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by swamp40 7y ago
Why don't they only let you review items that you have purchased using the same account? Too simple I guess.
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by swamp40 7y ago
The money quote: The anti-stall system, created to compensate for the Max’s large new engines, will push down the nose of the plane if the angle of attack sensors indicate the plane is dangerously close to stalling. But the system relied o
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A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom(zdnet.com)
32 points by swamp40 7y ago|7 comments
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by swamp40 7y ago
The imitators always catch up to the innovators. Eventually. And everyone downplays the innovation, as if it were just part of some natural evolution of things. But some people know the truth: That it could have easily been another 50 or
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by swamp40 7y ago
It starts to get good halfway down: I downloaded Neighbors—you can do so without owning a Ring doorbell—and plugged in my address in boring Arlington, Massachusetts, a city of 45,000 that recorded zero murders and only seven robberies last
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by swamp40 8y ago
Interesting pushback :)
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by swamp40 8y ago
> We don't really have projects like that anymore. We strive for Mars, knowing full well neither us nor our children will ever see the cities to come.
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by swamp40 8y ago
Multiple 8K 90Hz VR streams for the whole family to play Roblox 2025, all running off a personal hotspot.
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by swamp40 8y ago
This is fine. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/49493993/...
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by swamp40 8y ago
Fossils. Should go for $100 Mil each.
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by swamp40 8y ago
Curious if mufflers for electric motors have been invented? Does the noise come from the motor, or from the prop cutting thru the air?
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by swamp40 8y ago
This is what convinced me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0QRpid5_QU
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by swamp40 8y ago
Ahh, I see. Well that certainly explains things. Thanks!
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by swamp40 8y ago
The Secret Service reports to DHS. Mr. Alles was an ally of Ms. Nielsen, who just resigned/got the boot. Stephen Miller reportedly got the go-ahead to clean house at DHS, so all the leadership that isn't in line will get cleared
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by swamp40 8y ago
Why can't I find any stories of that time Mark Twain and Walt Whitman tried to dig up the grave of Elias Hicks to make a plaster cast of his head? Is there a conspiracy of silence going on here? What good is the internet if not for tr
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Amazon plans to launch over 3k satellites to offer broadband internet(reuters.com)
2 points by swamp40 8y ago|0 comments
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How Boeing Is Fixing the 737 Max MCAS Software(viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com)
2 points by swamp40 8y ago|1 comments
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by swamp40 8y ago
Would we make an antifungal and spread it throughout the world? Seems like that could somehow backfire on us.
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How the World Has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis(graphics.wsj.com)
1 points by swamp40 8y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Is Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub(zdnet.com)
2 points by swamp40 8y ago|1 comments
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by swamp40 8y ago
Keil has a completely free version of their compiler for STM32F0, STM32G0, and STM32L0 micros: https://www2.keil.com/stmicroelectronics-stm32/mdk
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Real-Time magnet position detection using smartphone (iPhone) (2014)(youtube.com)
1 points by swamp40 8y ago|0 comments
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by swamp40 8y ago
Mankind has always striven to understand his universe. You don't really understand something until you can tear it down and rebuild it in a hundred different ways.
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by swamp40 8y ago
I predict this will become the basis for many sci-fi/horror books and movies coming up in the future.
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Once Hailed as Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked(technologyreview.com)
2 points by swamp40 8y ago|0 comments
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by swamp40 8y ago
There's no such thing as bad publicity. This guy comes across as knowledgeable, honest and down-to-earth. Great salesman traits. Only thing better would be knowledgeable, honest, down-to-earth and famous .
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by swamp40 8y ago
This is interesting: We've heard from our customers, if you cross $100,000 a month on AWS, they'll negotiate your bill down," said Polvi. "If you cross a million a month, they'll no longer negotiate with you becaus
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by swamp40 8y ago
Lieder described Planet X as roughly four times the size of the Earth, and said that its closest approach would occur on May 27, 2003, resulting in the Earth's rotation ceasing for exactly 5.9 terrestrial days. This would be followed
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Hainan is the latest Chinese free-trade zone with tech hub ambitions(scmp.com)
1 points by swamp40 8y ago|0 comments
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Elwood, Il Has Become a Vital Hub of America’s Consumer Economy. And It’s Hell(newrepublic.com)
6 points by swamp40 8y ago|0 comments

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