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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
Prior to the Space Shuttle, all deaths related to our space programs happened as part of training: the Apollo 1 cabin fire during a pad test, and Gemini 9 crew's plane crash resulted in five total astronaut deaths.
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
Wrong on both counts. Both companies entered markets considered completely saturated. Friendster and Myspace were the big players for Facebook, Lycos, AltaVista, and HotBot were competitors for Google. A new social network or search engine
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
I've heard of other small rocket companies using alcohol and lox as the fuel/oxidizer. Does anyone know if that is a stand-in for "real" fuels (e.g. RP-1 or H2) that they'll switch to after getting contracts or if t
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
Excellent chapter from the documentary Moon Machines about the Apollo guidance software (worth getting the whole thing on Amazon if you like this sort of thing), told from the point of view of the people who built the machines, rather than
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
> There is no shame in slinging coffee. I was raised to think this - there is absolutely no shame in working for a living. This scene from Girls basically sums up millenials and their relationship with work for me: https://ww
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
I've worked with plenty of people who liked the Magic Mouse. I don't think it's a matter of missing the trees for the forest, I think you're just not who Apple worries about when they update the Magic Mouse. They typical
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
"How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now." I didn't read the letter. The framing of it was all I needed to text my wife and tell her how much I love her.
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
The bus is a symptom of the problem: people don't want new people joining their group. This isn't specific to San Francisco or even housing. Get rid of the buses (which by their nature cut down on pollution and traffic congestion)
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
>here we are engaging in social-engineering through votes. Engineering implies some kind of plan. This is just people projecting their individual opinions in aggregate. It looks like social engineering because the majority of people&#x27
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
It's the implication of what the rule means. There's a huge difference between "let someone know you're going to be absent" and "ask a founder for permission to not have to come to the office."
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
I don't use vim as my go to editor so I may be asking a silly question; does it just use idiotic defaults or something? I've only met a couple 'vim users' who could just hop onto someone else's vim setup and be prod
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
This doesn't make much sense to me. Bridges, roads, sewers, pipes, etc are still around because the problems they solve haven't changed, and in the thousands of years we've been building bridges, we're only seeing the on
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
Almost universally? Got any examples that show this almost universal attribute? Off the top of my head, from the past couple of months alone, I can think of the VW CEO, Ellen Page (reddit's former CEO) who were ousted from their compan
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
This is amazing. Where do I sign up to help?
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
> Armstrong climbed down a ladder and walked on the moon. His actions were something that could be televised. Armstrong attempted one of the most difficult maneuvers in the history of man. The reason Armstrong was the first man on the m
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
Reddit is not the world, and it's not unfiltered. It's the same comments being upvoted and downvoted in similar patterns again and again and again. 4chan is much more unfiltered because it's anonymous and there's no voti
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
This seems less about privacy and doing what's right for EU citizens and more about European countries enacting some kind of protection scheme to give American companies a disadvantage when doing business there.
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
Draftkings have been running ads heavily on Saturdays for college football. I think it's more than ESPN; I remember seeing the commercials on CBS as well.
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
I think what GP is saying is that you need a Facebook account to get a developer account, so they create fake identities to attach to developer accounts.
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
JPL as well.
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
This [1] is the letter linked to in the article that is evidence they support CISA, correct? Maybe it's because I can't read legalese very well, but this looks like tech companies asking congress to codify our rights for the digit
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
This is bit of a silly blanket statement given America's main tech center (and a significant portion of HN's population) is in San Francisco, where rents are the highest in the country. It's really hard not to live beyond you
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by hoorayimhelping 11y ago
I save a good portion of every paycheck, and I've slowly watched my savings grow. There's no way I would quit a job without some kind of way to pay my day to day expenses or some kind of prospect to be able to do it in the future.