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Coursera/UPenn's Aerial Robotics course (https://www.coursera.org/learn/robotics-flight) and more broadly the robotics sequence.

I'm taking now for a diversion (just started) and expect to learn a bit about quadrotor mechanics, sensors & control systems.


"The rats have since been preserved and are lodged in a museum in Indonesia."

Yes, this seems like the right thing to do upon discovering a new species.


Along the same lines, but worse... If you're signed up for the emails they send out about top news in your network or news mentions of people in your network, and you click through the links in the email, they make you log in. From your phone. To read a news article. Drives me insane.


If it was built already you've be asked to give your credit card number, not your email address.


Let's be honest, if he needed to give a credit card number to try it, most likely nobody would have bothered submitting it or voting it up.


My Macs all have encryption enabled, but I didn't know about Androids encryption. I'll be doing that as soon as my phone is charged!


And law enforcement will use your having disabled it to justify a presumption of guilt.


Like how when you refuse to speak to the police and ask for a lawyer, they cancel your trial and put you right in a cell.

(I'm sure someone can list lots of abuses of this process; the point is that they are still looked at as abuses)


They can start by building an Android app!


Seriously? Could you really even get $1,300 (or equivalent) in a single draw from an ATM in Lagos in 2002?

Update:

Found this article [1] stating that before 10/2012 the limit was 100,000 NGN, which at the end of 2002 traded at about 125 to the dollar [2]. That would put the withdrawal limit at about 800 dollars, but I'm not sure that's far off enough to call this article a fraud.

[1] http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/10/10/banks-raise-atm-daily-...

[2] http://www.likeforex.com/misc/historical-rates.php?f=USD&t=N...


Much prior HN discussion on this article.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22lis...

I guess the duplicate URL checker has a time-out period?


Just placed an order. Looking forward to receiving the card.

You guys should consider doing affiliate deals with places like http://makeagif.com. (That's where I made my animated GIF in the first place.)


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