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by sideband 7mo ago
Alphabet wants drivers on their devices looking at ads instead of driving.
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First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket scheduled for Jan. 10(space.com)
2 points by sideband 2y ago|0 comments
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ITER Construction Site (Dec 2023) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by sideband 2y ago|0 comments
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North Korea via satellite imagery(mynorthkorea.blogspot.com)
3 points by sideband 2y ago|1 comments
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by sideband 2y ago
The author releases much of his findings as a KML. There is a free version with ~61,000 places listed here: https://mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2021/01/accessdprk-2021-ma...
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First Boeing Starliner crewed capsule launch schedule for 1625 GMT today [video](youtube.com)
3 points by sideband 2y ago|0 comments
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by sideband 3y ago
Would love to see this added to https://kmzview.com . I could (almost) stop using Google Earth for my clients.
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by sideband 4y ago
> Sudden layoffs can also help maintain labor discipline, which a lot of business leaders felt was getting away from them. We saw this theatre at my employer. A mandatory all-company meeting called with a few hours notice, lots of stern
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by sideband 4y ago
QGIS is fantastic and that team deserves a lot of praise for their work over the years. However, the article calls out using KML as a data source and unfortunately QGIS does not have the best support for KML. One of the reasons KML is still
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Orion returns to Earth to complete Artemis I mission(orlandosentinel.com)
1 points by sideband 4y ago|0 comments
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NASA's new moon rocket, its most powerful ever, rolls out for first time(space.com)
2 points by sideband 5y ago|0 comments
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by sideband 6y ago
The current "tech" job interview process is engineered to select for people that are both competent and secretly insecure about their skills, and to do this with little or no false positives. Competent employees are, well, compete
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Show HN: Explore diverse network routes in the US and Canada
1 points by sideband 7y ago|0 comments
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Interactive map of fiber optic networks around Chicago(demo.fibermap.com)
1 points by sideband 8y ago|0 comments
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by sideband 8y ago
I know the title sounds like a political piece, but it's not. The subheading is "A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers. A set of cryptic data has inspired a years-long arg
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Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?(newyorker.com)
7 points by sideband 8y ago|2 comments
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Caddy: “if you wish to disable telemetry, it can be done at compile-time”(caddyserver.com)
2 points by sideband 8y ago|1 comments
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by sideband 9y ago
You could say that Google Fiber was a response to Comcast's announcement of its intent to acquire NBC in December 2009. Google makes no money if they can't show ads to people, and at the time Comcast and friends controlled Google&
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by sideband 9y ago
Amazon could only benefit from having multiple state and municipal governments in competition within any general metro area that they are seriously considering. I think it's a bit telling that Washington, D.C., Montgomery County in Mar
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Why I moved from Python to Go(gophersre.com)
2 points by sideband 9y ago|0 comments
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by sideband 9y ago
It's called River Ranch Acres and on the map it's the area south of Highway 60/Hesperides Rd and east of Highway 630 E with the dirt roads throughout. The Triple Canopy Ranch to the west mostly surrounded by a canal (moat?) i
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by sideband 9y ago
Southern Florida has several cities like this. A few have been somewhat successful: https://www.google.com/maps/@26.9825804,-82.1857099,31160m/d... https://www.google.com/maps/@26.6300975,-81.
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by sideband 9y ago
I could never understand what Google wanted with Boston Dynamics. It seemed like a huge risk to their brand: Google, 2001: "Don't be evil." Google, 2013: "We make military robots."
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by sideband 9y ago
I agree. As much as I really wanted to use gRPC on Go for a current project, this bug ultimately scared me away: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/1043 Big kudos to everyone working on it (most of which
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by sideband 9y ago
I also moved from the the Bay Area to Oviedo, FL not long ago (fun fact about our little town: Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, grew up here). I agree with everything on your list, and I'll add one more item: 9) Greater thought div
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by sideband 10y ago
I'm of the unpopular opinion that climate change has the potential to be a net positive for humanity over the long term: + Protecting coastal (and some inland) populations against higher water levels will be huge infrastructure project
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by sideband 10y ago
> We are the largest private company in Florida Huh? The largest private company in Florida does $32 billion/year in revenue and has 186k employees. You can't be that big.
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by sideband 10y ago
Verizon's costs to deploy FiOS, which is the same underlying tech as Google Fiber, between 2004 and 2010 in some MSA's approached a billion in capital alone. They ended up spending $23 billion in total capital, and only in places
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by sideband 10y ago
There's some sort of Stockholm syndrome prevalent among too many Bay Area residents that compels them to accept the lower quality of life. I lived there for several years until recently, and it was a surreal experience to hear others d
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by sideband 10y ago
Serious question, not trolling: Why do many HackerNewsen seem to feel that global warming is a bad thing? For all we know, the changes brought on by a warmer climate may be great for humanity as a whole.

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