jballer

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by jballer 3mo ago
I was going to point to Koenigsegg’s Freevalve system and, in the process of looking for a link, learned that it was cancelled.
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by jballer 4mo ago
This cuts both ways: grants are more valuable as political favors when they are immune to cancellation, and grants with objectively-established value are harder to terminate without political blowback.
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by jballer 10mo ago
You have to look up the maximum wattage for the given cabin configuration. I’ve found 30W to be about as high as I can go without it cutting out. Use a phone charger for your laptop. This is where it’s helpful to have a multi-port charger w
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by jballer 1y ago
To the contrary, they think of manual and “low-skill” labor as an essential undertaking that no person or society is above. You are the one who thinks of the work as below you, that it should be moved out of sight so we can stop caring and
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by jballer 2y ago
Right. I think the real risk here is that even a “positive” outcome at 18F would have still been negative in every other context that matters to him. Why stick around and risk a neutral-to-positive experience that could result in labels lik
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by jballer 2y ago
I went to a USDS recruiting event in the Bay Area a decade ago. The whole pitch was that they were Obama’s elite squad of private-sector tech workers, on brief tours of duty, taking orders directly from the White House about what to work on
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by jballer 2y ago
To recap: OP resigned because he feared what might happen in a meeting with USDS. It might have required him to kill someone, or explain his work to a contractor. Somehow these are presented as equally-odious propositions. He openly refus
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by jballer 2y ago
It's a "Gold Top", callsign PAT25 https://helicoptersofdc.com/helicopters/5-us-army-12th-aviat...
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by jballer 2y ago
Incredible work
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by jballer 2y ago
Does anyone else remember the online User’s Manual for early iPhones? It was web-based, but had a full JavaScript reimplementation of UINavigationController, UIScrollView, and UITableView. I always suspected it was part of some bigger proje
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by jballer 2y ago
Setting aside the question of how we should evaluate content for being “in the public interest” and assuming the programming is as valuable as it could possibly be How many people still tune in via OTA antennae? How does the value of broa
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by jballer 2y ago
Probably challenging to sufficiently harden the links and ground equipment, and to guarantee QoS for military applications
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by jballer 2y ago
They’re optimizing for different priorities. Obviously you need to be conservative when launches cost so much you can only afford ~one shot.
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by jballer 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. I have the same “bright lights” hypothesis. If I see something bright I close my eyes until it feels like it’s passed. Seems to work, but who knows until I get my next one. I’m also realizing in my late-30s that I have
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by jballer 2y ago
The better question is why the other 32 did
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by jballer 2y ago
Should’ve changed it to mcaffee_
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by jballer 2y ago
How about the replies to my other comment here, accusing me of being white, and white people of being the problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269870
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by jballer 2y ago
You are a parody of your own point and you don’t even see it. Truly remarkable.
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by jballer 2y ago
“Taking a turn” means I think I understand where you’re going, but then you take your point someplace else. I agree with most of what you’re saying. The casual racial stereotyping is where you lose me.
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by jballer 2y ago
> Only a white person could come up with that. lol
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by jballer 2y ago
No, it’s a profession of ideological commitment. What you suggest would get a low to middling score. Here’s a rubric that’s representative of others I’ve seen: https://www.nas.org/storage/app/media/New%20Docum
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by jballer 2y ago
You really took a turn there by calling attention to their skin color. The interesting thing here isn’t that they look the same, but that they think the same.
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by jballer 2y ago
> have no issue with the argument that internet service is a basic right I am curious how you would define “a right”?
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by jballer 3y ago
I'm don't mean to defend Tan here, he already apologized. I'm simply reiterating that the article doesn't come close to saying what I said: Tann was obviously quoting Tupac, and wasn't just using that as a post-hoc
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by jballer 3y ago
The article’s central claim is that to quote these lyrics is to “wish death” on the people you’re naming. The context leads me to the exact opposite interpretation: it’s a righteous condemnation of others for wishing death on you.
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by jballer 3y ago
The article is tragically revisionist and completely ignores the context: People tried to kill Tupac, then Tupac went off on them, then people killed Tupac. The article summarizes this as “Tupac said mean things and it got someone killed.”
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by jballer 3y ago
It’s buried and incidental when it should be the lede. Invoking an artistic expression of “I can’t find words strong enough to convey how much I loathe what you stand for” is very different from making a literal death wish.
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by jballer 3y ago
Whoops, thanks - I corrected myself and linked to the right one but didn't update the text til now.
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by jballer 3y ago
Tan didn't just pull these words out of thin air, they are lyrics from 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up" > F** Mobb Deep! F** Biggie! F** Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a motherf**' crew! > And if you wanna b
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by jballer 3y ago
> "Un–" is used to indicate negation, as Newspeak has no non-political antonyms. For example, the standard English words warm and hot are replaced by uncold, and the moral concept communicated with the word bad is expressed as

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