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Theres a lot of speculation about TWA Flight 800 so thats pretty interesting. I some how stumbled on CPAN one night and the guy that wrote TWA 800 Crash Cover Up Conspiracy was giving a talk. Listening to the commenters afterwards, all were either engineers, pilots, or former air force and seemed to be in agreement with the author. Theres a TWA Flight 800 documentary as well.

book: https://www.amazon.com/TWA-800-Crash-Cover-Up-Conspiracy/dp/...

movie: https://flight800doc.com


> I some how stumbled on CPAN one night and the guy that wrote TWA 800 Crash Cover Up Conspiracy was giving a talk.

I think you mean C-SPAN. Unless the more nefarious of the Perl hackers have been working overtime. :)


So what. You can find more engineers and pilots who don't believe it was a conspiracy. The human mind tends to invent patterns where none exist in a vain attempt to make sense out of chaos.


Absolutely. Look at marijuana. Most people I meet that oppose legalization also oppose the government defining their moral values. It's backwards.


In both of the companies I've founded, I had to wear too many hats. As a result, I have not excelled in any particular skill, rather I've gained medium level of experience in variety of skills from development to product design to finance.

You gotta be nicer to yourself. Honestly, in my mind its impressive having exceelled in all of those areas. And you found 2 startups and the second one was a success, although not in your eyes, which you gotta stop saying and start understanding or asking what success really is.


Well, speaking from a secular point of view, studying the Talmud in and of itself makes you religious regardless of the education you are getting from it.

You are funny. You are basically orthodox for whats considered Jewish around me and yet you don't even think of yourself as ,"very religious".


Well, I'm glad you find me amusing. Using your logic, studying Physics makes me a Physicist. Studying Mathematics makes me a Mathematician.

Also, I think that the Koreans who study Talmud might not think that they are religious.

Honestly, anyone with intellectual curiosity I feel would find the Talmud interesting, regardless of being non-religious or of an ethnicity other than Judaism.


Koreans and others studying the Talmud are sort of one off rarities. Nearly everyone who studies the Talmud is a Jew doing so for reasons related to religious or cultural identity.


Physics makes me a Physicist Thats not what I said. Thats comparing apples and oranges. I would bet my bank account your are Jewish, and you are religious in the eyes of this Jew, regardless if you are as religious as your father. I dont doubt the talmud is intellectually interesting, but the reality is those that are studying it ARE religious. Even the koreans you keep referencing; even if they aren't religious at all, they are in the minority for those studying the Talmud that way.


> the reality is those that are studying it ARE religious. Even the koreans you keep referencing; even if they aren't religious at all, they are in the minority for those studying the Talmud that way.

"All those who study it are religious, except those that aren't, but they don't count anyways"


Thank you! I love it, "midnight to midnight." I know it will get easier. Today, honestly, that seems impossible, but tomorrow I WILL have my second day in a row for the first time in 11 years... and I will look to your comment for motivation. I like that I have no idea how huge it is, because thats what I believe deep down.


I watched a nephew go -- in one year -- from "I don't think we are going to see him alive again" to a man who you would utterly trust with your child's life.

I would expect similar transformations for you. You will not be the old @rickdale, just improved. You will be a completely new man.


Thats awesome. Congrats to your nephew and you and your family for sticking with him. Addiction is not easy; with marijuana people tend to push it to the side, but its just as important as the other drugs like opiates. Maybe not as addictive, but I need rehab, thats how I feel, so I just have to stay clean to avoid that type of repercussion. Realistically, because I have been so successful in the industry, NO ONE, even my mom (love you mom) would tell me I have a problem, but I do. And its tough on the soul to know that I have that type of problem.

The best I have ever felt was when I beat the addiction and took 6 weeks off when I entered college. First fall break I got hooked on the ganja again, and really thats been the story of my life since. But I had this thought that I literally just have to do nothing to get back to feeling that way. And for now, I feel like the terminator, "I'll be back." ha.

Seriously tho, thanks for your comments. Means the world to me. Funny how your nephew getting clean can flow into hn and affect users like me that are real humans with real lives.


Thank you! I wouldnt have made the post if inside I didn't want a coment like yours to keep me pushing forwards. Before the character limit I had in there, "I look forward to being on day 2." I had the sweats all day today so I am excited for tomorrow and the rest of my life, lol.


MVNO = mobile virtual network operator. My biggest pet peeve when talking about technology is not referencing the full name of something you are going to abbreviate as if everyone knows it. The article makes no mention of MVNO so reading your comment I had to google search what exactly you were talking about. A lot of coding books and developers tend to do this and its always bothered the heck out of me.

edit: Can someone explain the dv? So people are in favor of random abbreviations?


> MVNO = mobile virtual network operator

I subscribe to the Elon Musk school on acronyms--avoid at all reasonable costs [1]. That said, expanding "MVNO" to "mobile virtual network operator" does nothing for the discussion. If you aren't familiar with the former, you won't be with the latter.

Repairing the original sin of calling such virtual networks MNVOs post hoc is simply more friction than going along with an agreed term.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/spacex-boss-elon-musk-threatened-dras...


"mobile virtual network operator" was exactly what I thought it would be, but there's no way I could figure out what MVNO was without googling it. The name is not totally obfuscating but the acronym is.


At least "mobile virtual network operator" has some context clues (along with the subject matter) and is easy to guess.

"MVNO" has none such.


I am not familiar with MVNO but I can read "mobile virtual network operator" and instantly understand what it means by knowing what the individual words mean and putting it together. Expanding MVNO at least once when originally introducing the term helps.


I am familiar with MVNO, and reading "mobile virtual network operator" would make me stop for a moment to figure out what they were talking about.

When an acronym is in common use, not using it will cause trouble for people who are used to it.

As long as it's something easily googleable, it really doesn't seem like a big deal either way. If you don't know what MVNO stands for, it'll take two seconds to find out. This does not apply for cases where there's lots of different meanings, or the acronym is spelled the same as a common word.


Hence the common syntax: "mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)"

I really don't see the downside of not expanding it once, unless you're trying to avoid educating people.


You mean AAARC


"Can someone explain the dv?"

Oh the irony! :D


You googled it and learned what it was, now you know what it means and probably a lot more. If you want to learn stuff yourself you should be prepared to research. You are on a technology website reading an article about telecom, if you want to participate in the comments a baseline level of understanding isn't a big ask.


if you want to participate in the comments a baseline level of understanding isn't a big ask.

Thats not fair. I came to the comments after reading the article to learn more about the article. I think its considered poor quality to make a comment like ADF is the worst. Without referecing what ADF is first, or without being referenced in the article.


WTF is ADF? Something to do with druids?


It's a general technology website, not a telecom-only technology website. The baseline level of understanding should be of technology in general, not the baseline of a telecom specialist.

If the telecom discussion ventures into specialized territory, then it is fine if the non-telecom people have to do some research to follow along.

In this case, though, if the words "mobile virtual network operator" are written out I think most HN readers will be able to figure out what they mean in the context of the comment without needing an external reference. There wasn't really anything going on that a non-telecom person wouldn't be able to follow, except for the expansion of the acronym.

It doesn't require research to make the comment understandable in this case. It just required mindless expansion of an acronym. Making multiple readers all do the same mindless task to understand the comment is inefficient.

There is a widespread, long established, endorsed by many style guides convention for handling this in technical writing: write out the term in full the first time, followed by the acronym in parenthesis, and then use the acronym in subsequent uses. I can see no reason to ignore this long standing convention in this particular case.

(For purposes of that convention, I think it would be OK to consider replies to a comment to be part of the same document as the comment, so if the commentator write "mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)" once, replies could use a bare "MVNO").


Knowing "MVNO" is almost tangential to the OP's main point.

Replacing "MVNO" with "cell service provider," and perhaps adding "that piggybacks off existing infrastructure," would've helped in keeping focus on the main point.

Having to take away your focus from the discussion is only an impediment in this situation.


Most of us are intelligent enough to google words we don't know. No reason to bring your personal pet peeves into an unrelated discussion.


I did google it, thats not the point. It wasn't a "word" I didn't know, it was an abbreviation of a topic that was the main source of the top comment (at the time).


Changing my router was the best thing I have done to my internet connection, but somehow it never occurred to me to change my modem until I just read your comment. Er, duh! Ordering one now. Any recommendations from this list?: http://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/compliant-modems-ch...


I've always used Arris (sometimes branded as Motorola) and had consistently good results.

Today, from that list, I'd buy the Woot SB6183 ($51.09 on Amazon-ASIN B018IS1S4C) as that's what I've been running at home for 13 months without issue. (I upgrade about every 6-9 years. You caught me "just" after the latest one.)

It's a 16x4 modem, though when I use it on Comcast, Comcast operates it as a 16x3 (16 channels down, 3 channels up)


The Arris/Motorola Surfboard series have always been great for me. I think the biggest difference between the cheapest model and the most expensive one is that the most expensive one is capable of a theoretical max that is multiples of what Comcast even offers. So, it's technically more future proof. I've had the cheapest one forever and never had issues with it being slower than my pipe could deliver.


I've been using a Zoom modem for years now with no issues at all. The Surfboard series is also pretty well recommended by my friends in the industry.

I still prefer to avoid combo modems though, I find that the Wi-fi tech upgrades at a faster pace, and prefer to keep the devices separate rather than combined into one box. YMMV, do what makes sense for your setup.


Flamingos are back in Florida now too..

http://www.audubon.org/news/wild-flamingos-return-florida


I don't know if Americans "love" congress, as much as we are just ignorant to who are what congress is. See someone from the other side, hate em, see familiar name on the ballot, vote for em.


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