HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

jesuschroist

18 karma · joined April 2, 2019

submissionscomments
jesuschroist··on The Dunant subsea cable
While not being super technical, there is an interesting miniature "The First Word Across the Ocean" in the "Decisive Moments in History" book by Stefan Zweig. It tells the story and circumstances of how the first trans-atlantic cable (back then for telegraphs) was laid in the late 19th century.
jesuschroist··on Friedrich Hayek on Evolution and Spontaneous Order (1983) [video]
But this is just what Hayek's work is all about: to show _why_ central planning is ineffective. It works with theoretical arguments and there is no need to use real-life examples.
jesuschroist··on A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)
Sure, it's an assumption.

But saying that all concert violinists are intelligent is something different than saying that everybody, who is intelligent, is a concert violinist.

jesuschroist··on A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)
The article doesn't really use a strict equality between being "intelligent" and being good at making money. It's more an implication, that being good at making money implies being probably something like "intelligent".

Now having this established, your examples of playing the violin and Hollywood stars doesn't make any sense. They are reading the relation backwards. The implication holds the other way round.

jesuschroist··on Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
Right, I felt a little insulted when he suggested me to go back browsing FB.
jesuschroist··on Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
Once I moved to a new city and business wouldn't start until a few days later. Some time to spare, I walked into the first bookstore I saw on the street. There in the corner this book caught my attention, well, because I like motorcycles and thought the cover looks appealing.

Still the best random buy I ever did.

jesuschroist··on Coronavirus Country Comparator
The recent freedom of press report [1] certainly does not help in building trust, no matter how many western institutions have a presence there.

[1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking

jesuschroist··on A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications
> It's easy to get nicotine via gum, pill, patch, or vaping.

.. or snuff! Which I think is one of the most elegant ways of delivering nicotine to your body

jesuschroist··on Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports
The strategy here is clearly fighting Covid-19 with 'Security through obscurity'.
jesuschroist··on The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody needs
Yes, but the article describes the problem of physical storage running out. This affects the price much stronger than some political gamble.
jesuschroist··on The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody needs
The 'oil price war' was 3 weeks ago. Things are changing fast these days.
jesuschroist··on Antarctic Snow Cruiser
But this process requires even more traction than simply moving, which the vehicle had problems to begin with.

My guess in answering the initial question would be bad engineering.

jesuschroist··on Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close
And provide soap at sinks in public bathrooms.
jesuschroist··on Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
There is not a single tech support issue which would make me get out of my slippers into some store.
jesuschroist··on Super Mario Bros. game was just 31 Kilobytes. How's that possible?
> they spend like 3 minutes of loading time generating textures

this implies that they do 'know so much more about their data' than a simple bitmap

jesuschroist··on How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?
I'm not sure if it is usual in this field of research, but it seems strange to me to account 'Resuspension' for as emission. And as you say, this single contribution heavily distorts the picture.
jesuschroist··on Map of the World's Nuclear Power Plants
But isn't this exactly what the title says it is?
jesuschroist··on Japanese railway company starts testing 249mph bullet train speeds
> A rail line would never dare have two high speed trains that close to each other.

Maybe not every minute, but the bullet train runs every 10 minutes during peak hour with up to 1300 passengers. I don't think that capacity is adequate for measuring 'faster' here.

jesuschroist··on Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
just noting that the 'center' you're speaking of is quite left by international standards