THE_PUN_STOPS

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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Anyone who has tried car/van camping in public should be familiar with this feeling. While sleeping in my van I've had plenty of nightmares where the nearest neighborhood forms an angry mob to have my vehicle towed away.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
You can thank Grover Norquist[1] for that. The Taxpayer Protection Pledge [2] that he promulgates to US republican lawmakers is the primary mechanism though which those legislators justify blocking simplification and streamlining of tax fil
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Here's the recipe for risotto: https://thetab.com/us/bucknell/2016/10/18/john-podestas-crea...
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Did you read the article? Because of aerodynamics constraining range the average trip speed was 64mph.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
"It might be possible to embed a C compiler into a PDF by compiling it to JS with Emscripten, for example, but then your C compiler has to take input through a plain-text form field and spit its output back through a form field."
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Amazon has recently launched a virtual experienced platform and it’s actually quite fun. (when not hamstrung by technical difficulties) https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=19419898011
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Right idea, wrong time. My friend owns a sex shop in Provincetown, MA and has sold tens of thousands of Trump-plugs over the past 4 years.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
https://abc7chicago.com/5098508/ Could it be this one? "Passengers were not allowed to leave the airplane because the Goose Bay Airport did not have a customs officer on duty during the overnight hours. Saturday b
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Look at their product lines--Spot and Handle are the furthest things from humanoid. They've also done some static robot arms. Atlas is their only active humanoid platform, which they've stated is mainly a research platform just fo
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Throughout the 1800s there were tens of thousands of homeless kids just running around New York City making ends meet. The data is unreliable but it’s interesting to wonder how their lives turned out.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Just open the case and disconnect the wifi antenna or, in the case of a PCB etched antenna, apply X-acto blade. See! It's opt-in.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Being a resident of Georgia, (the US state) the constant stream of political ads convinced me to subscribe to YouTube premium a few months ago.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Consider that the tunnels will encourage economic activity, which will encourage population growth at the nodes. I've always felt that the North American method of building transit between 'natural' urban centers is wrong, an
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Yes, mostly in house except for specialty materials, high labor components, etc, similar to the workflow at many small hardware firms with machine shops. We just had more combustion involved than your average hardware company. The compact d
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
It was just like any startup really, a great team of really smart and dedicated folks trying to disrupt an entrenched industry using new ideas. Lots of simulation, lots of practical prototyping, lots of test rig time. We spent so, so many h
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
I worked there! Very interesting technology. Engine development is hard.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
Ditto, I am also interested on any input from others who have dabbled in the field that OP mentions. Being from the Northeastern United States, I have always just picked up base layers of various thickness from L.L. Bean, like this: https:
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
I've been an everyday compulsive reddit user for 12 years. The day they kill old.reddit.com is the day I stop using reddit forever.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
I frequently just use any hotel, not necessarily one I have a reservation with. Between tipping, having frequent traveler status, and dressing nicely I’ve never had a problem. MSP airport is one of the few places I’ve seen coin lockers in A
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
The ‘hacker’ ethos commonly involves sacrifice. In a zero sum life, striving to change the world, or achieve financial independence, or to learn new skills and abilities often means deferring relationships and emotions in favor of ‘work’, i
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
I think I’m going to call my congresspeople with the same question.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
And if you pay attention you’ll notice Amazon already has their own freight logistics network and is setting up an air logistics network at exponential scale. Just wait until prime members can overnight something from an Atlanta Whole Foods
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
I don’t get your point. Just don’t exterminate them from their natural habitat?
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 6y ago
A tangent from science towards ethics, but if we’re lucky, this pandemic will finally be the level of impetus needed to end the trade of live exotic animals for consumption. Thousands of species spared to save our own. As a group of scienti
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 7y ago
Yes, but by not being a vehicle you can allocate more schedule, weight, and money to the science type stuff on board instead of the locomotion type stuff. Engineering for space is all about brutal trade-offs.
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 7y ago
Awesome to see ‘Jim’ on the BBC! If you like this, there’s a lot more on his YouTube channel. His more adversial videos are justice porn. https://youtube.com/channel/UCBNG0osIBAprVcZZ3ic84vw
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 7y ago
1 million per year is a fat budget. You can get close enough to that lifestyle by renting slices of the components on-demand and being more efficient from wasteful (and preyed upon) apex lifestyle. For instance: private air travel in USA. F
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 7y ago
>California's scheme predated the Federal Interstate system and they weren't keen on changing it. Massachusetts is about to embark on a project to renumber all of their exits per federal mandate. The consensus is that the only
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by THE_PUN_STOPS 7y ago
Unfortunately game show laws in the USA are quite serious due to scandals in the 50s. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/509 https://www.history.com/news/quiz-show-scandal-fraud-j

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