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Actually no, you can't, because they limit how much you can apply to a single flight. To use up $10k in vouchers, it's likely you'd need to make 20-100 flights, before they expired in a year.

Pointing out that Google/Android sucks just as hard doesn't excuse Microsoft.

aka, what dandelion_lover said.

Not sure, 6-9 months ago. Texting always worked for me, but audio & video were hit-&-miss.

Actually, thinking about it now, I haven't used video much lately, but audio has been much better the past 1-2 months.

Napkin-math ...

Long-term, Falcon9 exists to fund Spacex' R&D for Mars. Until now, Musk has said <5% of Spacex budget goes to ITS dev. I expect that to change now.

1st stage costs $40m, targeting 10 flights = $4m/flight, amortised. Add another 2-3 million for refurbishment, storage, etc., and reusing the 1st stages should save Spacex ~$33m.

Shotwell, however, has stated that customers will receive up to 30% discount. On a $62m flight, that's a savings of <$19m ...

giving Spacex an extra $12-15m pure profit on every flight ... which I hope/expect to get channeled into ITS dev.

Spacex is already the cheapest in the industry, and they now have a 3-5 year head-start in reusability, they simply don't need to lower their prices more.

I still vote Wire. It used to be buggy, but much better now, plus completely Open Source (Telegram is not).

I just placed my first Wire audio call from my phone a few minutes ago: great quality (better than my actual phone service), no noticeable lag.

Article is from June, 2013 ... right about the time the Snowden revelations were just starting to come out. Additionally, author is Moxie Marlinspike, a prominent privacy advocate in his own right.

Ding-ding-ding! That's the ticket. I just didn't look around close enough.

Thanx muchly

Am I missing something simple? Trying to view the curriculum, the site is expecting me to log into a Google account...

As part of an ever-shrinking minority that avoids using anything "Google", am I just out of luck on this?

ETA: Two hours ago, this was not the case. Looks like they just now added some Google-account-holders-only validation.

I've seen the movie. It is the best--and most realistic--"first contact" movie I've ever seen. I have nits to pick with some of the details, but they're minor. You're specific complaint is a valid one, but is (I believe) satisfactorily explained in the movie.

I actually just bought Kerbal Space Program, because it's available on Linux, and also supports a vibrant modding community -- include a massive cluster of mods (Realism Overhaul) that turns the Kerbal solar system into a realistic simulation of ours. Add in the Principia mod, which fixes minor glitches in the KSP physics engine, and you're good to go.

1) I have seen the movie, and read the post, and his opening claim that "there aren't any spoilers", is kind of not true. While there aren't any explicit, blatant spoilers, he does kind of rub up against the plot a lot, in a way that gives a lot of hints that people might not want to know, before seeing it.

2) Was no one else bothered by his "Pioneer" faux pas? He's obviously extremely advanced, scientifically -- light years beyond my level -- and yet, he erroneously states that Pioneer 10 is the furthest human object in interstellar space ... which stopped being true when Voyager 1 passed it back in the 1990s ... and, strictly speaking, Pioneer hasn't even reached interstellar space, yet.

I know it shouldn't bother me as much as it does ... but of all the science he talks about in this post, this is the one thing I know about -- and he got it wrong, so now I have doubts about everything else he said.

The thing to keep in mind, while reading this, is how many times does this happen on a day-to-day basis, before you just happen to run into cops that are too stupid to realize they are recording themselves while they do this?

Email sent. Thank you. Very nice to see the founder of a business personally following up on things like this. This already goes a long way towards restoring my faith in your company.

Personal anecdote here ... I bought a book bundle a few months ago (ironically, a "Hacker" bundle). Transaction went through, no problems.

A day or two later, they contacted me, asking for confirmation of some info (my phone number, I think), then another email saying they couldn't confirm some of my payment details, etc. ... and then followed a two-week-long back-&-forth with customer service, trying to get them to take my money.

After two weeks of this, they decided to cancel the order, said I needed to re-place the order from scratch ... except by then, the package I had originally ordered was no longer available. They're very sorry for the inconvenience, but fuck me.

I want to emphasize that I had a credit card and two different debit cards, all valid forms of payment, in my name, that I've used at various times to order things online. To this day, I have no idea what the problem was, as they never told me.

tl&dr: HB stops online fraud by (I guess) erring on the side of caution, and periodically alienating legitimate customers. Now I will never shop there again, and routinely warn others not to.

I'm into my second year of extreme Scottish showers -- first 5 minutes as hot as I can stand (and keep turning it up as I get used to the temp) ... last 5 minutes as cold as it goes. I expect there are legitimate physical health benefits; however, for me, the main benefit is the challenge & discipline of it, of stepping out of the shower thinking that the hardest thing I'll do today may already be behind me.

PEBCAK ... Nevermind

Hi. I just now learned about MUBI, through this HN post. First and foremost, it looks great, and I will almost definitely be signing up tonight when I get home.

Here's my gripe ... am I doing something wrong, or do I have to create an account just to find out the subscription prices? If it's not just my user-stupidity, don't make me register just to see the prices.