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Comment · 5 years 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.
Comment · 5 years 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 filing. If it's easier for people to pay taxes the government will probably ask for more cash if we implement those systems, right? Therefore it must be blocked according to the pledge! The logic is airtight!
Ironically in reality this is actually pretty much the opposite of taxpayer protection and amounts to additional tax paid to private corporations on TOP of our existing taxes.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Taxpa...
Comment · 5 years ago
Here's the recipe for risotto:
https://thetab.com/us/bucknell/2016/10/18/john-podestas-crea...
Comment · 5 years ago
Did you read the article? Because of aerodynamics constraining range the average trip speed was 64mph.
Comment · 5 years 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."
Comment · 5 years ago
Amazon has recently launched a virtual experienced platform and it’s actually quite fun. (when not hamstrung by technical difficulties)
Comment · 5 years 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.
Comment · 5 years 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 bled into Sunday, and still the flight remained grounded."
Comment · 5 years ago
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
Comment · 5 years 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 for the sake of advancing robotics and pushing the limits.
Comment · 5 years 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.
Comment · 5 years 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.
Comment · 5 years 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.
Comment · 5 years 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, and that the Japanese have it right--demolish everything, build a rail line, and economic life will flourish around the nodes.
This is somewhere in between I think.