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Huprieneon The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules

Not true. Many of the problems described by gp wouldn't affect the fuel efficiency of the truck, but still vastly increase the pollutants the truck puts out. Replacing your catalytic converter with a steel pipe is the obvious way to game a carbon tax.

Huprieneon What to expect from a no-deal Brexit

Protecting agriculture can also serve to reduce the impact that the war or large scale crop failures elsewhere in the world might bring. The resulting safety might be worth the market inefficiencies caused by tariffs.

Huprieneon CUDA 10 in Clojure

Using markdown doesn't fix the problem of having to escape double quotes, unless you are using a literate programming technique where the clojure code is quoted inside of the markdown instead of vice versa. Using macros only works if the formats consist entirely of balanced s-expressions.

Huprieneon CUDA 10 in Clojure

I really wish clojure would adopt a heredoc syntax to make embed language snippets and docstrings nicer.

Huprieneon SIM Card Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor

The accuracy requirements for e911 are quite low and are given in terms of a target average. From Wikipedia:

> Wireless network operators must provide the latitude and longitude of callers within 300 meters, within six minutes of a request by a PSAP. Accuracy rates must meet FCC standards on average within any given participating PSAP service area by September 11, 2012

As such the location provided by a barely-compliant mobile phone provider would only have a 50% chance (depending on distribution and what average means exactly in this context) of being within 300 meters of the actual location of the call. I don't know what the real world numbers look like, but it seems very reasonable that the emergency service personnel would need much more accurate location information than that in order to respond without a lot of searching.

Huprieneon Cleveland.com’s ‘right to be forgotten’ removes names from some crime stories

This isn't about dispensing justice. This is about my personal right to own my experience of my life and those I interact with. Saying that my anger over having been abused by someone is no longer justified just because the courts have seen fit to expunge their records of the crime is deeply intrusive. The criminal court's job is to rectify the individual's relationship with the government. It does nothing to rectify the relationship between criminal and victim.

Huprieneon An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees respond to light

Judging from how hard it can be to sleep during a full moon while camping, I'd say the reason humans aren't generally affected by it is because they sleep underneath opaque shelters that block direct light.

Huprieneon Bi-Directional Plasma Thrusters for Space Debris Removal

The space stations we've built have all been in LEO. The ISS would deorbit in less than two years without periodic boosts. As such, no nearby orbit can be considered stable. The fuel required for boost is proportional to its mass. So it's quite reasonable for space programs to cast of 'dead weight' that doesn't contribute to the mission of the space station.

Huprieneon The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain

Not exactly an architectural masterpiece but Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati is home to whole lot of second hand amusement park kitsch.

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Huprieneon Reddit Security Incident

There is poor security around the mapping of phone numbers to physical devices.

Huprieneon How America Uses Its Land

That might be true, but to establish that state we'd have to kill off the native grazers. People tend to forget that before we had vast herds of domestic cattle in the western plains we had vast herds of bison, antelope, etc.

Huprieneon Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser

I used and enjoyed circuitlab.io until it went for-pay only. Nice to have an easy to use free alternative for very casual hobbyists like me.

Huprieneon Map homunculus (2014)

I think that this is generally bad advice. It results in worlds that feel more like a series of zoo enclosures than a living world. Cities built around this concept end up feeling more like an amusement park than a place where people live and work.

I think this misses the point that when we tell the story of little red riding hood, we still say that she walked for a long time in the woods. We just don't describe it in detail. It's still important that it be true, however as that is part of what makes going into the forest perilous. The same sort of thing can be implemented in open world games by means of various fast travel mechanisms. Ideally they should be sufficiently easy to use, such that that player is bored, but sufficiently restrictive such that the meaning of distance is preserved.

Huprieneon Future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism

Its a little ironic that you use the pantheon as an example since its dome is constructed from concrete.

Huprieneon Voronoi Airports: all 54,000+ of them rendered in WebGL

One usability issue I noticed with both this and the original inspiration is that it's hard to keep the globe in the usual north-south orientation. I feel the map would be easier to stay oriented in if the the north-south axis were restricted to the YZ plane (i.e. on screen vertical/directly toward the user normal to the screen).

Huprieneon Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order

police reports of accidents are public record, you should be able to pretty easily go from crash data to personal identity based on public records. Sounds like PII to me.

Huprieneon Gnome has moved to GitLab

Yeah, but that's teens in a base-ump number system.

Huprieneon Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization

Having used java serialization a few times for POC level work, I'll be sorry to see it go.

I wish they would just rename it something sufficiently ominous sounding that people wouldn't think about using it on untrusted data sources.

Maybe AribitraryCodeAndDataSerialization

Huprieneon Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions

This seems to miss the point that the mining pays for itself in collected transaction fees. Double spend is just icing on the cake.

Huprieneon FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public

That seems like waaay to much to extrapolate from a single photo who's exact circumstances we don't know about. Maybe he just spotted his ex and wanted to look superior. Maybe he's just raising his arm in order to scratch his ear, which was itching real bad.

Huprieneon Mecanum wheel

Yep you are correct. It seems like the tires would have to consist entirely of a fairly elastic material, preventing the use of banded or radial designs.

Huprieneon Patent Review System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court

I was imagining a decision centering on whether criminal conduct can be patented. Imagine: suing drug cartels for infringing on your contraband distribution business process.

Huprieneon ClojureScript beginners' home page

It's been a while since I've worked with ClojureScript. I was excited to learn about lumo. Thanks.

Huprieneon 911 calls from chronically ill drop after Milwaukee community initiative

Since the population of Milwaukee is around 600k, that should be 0.016% of people.

Or you should say something like 'of people who made emergency calls'

edit: that second one is still problematic since we only a couple data points on the distribution of calls per capita.

Huprieneon McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product

A WWII newsreel encouraging farmers to grow hemp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8tG_0AJvnw

Huprieneon Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to this

Facebook doesn't have to anything you didn't unconsciously agree to surrender. That isn't very sketchy.

Fixed that for you.

Huprieneon How not to run a CA

I choose to believe that this is performance art. The world is a better place that way.

Huprieneon Slack refunds customers 100x amount paid during outage

The number of companies for whom Chat SAAS is a major expense is probably pretty small. I think the refund is more important for how it impacts Slack than how it impacts its customers. As long as the refund is substantial enough to significantly impact Slack's bottom line, then I'm more inclined to believe that they are going to make a serious effort to avoid paying it in the future. That said, I'm not sure that refunding at this level represents a sufficient incentive.

Huprieneon China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power

> Way too many "progressive" "change the world" techies are willing to get into bed with governments like this as long as they are making money. It's sickening.

Hey, gotta enhance shareholder value, man.. Fiduciary responsibility and all that.

Huprieneon A proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones

1. The receiver here is the person determining whether or not they are being spied on. Not the user of the drone.

2. In order to make the real spikes fit into your random pattern you'd need to be able to predict when they will happen.