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evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Model aircraft operators free to operate commercially in US, rules federal judge

It seems like you still have to have a chase plane[1], and the difference seems to be requiring approval for UAS as a whole system to use for commercial purposes[2]. Note in that second link that there is no size restriction for model airplanes, which I found interesting ("FAA guidance does not address size of the model aircraft.").

[1] http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=14... "Because UAS technology cannot currently comply with “see and avoid” rules that apply to all aircraft, a visual observer or an accompanying “chase plane” must maintain visual contact with the UAS and serve as its “eyes” when operating outside airspace restricted from other users." [2]http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/uas_faq/#Qn1

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

I've always used alt+scroll for horizontal scrolling.

Edit: doesn't seem to work on the linked page

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: How Bitcoins Involved in Crime Can Be Seized by the Feds

At the least, isn't the IRS able to come look at your possessions to approximate your tax liability, or something along those lines?

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking

This idea, making future consequences (positive or negative) of present choices more vivid and real is something I learned from this LessWrong article[1]. I think it will appeal more to this audience than _The Secret_.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/9wr/my_algorithm_for_beating_procras...

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

Sounds logical. But, and I'm not sure if it's correlated with gender, my mother and her mother both have several baby teeth with permanent teeth above them still, so there are cases like that screwing with the data.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

That may be true. We'd need to find out how many teeth each gender has on average.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Screw your standing desk. How about squatting?

It's so obnoxious how people like you expect members contributing to the discussion to have perfect proof on hand or go digging. If that were the true standard, these discussions would be much thinner.

It's fine to ask, just don't be an asshole when a person doesn't have it; look it up yourself.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Software Engineer Salaries in Berlin

>Here's a quick link

Where?

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You

The perfectly legal way to handle that is to get off your bike and walk the crosswalk with it.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning

Is it typical that Texas would be such a large percentage of global attacks? It's at 24.83% at the moment.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

Which isn't breaking the law, at least in Texas. You're allowed to speed for medical emergencies. That's why the police sometimes ask if everything's okay when pulling you over; if you're going to the hospital, they'll give you an escort.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

I think they're just covering their asses with that warning.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Graphs Show How Reddit Got Huge by Going Mainstream

Whoops, Thanks for the correction.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Graphs Show How Reddit Got Huge by Going Mainstream

That was the Digg exodus. I was a Digg user, and I switched around that time. It had started to suck really bad, to where people like myself were willing to give it a fair shot, only to discover that the discussions were generally higher-quality. That's also why I'm here, from a discussion on Reddit for other sites. But I still find that the smaller subs scratch that itch, too.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: One New York LLC law is hurting small businesses

"Madhani speculates it could be due to the newspaper lobby."

That's the end of the previous sentence and the antecedent to "this".

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Teen Reported to Police After Finding Security Hole in Website

The article supposed that's what he did, and it probably is.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Report: 47% of U.S. Jobs At Risk of Being Automated Out of Existence

Those are all retail jobs, so they're in the same industry. We probably have some new stores for products that didn't exist. We also have more warehouse jobs for the online merchants that replaced them.

Just thoughts, I don't know the numbers or anything.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: How can someone go off-web and anonymize themselves after a life online?

You name your price, so just pay nothing for the first one, then if you like it, buy the second.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin Falls 20% on PBOC Rumors, Chinese Exchanges Reinstate Fees

It's hard to get USD and such in and out of certain exchanges. Exchanges with easy deposits and difficult withdrawals will have higher prices usually. Moving the bitcoins isn't ever a big deal.

evacuationdrill | 12 years ago | on: The Best Books I Read in 2013

Crap, I was thinking of Zero Dark Thirty actually. I haven't seen Argo.

Thanks for the info, though. I have read about it before, and it's definitely an example of truth being stranger than fiction.