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It's becoming a huge problem in Portland as well. We've always had homeless but recently this situation is becoming worse and worse. I live close to the city center and my neighborhood resembles a shanty town with all the homeless people camped out on the street. It sucks because it seems like the city is doing next to nothing to resolve the problem right now, we have a lame duck mayor that doesn't want to touch the issue.

This is great, but I wish it was longer. The first 23 levels are pretty easy and it tells you what properties to use, then it drops you into a really difficult level with no hints. It would be nice if it built up to that with some medium difficulty levels.

Which GA did you work at? I have a friend that went to the one in Santa Monica and had a bad experience. Of course, he did eventually get a job as a developer afterwards so I guess it could've been worse. I went to a bootcamp recently and when I was picking my school I remember the reviews for GA varying a lot from location to location.

I've worked in computer repair shops, and what you've described about OEM Windows is how it's worked for years. You have to either use the recovery partition that comes with the machine or order new recovery media from the manufacturer. This isn't unique to Lenovo.

I actually did this, back in 2004 when I was obsessed with "traveling authentically." I sailed from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Cork, Ireland. It took two weeks. I was surprised at how quickly the boredom set in, as there is really nothing whatsoever to do on a boat like this once you've read and watched the few decent books/movies on board. The only scenery that changes on the open ocean is the clouds.

It was cool to interact with the crew but also strange and somewhat depressing as the life of a sailor is really not that great. The average crewman is from a very poor country and they are at sea for most of the year to support families back home that they only get to see for a few months.

Or just another example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture.

They're called grid fins:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_fin

I believe they are less to "keep it upright", but for better accuracy. The rocket doesn't really having a hard time staying upright because all of the weight is on the bottom where the engines are.

They aren't really COTS. They were for the Roadster, but for the Model S they use a specialized chemistry as well as removing the protection circuit.

[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9c...)

I get the feeling that regulatory burdens is the biggest problem. I know that the laws in California are preventing them from offering the service there, and in Oregon they are waiting on a bill to pass before they will come to Portland.

It does make him look good that so many people like his design enough to copy it so blatantly.

Thanks for your amazing contribution to the discussion.

Interesting. I might actually be wrong about the details then. Maybe the new engines they were using is actually a new type of hybrid (nylon)? I know for a fact that they are working on their own liquid engine, but perhaps it wasn't involved in this crash.

They just switched to a new liquid powered engine because their hybrid engine was not powerful enough. This was the first powered test flight with their new engine, and given the information so far it sounds like it exploded in-flight. Very, very, tragic.

edit: I'm wrong. They simply switched to a new type of fuel for their hybrid engine.

I feel like he is too. There is just something so vague about his AI pronouncements.

For the Performance model it loses 10 miles, all the others gain 10 miles.

  The folks who moderate the various reddits are there by no virtue other than 
  the fact that they were either there first, or have some relationship to the 
  person who was there first.

This is what I think the biggest problem with Reddit is. There needs to be a better system for picking moderators. I don't know what that would be but the current one is broken.

It's not as miraculous as some people in the US will go on and on about. I mean, it is definitely a useful plant but it's legal in many countries and hasn't become a major crop.

It's a fascinating story, and a really well-written book (co-authored by Alex Haley). I don't think you have to like the man at all to get something out of the book, although it may change your opinion of him slightly. He changed his stance on a great many things over the course of his life and popular views on him often disregard this.

What do you mean? The shuttle-c was never built.

That sounds terrifying.

So just like bittorrent, which is decentralized but has many (centralized) trackers of varying quality.

Yeah I think the time you'd have to spend convincing them to skip steps in their script would probably take longer than just doing them.

I agree that Comcast is horrible but you can't expect them to skip the most basic troubleshooting steps. That probably solves the problem for most non-technical users who call in.

I might be an idiot but I reloaded the website 3 times and turned adblock on and off before I realized it was an article and I just needed to scroll down. Being on a macbook with low-resolution screen and no visible scrollbar doesn't help. Still, what is "theholenearthecenteroftheworld.com"? Why don't they identify what they are at the top of the site?

The Merlin engine was designed from the beginning to be re-useable. They don't have to be "stripped and rebuilt" after each launch. They have already fired engines on the test stand for multiple mission durations with no problems.

What you wrote about Atlas V is a bit misleading. It uses an American engine for the upper stage, but the whole issue is about the Russian built RD-180 engines that power the first and largest stage. The other ULA rocket, the Delta IV, does use all American engines but the Delta IV is less capable and sees far less use.

There aren't any rare-earth materials in Tesla's batteries.

Not to mention, you know, actually meeting other people.

Is there any legitimate reason for the pilot to disable the transponder? It seems like they should make it more difficult than just throwing a breaker in the cockpit.

This isn't a product for high-level competitive gaming. This is a product that allows the average gamer to play the vast catalog of steam games from the couch.