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tocomment··on The DIY Danes planning to launch a man into space
Seriously a downvote? Why not explain why it's wrong?
tocomment··on The DIY Danes planning to launch a man into space
Along this line of thinking I was wondering how much energy it would take to reach the height of one of the lagrangian points? And once we get there would it be possible to stay there and resist the pull of earth?

If so that would be cheap space access right there.

tocomment··on Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’
I wonder if the fingerprint will ever be used to prove that you were at the location your phone recorded you at?
tocomment··on Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’
Are you sure you can brute force the PIN? I thought the iPhone will enforce a waiting period after too many bad entries.
tocomment··on What Startups Need to Know about Obamacare
Do the bronze plans qualify as "high deductible" plans and let customers use a health savings account?
tocomment··on IPython in Excel
Python also has excellent Excel libraries for reading and writing Excel documents natively. http://www.python-excel.org/
tocomment··on ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru
Is rentacoder still around? I had good experiences there.
tocomment··on Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned
Thanks for clarifying. I'm still a bit confused and since I've thought of doing this same thing at a potential startup I'd love to know the details.

So you searched for lake listings on other sites, contacted the lister and offered to add them into your system? What kind of response rate did you get for that? I'd imagine you wouldn't hear back from most of them?

How about adding them by default and then contacting them and saying "I've add your listing to our site so you can have an idea of how it works. If you choose not to join, let me know and I'll delete it."

tocomment··on Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned
Ouch, no need for a downvote. I'm just curious if that's a useful way to get customers, or do they get offended?
tocomment··on Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned
Is he saying for the rentals that they entered rental properties onto their site without the lister's permission, and then contacted the lister to offer a paid version?
tocomment··on Fog-harvesting system could provide potable water for the world’s driest regions
If h2o is heavier than other components of air like o2 and nitrogen why can't we just run air through a giant centrifuge to get the water out?
tocomment··on Ask HN: Someone just tried to break into my home. Security tech recommendations?
You could do some basic stuff like motion sensing floodlights, and leaving a light or two on at night inside the house (on a timer).

I've always been curious if one of these fake tv things would be any good.

http://www.faketv.com/

tocomment··on Soylent: Operations Update
Thanks! What's wrong with flax seed though? Don't you get a lot of omega 3's from that in addition to the fiber?
tocomment··on Soylent: Operations Update
Can you post your recipe?
tocomment··on Want to Win a Political Debate? Try Making a Weaker Argument
Would you mind providing some examples? I can't really picture what you're talking about?
tocomment··on Want to Win a Political Debate? Try Making a Weaker Argument
I've always found it interesting that most people have really strong opinions on complex political questions to begin with.

For example, as a programmer, how do I know what the correct immigration level should be? How should I know if we should intervene in Syria?

Even if I follow the news, a few articles and news clips really aren't going to give me enough information to make an educated decision.

tocomment··on Giant Robotic Mining Trucks in the Australian Desert
Does medium use a proof reader? They confused "is" and "are" a couple of times in that article.
tocomment··on Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom
Why isn't there a way to track without toxic chemicals?
tocomment··on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
That's exactly why I'm relectuant to short stocks by the way. Even when a company is slowly dying the share price won't necessarily fall?
tocomment··on Schema migrations merged into Django master
Dumb question here. Instead of keeping all these migration files why can the migration just compare the models to the database directly and make he appropriate changes?
tocomment··on Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
But what about the albicuierre drive? (sp)
tocomment··on I will not do a tech interview
All of you guys are imagining some sort of 6 month junky contract to hire situation. All I'm talking about is a 3-10 day contract like the article mentions.

An unemployed candidate can do a contract like that while evaluating other jobs and possibly waiting for other offers to come in.

An employed candidate can do the work in off-hours.

tocomment··on Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
So if we ever invent artificial gravity that we can turn on and off with a switch all that stuff he said breaks down? And we get some really strange behavior?
tocomment··on I will not do a tech interview
I don't think many candidates are interested in "immediate" hiring. Most people I know need to take extra time to wait for other offers to come in.

It also gives the candidate a way to see what kind of problems he'd be working with, and the quality of the code-base, working conditions, etc.

I think it's a win-win.

tocomment··on I will not do a tech interview
If only there were some way an employee could learn about btree's after taking a job...
tocomment··on Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks
That's pretty cool. How does it taste? How long does it last after prepared? Have you considered olive oil?
tocomment··on Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks
Is a protien shake for breakfast really that bad? I have not been able to find a breakfast food that's quick, tastes ok, and isn't high in carbs.
tocomment··on Tesla Model X
But the model X doesn't sound like it will be any cheaper than the model S right?
tocomment··on Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested
Thanks! I guess you could still use it to compare between say minivans?
tocomment··on Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested
I've always found the star safety ratings confusing especially when I've noticed compact cars getting the same stars as large cars.

I'd like to just see each model ranked by number of fatalities per mile driven. Wouldn't that make a lot more sense?

Is such a statistic available anywhere?

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