jafo

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by jafo 4y ago
How are 'dark' donations not afoul of campaign finance laws?? Or is this just another SBF lie?
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by jafo 4y ago
Yes
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by jafo 4y ago
My grandfather told me shortly after Kitty Hawk, posters appeared in Manhattan claiming "Soon! New York to Paris in 15 hours by air!" with glamorous people walking toward a Concorde-like airplane. If you are going to believe the B
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by jafo 4y ago
The tamale or Kennedy?
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by jafo 4y ago
I'd argue it was actually demolished in 1980[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o
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by jafo 4y ago
The mall near where I grew up suffered from that problem 50 years ago, and was shut down by the late 1970s...
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by jafo 4y ago
I like the "wartime like economy" analogy. It took 6 years to defeat the bad guys during the second world war. Most of the guys that defeated them had little to no military training at the onset of the conflict. The NIMBYs in that
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by jafo 4y ago
Or Kennedy Approach on the C64: "United three two six, say heading and altitude" "This is United three two six on one eight zero at four thousand feet"...even though I knew damn well what his heading an altitude was.
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by jafo 4y ago
> Looking up words is not stupid. That's for the ML algorithms to decide.
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by jafo 4y ago
This sounds a lot like "an old guy's excuse". If you are 60 years old, you learned how to monitor your spending in the late 1960s. Same skill here.
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by jafo 4y ago
You might be on to something here...."Who needs TV when I have T-Rex?"
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by jafo 4y ago
Long ago, computing was about freedom. "I can organize a music collection the way I want...AND take it with me wherever I go?" Somewhere along the line "convenience" displaced "freedom". "Why manage my o
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by jafo 4y ago
You are a NCIMBY? No crashing in my backyard?
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by jafo 4y ago
> Are we so fu*d up? "Is the alternative way to express these sentiments?"
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by jafo 5y ago
Well I heard Mister Young bitch about him Well I heard ol' Neil put him down Well I hope Neil Young will remember Spotify don't need him around anyhow
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by jafo 5y ago
Holy cow...Bre-X that takes me back. People were actually suicided in that one.
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by jafo 5y ago
In the spring of 2001, I planned a trip to Disneyworld for that fall, specifically the third week of September. Park was open, but empty. Quite the surreal experience.
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by jafo 5y ago
Addressed in Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles (1950). In Bradbury's story, the vast majority of residents of the Martian colonies returned back to Earth when (atomic) war was imminent, leaving Mars all but deserted, and
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by jafo 5y ago
Because we tolerate it. It doesn't seem so long ago we didn't have much of an ability to pick what music we listened to. This will seem alien to younger HNers, but it is true. You listened to what was played. Sure, there were reco
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by jafo 5y ago
<p>age sysop ...original online chat
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by jafo 5y ago
Would it enable any new use cases?
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by jafo 5y ago
> They money you put in there is used to acquire assets that are used to produce goods that people will pay to consume Is a decentralized, public ledger not a good people will pay (via cryptocurrency) to consume?
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by jafo 5y ago
> but there’s a good chance that engineers could lower the boom from 105 decibels to just 70 decibels. At that volume, US lawmakers might revisit the speed limit if it means getting from California to Washington DC in half the time. &qu
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by jafo 5y ago
> and no precedents were set in this situation. Time will tell.
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by jafo 5y ago
Whatever the details are, I am interested if it set a precedent or not.
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by jafo 5y ago
Guess we will just fantasize about it in song then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg The future is bright: wheels in space, underwater trains, and everyone gets a spandex jacket.
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by jafo 5y ago
Undersea by rail. Ninety minutes from New York to Paris: 5600 km
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by jafo 5y ago
Driving cuts into other more profitable activities, like shopping, watching The Office, gaming, and defending your social media turf. Can you image how much money Amazon Retail loses every year due to people wasting time driving when they c
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by jafo 5y ago
...and that one thing should be ignoring everyone around you.
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by jafo 5y ago
I'd be on Borland C version 35.0

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