drm237
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2 years ago
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on: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
It's a very cool app. It would be great to tap on a plane and see its source and destination airports. My kids always ask where I think a plane is going and it would be great to have a way to easily tell them!
drm237
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3 years ago
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on: NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
I don't think they're saying that at all. I think the point was, a payroll tax won't necessarily increase costs for a company because it would be offset by eliminating the current healthcare costs.
drm237
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4 years ago
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on: Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
It depends on if your company capped how much you could accrue. However much you accrued should be paid out.
Nothing.
drm237
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5 years ago
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on: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
"and thats not ok; but forget that"
Why do we need to forget the trademark infringement?
If Amazon is engaging in trademark infringement, lying about their connection\collaboration with the trademark holder, and including commercially licensed technology in an open source fork of a project, they are acting very poorly. Your argument of Amazon just being able to execute better falls flat if these facts are true and it means they're cheating, and that deserves some recognition.
drm237
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5 years ago
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on: Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
"And after this, we're going to walk down there, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down ... to the Capitol and we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," Trump told the crowd. "And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong."
He told people to go to the capital, "take back our country", and you can't do it with weakness, you need to do it with strength. That seems pretty straightforward to me. And he did it all while fanning the flames by repeating discredited conspiracy theories that he knows plays to the people in attendance.
drm237
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5 years ago
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on: My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
You could say that about any lightning source used anywhere. In general, a piece of wood is going to outlast and electrical device.
drm237
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?
Because COVID-19 has a higher infection/transmission rate than the seasonal flu and a higher mortality rate. The economy isn't shutting down because 68 people have died, it's shutting down because 61,000 people died from the flu and COVID-19 has a distinct potential of being significantly worse.
drm237
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6 years ago
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on: Tesla Cybertruck
I'm guessing the crumple zone on this is going to be better than a vehicle with an internal combustion engine! That and the fact that semis are everywhere. This being on the road doesn't worry me in the slightest given the other vehicles already out there.
drm237
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6 years ago
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on: I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected
drm237
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7 years ago
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on: Tesla Model 3 vs. BMW M3 [video]
With EVs that you can charge at home, that means that for your normal driving that you probably do 80 to 90 % of the time, you NEVER need to stop to "fill up" because you charge every night at home. The tradeoff is that when you do decide to drive more than 250 to 350 miles in one trip, you'll need to take at least one break where you charge.
If you optimize only for the long journeys, you miss out on the benefits from normal driving which you probably do a lot more often.
drm237
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7 years ago
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on: Tesla Model 3 vs. BMW M3 [video]
This seems unlikely given that the Volt has been canceled and much of the momentum is moving towards electric only platforms, even from the major manufacturers.
drm237
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7 years ago
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on: Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
When people call your place of business and complain to your boss about your methods and mental state, when they lobby the government to open investigations into your research under the accusation of child abuse, and when they use every available method to discredit your life's work, I don't think that simply opting-out of Twitter is likely to make a meaningful difference unfortunately.
drm237
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7 years ago
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on: Airbnb and security camera disclosure
Why would anyone want a security camera that only worked when a property was empty? Wouldn't that defeat the point of having a security camera?
drm237
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9 years ago
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on: Affordable Care
You don't know that. You have no idea what kind of health issues their families face. And yes, sometimes you are just paying for other people's care, right up until the time that you need it. That is, after all, the point of insurance.
drm237
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9 years ago
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on: Affordable Care
Your total income that you would report on your personal income tax return should be your personal salary plus your business profit for a single member LLC.
drm237
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9 years ago
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on: Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]
Autopilot isn't even necessary. Any car with Forward-Collision Warning With Braking would likely have not gotten in an accident, or at least one not nearly as severe. Fortunately, many major manufacturers have committed to eventually making this technology standard.
drm237
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9 years ago
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on: Investing Returns on the S&P500
A 1.1% savings account would have lost money due to inflation over 20 years. The author's methodology seems to subtract each year for inflation, so if he's comparing a post-inflation number year to year, and it's the same 20 years later, you've actually done much better than a 1.1% savings account.
drm237
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10 years ago
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on: A Complete Guide to Rails Caching
In the example where you cache the todo list and use an array of the todo item ids plus the max updated time, why is that approach better than just updating the list updated_at time whenever a child record is changed? With your approach, each todo item needs to be pulled from the db which should be slower than just checking the parent's updated at time for a cache hit.
drm237
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11 years ago
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on: Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape?
Why did it get so cold inside of Apollo 13 then?
drm237
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13 years ago
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on: How accurate are Americans at estimating calories?
