mellow-lake-day

11 ms·

91.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
I think Buzzfeed News needs to rebrand itself from Buzzfeed so people stop getting the two confused
92.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Buzzfeed != Buzzfeed news Here are some examples from buzzfeed news: https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/poison-in-the-system https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/how-apps-t... I
93.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Apparently it's legal in some cases when you give it directly to people >Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their p
94.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
> so one of the things not really covered here is how to deal with SD card failure. I recommend a program like win32diskimager ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ ) so you can make images of your
95.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Tesla also had one last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17295725
96.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
14% of the population being foreign born doesn't seem that unsurprising or unexpected. Based on your comment I thought it would be much higher. My opinion: I am a believer that immigrants are the lifeblood of America and are the secret
97.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Being 19 isn't a free pass to do anything. At 19 you are old enough to vote, drive, serve in the army, etc — and old enough to understand that words have consequences and that calling people "dumb fucks" when they give you th
98.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Just a reminder: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just sub
99.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
When I was buying a ticket to Europe for study abroad I was checking these sites, in the end I used the first one, but all were helpful: * http://www.momondo.com/ * https://www.kayak.com/flights * https:&#
100.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Imagine what kind of optimizations electrical vehicles will get when they become more mature. What Tesla, Bolt, BYD, etc are doing is just the beginning.
101.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Or the Google Cloud Platform
102.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
> A Nest spokesperson responded to our request for comment and issued this statement: > "We have seen instances where a small number of Nest customers have re-used passwords that were previously exposed through breaches on other
103.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
That article is an example of outstanding journalism. It probably required tremendous amounts of writing ability, knowing the subject matter, spending hours and hours of research, being familiar with the industry, etc. Doesn't see this
104.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
AFAIK the images used in the Bloomberg article were illustrations / stock images
105.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Maybe this incident will open up the ISS schedule to allow SpaceX to do their DM-1 test flight sooner.
106.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say part of the problem is that streaming services are not available in all countries and if they are the price is not adjusted for the income level in that country. For instance Spotify is not avail
107.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
If twitter/FB/reddit had done a better job with banning spam bots originating from the GRU offices then you wouldn't be getting called a Russian bot. The effect of Russian bots is multi-pronged because it dilutes the discussi
108.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
I'm speaking for myself here but I think the Russian bots as well as astroturfing bots need to be censored. And not censored by government regulation but by the terms of service. There are many "active measure" Russian bots a
109.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
More like make US tech giants move their manufacturing to the US (at least those boards headed for the military or government)
110.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
>Tesla will file for bankruptcy protection in 2019. We've been hearing this bankruptcy thing every year without fail since the company was founded 15 years ago. This doesn't mean the company won't go bankrupt but that they
111.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Google also has a calculator and a color picker. If you want to be mad at someone taking traffic that would be Google since they have 1000x the volume of ddg.
112.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
It's not so black and white. The biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance goes into more detail for those curious. It's based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Elon and those close to him — including family, friends, co-worker
113.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
A businessman who actually wants to make money wouldn't start a rocket company. The return on rocket companies is nil.
114.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
The biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance talks about this. Which I recommend everybody read. I don't remember the details but I think he was admitted but not enrolled. He ended up not going because he thought pursuing an internet co
115.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
I am guessing part of the reason that the Instagram co-founders left is that Mark kept adding in all of these "features" to Instagram
116.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
What about people who make video games? There is a great video on YouTube called "Software powering Falcon 9 & Dragon - Simply Explained" which goes more into this topic.