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New comment by snappy173 in "Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts"

snappy173 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:58:54 +0000

> The whole word means something like "Cymbalistson"

it means, literally, son of the cymbal maker

New comment by snappy173 in "You're a cyclist who was just struck by a car driver. Why it was your fault"

snappy173 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:15:24 +0000

There are lots of problems. But if you think that one of them is groups of people engaging in athletics and enjoying the outdoors, then I would suggest that one of the problems may be in the mirror…

New comment by snappy173 in "You're a cyclist who was just struck by a car driver. Why it was your fault"

snappy173 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:10:34 +0000

No, that’s not actually “the problem”

New comment by snappy173 in "You're a cyclist who was just struck by a car driver. Why it was your fault"

snappy173 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:06:25 +0000

Maybe you shouldn’t be driving …

New comment by snappy173 in "No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)"

snappy173 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:19:09 +0000

Paracetamol is available in the US as Tylenol/acetaminophen

New comment by snappy173 in "Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?"

snappy173 — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 02:04:16 +0000

The bowline

New comment by snappy173 in "Because I Am Bored"

snappy173 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:46:55 +0000

We are trying to create scarcity. This is literally the opposite of the Star Trek economy. We are so fucked …

New comment by snappy173 in "What are the best powers to play in Diplomacy?"

snappy173 — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:59:51 +0000

agree with that. russia has too many fronts. can easily be ganged up against. if the western powers are united in the opening, they can completely neutralize russia's northern port.

New comment by snappy173 in "Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics"

snappy173 — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:53:01 +0000

b/c if Genius didn't get SEO traffic, they wouldn't let Google scrape their site ...

New comment by snappy173 in "M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein"

snappy173 — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 04:33:07 +0000

Negroponte's brother was Bush II's DNI, and there is a ton of speculation about Epstein's involvement in foreign intelligence ...

New comment by snappy173 in "Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America"

snappy173 — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:28:02 +0000

or macro-brewed lagers. bud used like a dozen different hops in their flagship beer in order to reduce the effect if a particular hop is unavailable.

New comment by snappy173 in "Founders Fund Makes Bet on Bitcoin"

snappy173 — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 19:09:13 +0000

>I really wish I knew how he is hedging his bets on this. is this a bet or a payoff? is he trying to prop BTC up so that his investors and allies can continue converting their offshore holdings back to USD?

New comment by snappy173 in "United Airlines piloting technology to manage the problem of oversold flights"

snappy173 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:23:40 +0000

  addEventListener("beforeboarding", function() {
    if(booked > capacity) {
      let price = ticket.faceValue;
      let ticketsToBuy = booked - capacity;
      while (ticketsToBuy > 0) {
        if (offerToBuyBackTicket(price)) {
          ticketsToBuy--;
        } else {
          price++;
        }

        //if (price > limit) {
        //  callInPinkertonThugs();
        //  return;
        //}
      }
    }
  }

New comment by snappy173 in "Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight"

snappy173 — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:21:13 +0000

i heard he'll be working on a new self-driving car initiative called RADIL. not LIDAR at all.

New comment by snappy173 in "Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight"

snappy173 — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:12:02 +0000

he'll work for them _officially_.

>Levandowski will remain at Uber, despite his role change

New comment by snappy173 in "Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10"

snappy173 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:58:48 +0000

and #3 explains why they are OK with that. they've always been up front about that.

New comment by snappy173 in "I am an Uber survivor"

snappy173 — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:33:34 +0000

>"Great, retain a Chicago politician so you know you'll get the answer you're paying for."

right. regardless of where you stand on his performance as attorney general, hiring eric holder is a political move. if uber actually cared about investigating this, they wouldn't have hired a politician.

New comment by snappy173 in "Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016)"

snappy173 — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 04:38:48 +0000

belgium is special. prohibition came to belgium in the form of a ban against hard liquor. strong beers came to fill the niche.

New comment by snappy173 in "Google’s AMP is a gilded cage"

snappy173 — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:26:38 +0000

i could see other apps that use a native browser preferring the AMP version. something like yelp, that lets you click through to the source page, for instance.

New comment by snappy173 in "Google’s AMP is a gilded cage"

snappy173 — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:35:54 +0000

Well, you can access the AMP version of the page from anywhere, not just Google search results. I could see apps that use an in-app browser serving the AMP version of a page, instead of the full version, for instance. I guess we'll see?