nagash | 5 years ago | on: Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months
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nagash | 6 years ago | on: Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
Here in Perth, Western Australia we have quite reasonable pedestrian right of way laws.
But if you read the recommendations, you will notice the language talks about how it's basically still on you to not die.
For example, pedestrians have right of way when crossing a street where a car may be turning in to, so there should really be no need to check across your shoulder for traffic.
Most drivers don't seem aware of these laws, I get honked at regularly.
https://www.sdera.wa.edu.au/media/1629/pedestrian_road_rules...
nagash | 10 years ago | on: Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
Why not use bluetooth and a Wii balance board? eg. https://github.com/damariei/wiiscale
nagash | 12 years ago | on: Pin Payments is Australia’s first all-in-one online payment API
It has special pricing of $9/month for life if you signup during June.
nagash | 13 years ago | on: Stripe in Canada
The alternative is that you could end up with customers who constantly hit false positives in the fraud detection, and it becomes impossible to charge that person unless Stripe implements a way to "force charge" someone, and then you have to hope your 3rd party Stripe integration also supports and exposes that to you...
nagash | 13 years ago | on: MIT Researchers Produce Micro-Light that Outputs More Power Than Applied
Data centers.
nagash | 13 years ago | on: Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2: a scientific explanation
I am personally immensely frustrated at the game. It feels pointless to me farming act 1 Inferno over and over just to buy 1 piece on the AH.
I think it's intended though, soon as the RMAH rolls around all us terribly frustrated people can just buy our way into progression, without even having to farm for the gold!
It's not just the gold farming that bothers me though, I feel like it is gimmicky, not genuinely difficult (as compared to Heroic WoW bosses anyways). Blizzard learnt through WoW that 1-shot deaths, even on tanks, was a horrible prospect and toned down burst damage a lot. They really need to figure out a way to make D3 more difficult without the monster just killing you because you looked at it.
nagash | 14 years ago | on: Study finds piracy withering against legal alternatives
I bought Game of Thrones on iTunes the other day after reading a bunch of comments here on HN recommending it. It really bugs me that with all the connectivity I have already, it's still not enough to get it on my TV.
My Denon receiver has AirPlay, but audio only. My PS3 can steam DLNA, but that doesn't work because of the DRM.
So basically, I have to either go buy long cables to hook up my PC (10m+), short cables to hook up my Air (which would only ever be used for DRM'd iTunes content), or an Apple TV. Not very convenient when I could just pirate it.
nagash | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?
The biggest problem that I have with Sass is that the file/line references in your developer tools point at the compiled CSS files, and so you don't have any real reference to where in your Sass files that style is defined. Any solution for this?
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- Mubadala Investment Company: United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund
Couldn't these also be considered strategic in the regional/political/regulatory sense? Access to people with strong connections having skin in the game.