irixusr

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by irixusr 9y ago
Sorry I forgot to finish the point for 1. A larger car (more space, inertia and soundproofing) with a bigger engine (lower rpm therefore less noise) with more cylinders (less vibration) is more comfortable and wears you down less. And I lo
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by irixusr 9y ago
Having lived (and appreciated) Europe and their cars: 1. You guy drive a lot less than us. I do trips three times as long as what would destroy me in Europe (twice a month I drive 500 km without stopping and back the next day) 2. Are you
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by irixusr 9y ago
Article is interesting but gets a few things wrong: 1. Starting the analysis in 1975 is misleading (the Ford administration). The most interesting cars are from the late 60s early 70s before emission regulations, oil crisis, car bumpers, ec
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by irixusr 9y ago
Not if they're on an H1B.
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by irixusr 9y ago
I agree that most relationships weren't more meaningful, but I had less meaningless relationships too. That's the sick part of FB. That I really don't care for my cousin saving the world in Africa, so why should I care what s
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by irixusr 9y ago
Sure it happened somewhat. That's how they caught Solzhenitsyn and that's the protagonist's side job in Catch 22. But we're talking orders of magnitude of difference. In general "they" don't read your mail
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by irixusr 9y ago
Interesting. Although I tend to attribute things like this to ignorance and not malice. < Helps me pretend people aren't so bad. The people who make decisions often don't know what they're deciding about (how can the same
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by irixusr 9y ago
Except that anyone who has flown in an airplane knows that these aren't rare, unthinkable, events. Every time we fly we get nasty, rude, on the edge of snapping flight crews. So, ya I hate the 5 minutes of hate culture, except that&#x2
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by irixusr 9y ago
I don't like the five minutes of hate either. And the over abundance of out-of-context filming going on everywhere. But I do care that a woman was hit by a stroller and that a baby was almost hit. Mr. Flight Attendant is an employee, n
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by irixusr 9y ago
At a certain point a criminal investigation needs to be done with a through discovery process. (Man I hate taxis though)
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by irixusr 9y ago
The testimony of a guy under oath no less. And a testimony consistent with a pattern of illegal behavior that surely warrants a deep (criminal?) investigation with discovery.
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by irixusr 10y ago
They were happy to loose to the West who had less reason (by an order of magnitude or more) to hate them. That Stalin was butcher seems a bit mute compared to the German responsibility of the savagery of the Eastern Front.
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by irixusr 10y ago
Why not? Once you're on D7 the pawn can be captured or kept. If black moves to capture the pawn with a bishop, you move the king into pawn's old spot. You capture the black rook with the other pawn for the win. If there are no mor
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by irixusr 10y ago
WVU's PRT train system runs on VAX. Any university has dozens of labs with 386s, or similar vintage, because the software they need to operate incredibly expensive equipment is abandonware. In fact an IT guy I knew kept the best surviv
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by irixusr 10y ago
Well there's only 40~45 weeks in a year (if menstruation is no-sexy time) so then that's twice a week. Sounds about right.
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by irixusr 10y ago
+1 I know of no one in any of the dozen or so cities I've lived who doesn't prefer a typical uber driver to a typical cab driver.
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by irixusr 10y ago
Why can't you have a one (two w/ 180 deg) phase cooker?
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Ask HN: Does the NSA profile HN readers?
33 points by irixusr 10y ago|18 comments
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by irixusr 10y ago
How else are you going to get out of a country surrounded by water? At least w/ Canada there's an agreement for the Canucks to tell CBR that you've left the US (Source: I tried to surrender my i-94 at the US side of the borde
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by irixusr 10y ago
Don't forget turkey had the cojones to provoke the Russians by shooting their plane and then commit a war crime by shooting sry the pilots. They'be become a rogue nation more than any other.
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by irixusr 10y ago
Of course not. Unless you happen to have R. Paul as your senator the GOP typically is worse. Its playing the two sides off each other that might work. Make the GOP think will vote for them. Make the democrats think they'll loose our co
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by irixusr 10y ago
Think of every demographic in the US that politicians whore themselves to. The most successful ones are not always large. But they vote as a block, in high numbers, and are not overly faithful to any party. Tech workers should support senat
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by irixusr 10y ago
Another brick in the wall. What are we going to do a out it? Maybe Wikipedia or Google will deface their own websites, and the bill will die only to resurrect shortly after. A better solution would be for the millions of tech workers to uni
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by irixusr 10y ago
It was a bit of hyperbole. But digital rot really is not taken as seriously as it should. I mean the Iowa computers were on combat duty until the 80s.
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by irixusr 10y ago
+1 because you're right about the importance of distribution. My family are inflation "refugees". It's bad in of itself. I agree that the distribution of the money is the worse part of the printing press. Giving money to
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by irixusr 10y ago
A bit much, even for me. But Orwell wouldn't be surprised a bit of quid pro quo. Both are power structures, in competition, ultimately trying to preserve their own controll.
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by irixusr 10y ago
I'm sure if you google it there'll be blurb on their website. But Chomsky points out that appearing impartial is part of the media manipulation. They'll print the juicier bits, but buried deep were few except geeks and junkie
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by irixusr 10y ago
I up voted you. I read RT, but their juicier bits I always look up to cross check.[1] But I don't live in Russia so Putin can't harm me. Therefore, I'm not scared of them. However, it is an invaluable source to know what we&
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by irixusr 10y ago
My dad's eng degree is in electromagnetic mechanics . He graduated just as mechanical relays (actually analog computer controlling a relay) in the power grid were being replaced by electrical ones. A few interesting things he points ou
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by irixusr 11y ago
A follow up question to the OP's: Which courses are worth taking?

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