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by soneil 8y ago
That was my first thought too. Shipping liquids is a solved problem. You baffle containers to limit shifting and slapping. Doing the same for dry bulk seems like a no-brainer? There must be a consideration I'm entirely missing.
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by soneil 8y ago
Most my memories of Goldeneye involve having 4 people stuffed on a couch, cheap beer, pretending we weren't looking at each other's screens. Quake was a blast, but we weren't all in the same room, let alone the same couch. I
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by soneil 8y ago
Similarly, I star things in my rss reader when I’m skimming, and then consume them when I have time to properly digest. Then unstar so they drop out the queue. Works well, works simple, and works for many more sources besides hn.
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by soneil 8y ago
They don't appear identical to me either. If you flick through from first to last (chronologically, eg from image 2 onwards), watch the star in the very bottom-left (they all behave, but this proximity to the edge makes it more percep
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by soneil 8y ago
They've got to the point where everyone loves to hate them, but not enough to stop using them. If I compare with the bus I take to the airport: RYR have a higher chance of showing up on time. A higher chance of a functional toilet, an
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by soneil 8y ago
I have to worry about a $1,000 bicycle. For some reason it's just socially accepted that this will happen to a $1,000 bicycle. But park a car worth an order of magnitude, and the level of worry actually goes down. That's the bi
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by soneil 8y ago
Amsterdam to the Polish border is 8 hours. Do you think it'd be worth $1000/hour? (Yes, this is perpetuating a horrible stereotype. Nothing personal, Poles, you just happen to be the closest border for this particular stereotype.
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by soneil 8y ago
I'm not sure I'd be so paranoid. We've read of people managing to hack the key openers, etc. They're an attractive target. I mean, if you were going to leave a box containing $30,000 on your doorstep. A box not only con
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by soneil 8y ago
They'll figure out an alternative. eg, Liechtenstein only has 2.5% corporate tax rates for IP & royalties. So create a shell there, sell it your IP, and then license it back.
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by soneil 8y ago
I think it's over-simplifying the issue to blame children for that. I mean, when I was 12 we built a little fort in the woods. My parents didn't mind letting us disappear with hammer, nails, saw and sandwiches for the weekend, as
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by soneil 8y ago
It's quite a strange situation as an immigrant. I had an interesting conversation with a native American, that went down the "your ancestors did x/y/z" route (which I don't begrudge him, it wasn't unprovok
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by soneil 8y ago
There was also teams using ground-penetrating radar to see if they could find alternative routes or a location suitable for drilling (Chilean-miner style). That approach didn't pay off either, but I haven't heard of anyone compla
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by soneil 8y ago
That'd be a new version of TCP, surely? Rather than a new version of IP
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by soneil 8y ago
> Mr Stanton told reporters: "This was completely uncharted, unprecedented territory and nothing like this has been done. So, of course there were doubts. ( https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44819416 ) Those involved
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by soneil 8y ago
The whole "PR" stuff bugged me, because it honestly doesn't matter if it is. It's perfectly possible, and preferable for PR to be win-win. And it really doesn't matter if they didn't use it. More options is b
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by soneil 8y ago
I'm not sure the children's cognitive abilities are particularly relevant, as blunt as it sounds. It's not like in the last 2-3 days they've trained them to a level beyond the Thai SEAL who didn't make it. Panickin
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by soneil 8y ago
There was a news story in 2004 or so, where a team of british soldiers got stranded in a cave in Mexico. To assist with local efforts, two brits flew out - one of whom, civilian firefighter Richard Stanton, was also one of the two brits wh
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by soneil 8y ago
I do actually suspect the Air will disappear as an offer in due time. When the Air was released, it had too many limitations, and too high a cost, to take over the macbook's role. Its primary market was people who really valued the mo
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by soneil 8y ago
Slightly awkward that the current MacBook Air isn’t retina, however.
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by soneil 8y ago
I have a few theories. - Snow Leopard was the last $99 upgrade, and I think people like to convince themselves purchases were worth it. That effect is entirely lost with free OS upgrades, I'm free to disparage them without feeling like
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by soneil 8y ago
I think it's clear there is a relationship between the two. Perhaps incidental, but they're still bound together. According to the article, the only implementation on the US side was by presidential policy directive. So our fait
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by soneil 8y ago
Exactly - there's a good reason why this article, arguing that we have huge monitors now, is still constrained to a max-width that takes up 28% of my screen's width. And it's not because we're still designing for an 800
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by soneil 8y ago
It's an odd one for me, because he sounds like he's trying to argue against the "when all you have is a hammer" approach to ML - but then goes on to describe SQL as his hammer. For things like figuring out who your bigge
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by soneil 8y ago
In my case, it's not wanting to avoid external dependencies - it's how hard those dependencies are. An external that you can swap out in an afternoon is a perfectly healthy vendor relationship. But if, eg, some machination flagg
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by soneil 8y ago
Google Voice does phone termination, but only in the US & canada. Like how you'd normally consider skype device-to-device, but you can pay extra to get a skype number and make & receive calls to/from other phone numbers?
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by soneil 8y ago
> I don't keep to a set 9-5 schedule, so anything that assumes a routine fails me. Here's what I do use. This has been a pet bug of mine for a while. My shifts are never the same 2 weeks in a row, and I feed it all into my cale
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by soneil 8y ago
The book was actually written concurrently - one isn't based on the other. They are both vaguely based on an earlier short story of his, Sentinel, but it doesn't really help much. Agreed that the book clears a lot up though. I m
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by soneil 8y ago
This strikes me of Ireland's version of Snowden, in that we essentially knew about it all along, but it's taken the arrival of wide-spread evidence for anything to actually happen. The good news is that it is actually happening. I
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by soneil 8y ago
I suspected this was the case, but had no idea of the search terms. It strikes me I do enter several contracts per day, offline, almost always simply implied by actions. And we have consumer protection acts to guard the edges of these impl
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by soneil 8y ago
well, I'm cagey with "unnecessary" because I honestly think it's going to take a good few cases in front of judges until we properly understand where that lays. Which will be fun. I'm also curious where other point

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