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by pilom 5y ago
Set a baseball on top of a basket ball and drop them both from waist high, the baseball will shoot really high into the air by stealing energy from the basketball. The same principle can occur when you start breaking pieces off of spacecraf
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Some final thoughts on the SAT and ACT(jonboeckenstedt.net)
1 points by pilom 6y ago|0 comments
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by pilom 6y ago
Like what is stated elsewhere, when my wife wasn't working, we were on the ACA exchange. She's now working for fun again at a company that offers it as a benefit and so I'm on hers as it's a slightly better plan at a sim
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by pilom 6y ago
Disagree, the events happened in 2019 but the article was published this year based on FOIA requests that were fulfilled after 2019.
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by pilom 6y ago
I "retired" at 33 after working in tech for 12 years and saving a ton of money. With my free time I run a fun hobby business teaching kayaking which is way more fun and brings me way more happiness than anything I did in 2019 or b
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by pilom 6y ago
The reductum ad absurdum argument for assisted suicide had been decent at converting many skeptics I've talked to: There once was a man who fought in Vietnam who was burned by napalm. He had 2nd and 3rd degree burns over almost his ent
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by pilom 6y ago
I'm guessing within the next 10 years the non-sponsored "evil scientist" style geoengineering experiments are going to start. When someone builds the first balloon-floated tube to put particles in the upper atmosphere the wor
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by pilom 6y ago
Stopped eating beef and fish. Beef because the water usage required is extreme with beef in particular. It takes 12,000 calories of plants to make 1000 calories of beef. Fish because ocean acidification means my grandkids will likely never
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Ask HN: How does Google save passwords securely?
1 points by pilom 6y ago|0 comments
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by pilom 6y ago
Sounds like you're most of the way to needing some suspension work too. I've had to do struts in most cars around 120-160k.
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Do low level optimizations matter?(cantrip.org)
15 points by pilom 6y ago|0 comments
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by pilom 6y ago
Holy cow! How in the world do you use that much? My old house in Colorado would use ~350kwh/month. Swap out that electric heater for a heat pump asap!
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by pilom 6y ago
"In other words, are there any real life hacks that are not obvious that result in significant quality of life improvements?" Get a comfy bed. Buy comfortable shoes. Spend more money on things that make you happy and less money on
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by pilom 6y ago
This seems like exactly the measures I would institute if I just plain didn't have enough tests to test everyone who wants one (i.e. almost all humans). The secrecy sounds perfectly normal if the goal is to not be swarmed by masses of
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by pilom 6y ago
As a guy who kayaks off waterfalls and stopped using his GoPro a few years ago, most waterfall drops don't look that cool from a helmet view either.
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by pilom 7y ago
http://therecklesschoice.com I traveled the US and Canada in a renovated 1989 RV with my wife for two years while working remotely the whole time. So I had a lot of posts about mobile internet and setting up a solar power system
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by pilom 7y ago
Looks like issues are primarily on the east coast: https://downdetector.com/status/google/map/ No issues with any google services thus far for me in Denver.
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by pilom 7y ago
I think the parent is saying that API's should be utilities and not applications.
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by pilom 7y ago
Yep, just noticed that today as well.
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by pilom 8y ago
T-mobile's bad coverage reputation is undeserved today. They are easily on par with AT&T _IF_ your phone supports their 700MHz band.
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by pilom 8y ago
Good plans come up semi frequently, you just need to know where to look. I worked from an RV full time for 2 years using only cell plans and I was pretty happy with the plans I had. I still use my Verizon Grandfathered Unlimited plan for ho
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by pilom 8y ago
I used to work on near Earth satellites that had a <15 minute contact window about 10 times per day. Sensor requests and aiming commands would get pre planned about 2 days out with a gui that would let you point and click and it would pa
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by pilom 8y ago
First thing I'd say with the new job is "maxing out" your 401k is $19,000/year not whatever percentage the company will match. If you can afford to put $19,000/year away, you'll likely retire before almost ever
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by pilom 8y ago
31, married so all numbers are as a couple. Lived in DC for a year then moved to Denver. Started at a defense contractor then gave that up to work remotely for an ecommerce company for almost the same salary. Net worth is about $450k, ~425k
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Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scratch today?
13 points by pilom 8y ago|8 comments
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by pilom 8y ago
http://acid3.acidtests.org/support-a.png is a resource that page attempts to load that 404's now. I'm guessing that's part of the reason it doesn't score 100%. Not the browser's fault.
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by pilom 8y ago
Change the title to say "Every Afghan Household" like the original article please.
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by pilom 8y ago
Why do you require a CS degree for your developer positions? Bad experience in the past or just to give your hiring managers a filter?
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by pilom 8y ago
Colorado is doing this too because tax increases go to referendum votes and we can't convince people to actually pay for school funding.
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by pilom 8y ago
1) Everything gets a ticket to track it. Managers can't track "time in chair" so they need something else to track to know if you're doing your job. 2) Daily talking stand ups work really well on my team to just chat and

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