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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thanks for the context. I have not looked into this deeply at all, but you’re right, something like that would make a lot of sense.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
But presumably it’s cheaper for the average HN reader to hire a skilled tradesman to do the install than to take the, say, 2% chance of a debilitating fall from the roof?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
How could I forget! I watched that one live in high school. I also was present for the launch of Discovery’s return to space in ‘88.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sorry for the late response - if you see this, I think Citi private bank still has some pretty cheap unsecured loan products. Agreed, credit cards are a different beast and not as borrower favorable as those lines of credit, but probably wi
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Huh. Gladiator is way cheaper than I remember. Would still be a bargain at twice the price. At this point, I probably have about $900 sunk into Virpil controls. The Alpha grip and base, the Mongoose throttle and an extra control panel I jus
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yes, defined terms are critical. As the exercise went on, I kept refining my mental model of what a “vehicle” was in the context of the park sign. I eventually came up with a mental model that was something like “an artificially powered or
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I really thought the seemingly blatant stereotypical names were going to be a factor in the assessment. Though I guess now that I think about it, I don’t know that I could point to a name that I think would be non-stereotypical in the 21st
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Oh, I just remembered my lost media white whale. Back during the first season of “Survivor,” there was a guy who would record hilariously amateurish songs about what was happening on the show. One I remember and can still kind of hear was a
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I guess he didn’t know how safety conscious and risk averse the oil and gas industry actually is. You can be at a meeting in a conference room in downtown Houston, and they’ll start the meeting — like, every single one — with a safety minut
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The space shuttle carried politicians, though! The mission that landed right before Challenger carried the now-administrator of NASA and then Florida Congressman Bill Nelson. They also took up a republican rep or senator from Utah (where th
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by nocoiner 3y ago
With Columbia, Mission Control knew there was a potential issue pretty much as soon as the shuttle reached orbit, but because there was basically nothing* that could be done about it, they essentially were going to not worry the crew too mu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sure, the spending should be subject to question, but even a seemingly staggering sum like $800 billion is only a few percentage points of GDP. I don’t want to call it a rounding error, because it isn’t, but it’s a pretty small burden on th
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by nocoiner 3y ago
An absolutely unarguable point. Well done.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
For whatever reason, it seem like people usually exclude acts undertaken in connection with the state’s monopoly on violence from the scope of these things.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wow! It shocks me that a song that credible-sounding doesn’t turn up anywhere. Just fascinating.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’d only heard about this a few weeks ago. I’ve seen hunts for mystery songs go down before (“On the Roof”, what’s up!), but for some reason something about this one just feels off. Like that photograph of the track list - just seems a litt
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It’s not horrible, but every time I see his name on a publication, I know what the primary subtext is going to be. It will definitely be worth it if he’s the first scientist to establish deeply convincing evidence of an extraterrestrial civ
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by nocoiner 3y ago
> Bottom of the barrel $30 Logitech is barely something I feel good about giving to a friend during a gaming session, let alone a life-or-death equipment choice for steering a submarine. I wish my friend whose mom bought him MadCatz cont
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’ve owned and used Virpil and VKB, and they’re both terrific (Virpil is just insanely over the top good, though), but I wouldn’t even think to put them in the same sentence as Logitech. And I think Logitech makes pretty good peripherals ge
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Ah, I guess I had to request the desktop site to be able to upload to imgur. If you still care, this is what I saw when I clicked the link in the email. https://imgur.com/a/31pSERB For some reason, you may get a sensit
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, it sucks when you’re an investor and you have to sell your investment at a loss. Anyway. (Also… are prices tanking in Austin? If so, first I’ve heard of it. Sounds more like the investment was already a stretch for them, and when it c
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It seems like the article is going out if it’s way to elide this point, but I think the next paragraph explains what happened. > Shortly afterward, Carl received an email informing him that he was not allowed to be an Airbnb user because
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by nocoiner 3y ago
https://archive.is/jFQno
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by nocoiner 3y ago
> If you support any of those things you would be a fool to support Lemmy. In fact, one might say that it would make one a something of a useful idiot.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It’s a good theory, but shouldn’t it show up regularly in electrical schematics then? It doesn’t sound like anyone in any particular fields (other than possibly German mathematics or Dutch economics) has been able to point to historical com
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by nocoiner 3y ago
> When you request a scan, you will be asked to confirm that you acknowledge a copyright declaration which states that you have not already been supplied with a copy of the same material, that you will use the copy only for non-commercia
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by nocoiner 3y ago
it was so bad, I actually took a screenshot and was going to post it, but I guess imgur doesn’t allow anonymous uploads anymore. Wonder how long that’s been the case. I’ll look for a decent looking photo host that’s not going to mercilessly
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by nocoiner 3y ago
What’s the potential copyright issue with the request to Cambridge? BTW, terrific detective work. I love mysteries like these.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I got the email, thought, “huh, never heard of it.” Wasn’t curious enough to find out until I saw this post. Still didn’t understand what exactly this was or how I used it, so I clicked. 30% of the screen (on mobile) is a banner telling me
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Honestly, no, I don’t remember, but my mental model of replying/threading on that site has been broken for a very long time. I’ve never been very sure how it works, or if it’s working properly, so I’m probably not the right person to a

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