, and
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by eric_h 10y ago
I agree, in general, but I'd like to present one counterpoint. Twilio's demos have always been fantastic and their product in actual use is as well.
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Pluto and 1: A Year After New Horizons Made It a World(slate.com)
1 points by eric_h 10y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 10y ago
OT, but holy god that website is awful. I loaded it in a background tab and 5 minutes later that tab's process was up to 10GB of ram, and I have an ad blocker and flash disabled.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I don't think there's any implication of that. It's just a nice piece of trivia.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Thanks for reposting that article. I swear I'm starting to feel like an old man "back in my day, vigorous intellectual disagreement and debate was the point of living on campus during college"
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by eric_h 10y ago
Discussion on Slashdot used to be better. I would imagine there are quite a few of us here on HN who used to meaningfully contribute to the discussion over there. Further, I believe the GP was referring to HN, which has, like reddit, a one-
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by eric_h 10y ago
> I can't see how you could assault a cop in the US, given that they're armed to the teeth and usually in full armour, and usually sat in an armoured and armed vehicle. Fortunately the militarization of the police has not gone
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by eric_h 10y ago
ha! nice trick, I may actually use it for something...
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by eric_h 10y ago
Admittedly this is for Excel 2003, so only ~20 years. I think there's a good chance that this bug was theirs ;)
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by eric_h 10y ago
Not to beat a dead horse, but I think it's fairly certain that reinforced cockpit doors and accompanying procedures made using an airplane as a missile very unlikely to be feasible anymore.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Yes indeed, context is everything. I've had my own troubles with activerecord as well.
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by eric_h 10y ago
> Yes, fluid definitions can be dangerous, but it can also be the most beautiful and powerful thing about the law. One such example separate but equal being defined constitutional in Plessy v Ferguson, then being redefined as unconstitut
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by eric_h 10y ago
The performance problems I've had with redis-rb were largely due to my accidentally using it in an improper environment (an event machine based asynchronous service). Replacing it with em-hiredis (and refactoring to use callbacks) dras
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by eric_h 10y ago
I upvoted you because I believe you made a cogent argument, but I respectfully disagree. I would argue that it's only relatively recently that people have started to associate an internet connected machine with the potential for a lack
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by eric_h 10y ago
Openness from for profit companies is a rare beast, and only recently are companies actually starting to approve of openness as they realize its benefits. Putting Apple and North Korea as the only entities that disapprove of running to the
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by eric_h 10y ago
Mr Robot is an excellent TV show [0], I highly recommend it. 0) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/
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by eric_h 10y ago
Sort of, except the "camera" can't make any use of "light" generated by anything other than the flash.
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by eric_h 10y ago
My point in calling it formalized MMA (by which I mean the literal definition of the acronym, mixed martial arts) was that rather than the techniques being passed down by tradition (like tang soo do, kung fu, aikido, etc), it was built up b

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