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eots··on British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border
What racist drivel right here on HN.
eots··on Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law
I drive a car now and then in Cambridge and Boston, and I have to be constantly on a lookout for misbehaving cyclists. It's like most of cyclists are not even familiar with basic traffic regulations. If I was not paying extra attention, and was simply following traffic regulations on my end, I would be involved in more that a few car/bicycle accident.
eots··on In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)
This pretty much happens all over the globe.
eots··on Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
And this is what I learned in my 15 years: programming is not a task done primarily with a text editor.
eots··on How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
Cyclists will often ride between rows of cars that are stopped at a traffic light in an effort to get to the front, probably assuming that the 3 feet law doesn't apply in that case.

Cyclists don't have to be toxic for the whole setup to not work, they just have to not obey the same laws that are in place for cars. Where I live, I'm more likely to be hit by a cyclist on a pedestrian crossing than by a car.

eots··on Five Years of Recurse Center
Could you share why you were rejected?
eots··on Why I Left Oracle – A Confession
> And everybody is wealthier as a consequence.

Except some got wealthier than others.

eots··on Vanguard's Low Blow
Honest question: if the California subsidiary is able to provide those services at the set fees (i.e. pay salaries, etc.), how can it be considered "below market price"? Is it required by law to make a profit?
eots··on Oyster is shutting down
Isn't income tax included in the gross salary?
eots··on Why Do Colleges Give Honorary Degrees?
Big-name people like heads of state, like the then PM of my country to which the University of Philadelphia in 2004. gave a honorary degree. The same now sits in jail for corruption, fraud, and war profiteering amongst other charges.
eots··on Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low
Total econ noob here, could somebody please explain how zero interest rates cause increasing housing prices?
eots··on What if anything have we learned from C++? [video]
In C++ generics don't involve calling through a vtable.
eots··on What if anything have we learned from C++? [video]
What I've learnt is that if you start writing C++ as a plan-old C, you quickly find yourself reaching for this and that feature from C++ that makes your job easier and your code more readable. Knowing where to stop is the tricky part.
eots··on Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot
Yes, SSH-ing to my drone and running scripts while doing low passes and tight turns is just what I need. Sarcasm aside, this looks really cool from a hacker perspective but I'm straining to find a practical use case. Both CC3D and Naze32 platforms are open (hardware and software), smaller in size, cost 5 times less -- but are, I guess, nowhere near as flexible as this thing.
eots··on The Death of Cocoa
I take it that you don't sleep?
eots··on The bad side of systemd: two recent systemd failures
Guess I'm the only one who had a cron job restarting the PulseAudio process regularly.
eots··on Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee
I'm sorry but I really don't understand this comment. If you don't like something in an open-source project you can walk away, but if you don't like something in a proprietary project you can't?
eots··on The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (1997)
Could somebody please translate this using layman's terms?
eots··on What happened to Motorola
Which innovations would that be?
eots··on Troubled welds on the Bay Bridge
Totally off-topic, but did anybody else notice the chocolate-starfish graffiti on one of the beams pictured in the article?
eots··on Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst
No, but neither do the ants, which sort-of explains my lack of empathy.
eots··on Flight ET702 hijacked – live Twitter feed
How is his hacker news?