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by hbossy 3y ago
I think it's just coming from experience. They remember how every past attempt at making cars eco-friendly eventually resulted in worse personal experience via taxes, prices and worse repairability, so any new one gets a "no"
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by hbossy 3y ago
Ask HN: How do I start over at 37? Quick background: Grew up in an immigrant household with very little in the way of resources, guidance, encouragement. Was enamored by House MD and medicine from a young age, but foolishly followed the fam
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by hbossy 3y ago
Have you tried playing that tone and shifting it's phase to cancel the imaginary signal?
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by hbossy 3y ago
Is it harder to travel from abroad? I imagine that thousands of $1 bills might rise some eyebrows at customs.
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by hbossy 3y ago
So, they found 50 sites of early human settlements that look as if they were destroyed by nuclear explosions? I could make a conspiracy theory out of that.
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by hbossy 3y ago
Automator was great, I used it to steal my sisters copy of twilight sequel unofficial translation, she kept on password - protected CD. All it took was to piece together a few visual blocks that would backup any PDF on newly mounted disc. A
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by hbossy 3y ago
The current trend in military technology is to have missiles and drones communicate via satellite link. It is much harder to track or jam such communication.
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by hbossy 3y ago
This is true, I've worked on a actively maintained Ada codebase in aerospace industry and we had to use a proprietary Ada Xd compiler that was being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars per installation by company not interested i
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by hbossy 3y ago
What if they need to fight one of their southern neighbors over some marine issue of little concern to the USA? Or when they need to fight a country allied to the USA? Think Falklands.
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by hbossy 3y ago
I wouldn't trust any German recycling claim. They've been caught multiple times selling their "recycled materials" to shell companies and illegally trucking them into Poland to be dumped on public lands or set on fire in
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by hbossy 3y ago
Avatar 3 merchandise will definitely include floating rocks of Unobtanium.
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by hbossy 3y ago
Or you could avoid building the machinery and just pump water up and down. Then to lower the cost you could drop the tower idea and use a natural hill with reservoir on top. Surprise, surprise you just invented a pumped-storage power statio
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by hbossy 3y ago
The sulfur mining industry never recovered from the drop in revenue after someone discovered a way to extract it on scale from low-quality coal. Poland had a massive drop in revenue despite being the one selling both products. Does it mean
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by hbossy 3y ago
This is how it's supposed to be done but you always end-up moving them to header just to make writing unit tests less painful.
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by hbossy 3y ago
By 1851, Hincks and Rawlinson could read 200 Akkadian signs. They were soon joined by two other decipherers: young German-born scholar Julius Oppert, and versatile British Orientalist William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1857, the four men me
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by hbossy 3y ago
each email is its own thing and you can only read one at a time That's not true. Majority of my interaction with inbox is scanning through dozens of automated e-mail notifications and spam in search of the one I'm interested in.
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by hbossy 3y ago
Thanks, I hate it.
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by hbossy 3y ago
>Does the vast majority of people do more than one thing on their computer at a time? Yes? A browser, chat client, and music player in addition to whatever program they use to do their job.
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by hbossy 3y ago
This has happened before - US Navy was able to pinpoint the exact location of soviet K-129 shipwreck using recordings from spy hydrophone array after they observed search and rescue efforts from soviet navy. It was laying hundreds of kilome
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by hbossy 3y ago
It solved my problems with exporting data from proprietary webapps such as spotify.
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by hbossy 3y ago
Is this an attempt at viral marketing for the new Oppenheimer movie?
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by hbossy 3y ago
System records all people smoking on the staircase. The smoking tenant is evicted. New non-smoking tenants pay more. Old tenant can't sue the landlord over his eviction being racially-driven.
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by hbossy 3y ago
C and C++ are separate languages and lots of people don't like C++.
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by hbossy 4y ago
How do they bind it?
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by hbossy 4y ago
Just buy the cheapest cable from gas station and try to connect a phone with your computer. There's no way to hack you if the Chinese manufacturer decided to skim $0.001 off production cost and use no data wires.
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by hbossy 4y ago
I heard about people who use simple timer sockets to mitigate that. The battery won't die nearly as quickly if it's not at 100% all the time.
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by hbossy 4y ago
There's not a single feature added to phones during that time worth replacing working device for average user.
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by hbossy 4y ago
Microsoft has laid off entire HoloLens team. It's dead.
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by hbossy 4y ago
That sounds like a loop.
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by hbossy 4y ago
On heavy oil from other article of that blog: Cargo ships are significant sources of air pollution globally, and their fuel oil is largely responsible. Pitch black and thick as molasses, “bunker” fuel is made from the dregs of the refining

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