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by starpilot 5y ago
The hiker texted a photo. Even better, since he had a smartphone, he could text his GPS coordinates from an app like Gaia. Not sure if there's a way to get lat/long from Apple or Google Maps.
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by starpilot 5y ago
Oddly today there's an obsession with certain bitter substances like caffeine, dark chocolate, and IPA beers.
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by starpilot 5y ago
Keyboard layout doesn't matter for speed. Here's a guy typing 99 wpm with two fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mNu8WnFFa0 You switch to Dvorak for comfort, not speed.
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Is Scrabble Go a crypto miner?(reddit.com)
2 points by starpilot 5y ago|0 comments
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by starpilot 5y ago
Are you having a bad day or something?
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by starpilot 5y ago
Don't preschool and kindergarten teach vital social skills that can affect how you interact with others for the rest of your life?
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by starpilot 5y ago
What's a pendrive?
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by starpilot 5y ago
Scott's explanation at least makes sense with a causal chain of reasoning. "Self-awareness" is more a philosophical concept that has no psychiatric meaning, sort of like like "fairness" in economics. "It's
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EMDR Helped Me Find Healing in a Most Daunting Year(vogue.com)
3 points by starpilot 5y ago|0 comments
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by starpilot 5y ago
I thought this was going to be about gardening.
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by starpilot 5y ago
I'm guessing you haven't bought much makeup or women's underwear.
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by starpilot 6y ago
Col o mbia
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by starpilot 6y ago
Not possible.
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by starpilot 6y ago
I went on a date with a Mexican girl who spoke no English. Google translate app worked incredibly well for two-way translation. I mean it was perfect. She had been dependent on it her whole time in the US.
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by starpilot 6y ago
I want him to build one under my home. As long as he pays me.
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by starpilot 6y ago
Your email is not in your profile. I will bet.
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by starpilot 6y ago
I read that the world needs both types of economies. The US is a dynamic, freewheeling sort with the most extremes. You can get incredibly rich, but the bottom has no floor. It's easy to amass capital and to pay workers. Or have wester
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by starpilot 6y ago
A lot of the California ones are pretty decent. I dated a girl who lived in one. I also stayed in an Airbnb that was in one. The owner, who lived there, was a woman with a Stanford degree. They're cheap and reasonable places to live
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by starpilot 6y ago
But what about choosing between hitting one doctor versus a group of school kids? /s
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by starpilot 6y ago
For perspective, 17,000 people work for NASA.
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by starpilot 6y ago
I am prepared.
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by starpilot 6y ago
Currency?
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by starpilot 6y ago
Also in auto repair. A shop told me they wanted to take a gasket from the engine, draw the part, then send it to a machine shop to have it fabricated.
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by starpilot 6y ago
It takes a lot of specialized aerosol science equipment and expertise to measure the percentage filtration, so it's questionable that they could claim to replace N95 filter with towels.
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by starpilot 6y ago
Do you think a supersonic, VTOL electric aircraft is theoretically feasible?
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by starpilot 6y ago
He became a landlord for Airbnb's. Good for him.
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by starpilot 6y ago
Comment is downvoted, but he has a point. We've been trying to return to the moon for over a decade: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a26962388/g... George W Bush said we would return by
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by starpilot 6y ago
So raise the price of the software so that you can afford more/better software engineers, to produce a more robust and flexible project. Then it'll be aerospace quality, aerospace costs.
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by starpilot 6y ago
You just don't need that in software when most of the industry is low consequence. It's only losing money at most tech companies, not killing your coworkers. This hasn't happened to me personally, but it's not cool when
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by starpilot 6y ago
The most rugged handheld radio, for rock climbers, whitewater rafters, skiers: https://rockytalkie.com . Just no raspi. I just got a pair and they're incredibly well designed. The rubber case can be removed to make them even

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