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machinshin_··on Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than Ever
If you treat it like meditation, it can be great. You let your body handle the motions, and you can just zone out.
machinshin_··on Eldar Black Holes
> There was a second, unrelated paper that suggests that aliens can live inside black holes.

[ ... snip ... ]

> In theory, highly advanced aliens could live on such planets, being unobservable from outside while exploiting the high energies and large time dialtions available.

reminds me of Frederick Pohl's Heechee Saga.

machinshin_··on Kansas runs one of the most secretive state governments
Silly rabbit, tax cuts are for the rich
machinshin_··on 10 Mph Moving Sidewalks Could Make Crosstown Buses Obsolete
Louis Wu would approve
machinshin_··on Questioning the value of sports is seen as blasphemy
It's not "superficial", it's a it not offending your (potential) customer.

I would assume that once the two people get to know one another the window of safe topics would become broader

machinshin_··on Professional Software Development
Checked out PrinceXML?
machinshin_··on As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Driverless Trucks”
but since the truck can/will have external camera mounts, the interaction gets recorded and the kid gets ARRESTED? :)
machinshin_··on Ask HN: I don't need a big salary, how to avoid being deemed as lower quality?
i'm curious how that works in Romania? and why is $55K the cap?
machinshin_··on Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project
Sounds like money laundering to me
machinshin_··on Code reviews aren’t just for catching bugs
imo, when it comes to style, if your language ecosystem has one, you should use it to enforce one. ideally as a git pre-commit hook.
machinshin_··on Theranos Announces Expansion of Board of Directors, New Organizational Structure
how much money does she ACTUALLY have though?

my understanding is that the company was valued at 9 billion, they never actually had that money. And most of what was invested went to the company, not her, right?

machinshin_··on Goose Finds Cop and Leads Him to Her Trapped Baby
Uplift!

The truest proof of a sentience

machinshin_··on Questions to Ask a Potential Tech Employer
And sink it up with glassdoor
machinshin_··on Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the Boondocks
Just finish play-testing that level than rerun the PM's comments about that new level design!
machinshin_··on The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesn’t Translate
Uh no. At that point you're like a UPS delivery man, pack the truck vlby delivery order. Then the car drives to each location, you get the package inside and the car moves on
machinshin_··on Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong
Another cool thing (potentially) about swagger is that AWS is supporting it for their API Gateway. You scan write a spec in swagger, tie it to AWS Lambda "functions", and AWS will create/update that . Still a WIP though :(
machinshin_··on Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong
Oh gods yah. WSDL should die painfully in a fire with all the people in its standards committee
machinshin_··on Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds with Schools Attached
When you have 40 BILLION to invest, you can't just dump it into an index fund.
machinshin_··on Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
Anyone know of a good org mode plugin for vim?
machinshin_··on A cheating scandal in the world of professional bridge
Ah there's an Indian card game called 904 "nine nought four" that's the same way. It's great fun :)
machinshin_··on Square Prices Its IPO at $9, giving it a $2.7B valuation
I suspect it's not quite that simple. Square has a lot of small-to-medium businesses, who's risk profile is higher; which has to have a increased risk on Square, no?
machinshin_··on Amazon Spars With The Times Over Investigative Article
having been inside another companys' RDF, i can totally understand that. you don't always understand how bad everything else when you're living it day to day.
machinshin_··on San Francisco Should Always Have a Subway Under Construction
Why?

1/2 the city is gonna be underwater by 2050, right?

machinshin_··on Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
"Fortune favors the bold, the foolish, and ships named Enterprise"
machinshin_··on What Killed Smalltalk?
I dunno, a lot of modern language academic research and push are going towards a very compile-time-typing-everywhere mode. see Haskell and Idris, for instance
machinshin_··on Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
He's basically saying, "i want smart suckers. people who'll work their asses off to make me as money as possible, and will get fucked at the end of the line"
machinshin_··on Show HN: Mycli – A CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
humble and modest too ;)
machinshin_··on I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver
what's that mean? as in women&mean meet/date their drivers?
machinshin_··on After the Layoffs
what year do you think this McFly? 1995?
machinshin_··on How to avoid the software salary ceiling
> Do all NFL coaches make more money than their players?

on median, yah they do. you're thinking of the BIG winners who get 10/15mil or more a year (+ endorsements), but most football (and baseball) players don't make nearly that much. most NFL coaches are in the 2-3 mil range, w/ some much higher (10-15mil)

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