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by pintxo 7y ago
Maybe because it should have looked like this (personal opinion): waitForPromise() .then(handleResolve) .fail(handleReject) .catch(handleException); But actually looks like this: waitForPromise()
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by pintxo 7y ago
The value is in knowing when to use which.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Watched the launch this morning from the Saturn V stands at KSC, wow!
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by pintxo 7y ago
We could still try to educate them, it gives so much other benefits as well, it’s worth the effort
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by pintxo 7y ago
No disagreement here.
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by pintxo 7y ago
This project is split in two (three separate lines). Not sure it makes sense to have high speed rail for a shorter route than London - Birmingham.
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by pintxo 7y ago
We already do [1]: > They are aligned in such a way as to minimize any head winds and maximize tail winds impact on the aircraft. This results in much more efficiency by reducing fuel burn and flight time. To make such efficiencies possi
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by pintxo 7y ago
You mean this [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo
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by pintxo 7y ago
Personally I would say if you need any of those features regularly you should not be driving a vehicle. Or at the very least stop using the atrocity which is the touch based navigation/in-car entertainment. (Had a rental Ford with a to
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by pintxo 7y ago
Same for bikes.
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by pintxo 7y ago
With 600 hp and a manual clutch your left knee will soon be significantly stronger than the right one, if there is any traffic on your commute. (Recall time in the 7-gear manual 911)
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by pintxo 7y ago
Or a cheap bike
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by pintxo 7y ago
Anecdotal observation is that drivers might run the red light for the first few seconds. But cyclists will run the red the moment they arrive at he light, independent of when it turned red. These are two very distinct types of running a red
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by pintxo 7y ago
20 mph sounds way over the top for average city cycling. Anecdotally most people running stoplights seem to not exceed 12 mph, as I frequently overtake them shortly after getting my green light.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Idaho stop: What a great sounding idea. Would like to see some data showing there is no negative accident/health effect to have some solid arguments.
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by pintxo 7y ago
... can appear in the genome long before ... > “What’s extraordinary is how some of the genetic changes appear to have occurred many years before diagnosis, long before any other signs that a cancer may develop, and perhaps even in appar
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by pintxo 7y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22173776
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by pintxo 7y ago
They might as well just supply the list of allowed passwords /s
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by pintxo 7y ago
Nice. Anyone knows why biomass is categorized as "other" and not under "renewable energy"?
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by pintxo 7y ago
My maths tell me, an increase of (absolute) 3.3b from 4.3b to 7.6b is a (relative) change of 76%.
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by pintxo 7y ago
> "contained inside Turkey" And well inside territorial waters: the Bosporus has a width between 700m and 2500m.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Alternatively, you could put your money in a normal bond and invest the interest payout into lottery tickets.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Statistics tell us: their ancestors. (as in: the best predictor for personal success is the income of ones parents)
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by pintxo 7y ago
Germany here, there is a lower limit, below which we do not have to enter a pin. Maybe the same for you?
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by pintxo 7y ago
Update: For Germany the consensus seems to be that Audi has taken the lead from BMW. /s
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by pintxo 7y ago
If anyone wonders what happens if a proper airplane tries to fly through a swarm of locust: http://avherald.com/h?article=4d1de8cc&opt=0 > The windscreen wipers were not able to clear the windshield anymore. The crew
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by pintxo 7y ago
You might not have realized it, but doctors are just mere humans like everyone else. As such they are not magically immune to outside influence. Also, I believe our interpretation of the quote differs quite a lot from mine. I read the origi
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by pintxo 7y ago
One doctors quote in the article says it all: > But, “if you want to model electronic health records as a for-profit system and not regulate them as such and force doctors to be on them, it’s almost inevitable that they’re going to be ma
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by pintxo 7y ago
Sorry, forgot the /s on "socialist". Just being a bit snarky about anything government related easily painted as socialism in some subsets of the US population.
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by pintxo 7y ago
While that's basically my approach as well, there are people who genuinely believe that raising any animal for the purpose of eating them is cruelty.

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