LastZactionHero

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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
> That's a real issue in the developing world; in the developed world the resources exist to buffer the temporary additional low-end economic impact That seems like a pretty sterile way to describe it. Right now, in the (presumably)
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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
As an example, 9 million people die each year due to hunger or hunger-related issues, many of them children. 135 million face food insecurity. Due to lockdowns and recession, the World Food Program estimates the toll will double this year
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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
Whoa, you have local businesses? Our leaders have deemed that even curbside pickup is far too dangerous, so Amazon is the only shop in town.
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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
I'm sure Ticketmaster knows this is illegal. They probably weighed their options and saw: 1) refund every ticket as required and run out of money immediately 2) do whatever they can to have some operating capital, and maybe continue ex
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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
You gotta get on at midnight, order two weeks out, and get a weekly pipeline going. I used this method to get a bag of flour the other day, it was amazing.
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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
> Touch a door handle? Like... with your hand ? Not in a glove that you throw out immediately? I just can't fathom touching a door handle. I saw someone just open a door at a public place the other day and it was utterly baffling
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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
6:45am-7:??am: Convince a toddler to put on pants
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by LastZactionHero 6y ago
Like everyone else, I'm indoors with just my family, ordering food/groceries, wiping everything down, wearing masks/gloves if we ever have to go out, explaining to my toddler why he can't play with friends, etc, etc. For
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
I really don't want anyone to have the impression that this team tried to take shortcuts - man who let his team take shortcuts NASA is still thinking whether to allow Boeing to proceed with its first manned flight to prevent delays
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
> It stretches a hundred metres from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. 100m? For real? > Burying them doesn't sound very green. Why do I care if something doesn't sounds green? Tell me an actual conseque
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
You're located in Berlin. It found a page on Reddit about buying phones in Berlin. Not saying you're wrong about the dates but... I dunno... seems like an odd query. "Phone to buy?" And why not just search Reddit? This s
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
never ? What does that even mean? We've only been driving cars like 100 years. Only had computers for 60, and decent portable ones for 20. Self-driving literally just became remotely possible, and you're telling me never ? Thi
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
Fun is pretty subjective. I'm not a car guy and don't have much experience with nice cars . But, this isn't a nice car - I paid $6,500. I'm just comparing it to every ICE car I've driven (aside from that one time
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
If commercials tell me anything about what car buyers value, there are so many other apsects John Q Public would appreciate! John likes fast cars. And oh boy my Nissan Leaf is fun to drive! Mountain driving feels like floating silently into
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
This is a great rebuttal to about 90% of HN comments.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
I wonder if it would be possible today to bring back old school navigation techniques (sun, clock, stars, inertia) with the kind of precision we're used to with gps.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
From what I've been told, that's basically the plastic industry's philosophy: it was energy that took a side trip as a bottle on the way to the furnace. But, do what you want with that anecdote (toxic, wasteful, unsustainable
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
Japanese is really difficult to translate. There's so much unstated context, totally different sentence structure, concepts that don't exist in English. I use Google Translate a lot with Japanese, but more to check my work. I&#x27
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
It's embarrassing to watch proud cities (my hometown) humiliate themselves like game show contestants for this HQ.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
It's really nice to be occupied cooking dinner still be able to get a quick answer to "what's backscatter radiation" What the heck are you cooking?!
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
I've hired for the stack specifically and it really narrowed our applicant pool. Lately I've relaxed this filter. We're a Rails app, but what if there was a really great engineer that uses Python or Node? They might not know
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
I've worked a few software developer jobs- particularly at very early startups- that were probably illegal. Either as an employee treated way too much like a contractor, or a contractor treated way too much like an employee.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
Might want to check out the 'My Climate Journey' podcast: https://www.myclimatejourney.co Lots of great interviews with people working on climate.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
I'm genuinely happy to see this depressing information on a .gov domain. I'd assumed the official federal government climate policy is 'Hoax, everything's fine.' Were the folks at NOAA allowed to publish this? Did t
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
Yeah, I gotta get a new job.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
Given that regulations were once written, I got to think that regulations can change. If there's a technology that really works, and people really want/need it, and it solves the expensive problem of connecting rural communities,
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
I'm not a plastics guy (so correct me if I'm wrong) but my impression is that it's not either-or. Some parts of the crude oil is better for fuels, some for plastics. It's so cheap because it's a byproduct of the ref
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
FINALLY. What took so long? Seemed like we're long overdo for a big syntax change to take up engineering time with no real gain. I should have never left C.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
Kinda ironic, since letting your bank/doctor/employer call from the same outbound number is literally the purpose of spoofing.
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by LastZactionHero 7y ago
I love this. Building a small wind turbine from as scratch as possible has been a fantasy project of mine for years.

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