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Americans testing the laws of physics with wingsuits are continuing to be criminally prosecuted by a national park service that turns a blind eye to the malfeasance of its own staf…

I run a small site/app where wingsuit pilots upload gps tracks for analysis. 180mph is fast but can be achieved/sustained without a jet. In practice that is difficult to do on most…

It's also been the summer where DeFi 10x'd, so no surprise BTC has gone up a bit now that folks can earn interest on their BTC by providing wrapped BTC liquidity on Ethereum.

I use USD-C and DAI to give out grants to a team of international volunteers. Could not get payments to a guy in Turkey through venmo, paypal, square cash, or transferwise. Now we …

Negative thought spiral. Life is rough for the OP right now; negative thoughts are begetting negative thoughts. I think most folks have been there, with variance in magnitude.

Gilbert Strang got me through the more difficult of the two linear algebra gatekeeper classes in University. I didn't go to class once after the first week. I sent him a thank you …

There was a great tech talk I watched by a guy with an Irish accent (definitely non-american european) discussing cases were jvm apps outperformed managed memory apps thanks to run…

I've wonder if this + optimizing for sticky labor while meeting legal requirements. A person who has contributed to impressive open source ticks both checkboxes but will not pass F…

In my last cycle of interviewing in SF, I ran into two folks I had interviewed in the past. Both very strong interviewers in that I could sense they were putting their full energy …

There does not have to be a trade-off between trees and new construction; see the new transbay terminal in San Francisco as an example, or the Changi airport in Singapore. The poop…

For folks looking for a good primer on the terminology and history of cooperative vs preemptive multi tasking, I took a pause on reading this thread to look for an article https://…

As someone who loves kotlin on android, I have been searching for companies experimenting with kotlin jvm or kotlin node backends and have been surprised to see that companies are …

I think most companies I've worked at opportunistically looked for standout candidates by always having job postings even when there were no openings. This creates a feedback loop.…

It would be great if companies would allow you to bypass the code challenge if you grant them read git access to a relevant project that you have ownership of.

There was solid episode of Odd Lots on cryptocurrency usage in Venezuela. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/here-s-ho...

I vaguely recall reading a few articles about how firehouses are less necessary as we have less fires today, but we struggle to reduce their numbers as they are heavily unionized. …

Yup, I am seeing double as well.

https://www.shahit.biz/eng/ Here is a database of over 5000 video testimonials by people who have had family members disappeared into Chinese "re-education camps". You can spit the…

Not to mention the shady business practices of many gyms. Search "Planet Fitness requiring direct withdrawals" on reddit.

How about the Presidio for riding? I am not a cyclist. I incurred a foot injury recently, and have been thinking of ways I can exercise without impacting my feet too much. I've tho…

A few years ago a Chinese man on the BART tried asking me for directions. His english was poor. With the aid of google translate we were able to do some basic communication. Over t…

^^ CCP Propaganda Alert. This account was created 7 days ago and this is its only comment.