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by starwind 4y ago
> which raises the question on why VTOL rules weren't applied right from the start. I've had limited dealings with the FAA but my overall impression is they struggle to deal with change. They don't handle medical certifica
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by starwind 4y ago
The Salvator Mundi definitely seems inferior. There's something very unnatural about the right hand. I can't get my hand in that position and I'm not disabled. The glass orb in the left hand doesn't seem to refract any l
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by starwind 4y ago
Exactly, any investment that has a really high rate of return (moneywise or laborwise) will get flooded almost immediately, crushing the returns
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by starwind 4y ago
This is demonstrably untrue. Louis Brandeis (late Supreme Court justice) and his business partner Samuel Warren published an article called the "Right to Privacy" in 1890. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rig
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by starwind 4y ago
If you use an android, you can set it so that it does location just off GPS which is a lot less precise and doesn't seem to update as often. The other day I went downtown for a ballgame, sushi after, and then home, and the only place i
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by starwind 4y ago
I find the analysts still need ArcGIS, but on the geospatial software development side I've never run into something I couldn't use QGIS for
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by starwind 4y ago
Is that how the colors of the maps actually looked in 1777? I always assumed that the colors had faded but I never really thought about it until now
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by starwind 4y ago
That's fair, and not at all the way I've seen it used
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by starwind 4y ago
Same. If they insist on HackerRank, that tells me they hire based on solving logic puzzles and not building software and systems. Not a place I'm interested in
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by starwind 4y ago
Oh OK that makes sense. I thought "part of the club" as in "club of high profile authors"
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by starwind 4y ago
> Does this mean Zadie Smith is a part of the club? Or that NYRB is just able to get high profile authors like Smith to write for them? Uh, I don't see the difference
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by starwind 4y ago
- What distinguishes a defense startup apart from just some nerds "blowing things up in the desert"? Security clearances - Aside from accidents in testing, what are the common pitfalls of this field of study? The government can be
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by starwind 4y ago
Just to note that a lot of this is not actually weapons. A lot of robotic limbs and medical R&D is commissioned by the DoD and specifically DARPA. Maxar may sell imagery to the military to track Russia troop movements and the US Forest
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by starwind 4y ago
In the post-WW2 era, military spending peaked in the 1980s, and it's been (mostly) declining ever since as a percentage of global gdp
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by starwind 4y ago
OK, so it's not just me
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by starwind 4y ago
I am working my way through this https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-c-with-free-31-hour-... and I enjoy it It goes pretty fast if you've programmed before but covers a decent amount of the newer stuff. Once y
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by starwind 4y ago
"I need a 5% raise because inflation is 5%" and then stare at them and don't say anything until you hear what you want to hear. If they give you 3% or something, say "so I'm getting a 2% pay cut" and tell your
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by starwind 4y ago
> You know what stops inflation at its root? People thinking that there won’t be inflation. Absent supply shocks businesses often raise prices to get out ahead of their competitors or to more gradually raise prices so consumers won’t no
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by starwind 4y ago
If you don’t know what you want to do at 18, major in economics at a state school. It’s pretty broad so you can do as much math, writing, and finance as you want. It’s a respectable degree, says you’re smart and practical. Minor or double m
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by starwind 4y ago
Probably should made it clearer. The email said it was an InMail from LinkedIn and the recruiter made a request to add me, but there was no message and no invite from them when I went to LinkedIn
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by starwind 4y ago
There's a <starwind> in Australia so occasionally I get stuff for <starwind>@gmail.com. I got his golf club membership info sent to my email address. I've gotten his dinner reservation info sent to my email address. Fo
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Ask HN: Was this a phishing attempt?
9 points by starwind 4y ago|13 comments
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by starwind 4y ago
John Maynard Keynes did a lot of serious economic works and a lot of thinking about what economics means to daily life. One of his better points: you don't have to like your job, you need to like the life your job affords you
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by starwind 4y ago
Whenever I’m talking to a pilot who flies a Lear I refuse to pronounce the company name as anything other than “Bomb-ba-deer” cause I think it sounds super cool and I can’t pronounce anything vaguely French
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Traffic Pumping(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by starwind 4y ago|1 comments
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by starwind 4y ago
Reply All did a fantastic episode on this, https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8ho3a AFAIK that case is still unsolved
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by starwind 4y ago
yeah they end up routing their calls through some small telecom like "Crazy Eddie's" which give them some legitimacy in the eyes of the phone network
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by starwind 4y ago
Something must have changed with AT&T because up until like 6 weeks I was getting bombarded with spam texts, like a dozen a day, then they just suddenly stopped. I've heard that forwarding spam texts to 7726 ends up counterproducti
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by starwind 4y ago
Did you just compare Stallman and the FSF to the Abolitionist movement, and paid software to slavery?
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by starwind 4y ago
> they provide a useful extreme endpoint such that there can exist a reasonable "Overton Window" of Free/Open Source/ Whatever Software Or, ya know, they could just stake out reasonable, nuanced positions that organiz

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