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Hi! Stumbled on an old comment of yours about vhs tapes + recording cycling off satellites. Would love to hear about your system! happyjack@mailbox.org

Oh yes, he was. Read about the Nimrod, furthest south, and Mount Erabus expeditions. Shackleton is a god father of Polar travel.

I worked in oil / gas on international projects for 10ish years. I think the dollar will still be the de-facto reserve currency in 20 years, but it will be more as a medium of exch…

My all time favorite is HPSTR waypoint outside PDX.

The Apache OpenOffice Development Team is proud to announce that the next releases will introduce an important change: a text-only user interface. We all know that today's applicat…

This is so spot on. We (assuming you live in the US) live in a country where the purpose is to work for as little as possible, "grind," then throw money into an index fund and have…

I honestly resent a lot of the stuff on HN these days. It's become an echo chamber.

Pandoc saved my ass so many times when I worked in research. I would write a beautiful typeset paper in latex and then have to send a colleague a word doc. You can turn any file in…

I'm not a techie, but I love lurking on this website. My only comments from someone who found Linux in high school, used to love computers, the old internet, and used to do scienti…

And there will never be competition. It cost Cirrus (small, single engine GA aircraft) $100 million to get a type certificate. The Boeing 737 max is still on its original type cert…

It's not an alternative fact, and I'm not defending Boeing. I could give a shit about Boeing. The fact is there's no competition in the American commercial part 121 airline world. …

When the Clinton administration forced the downsizing of the military industrial complex ( https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2015/12/2/f... ), the USA lost all compe…

I liked your office / partner comment; I think there's a lot of truth in that. I think a lot of people are really worn out. We have endless scrolling, tons of wars in the world, pe…

This probably won't resonate to the HN crowd, but I was in NC last week visiting a pump company that I distribute two of their lines. The office was a ghost town. Completely empty,…

Ricardobeat is sipping the kool aid. First, just because an energy source has a name plate capacity of x does not mean it generates x. Typically, wind and solar generate 10% of the…

The physics of power generation. Have a battery car all you like. The electrons powering that car are coming from coal.

Just because the morons in your home country are buying shit mobiles to drive 1 km a day to and from work (or whatever stupid units you use) is not an indicator for the world at la…

Your comment is the best and most realistic one on this thread. There's so many people on this website sitting behind Chinese made computers spitting bullshit on "well if we could …

What size, though? Are we talking 10 employees, 1000? Just curious.

After reading Thomas Piketty's theories on "Capital in the 21st Century," a lot of these issues have really come to light. Capital grows about 2-4% each year in real terms, while t…

That is really neat! Thank you for sharing! Love hearing people's aviation stories.

I know ... there are already solutions for everything GA out there.

I'm really glad TB exists and is still developed. I try it once a year every year because I use Firefox, and TB is cross platform. Honestly, I can't say it fits my needs more than …