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What's so hard to understand? The opposition blocked the (minority) government's legislation, so people are protesting the opposition's actions. Maybe not a common occurrence, but seem's pretty straightforward to me.

Good idea. Just set up several myself.

The first time I heard the Nokia 'SMS' ringtone was in a crowded railway station. Initially I thought someone was in trouble before I realised it was an 'M' not an 'O'.

> the demand for bandwidth is infinite

Is it really? Our brains have a limited bandwidth, and there's no need of more than a small multiple of that per person.

I did something similar. I remember initially doing y as a function of x, before 'discovering' parametric functions.

Empty lots and surface-level parking.

Georgism has been mentioned many, many times in the 15 years you've been on HN. How could you not know about it?

Nice!

But lose the parachutes — fighter pilots didn't wear them in WWI

Not just Pine Gap. Exmouth, Kojarena, and Darwin too.

Speaking of horses... the internets tells me that the US horse population didn't peak until 1920 (at 25 million), so in 1908 they were still doing great, even though horses were beginning to be replaced by cars in the early 1900s. Millions were killed during WW1 though, which might have been avoided if ICE cars and trucks had been more advanced earlier.

> He's verbally questioning their intelligence, because he's actually opposed to doing anything literally literally.

Well, we don't literally know that — we only know that Plato wrote that he said so, and as other have suggested, maybe Plato verballed him.

Yeah, all those engineers he hired at SpaceX are useless. Can't launch a fucking thing.

I know of a couple in NSW: one in Albion Park, and another in Bomaderry.

They work well when the peak-hour traffic tends to block some of the entrances. You can use the lights to allow the blocked entrances to flow, then turn the lights off out of peak-hour.

Nice!

Now take the next step: make each day loop part of a bigger year loop

There's more to architecture than just the façade, which is what people are rating when they are just looking at photos of the exterior. The interiors, structure, and services, etc. of modern building are often far superior to older ones, and i suspect many 'ordinary' people would agree.

None of them — they were all ugly hacks, and we wasted stupid amounts of time and brainpower testing sites and then researching and applying the hacks.

I still hate Microsoft for 'winning' the browser war and then letting IE stagnate for so many years. So much time and money wasted because of their behaviour. Arseholes.

until your civilisation collapses, then it stops being true.

Dylan: I don't like his singing, but some of his songs are quite beautiful.

Musk: The Tesla S and 3 are quite good looking cars. Much better than most of the 'blobs' on the road. The X and Y are a bit chunky. Cybertruck is ugly but audacious. And rockets are beautiful, even the ugly ones. Watching them launch, and watching the boosters land, is awesome.

How can you write an article on autonomous cars and not mention Tesla? Clearly in bad faith.

I always thought the Goode homolosine was kind of ugly and 'lumpy' at the edges. The similar Boggs eumorphic projection is really nice though.

Their own emblem and flag features a world map (an azimuthal equidistant projection, centred on the North Pole).

> so its base is actually now “Mercator rolled into a tube.” Somehow that’s even worse!

Well better really. It is a cylindrical projection, so it's more like "Mercator before it's unrolled".

I like that one too, but i think the similar Boggs eumorphic projection has nicer lines.

I've done some serious navigation off charts, but never once used a Mercator projection — all the charts i've used have been Lambert conformal conic projection.

> We use mercator for navigation and for local maps

Nautical charts use Mercator projection, but aviation charts typically use the Lambert conformal conic projection (LCC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_conformal_conic_projec...

To quote the article: "Pilots use aeronautical charts based on LCC because a straight line ... approximates a great-circle route between endpoints for typical flight distances"

> I will never fly on any aircraft that does not have a minimum two-person crew on the flight deck.

You're missing out. Flying solo in a small plane is great.

Though in this case the software mitigation was turbine overspeed detection, not overtemperature detection.

"We do not know why we are here. We do not know who built the Silo. We do not know why everything outside the Silo is as it is. We do not know when it will be safe to go outside. We only know that day is not this day."

Really nice looking app. I like the ambiguity of the name.

Was initially confused as to what the total of the ring was — took me a moment to realise it's 100% of the time allocated, not the whole day or the workday. I'd probably want to always allocate 24 hours of tasks (including sleep and downtime) just to get a 24 hour ring.

I think the divide is pretty clear.

If the app needs connectivity for data, and is just text/images/video, then yes, it should be a web app. e.g. news sites, social media, forums, etc. (It's a site, not an app).

If an app needs be able to work offline, on local files and data, then it should be native. e.g. office apps, image/video editors, maps, CAD, etc.

There's a grey area in between, but usually it's pretty obvious.