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by nether 10y ago
At the time, these files were worth six billion dollars.
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Will Seattle Beat the All-Time February Precipitation Record?(cliffmass.blogspot.com)
2 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Meta: /r/buyitforlife has a lot content in this vein.
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by nether 10y ago
Aeronautics is just as stagnant. Whenever news of new small aircraft startup hits HN though, most comments are negative.
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by nether 10y ago
I just can't get over how terrible an idea a PayPal founder starting a rocket company sounded. "Good ideas often sound bad," no joke. I was a pretty harsh critic of SpaceX in its early days (I was an aerospace engineer and ha
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by nether 10y ago
Yep; John Mark, a guard. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2y5sbt/iwasa_guard_in... > I personally think Zimbardo is a self-promoting sensationalists more than a serious academic researcher and
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by nether 10y ago
Even in the hobbies, particularly sports, subreddits I see a lot of narrow mindedness that I don't see in other forums for the same activities. Like asking how to do X type of cycling, the top comment will be some exhortation on how yo
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by nether 10y ago
> Now almost half of my feed is filled with photos of old Trabant, Lada or Opel Kadett cars, and I love that. This is why some of my friends prefer Instagram as their primary social network. It's mostly hobbies, food, very little po
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Should the United States Increase the Federal Gasoline Tax?(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
1 points by nether 10y ago|1 comments
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by nether 10y ago
A gas tax is basically regressive according to this paper (pdf page 9): > The gasoline tax’s tendency to place a greater burden on low-income households is often stated as one of the strongest arguments against the tax [West, 2004a, 755]
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by nether 10y ago
Would this disproportionately hurt lower income earners who live in the cheaper suburbs and have longer commutes? Easy to ask for that pigovian tax when you've got that sweet downtown loft.
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by nether 10y ago
Accelerated C++ involves working on a program to analyze student grades. The book itself is excellent, but the overarching project is very dry.
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by nether 10y ago
I came to assess the self-driving tech, but now I'm jamming.
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by nether 10y ago
The problem is, sometimes they work. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13657508 . One of the reasons OkCupid didn't ban duplicate messages is that often they led to successful exchanges.
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by nether 10y ago
Bumble forces women to initiate contact, which greatly cuts down on the nasty messages from men. http://www.xojane.com/sex/feminist-dating-app-bumble > The best thing about Bumble is that regardless of who I swipe r
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by nether 10y ago
The US National Park Service policy on garbage in the wilderness used to be burning it and burying the remains. It's not uncommon to find old scorched beer cans at some campsites today. They also casually encouraged interacting with an
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by nether 10y ago
I saw these weird drapes folded around me that were brown, green, and white stripes. They were gently heaving, and I knew that they were living creatures that were watching over me. I didn't take enough to have a full breakthrough, but
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by nether 10y ago
Mechanical engineering is not being a "mechanic." They rarely build or install anything with their hands. Usually we sit in cubes running software to analyze physical systems (like air flowing over a wing) and write up the results
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Model for Prediction Across Scales(mpas-dev.github.io)
1 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Both aircraft are so incredibly safe with vanishingly low accident rates, that it'd be nearly impossible to suss out accidents due to the respective designs versus pilot error, weather, carrier procedures etc.
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by nether 10y ago
> Flying is not a valid commute solution and never will be because of physics. All things equal, the energy requirements to change elevation will be too great to justify adoption. That only ensures that flying cars will always be more ex
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by nether 10y ago
In LA at least, this is common among high end restaurants. Certain chefs have relationships with specific farmers, or they have food buyers select the best produce at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. I suspect most restaurants just buy from
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by nether 10y ago
> 13 years ago, that is 2004 noone would openly talk about the NSA Nonsense. The movie Enemy of the State came out in 1998 and the NSA was involved in the production, though the agency was portrayed negatively, to its chagrin.
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High and Low Context(culture-at-work.com)
2 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
> Whether Musk becomes a space industry visionary -- or the latest in a string of delusional Don Quixotes -- remains to be seen. Doubters call Musk's vision pie in the sky, a gross underestimation of the technological and commercial
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Entrepreneur Tries His Midas Touch in Space (2003)(articles.latimes.com)
2 points by nether 10y ago|1 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Isn't everything PR?
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by nether 10y ago
Good thing that South African PayPal founder ignored the doubters in the early 2000s. They were saying the exact same things.
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by nether 10y ago
Since he was a draftsman I bet they'd look something like this: http://www.ardigitech.com/images/mech2.jpg . No point in making them look like actual photos, with shading, when you could just take an actual photogr
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by nether 10y ago
By "hand drawn" do they mean freehand, or drawn with manual pencil drafting techniques? Because both are done by hand, and really most trained draftsmen produced drawings of that quality (even lettering would look like it was prin

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