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by ethbr0 4y ago
I came in a little hot trying to catch a yellow light on a left hand turn (US) and powerslid a Miata perfectly across 4 lanes... my second month of owning one and driving stick. That's the day I fell in love with 50/50 weight dist
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Wow! You can see the chunk nail the corner of the NASASpaceflight stream van (on the left of the frame) at 0:15. Unlucky hit! But I guess lucky it missed the camera gear. The team was chuckling on the stream about how they opened the vehicl
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by ethbr0 4y ago
They were working with 1960s Soviet computing capabilities. They were working with 1960s material science. They were working with 1960s understanding of rocketry. Korolev died. We've come a long way in the last 50+ years, and sometimes
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by ethbr0 4y ago
But the apples to oranges here is >1 launches (SpaceX, some successful and some unsuccessful) vs 1 successful launch (traditional modern aerospace). From an outcome perspective, it's hard to ever see the lower launch rate dominating
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Wow! I'd be fascinated how many person-hours went into that entry. On the whole, Wikipedia et al. are improvements in comprehensiveness and timeliness, but god damn do the gems of prior methods still shine brightly.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
If you're listening to Frank Abagnale tell a story... well, just don't be the guy who raises his hand and asks "Did that really happen?"
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by ethbr0 4y ago
It's a good point. More hyperscale excesses would be redressed if we calculated on the greater of damages or profits . My understanding of the current model is that if {profit} - {legal fees} > {calculated damages settlement}, ther
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Good point! :) But points of sail don't have any handedness, correct? I.e. they're mirrored on both sides of the wind. As mentioned in another comment, tacking (with its active directionality) is probably the closest to handed-ter
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by ethbr0 4y ago
If you've got a bone to pick with planners, then you're drawing the wrong distinction. They don't care about rural/farm vs urban/business. They care about tax revenue and voters. It's always going to be an uphi
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> the dictionary translation of words does not capture somewhat-subtle but sometimes important distinctions between words Good point. I have yet to see a dictionary that also provides delineation with similar-but-different words and de
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> With boats, others mentioned that wind provides its own frame, and there are separate words still for "left" and "right" in that frame. There's windward (towards/upwind) and leeward (away/downwind).
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by ethbr0 4y ago
It's not exclusively your property, because it derives a large portion of its value from existing as part of a community. A community that requires many shared goods: water, power, transit, sewage, waste disposal, etc. Each of which re
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by ethbr0 4y ago
In terms of headcount. No need to argue against a person, instead of the objective scenario I proposed.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Did Twitter need to be more than keep the lights on? I thought HN's refrain 2 years ago was how ridiculous it was that a simple product that didn't need to add features had a large headcount + how many businesses would be better o
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I'd guess because parent lives in a state without state income tax, as so chooses to claim sales tax against his or her federal taxes.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Fidelity's cash management account (CMA), mostly because I'm lazy and it strikes a good balance for me. https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/faqs-cash-managemen... + Excellent wire a
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FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese 'police stations' in New York(bbc.com)
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by ethbr0 4y ago
There is no amount of power or setup that will make a heavy car handle lightly. Physics. And until a person has driven something in the Miata or lighter category, they don't know what they're missing.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Or use school funding to pay students who volunteer to tutor the previous year. In addition to being a continually renewing supply of teachers, it provides an income stream for those who might really need it and financially incentivizes aca
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Musk is apparently a great engineer and motivator, with passable to terrible management skills (depending on how much of his ego is involved). Part of being a good CEO is knowing when to delegate. There's a lot of credit to his enginee
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Gwynne Shotwell and the SpaceX leadership team are the folks who deserve recent credit.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Russia absolutely made a rational decision. A bad one, because their facts were wrong, but one based off calculations rather than rolling dice: + Russian Cold War-era (and refits of same) military materiel is reaching obsolescence and end o
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by ethbr0 4y ago
>> “please do not share sensitive information here where possible . . . . Until we fix room architecture, content here is searchable/discoverable within the corp.” (Id. Ex. 27, GOOG-PLAY5-000163640.) Exactly. When 'fix&#
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by ethbr0 4y ago
We'll never know, but it doesn't seem fair to chalk up a country's poor democratic choices to external forces. Russia surely nudged, but if Germany hadn't already been trending in that direction then it wouldn't hav
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by ethbr0 4y ago
As one of the strongest European economies and militaries, Germany played a big part in Russia's calculations. The belief that Germany would rather sacrifice Ukraine than lose Russian gas would have been less plausible if 30% nuclear e
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Microsoft product positioning on Power* seems extremely weird from the outside, which I chalk up to internal division politics. It's like they can't decide if they want to give it away to grab market share or make money off it. An
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by ethbr0 4y ago
That's one reason I refuse to consider low-code environments that don't have a well-modularized and standard-following escape hatch to an actual program language. As soon as you start writing custom modules, it should always be in
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by ethbr0 4y ago
6 years (and all the money) seems a decent trade off for strategic autonomy, and cutting a foot off Google-on-iPhone. I.e. why lock down permissions if Google would get location data from every phone through Google Maps anyway. Furthermore,
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Fair. The whole point was that gas was supposed to be the "Plan B" bridge to ensure flex and resiliency during the cutover to renewables. Then they did away with a big component of "Plan A" in nuclear after Fukushima, wh
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Low code software development is not a lie -- it's a trade-off. You gain (a) canned components / patterns for rapidly performing common tasks, (b) opinionated design that encourages one particular solution, (c) support for any i

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