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Dear HN, Please stop telling companies not to use this method of interview. Sincerely, Michael. I use it to filter myself out before wasting anyone's time. What I see here is an AND gate, and their use of this process itself triggers t
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I am convinced the average American decides every important decision by whittling down their options to two (poor) choices their neighbors think best, and flipping a coin. "It's win/win, right guys"
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https://hackaday.io/project/6288/logs Someone hacked VW Canbus to play video games on the dashboard of a polo.
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How many people in the world have studied crypto? Radio and EE are both areas studied by a magnitude greater number of people at a serious level. Does crypto take a higher level of cognitive overhead to enter or do people only think it does
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Some vehicles use extra fuel to keep the engine warm enough for emissions to be low. A mid-80s vw 1.6 turbo diesel won't ever warm up to running temp if left idling, they are so efficient there is very little waste heat generated. (The
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Not sure, but I do know for sure that the firmware to the radio is a proprietary blob that we, as users, have 'no rights' to. Meaning, they could already be doing this without notifying anyone, and we have no way to confirm beyond
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Is there a currently updated database of local papers by region? I honestly have no idea how many local news papers are available to my area. I know of at least four from having seen them at the market, but no place online to check for more
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I had not seen that before. I wonder if any other interesting numbers are better calculated in alternate bases. Thanks
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There was a saying in the Soviet Union, "They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work." Apparently this is an ongoing issue https://www2.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/demokratizatsiya%...
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The US Army wrote an entire book on the Logistics of WWII http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-29/CMH_Pub_70-... "Many of the logistical problems faced in World War II may never need to be
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They missed a %20 from the link http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20Proposers%20Day.pdf
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If anyone has not yet read The Gulag Archipelago, please brace yourself mentally and do so. A very realistic look at how these things happened at a certain point in recent history.
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I have always disliked pi. Well, the 3.14 version. Ever since learning other number bases... http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/...
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Round up the writers and dissidents
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I found the same, but consider it to be bias. Once you have had a really good manager, you compare everyone else to them, and of course the rest fall short.
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Which was the top comment when you wrote this? Your comment is now self-referencing.
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Many have had access since it's inception three years ago https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/fbi-plans-have-52-mill... Section 4.1 of this https://www.fbi.gov/services/records-man
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According to Dr. Elaine Aron, http://hsperson.com there is a similar percentage sensitivity in both genders, 15-20%.
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Yes. I think it was purposefully designed with multiple threads having their beginnings and ends hidden in the text. Even tells you where one thread ends (where it gets nonsensical). So the start of the book is pretty much just dumping you
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Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl The book was written by a psychologist who survived the Holocaust camps. The paragraph that always sticks with me goes something like "for sure, the best amongst us never left the camps -
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Boolean search would be wonderful
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Walmart, GE, HP, JP Morgan, IBM
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Counterfeiting is an old problem. Straight razors were being counterfeited in the 1800's. They had a number of interesting patterns to counter it. Stamping of the company logo could be changed regularly. Certain groups were the only on
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This website: Arc
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Engineers like names to be unambiguous as possible. Teleport tells us absolutely nothing about the software.
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So the rear wheels are on trailing arms, but the front and middle are leading arms, which increase the incidence angle by the angle of the arm in regards to ground? So impacting a 45degree slope would have the force of say 55 degrees, as th
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They really do suck at negotiating. I tried to buy the house I was renting, and as part of their negotiation 'tactics' they threatened to have me evicted if the sale fell through. Of course, the sale fell through. No eviction. The
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Some axial turbines have ceramic blades
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The technology to make motors efficient has been around for a century, not much has changed there besides controls and feedback. Engines on the other hand have greatly benefitted from modern control systems. Here is a primer on motor histor
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The old standard for morphine is give however much stops the pain. They should have pushed up to the max they're allowed, if you were still in pain. I was in an accident, and the docs gave me as much morphine and dulaudid as it took an

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