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askin4iton Japan to launch first wooden satellite to combat space pollution

Pollution free satellites = good

Forcing everyone to use wooden satellites = bad

Hopefully the policy makers will get it now...

Edit: spelling

askin4iton Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle

Appeal = ?

askin4iton Magnetic Cores – Part I (1961) [video]

The FM radio one was pretty interesting. They really worked out the pedagogy to explain how it works to people without a deep math background. You'll have to Google it

askin4iton New study confirms: Many adults opt for child-free life without regret

Not saying that it is. Only some people will regret their decision.

askin4iton New study confirms: Many adults opt for child-free life without regret

Correct. The scale of this as a life misstep probably leads to some real mental gymnastics.

askin4iton New study confirms: Many adults opt for child-free life without regret

The fact you are asking should tell you something.

The fact no one admits regret means someone is fibbing or you have not been looking very hard.

askin4iton Do You Still Have the Right to a Jury Trial?

That settles it.

askin4iton As Democrats push to ban caste discrimination, some Indian Americans object

Sadly, never enough for the proverbial do-gooder class...

askin4iton The book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake

Only a true Pynchon fan would harbor that degree of resentment.

askin4iton FBI Crime Data Explorer

People have agency. Just like now when you used your agency and called for my eradication.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the future. Of course, I won't be around to enjoy it with you, but this guy seems like great company, so enjoy.

askin4iton FBI Crime Data Explorer

You forgot something. Also you look foolish telling people to educate themselves on Wikipedia

(

- Discrimination by law enforcement OR - Childhood exposure to violence OR - Inability to post bail OR - Socioeconomic factors OR - Housing segregation OR - Sociocultural factors

)

AND

(bad personal choices)

askin4iton Prominent S.F. developers charged with bribery in widening corruption scandal

Rabbit hole warning

askin4iton Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

Fellow cicada blamer here....no cicadas on airplanes.

askin4iton Tesla Is Accused of Racial Harassment at California Factory

I'm guessing that not much surprises the likes of you...

askin4iton It'd Be Nice to Live in Less of a Gerontocracy

Tara Reade

askin4iton ‘Occupied by the US’: wildfires renew Native Hawaiian call for sovereignty

askin4iton Why not punish families? A challenge for consequentialists

We need an Alice or Bob for example fascists. I'm sick of Hitler.

Speaking of Germany, what about their ancient and well established policy of group reprisals in military situations.

Lastly, it's funny which threads on HN are actually interesting and which run into the ditch. What's the difference? No direct politics?

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askin4iton ‘Occupied by the US’: wildfires renew Native Hawaiian call for sovereignty

Using the term "boomer" means you lost my interest.

Also "literally". You and yours ruined an otherwise useful word. Probably forever. Thanks.

askin4iton ‘Occupied by the US’: wildfires renew Native Hawaiian call for sovereignty

A "precedent"....nice.

askin4iton Heat wave and lack of air conditioning disrupt school districts nationwide

I heard this. They interviewed a small child. He and his little sister and the teacher's union all agreed it was to hot to work. In other news, beach parking shortages spike as teacher's head for a much deserved day off.

askin4iton The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. It’s making them miserable

"Let's try reading the article...."

Wrongly assumes 100% of relevant info is in this article

"this should help"

Your help appears to be in service of spreading hurtful narratives, so no thanks.

I'd prefer an honest misogynist any day over a sophist bent on "changing" minds. Please do the world a favor and stop helping so much.

askin4iton The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. It’s making them miserable

So many scare quotes, so little info.

Journalism is where virtue goes to die.

askin4iton I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

When my legit wife and I went to the green card interview, the examiner decided she didn't like my attitude. I'm assuming that's what tied up the case for 7 years. I think they forced a redo of the application three times with all updated documents. Seemed punitive and capricious.

Question: is our experience unique? Was it a mistake to hire a lawyer from the get go? We had friends who sailed through without an attorney in months.

askin4iton Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?

Battling narratives....

Public interest in his politics was relevant. He probably was a fellow traveler so what?

askin4iton Simone Weil’s Great Awakening

It's very fragmented, but there were lots of hidden gems.

askin4iton Twitter Traffic Tanking

No negativity in sight on threads.

Someone explain again why we traded talking for 144 characters...

askin4iton Nvidia CEO got a driver bug fixed in 12 hours

I got scolded on HN today for calling readers of HN "hackers." Too much

askin4iton Lessons from Washington State’s New Capital Gains Tax

hey, just like the lottery! That will free up those dollars in the general fund for all the important stuff such as roads (the minimum that can be done) and social programs that are thinly disguised patronage programs which perpetuate harmful circumstances to ensure a yearly line item in the now-increasing budget.

askin4iton Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in England

I actually agree with you, and I know for a fact that the planet (which includes human society) has a huge untapped potential for supporting many billions if everyone just allows things to work.

Why cash? Why not a free apartment, free local transportation, free food, free doctor, and free TV. That would cover 90% of the people 100% of the time.

The reason is that cash is fungible and will therefore flow more freely to the actual recipients of the handouts, which are merchants who price necessities according to what the market will bear. If anyone would like to debate that last assertion, I'd be interested in a counter-example where the price of essentials just kept on getting lower and lower.

I'm not sure UBI is any different than all the prior plans to spend our way to prosperity. To learn the truth, we will have to ask our descendants when they are paying for all this. (Of course this assumes we don't bankrupt first.)

askin4iton Humanity's developmental progress points to a simulation

It's about a Scott Adams book, so if you can get to it before they flag this comment, you might find it interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Debris