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by sgnelson 6y ago
One part of it is that in many urban areas, the intent is to reduce the number of cars, not necessarily provide accommodation for them (gas or electric.)
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by sgnelson 6y ago
My question is this: Can you ban discussing politics on a website largely about Technology (and heavy on the Silicon Valley/IT side of things) when one of the largest stories in the world at the moment is the interaction of the interne
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by sgnelson 6y ago
I was literally typing up the same thing when I read this. Anytime a simple majority can have such a large impact, it's probably a bad idea. It might not be tyranny of the majority in the classic sense, but it's "tyranny of t
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by sgnelson 6y ago
Neat story, but god do I often hate the modern internet. Who the hell thinks that Twitter is the right sort of medium for this type of information sharing? (Give me simple white pages of black barely formatted text and animated gifs any da
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by sgnelson 6y ago
Common refrain: The Raspberry Pi is more than it's hardware. Software support and Community support make it what it is.
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by sgnelson 6y ago
I've got to add my two cents to this discussion... You discuss tool and die makers, a very highly skilled profession; one that I would argue takes many years of training and labor to master. I would further argue that in the manufactur
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by sgnelson 6y ago
That is a very interesting observation, thank you. I've never thought about the digital vs analog in terms of actual "oh, it's digital, it's better." measurement variation. In my experience, I think you're pro
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by sgnelson 6y ago
So I guess it's okay then for the Saudi Arabia government to target him, harass him and try to kill him; because he's providing military aid (he's as much a mercenary as Boeing is) to one US ally, and another US ally doesn&#x
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by sgnelson 6y ago
This depends largely on the state, and whether it's a public or private school. Because for some schools, it's all about that FTE (Full Time Equivalent, a measure of how many students are taking how many classes, and how some stat
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by sgnelson 6y ago
It's just software. How hard can it be? /s
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by sgnelson 6y ago
Barr is one of the most dangerous AG's this country has ever had. He believes in extreme executive power. That "secularism" is evil and the downfall of this country. Worst of all imo, is that he believes that the law enforc
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by sgnelson 6y ago
I think to an extent, that was his point. When laws like this are enacted, they are targeted at a perceived enemy or class. And yet inevitably they are turned elsewhere, finally targeting everyone.
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by sgnelson 6y ago
I wouldn't say that many in VA are licensed, because in VA (and many other states), you don't need a license to purchase or carry firearms. Most states don't require any sort of training to buy a firearm. And every single st
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by sgnelson 6y ago
How Kafkaesque.
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by sgnelson 6y ago
I've always wondered how many of these rooms exist, but also their geographic location. Are they in every state? Every major city? What about a city like Minneapolis? Or is it just the major cities with the backbone connections? I&
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by sgnelson 7y ago
Right, because these companies are spending millions of dollars on R&D for new technologies that will only ever be used along the US/Mexican border. How about being worried because it's inevitable for this technology to be dep
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by sgnelson 7y ago
My search didn't show any located in North Carolina. And while NC isn't SV, it does have RDU and a decent number of small VC's. One of the problems with VC in the United States is the very unequal geographic distribution.
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by sgnelson 7y ago
"The right have certainly contributed to it by tolerating their crazies a little too frequently (even though they rarely win or have any power outside of useful headlines in the political media coverage) when in the past they'd st
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by sgnelson 7y ago
I like this game. Let's continue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State Nope, there's absolutely nothing that could go wrong here.
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by sgnelson 7y ago
The PBS documentary is linked in the above article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oyWZjdXxlw with this quote: "There is a scene in the first episode of a five-part 1996 PBS series on the making of the 777, Boeing’s
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by sgnelson 7y ago
Let me add as well: Some similar types of things are happening in the US. Politics above science. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/25/trump-...
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by sgnelson 7y ago
Over the past few years, it seems to me, that HN is suffering a bit from the eternal september effect. It seems (again, to me) that many HN commentators are very technically knowledgeable, but are sorely lacking in understanding politics,
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by sgnelson 7y ago
Only if you take in the affect of geography. And by that I really mean the amount of sunlight available during the different seasons of the year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Greenland
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by sgnelson 7y ago
And also the Big Mac Index. https://www.economist.com/news/2019/07/10/the-big-mac-index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
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by sgnelson 7y ago
Same thing has happened in Hungary https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/george-...
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by sgnelson 7y ago
I recommend reading "Top Secret America." It's really eye opening, and discusses the post-9/11 increase to our intelligence services and how that lead to the large number of contractors. Importantly the authors note tha
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by sgnelson 7y ago
Or the fact that what was once a cornerstone of American Conservatism has now disappeared entirely, the free market economy. "I can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, I need government intervention, subsidies, import tariffs
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by sgnelson 7y ago
It doesn't work that way. You have an extraordinary claim? You need extraordinary proof. Show me the evidence. And not all attacks are ad hominem. Reputation matters. You can't always separate claims from those making them.
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by sgnelson 7y ago
"I have here in my hand a list of communist agents and sympathizers working for the State Departmernt... er, I mean Google." It really is like watching history repeat itself. I've just been amazed by the past few years.
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by sgnelson 7y ago
Almost all you'll ever need to know about gauge blocks [1]. It's also a fairly decent introduction to the uncertainties of measurements, and other factors of taking measurements of objects. Of course it also includes a section o

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