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by gaur 10y ago
Old title: clear what kind of company was pushing supersonic air travel, but unclear which company in particular was doing it. Proposed title change: clear which company was pushing supersonic air travel, but unclear what kind of company it
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by gaur 10y ago
The theory here is that if the airlines hadn't been forced to ground Concorde for a year following the 2000 crash, they never would have realized they could be bilking more money out of people by providing an inferior (conventional) ai
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by gaur 10y ago
Figure 1: oof. Vector graphics are your friend.
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by gaur 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Retirement > It has been suggested that Concorde was not withdrawn for the reasons usually given but that it became apparent during the grounding of Concorde that the airlines
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by gaur 10y ago
In order for that explanation to make sense, one has to assume that 11x multipliers and 25x dividers were common off-the-shelf items during the time period in question. If the choice is between a custom crystal and two custom boards, the cu
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by gaur 10y ago
I wonder why they decided it was better to design and build an 11x multiplier and a 25x divider rather than cut a 440 kHz crystal and run it with a copy of the 1000x divider electronics they already had.
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by gaur 10y ago
Don't bother. The article doesn't actually deliver what the headline promises.
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by gaur 10y ago
Still uselessly vague. Who is affected? How are they affected? How did you determine the effect is exponential as opposed to, say, logarithmic or linear?
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by gaur 10y ago
Meanwhile, people who don't have cushy jobs that allow them to randomly move for a month at a time need apartments to live in (and also, a lot of them probably can't afford kids even if they want them). Complaining that it's
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by gaur 10y ago
> AirBnB makes the market more efficient And after all, the most noble goal in life is to make markets more efficient.
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by gaur 10y ago
Neither the headline nor the bullet point "summary" actually delivers the promised information about a possible vendetta. The goal is obviously to bury the information as deep as possible in the article to increase the likelihood
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by gaur 10y ago
Whatever that means.
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by gaur 10y ago
There are hundreds of millions of people in North America. Why do people act like gaining or losing a couple thousand jobs is some kind of earth-shaking development? I get that losing jobs sucks for the people involved, but sometimes I even
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by gaur 10y ago
Wow, and I thought I was the only one. Something has always rubbed me the wrong way when people talk about "consuming" media. I get the sense they're trying to push some kind of agenda about the sociological evils of newspape
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by gaur 10y ago
Yes. And the same Zuckerberg that said building walls is bad, but then built a wall around his luxury vacation home in Hawaii.
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by gaur 10y ago
> imagery that really is not going to help them be well-adjusted in life Citation needed.
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by gaur 10y ago
I had a neutral opinion of Assange until he posted (and then deleted) a tweet with echo parentheses. That made it pretty obvious he's not really in it for any noble purpose.
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by gaur 10y ago
> His emails to the department were angry and accusatory — deploying multiple fonts, colors, and styles. He left several belligerent voicemails and was often agitated on calls with officers. Well, he was stomped on, jailed for two months
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by gaur 10y ago
> Why not simply build larger individual units, but stack many of them vertically? Certainly there is new development of high-rise apartment buildings and condos. But those remain out of reach for many people because the developers decid
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by gaur 10y ago
I think it's a bit rich of the author to advertise a bullshit- or jargon-free explanation of MCMC and then launch into a litany of definitions and theorems about directed graphs. In fact, when I am looking for "bullshit-free"
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by gaur 10y ago
Please punctuate.
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by gaur 10y ago
> Wait, this isn't universal in the US? Anything that makes it logistically easier to vote is resisted in certain states because it would increase the turnout of poor and minority voters.
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by gaur 10y ago
I think elections should be held by mail, so that people can vote on whatever day they damn well please. Some states already do it that way.
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by gaur 10y ago
Has anyone made tldr pages for python packages?
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by gaur 10y ago
> I hate to be negative, but what really is the point of this? To shame people who build slow, bloated websites. Saying that no bloat equates to no content is part of the problem.
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by gaur 10y ago
Sometimes I think that the usual workplace safety orientation videos should be replaced (augmented?) with videos like these, showing simple tips for how to keep the workplace from becoming a disaster: how to coil cables, how to do your dish
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by gaur 10y ago
I always use the arms, like this: https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2013/12/131213_... Works fine over about 1000 (?) repetitions so far.
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by gaur 10y ago
It's a well-known phenomenon and was the subject of an HN submission a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11838349
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by gaur 10y ago
Emmett Brown, is that you?
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by gaur 10y ago
How does your couch destroy your charger cord?

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