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by pitaa 9y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine, and makes me want to scream every time I see some click bait about how much better roman concrete was. If their concrete was so great, where are the ruins of the toman skyscrapers?!? :)
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by pitaa 9y ago
Did you have a pretty good idea that this was the case before sending them to TI? Hardware design fascinates me and I'm just curious how something like this goes down.
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by pitaa 9y ago
I agree; this offer doesn't seem malicious. At the very least the guy could have been scrapping them for beer money.
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by pitaa 9y ago
You know, I think this is the first article I've seen on working for Tesla (or SpaceX, for that matter) that has been wholly positive. Most of the time its more "They work you like hell and I have no life outside of work, but damn
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by pitaa 9y ago
What is it with banks and their annoyingly terrible "security" requirements? My old bank once sent me an email saying I had to reset my password. The email seemed legit, but upon following the link therein something didn't se
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by pitaa 9y ago
I am consistently impressed by the features Stripe puts out. They always seem well thought-out and implemented. Usually makes me wish I was still running an ecommerce site so I could actually use them!
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by pitaa 9y ago
> Gorsuch, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. Does anyone know why this is?
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by pitaa 9y ago
At this point I could take this to mean that you're arguing for safe spaces. While creating an "effective learning environment" sounds noble, some students seem to be interpreting this to mean they shouldn't have to hear
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by pitaa 9y ago
>two feminist groups and several former students filed a federal complaint accusing the University of Mary Washington...of failing to protect the female plaintiffs from cyber harassment... I am confused as to why anyone thinks its the Un
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by pitaa 9y ago
I admire your openness about this. I never used Imzy, but I definitely saw the appeal. Its unfortunate things didn't work out. I'm curious; Knowing what you know now, do you think you could have made it work? Basically, how much o
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by pitaa 9y ago
I don't disagree. But I wonder if the reason it was a ghost town when people reinstalled the app was precisely because it took a month for all the users to hear about it via word of mouth. If they had been able to send an email blast o
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by pitaa 9y ago
>Surely they could just issue a 'mea culpa' They did [1], but that was 3 month later and by then it seems most of their users had moved on and forgotten about them. Plus, being an anonymous app they didn't have emails for
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by pitaa 9y ago
Well, they blocked the app on all US middle- and high-school campuses so it couldn't be used for bullying. But past that I wouldn't call it a rampant problem. If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, b
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by pitaa 9y ago
HN thread from a few days ago with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14186699
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by pitaa 9y ago
I wouldn't at all blame the VC's for this. Yak killed their own app overnight by taking the main feature that made it popular - the fact that it was anonymous - and making an about-face to suddenly require usernames (and strongly
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by pitaa 9y ago
Not the kind of article I typically read, but I thought that was incredibly well-written.
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by pitaa 10y ago
Not to mention the menu. I'm a (lower) middle-class white dude and when I hear that their burger is a "combination of ground beef, tofu, barley, quinoa, and seaweed" I definitely think it's not my kind of restaurant. I c
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by pitaa 10y ago
I'm reminded of an article [0] posted on HN last year about "McDonald’s [being] de-facto community centers". Perhaps difference is that Locol has a 'mission' and is thus seen as a sort of charity, whereas McDonald&#
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by pitaa 10y ago
And she would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
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by pitaa 10y ago
I was curious what they normally charge for the device/service; according to a price list[0] I found from last year, the body cams are $399, the docking stations are $249, and the Evidence.com license is $948/yr (though I'm n
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Axon [formerly TASER] Offers Free Body Cameras for Every Police Officer in U.S(prnewswire.com)
12 points by pitaa 10y ago|4 comments
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by pitaa 10y ago
Whenever a non-technical salesman (or CS rep) tells me "we can't access your data", I usually smile and take it to mean "I personally don't have access to a GUI for sifting through your data". Not that such an
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by pitaa 10y ago
They most definitely do. I worked for a company that had unsuccessfully tried to get amazon to carry their products. Eventually, one of their smaller retailers (that already did a lot of FBA) put the product up as an FBA item, and it sold r
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by pitaa 10y ago
Definitely true. My parents recently went on vacation to a US city that isn't exactly the safest (IMO). Their hotel didn't offer an airport shuttle, and they've been burned by taxi drivers in the past. I explained the concept
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by pitaa 10y ago
I'm assuming you're not in the US? I used to have contactless cards on all my accounts until they started rolling out chip cards, at which point they sent me replacements with chips but no contactless functionality. I've cons
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by pitaa 10y ago
I wish them luck. I remember several years ago OpenCart was similarly forked to get away from the project owner's shenanigans, but that fork has had very little activity in the time since.
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by pitaa 10y ago
I see this as a sad day for the once-great Sears. Even though the quality of Craftsman tools had been slipping as of late, to see Sears sell off the brand entirely is another step in picking clean the bones of the Sears Roebuck & Compan
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by pitaa 10y ago
Same here. My memory is terrible. I've looked at these types of apps, but I have never seen one that was actually helpful. Instead I stick with sticky notes for to-do's, and a folder of txt's of notes from meetings/conve
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by pitaa 10y ago
Apparently my shoulder pain is caused by...an internal server error?
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by pitaa 10y ago
I know the standard already exists (It's called EPC), and it is actually used a bit. I recall last time I bought socks at Walmart, there was actually an RFID tag inside the label. I believe they're used a bit more in the supply ch

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