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I've seen them on Hover for ~$35/y, still too expensive imo.

JetFireon Snowden’s Camp: Staged Putin Q&A Was a Screw-Up

did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?

JetFireon Snowden’s Camp: Staged Putin Q&A Was a Screw-Up

"The bigger question, however, is whether Snowden can restore his reputation among the much larger group of people who viewed his initial leaks as admirable, and his appearance with Putin as risible. The answer to that question is, at this point, unknown."

Ed Snowden is/has risked his life, the prospect of life locked in a solitary cage, and any opportunity to ever see his friends & family in person, for the sole purpose of releasing information of vital importance to the public.

Not just to the people of the US, but Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the world at large to an extent, so that they have the opportunity to become informed about illegal surveillance, gross human rights violations, and the establishment of a totalitarian police states. This makes up for the fact that while doing all of that, he is still the only person with balls to ask Putin if the Russian government is spying on it's people. Not to mention the fact that Russia (Putin) was the only state to grant him asylum.

It may have not gone as he had hoped, sometimes honest people underestimate the capability of sociopath tyrants.

JetFireon Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Art of Great Company Culture (2013)

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture.

JetFireon I have invented a $200 laser cutter attachment, and am delivering them by drone

You bought blu ray laser diodes in bulk for what, $5 a pop and want to sell them on a no investment but have a prize instead website?

JetFireon Ask HN: how do you keep track of interesting stuff online?

Bookmark, USB Flash drive, save interesting sections to a text document with notation to the related source.

JetFireon A physics version of 2048 – stellar nucleosynthesis

Impossible was impossible, https://i.imgur.com/08J8FoI.png.

JetFireon Citizen Kubrick (2004)

Aren't we all amassing a collection boxes? Some which will go untouched from the moment they are organized. We just do it with folders on a hard drive today. Just yesterday I started to organize my media archive (http://pastebin.com/ZhtNgiBK). Some things I've only collected on the prospect that maybe a friend or relative would like to watch it one day, I have no intention of viewing it myself.

On a note related to Kubrick, here's a link to the analysis of The Shining referenced in Room 237 by mstrmnd: http://www.mstrmnd.com/log/802

It's a cool read if you're into his films, and you've approached a point in your own personal analysis when you thought, the deeper I go, the closer to madness I am.