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American chestnut(en.wikipedia.org)
118 points by whicks 5y ago|73 comments
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by whicks 5y ago
I'm a bit late to this conversation but I wanted to drop in and support this comment. I live in North Carolina and have personally seen dozens of adolescent American Chestnut trees in the Appalachians in the western part of the state.
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by whicks 8y ago
Red Ventures | Charlotte, NC | Senior Front End Developer, Front End Developer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer | https://www.redventures.com/ Who we are: Red Ventures is a leading digital consumer choice platfo
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by whicks 8y ago
I'm not andyidsinga, but here's my 2c. When I think of smart glasses, I imagine the best possible version of them as an exercise in thought. It starts off with them being in a form factor that's effectively indistinguishable
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by whicks 8y ago
http://weshicks.net/ edit: I tried to keep it minimal but informative. I recently rebuilt it using Gatsby.
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by whicks 9y ago
I agree wtr to the GP, but in general I disagree. You can never really be certain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by whicks 9y ago
It seems to me that you're ignoring the huge increases on the far right side of the graphs in the article. How does the wage increase of the top 1% (or higher, even) factor into your view of the "less competitive" middle inco
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by whicks 9y ago
The VR devices that are out today are incomparable with the devices of the "VR craze" of the 1990s.
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by whicks 9y ago
Isn't it a main goal of the Boring Company to reduce the cost of projects like what is happening in Seattle?
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by whicks 9y ago
This is such a frail argument in my opinion. Have a look at Dubai for an example of what humanity is capable of when we put our effort into something. If we truly wanted to, we could colonize any area of the planet. We just have no real m
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by whicks 9y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but I would go so far as to say that a vast majority of people have coffee (or another source of caffeine) in an attempt to boost their productivity.
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by whicks 9y ago
We've had affordable, consumer-grade VR for 20 years? VR that, you know, actually feels like VR? This is coming off a bit snarky, I know, but I've seen this written all over the place and I have to say, the VR we have today is not
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by whicks 9y ago
Nothing, as far as I'm aware. At $598 you'd get the headset, controllers, and two tracking cameras. Also any of the free games that come with the Rift/Touch.
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by whicks 9y ago
> It's $900 The Oculus Rift is $500, $598 with the Touch controllers and and extra sensor.[1] [1]: https://www.oculus.com/cart/
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by whicks 10y ago
I had this same question awhile back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12497202 Just leaving this here for reference and as a resource.
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by whicks 10y ago
Tesla is known for doing things without precedent. They also have the ability to push major updates OTA to their vehicles, which is what enables them to give "less" while promising more. Like the release said, they'll have th
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Ask HN: What are some well documented ReactJS applications?
18 points by whicks 10y ago|5 comments
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by whicks 13y ago
Having just registered this account (and subsequently reading the news guidelines[1]), I feel like the title you posted clearly goes against this: "If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate