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tango24on Google Cloud Is Down

That's one region, not the multiple region that OP mentioned

tango24on Show HN: Monetized Hugo Theme Documentation

> After Dark is a privacy-focused hypermedia authoring system designed to amplify the world's most influential voices.

The tagline is really buzzwordy ... I have no idea what that means.

tango24on Why the monarchy needs Meghan?

> Submission Title: Why the monarchy needs Meghan?

From the HackerNews Guidelines:

.. please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

tango24on Falcon Heavy Model – Flight 1 [video]

I really enjoyed the "cinematography" that went into this -- made it extra special. The little boop comment in the middle of a very crucial detachment made me laugh pretty hard. Well done!

tango24on Ask HN: Signing bonus situation sketchiness

I've had both -- signing bonuses that are provided day 1, but can be clawed back if I don't stay the expected length of time. And I have had signing bonuses that are paid out on my one year anniversary. You should have asked for it to have been written/clarified in your contract though if it was not clear.

tango24on C-Sky: A $6 Linux dev board with HDMI and USB

2013? That wiki link says the release date was 2016, but the company "had entered insolvency. Many customers still had not received their pre-orders". Sounds like it wasn't profitable to create such cheap devices?

tango24on The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch

Perhaps there could be a subway system (complete with elevators) under, at least, the inner portion of OP's imaginary city?

tango24on Ask HN: Help I owe over 100k in taxes after signing up for Stripe Atlas

Sounds like a mistake? Maybe they sent a letter to the wrong customer?

tango24on CDC director warns that Congo's Ebola outbreak may not be containable

> including the renowned Dr Matthew Lukwiya

Short video about Dr. Lukwiya's story. He was on a sabbatical, but rushed back to provide aid, while others were running in panic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7LpjpuOvc8

tango24on British intelligence hacked Belgacom then sabotaged investigation

By "sabotage" they meant "did not cooperate". Title is more click-baity then accurate.

tango24on Proposed new tag: IMG (1993)

It's fun to read through this history, while I'm listening to "Where Wizards Stay Up Late".

In reading through the thread [1], I noticed Marc and Jim Davis used an example audio file from the NSA that no longer exists: http://nsa.gov/pub/sounds/gorby.au

Anyone know what the story behind that was? Was that a common example?

[1] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0196.ht...

tango24on Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

> “We turned the company upside down,” Cook said. “Email searches, data center records, financial records, shipment records. We really forensically whipped through the company to dig very deep and each time we came back to the same conclusion: This did not happen. There’s no truth to this.”

Wow, ok then..

tango24on Paper Airplane Designs

> follows it with his finger through the air as it took forever to land on the ground.

Sounds interesting, but I'm confused. So is he walking in front of it, and the flame is pulled toward his finger? Did it travel the farthest that way?

tango24on Bill Gates: What I Loved About Paul Allen

Dupe. Recent conversation : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231961

tango24on High Crime in the Cocaine Industry

> One aircraft was being pursued over Homestead, Florida in 1994, so ditched its cargo. A 34-kilogram bag of cocaine fell directly into a back yard where chief of police Curt Ivy was chatting with the Neighborhood Crime Watch about what to look out for in their quiet community.

Well that is ironic.

tango24on Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?

> (and getting worse in some important areas of employee happiness)

Would you mind elaborating?

tango24on Valid use cases for autocomplete=off

This received 23 points in 30 minutes, and yet it is no longer on the front-page? Compare that to this [1], which has received 23 points in 4 hours, and is still on the front page. Are some folks flagging this into oblivion?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095356

tango24on Remote Workers Are Outperforming Office Workers-- Why

I work remote, and generally put in extra work while others are commuting, and this actually helps me collaborate with folks in other time zones. I'm happy to trade my extra labor for the benefit of not being stuck in traffic in a toll road. In addition to saving on fuel, tolls, and car depreciation, I haven't been rear-ended in years. Back when I drove more frequently, my car had several rear-end collisions.

tango24on Apple “next-day” delivery horror story

This seems more like a Sainsbury's/DPD failure.

tango24on Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase

In 2025: Google decides to focus only on Search, Maps, and Mail; shuts down or divests all 243 other "side projects".

tango24on Ask HN: Is data from Fortnite being used to train AI paratroopers?

> Has anyone given the Terms Of Service a once-over?

Have you?

tango24on Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

I love this story. What's really cool too is that his former professor submitted a grade change form decades later, to bump his grade up to an "A". NPR has some great info on the story here: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-...

tango24on I hate almost all software – Ryan Dahl (2011)

I recall reading this in 2011, and went looking for it, but the original is now 404. I found the repost here

tango24on The Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Secret Mail

4 million miles of traveling, wow. Did that cause any systemic back-pain issues for him sitting on long-haul flights non-stop for a solid decade?

tango24on MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockchain for Humanity

Ironically, quantum computers could break the underlying premises of the elliptic curve cryptography [1] that is used in Ethereum, thereby breaking Ethereum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Qu...

tango24on CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)

Looks like it's just the code, but no noticeable way to play. Is it hosted somewhere?

tango24on Ask HN: Better to get another bachelors or go for an MA in an unrelated field?

The Masters program should list which prerequisite courses you need, and you might be able to take them at a local community college. You'll definitely want to schedule a chat with an admissions counselor though, as each school is different. But they can tell you definitively, before you do all the work for nothing.