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kashkhan··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
its not about the money. its about the threat to your life.

A mugger may be stealing $50 in your wallet, but the crime is the threat to your life.

kashkhan··on Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables
a material that stretches 1% to failure (like steel/aluminum) can ballpark bend to a radius 100 times the thickness. so a 1 meter cable could bend 100m radius before cracking. assuming 10x margin that would be 1 km radius. large but not crazy. A tube that size can easily span 1 km trenches in water. you could also add a few meters of foam around it to make it neutrally buoyant and just barely press on the ocean floor.
kashkhan··on Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
i tried the newfangled commands and they are objectively worse.

maybe should fork a git lite that has only the commands you listed.

kashkhan··on A tale of demonic possession predicted the decline of an early medieval empire
i am still waiting for a demon to tell me something non-obvious that a supernatural being should obviously know. Failing that, all tales of demons or genies or aliens can be discounted as fairy tales.
kashkhan··on The Rich Can Afford Personal Care. The Rest Will Have to Make Do with AI
waiting for ai to write me prescriptions.
kashkhan··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
the whole mythology is nobody knows what will be a big company in general.

The known big company spaces are heavily oversubscribed so nothing can be predicted.

The unknown big company spaces are unknown by definition.

kashkhan··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
i would love a drop in self hosted replacement for datadog that looks good.
kashkhan··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
you can get cheap welders and use flux core so you don't even need gas shielding.

something like this works well.

https://a.co/d/8XMYx7j

for thin steel or aluminum you really do need shielding gas.

https://youtu.be/X4WkDDnvS7g

kashkhan··on I will never participate in weird internet caste systems
yeah except the capitalists killed it.

napster, bitorrent etc...

being tried now with mastodon et al...

kashkhan··on I will never participate in weird internet caste systems
have it owned by users and benefactors.
kashkhan··on Venture Predation
Don't airlines do this all the time to prevent new entrants? How is this not provable?
kashkhan··on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
aren't androids linux? thats the biggest by far end user platform.

of course google doesnt want to acknowledge it too much.

https://source.android.com/

kashkhan··on Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
using Brave on an iphone for Youtube is a godsend. Almost as good as desktop experience. Youtube app, Safari and Chrome suck enough to be unusable
kashkhan··on Explosions are great, actually
"if you are not failing you are not trying hard enough."
kashkhan··on Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail
what do you do now for the vast majority of crimes that go unpunished?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/01/most-violen...

majority of crimes are not even reported to police and of those reported much less than half get solved

kashkhan··on Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail
yep prison is an abomination. Needs to be defunded and outlawed.
kashkhan··on Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail
Mail sent to you is your property. Intercepting it in transit is highway robbery.
kashkhan··on Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
the outside dog doesn't fight back. and neither do the dogs still inside. They all deserve it.

Companies respond to consequences.

kashkhan··on Quitting the rat race
there's a reason humans build cities. The wild is out to kill you. Pretty but deadly.
kashkhan··on What ChatGPT reveals about the collapse of support for higher education
in the academy today original thought that strays too far is actively discouraged. Undergrad is pretty much all analysis and derivation.

But then college was never meant to create creative geniuses. Only efficient worker bees.

kashkhan··on Old man yells at cloud
brasil #49
kashkhan··on Old man yells at cloud
i was in the "third" world last week and i had half gig symmetric fiber internet.

Today i am in colorado with cable modem that can barely hit 60mbps on a good day and 4mpbs up.

kashkhan··on Old man yells at cloud
peak toyota/lexus was around 2006. After that all downhill.
kashkhan··on Is Hate Speech Legal?
Social discouragement is often more effective than legal.

The 'n' word is mostly stopped by social means.

kashkhan··on Is Hate Speech Legal?
Many things can be done, but it doesn't mean they should be.

Currently it seems asking for rights of indigenous palestinians is hate speech in Germany.

kashkhan··on Be critical or be corrupted
true, but i am not ready or able to call for the end of westphalian nation states, capitalism and the new world order.
kashkhan··on Be critical or be corrupted
He goes to a better job. Terrible person, but successful employee.
kashkhan··on Be critical or be corrupted
better an addict than a slave to another man.
kashkhan··on Be critical or be corrupted
like i said, there is only a chance on the outside. inside there is no chance, but most people are happier on inside and too afraid to leave.
kashkhan··on Be critical or be corrupted
Its not hustle grindset. Its be out and do what you want.

Wage slaves usually work harder to survive. You could go out and live in a van and not hustle at all.

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