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Elon Musk doesn't appear to be motivated by profit and therefore he doesn't need a hobby. Besides, what cooler hobby could there be than building rockets.
This seems like an impossibly random discovery. Did scientists test the blood of various animals until they finally found an optimum with horseshoe crabs ?
Jeez, why did you have to derail an intentionally sentimental comment by mocking it as "cute".
Not knowing what to expect, my brother privately took care of everything. He created several costumes so we could wear something different every day. He decorated our bicycles and designed elaborate canopies. He made drug laced snacks for barter and created games we could play in darkness of the desert night. Upon my arrival, he made me feel welcome despite my immediate realization that I was not worthy of attending this event. For I had contributed nothing. I had, for the first time in my life, felt like dead-weight to society. But instead of judging me, my brother made me feel loved.
Going to Burning Man is truly a humbling experience. The unimaginable massive spectacles of creativity are beyond my ability to describe. As much as we would like to return we both agreed we wouldn't unless we had an installation to exhibit. A fitting mission a for sibling artist-engineering team who feel obliged to give back to an event that gave them so much.
RIP Larry. I hope somehow in death you feel all the love and beauty that Burning Man inspired.
Payment occurred once they SMS'ed a photo of my boxes in my storage unit. I gave them a combination to my storage unit and hid the payment in various locations in the delivery boxes (e.g., page X of book Y in box Z, etc.).
Worked great but it took 3 drivers. I paid around $5 a box (in 2009 dollars).
Perhaps the audio is just too clear ? Or perhaps there isn't enough going on scene-wise to distract. Or just the fact that the whipping is perfectly periodic and programmed to go on indefinitely. I don't know.
What you are suggesting would lead to a generation that saves more and consumes less.
When GDP seems to be the only success metric that matters, I often wonder if such education is omitted intentionally.
It is surprising to learn that these vehicles are operating at night. To collect training data, since nighttime driving is inevitable, perhaps there are ways to simulate night to the computer vision systems during daytime so the human supervisor can still see clearly.
In that documentary, filmed in 1960's, the same questions were asked that are often asked today. William Buckley asks Baldwin, "Why are negros so upset ? You are on TV commercials, movie leads, you hold positions in government. Isn't racism in the past."
That was before I was born. But in my lifetime the Tuskegee medical experiments were still being performed on black men. I witnessed a landlord ask my parents to pretend they were taking an apartment so that the blacks in the waiting area could be told it is no longer available. I had a young detective in Chicago privately disclose to me that as a cop he would just followed black people (if there were more than one in the car because the odds one of them might have a warrant would be higher) in his cop car until they committed a traffic violation. He used racial profiling so effectively that he became one of youngest detectives of all time.
In my college years the US government was selling highly addictive and destructive drugs in African American neighborhoods as a covert way to raise funds. But when that story broke it was pushed off the headlines because the Monica Lewinsky scandal was more important. The reporter who broke the story was so disheartened he killed himself.
And in just the past years we have seen too many snuff films and needless deaths.
Yet I still personally encounter people who claim African Americans haven't experienced racism in 100 years. And what are they complaining about, "they seem to be in most commercials these days and hold high positions in government, so racism must be in the past". Because why bother learning what the Black Lives Matter movement stood for when you can just snark "all lives matter". But if you were snark "Pro-life ? You mean you are a vegetarian ?", some of those same people would be so annoyed they would burn down an abortion clinic. But black people burning something, that anger they can't understand.
Will the U.S. ever come to terms with our racist past ? Will our future grandchildren be ruminating on these issues simply because many people keep casually dismissing the suffering of others.
As a side note, I am conflicted if general interest stories like this should be on HN as they are too emotionally charged.
For years many developers of BLE hardware have been waiting for a BLE capable smarthome hub to win the market. Amazon has won but whenever I ask about the BLE SDK, I am told to "stay tuned". They have used that answer for years now.
That means my company will reluctantly release a Wifi Bridge this year. I say reluctant because we aren't motivated to collect $50 per customer on a bridge that will become instant garbage if Amazon does finally release the SDK. We are motivated by how much value we offer our customers, not by how much money we can collect from them.
Does anyone know if Amazon is actively working on a BLE SDK for Echo ?
Note some of my recommendations above are in Tim Ferris' book Tools of Titans. Love that guy.
The Nutribullet blender has let me add one additional billable hour a day. Instead of cooking breakfast I blend it. Half an avocado, 1 raw egg (for the downvotes), protein powder, a little flour (or walnuts), creatine a frozen banana (or carrots), and almond milk. I love them.
I make these twice a day and prepare 3 smaller quick meals. Less dishwashing. Less decision fatigue as to what to eat when I awake.
I also purchased a pull-up bar and skip the gym most days.
A better Wifi router surprisingly helped too. I was previously adamant that my old one was fine since it provided 5X the bandwidth provided by my ISP anyway. I was wrong.
I'd also recommend learning to cut your own hair and stop watching the news so you can concentrate on your tasks and not ruminate about the state of the world.
I find it odd that when a wealthy person hits the jackpot on a speculative trade or alt-coin I can't help but feel they were clever. Perhaps it is because buying and holding takes discipline whereas no discipline is required to buy a lottery ticket.
I had previously thought that iOS prevented an App from launching another App. IFTTT and Tasker both seem to have limitations because of this. Did Space have to create a novel work-around ?
[edit]Come to think of it, the URL Scheme of the "app to launch" would have to be published as part of the Space App in advance. Meaning that I can't use Space to block arbitrary Apps. Is my understanding correct ?
BTW, I think it is great the founder is replying to questions. Thank you.