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by no-s 4y ago
> big companies like Ford / Boeing / Mitsubishi ought to pool together into some kind of consortium and buy out Dassault to open-source the code. It would probably pay back multiple times over Even though I think SolidWorks is
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by no-s 4y ago
> Poor people are still going to have document all their income/assets to qualify for a rebate, nope, no qualifications, no means test. Only one rebate per person, same amount for each person, computed from poverty line statistics.
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by no-s 4y ago
> I do agree with kstenerud that such a tax could hurt the poorest people. This begs the question of is there a way to introduce such a tax that allows the poor to transition into a Fair Tax? e.g., Allowing people making under X 2 years
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by no-s 4y ago
> The Fair Tax would increase inequality in the USA by shifting the burden of tax payment onto the poorest. So there are some provisions to address this: - basic rebate: every person gets a rebate corresponding to a base amount of tax pa
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by no-s 4y ago
Apparently (per the app) these gpt3 apps are overwhelming and I need to spend more time with my friends. Also, I need to hunt for a job. Btw, today I will paint the house blue and mow the lawn. Thank goodness for helpful AI apps!
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Implications of Captured Interstellar Objects for Panspermia(arxiv.org)
4 points by no-s 4y ago|1 comments
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by no-s 4y ago
Hmm, another cool project idea! From 2018…
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by no-s 4y ago
What is salesforce, heheh.
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by no-s 4y ago
This article appears to be misguided apologia or maybe gaslighting. There are some incontrovertible elements to the original story which are more relevant than this attempt to reframe legitimate concerns about the treatment of the story int
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by no-s 4y ago
> Do these plants not require tons of water? If you’re referring to the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, it’s downstream of water treatment plants and is effectively evaporating the water from the effluent stream [1], in other word
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by no-s 4y ago
The other day I started wondering if I could find success and achievement working in open source agricultural robotics. i feel like it be a handy thing for off grid folks. Seems like it would be exciting way to enable more self-sufficient l
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by no-s 4y ago
> The last thing I want to see on HN (or anywhere else for that matter) is thoughts on Taylor Swift You’re responding to the original submission. You can flag it if it’s that important to you. Or just skip it in your reading list and nev
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by no-s 4y ago
> that'd explain some of the weirder features mentioned on the home page GDPR compliance too?
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by no-s 4y ago
> advertising I don’t think OP is advertising this.
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by no-s 4y ago
> The need to log in to be able to use the terminal feels a bit awkward I immediately uninstalled it. No thanks.
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by no-s 4y ago
I never knew Aaron Swartz. But I will always celebrate his day, as is his due. Please show your appreciation to the Internet Archive and others for sponsoring and hosting this justly appropriate memorial. Swartz was a bright advocate of int
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by no-s 4y ago
still seems kind of pointless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33386342 I can’t bring myself to flag it but it’s still just a moronic hit piece. Give us clue why you posted it, maybe seed the discussion?
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by no-s 4y ago
It is a hit piece and not worthy of serious discussion. This sort of journalism is tiresomely low S/N.
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by no-s 4y ago
> So we are stuck with an extremely divisive issue which really has no impact on anything real. The 2nd is a canary. Its song is the relationship between security and freedom. Should the canary die, then expect the invocation of the rule
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by no-s 4y ago
> resume and skills from 1980 Wow, I had a resume (with several years of experience) in 1980. Now I’m feeling really auld. My mom has roots in the era of programming where the program was entered by wiring a plugboard...
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by no-s 4y ago
> Interesting that this is like a cover letter and resume in one. Pre-email that was pretty much how it went. There was no point in overcomplicating things. People had to type these cover letters and resumes up, over and over. Or they wo
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by no-s 4y ago
> Who else can say they used a computer with two ROUND screens? Hmm, that takes me back, heheh. I remember using some spanking new equipment in the late 60’s with round screens. I was just 8 or 9 then so my recall is unsure but think it
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by no-s 4y ago
> Part of the problem is when regulation and incentives push to make it so only Bentleys are profitable to make. I’ll second this. Almost everywhere you go in the US are mandates that dramatically increase the cost of developing your own
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by no-s 4y ago
> I am not the type of person that will ever strap one to my hip to go about my daily business. I do strap on my pistol to go about my daily business, which could mean grocery shopping, going to the bookstore, walking the dogs. I know ro
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by no-s 4y ago
> people focusing on birds being killed by wind turbines don't actually care about birds, they just don't like wind turbines. Are you implying raptor kills in wind turbine farms do not happen and any such criticism is unfounded
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by no-s 4y ago
> Have found them in my house several times and even been bitten by them. I guess I'm just lucky but I never had an overly bad reaction to their venom. I think you may just be lucky, they may dry bite, or maybe there’s some folks wi
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by no-s 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure they were joking haha, only serious (currently suffering from a 2-month-past recluse spider bite wound, going to the wound clinic next week cause it’s not healing very well). yes, the progression of the bite wound
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by no-s 4y ago
> incredulous for a windshield replacement. I thought so too. That’s when I started noticing Teslas around town with cracked windshields, heheh.
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by no-s 4y ago
> or more fully-equipped Tesla repair facility. Correct. There was no authorized repair available in Tucson. The mobile windshield repair service declined to touch it. There was a possible repair in Phoenix (130 miles) but it wasn’t cert
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by no-s 4y ago
> Thermal change caused the crack to spread. It happens all the time with vehicle windshields. This happened to my brother’s brand new Tesla. Tiny impact on the edge extended all the way across after a week in Tucson. Very sad, especiall

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