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I was going to point to Koenigsegg’s Freevalve system and, in the process of looking for a link, learned that it was cancelled.

This cuts both ways: grants are more valuable as political favors when they are immune to cancellation, and grants with objectively-established value are harder to terminate withou…

You have to look up the maximum wattage for the given cabin configuration. I’ve found 30W to be about as high as I can go without it cutting out. Use a phone charger for your lapto…

To the contrary, they think of manual and “low-skill” labor as an essential undertaking that no person or society is above. You are the one who thinks of the work as below you, tha…

Right. I think the real risk here is that even a “positive” outcome at 18F would have still been negative in every other context that matters to him. Why stick around and risk a ne…

I went to a USDS recruiting event in the Bay Area a decade ago. The whole pitch was that they were Obama’s elite squad of private-sector tech workers, on brief tours of duty, takin…

To recap: OP resigned because he feared what might happen in a meeting with USDS. It might have required him to kill someone, or explain his work to a contractor. Somehow these are…

It's a "Gold Top", callsign PAT25 https://helicoptersofdc.com/helicopters/5-us-army-12th-aviat...

Incredible work

Does anyone else remember the online User’s Manual for early iPhones? It was web-based, but had a full JavaScript reimplementation of UINavigationController, UIScrollView, and UITa…

Setting aside the question of how we should evaluate content for being “in the public interest” and assuming the programming is as valuable as it could possibly be How many people …

Probably challenging to sufficiently harden the links and ground equipment, and to guarantee QoS for military applications

They’re optimizing for different priorities. Obviously you need to be conservative when launches cost so much you can only afford ~one shot.

Thanks for sharing. I have the same “bright lights” hypothesis. If I see something bright I close my eyes until it feels like it’s passed. Seems to work, but who knows until I get …

The better question is why the other 32 did

Should’ve changed it to mcaffee_

How about the replies to my other comment here, accusing me of being white, and white people of being the problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269870

You are a parody of your own point and you don’t even see it. Truly remarkable.

“Taking a turn” means I think I understand where you’re going, but then you take your point someplace else. I agree with most of what you’re saying. The casual racial stereotyping …

> Only a white person could come up with that. lol

No, it’s a profession of ideological commitment. What you suggest would get a low to middling score. Here’s a rubric that’s representative of others I’ve seen: https://www.nas.org/…

You really took a turn there by calling attention to their skin color. The interesting thing here isn’t that they look the same, but that they think the same.

> have no issue with the argument that internet service is a basic right I am curious how you would define “a right”?

I'm don't mean to defend Tan here, he already apologized. I'm simply reiterating that the article doesn't come close to saying what I said: Tann was obviously quoting Tupac, and wa…