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hughes

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About hughes

Endlessly curious.

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    Comment #48924590

    There is a nuance missed in the discussion so far - Starlink is creating a new product level, differentiating service between continental and intercontinental aviation connectivity…

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    Comment #48114545

    It may be that the ideal number of ransomware operators is non-zero

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    Comment #48054259

    What's the physical basis for this effect? Does it happen in reality or is it a style choice?

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    Comment #47577546

    I wonder if consumer routers will end up being built in a trivially-not-a-router configuration - something akin to a pull-tab or turn of the screw that closes a circuit, transformi…

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    Comment #47431765

    I would love to see this integrated into Flighty.

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    Comment #46532946

    Genuinely curious how a date in the subheader of a changelog could have broken the CLI edit: it seems changelog.md is assumed to be structured data and parsed at startup, and there…

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    Comment #46255833

    Why anyone would allow their TV to connect to the internet is beyond me.

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    Comment #46234212

    Even the title "Orbital House of Cards" is unnecessarily editorializing.

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    Comment #46175198

    I have to agree. I tried using it for a few months and it left me convinced I'll be paying for iCloud photos for the rest of my life.

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    Comment #46142306

    While the FileVine service is indeed a Legal AI tool, I don't see the connection between this particular blunder and AI itself. It sure seems like any company with an inexperienced…

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    Comment #45969088

    Can confirm, my Model 3 had its lights angled too high from the factory. Only realized after a few people flashed their high beams at me during my first week driving. Thankfully it…

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    Comment #45890571

    Should it be mandatory also for the maintainers to accept these contributions? Every project would degrade into pure entropy.

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    Comment #45787489

    519 seems to have at least 3 solutions... feels a little underconstrained!

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    Comment #45762432

    Did your email offer you the chance to pay yearly for $11/mo? Mine did, but I don't think the option to pay yearly exists.

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    Comment #45637402

    There should be small pieces of whatever they hit embedded in the body & glass of the aircraft. As long as they are analyzed, the cause of this won't remain a mystery forever.

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    Comment #45496038

    Why do you believe the inter-satellite links are not working?

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    Comment #45440296

    I'm still heartbroken about Grooveshark all these years later.

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    Comment #45428917

    I don't understand how this is 100% free, no subscriptions, no purchase, apparently no ads or tracking and yet I'm also the "customer" and not the product. What's the catch?

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    Comment #45293159

    That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.

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    Comment #45270038

    Is this a joke because the site isn't loading at all?

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    Comment #44924347

    Is the author arguing that corporations should not be able to carry forward net operating losses? Or that this one specific company shouldn't be allowed to?