kimdotcom

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kimdotcom··on A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'

I remember he was working at Taco Bell.

kimdotcom··on The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care

Which is also weird, because they seem like a smaller voting block, increasingly so?

kimdotcom··on The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care

Isn't another benefit that this will foster greater entreupenurship and thus create 'job creators'?

Right now, if you are employed and have insurance, you are really just subsidizing these jobs - middle-class welfare.

kimdotcom··on Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

We would need free healthcare to be able to forfeit it.

Since we don't and insurance companies seem pretty decent at modeling risk, this would be included in the model.

Look at how people who smoke are financially penalized by health insurance.

The same is not true for alcohol consumers.

kimdotcom··on Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

Yet, a Hillbilly Flute can be purchased legally online and delivered to your home.

https://www.hillbillystills.com/hillbilly-flute-s/190.htm

kimdotcom··on Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

It is difficult to obtain, and usually somebody offers it to you when you are not expecting it.

kimdotcom··on Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

So, there is no abuse problem with current Schedule 2 and 3 substances?

kimdotcom··on Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

and yet we have not eliminated uninsured motorists driving without a license.

And, the onus is on me to have coverage to protect myself from such a situation.

kimdotcom··on Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

Just curious, how do you know your neighbors are smoking crack?

Is it making a come-back?

kimdotcom··on How SSH port became 22

Also, DHCP uses 2 ports, but that is UDP.

kimdotcom··on How SSH port became 22

I always thought it was because it was one less than telnet's port 23.

kimdotcom··on Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'

Ronnie?

kimdotcom··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?

I would love to watch a split-screen video of this, CoD screen and your finger gestures during play.

kimdotcom··on Researchers Mount Successful GPS Spoofing Attack Against Road Navigation Systems

Until a deer is hit by the vehicle, or somebody loses a bucket of paint from the rear of their truck.

kimdotcom··on Wehrum, Pennsylvania: A coal mining ghost town hidden in the woods

Also, see the movie 'Nothing But Trouble'.

kimdotcom··on Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (2016)

Could you not run a relay from thr parallel port and pulse dial?

kimdotcom··on Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (2016)

Nitpick, RJ-11, but before that was a four-prong.

kimdotcom··on Using rope physics to simulate cabling a data center in VR

When the virtual HVAC fails, do the VR cables lessen their rigidity as the temperature heats up?

kimdotcom··on The hotel bathroom puzzle

I disagree with this.

There was talk on ha hackaday the other day about converting a windshield-wiper motor to a servo with additional components, and another user commented that the newer wiper motors are servos that have a built-in CAN bus and no mechanical linkages.

And more expensive.

It still just wipes the windows.

kimdotcom··on Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?

I think this is funny.

Well done.

kimdotcom··on Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich

I disagree, anecdotally, many of my peers with children recommend not have children and also regret not eloping.

kimdotcom··on Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?

This is the best advice here.

I would work for you.

kimdotcom··on Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?

If it is written in JS, port it to Elixir.

Otherwise, rewrite it in JS.

kimdotcom··on Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?

So, have a plan?

kimdotcom··on Introducing Jib — Build Java Docker images better

You would bring up a 2nd container with the new code, map the traffic to this container, and once you are sure it is good, trash the old container.

If there is a problem with the new code, just point the traffic back to the working container and kill the new container.

kimdotcom··on How real simultaneous dual band Wi-Fi enables next-gen in-vehicle connectivity

Is the 5G latency taking into account the round-trip from the tower to the provider's server and back?

kimdotcom··on How real simultaneous dual band Wi-Fi enables next-gen in-vehicle connectivity

Latency.

Throughput, there is not that much data, unless you encapsulate it in some verbose format.

kimdotcom··on How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability

10.6.8!!!

kimdotcom··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union

Blatmeisters?

kimdotcom··on Smart TVs Track More Than What’s on Tonight

I hope you don't own a cellphone running iOS or Android.

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