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Apparently it's deleting the likes, i.e. the people won't see the coloured heart anymore after some time and have to re-like. Might be platfrom issues of course, "eventually consistent" or something like that :)

Is Twitter actively deleting likes, or is this some problem with the platform not being able to scale?

What is PoC? Isn't white a color? Or a "ethnicity" :) Apparently not.

It's funny that some people want to treat people differently based solely on their skin colour. Or are they claiming there are other differences at play, that are mainly noticeable through the skin color?

Does "diversity" mean differences in skin color?

What happened to Musk's claim "I don't care about the economics at all"? Sure seems to be top priority.

Musk is clearly in the wrong here (absent any lies in the twitter document, which I would find very unlikely). Musk is acting like a spoiled child. Let's see what happens when a man with infinite resources tries to get what he wants. Has the court system enough muscle to handle this (i.e. Musk hasn't too many "bought" sympathizers in the system).

Easier to just go to the army. Where I live we have mandatory service, and it was very educational and eyeopening. Got to meet a lot of people outside my "bubble" (middle upper class, great parents etc., "smart"/educated, technical). Turns out, even though I might have found "them" obnoxious in theory before, they were actually often great and smart people, just "different". Also the normal share of assholes of course (but surprisingly few, if you got to know them!), but you learn to deal with them :) Even the criminals there (straight from jail to the army) were kind of normal people, just from bad circumstances.

How would this help?

Let's say that I find it annoying when people "missbehave", like people letting their dogs shit wherever and not cleaning up, or just commonly being selfish and rude.

How do I now understand myself better? Is the point that the problem is somehow in me or what does this advice mean?

This relates to hyperloop "Elon Musk Invents UNDERGROUND Traffic Jam!"

"Though to be fair, he's now more into into making misleading videos about SpaceX and obsessing over Elon Musk."

They seem to be well reasoned. What are these misleading statements?

He actually has outlined exactly what's wrong with these ideas. I mean the hyperloop was supposed to be "like an air hockey table", well guess what, musk now "advocates for wheels"... It's just a really bad and unworkable idea. The idea of 1000km long vacuum tubes is beyond stupid, when we already have high speed rail. Please tell me how stating these facts are "small minded" or "pessimistic".

His main point is usually about the massive unwarranted hype and blind hero worship around these concepts, and usually scams (the water stuff and other kickstarter projects).

The truth hurts, I guess.

Why is it considered "all or nothing" when discussing NATO involvement? NATO has been known to defend (or "defend", take your pick) multiple non-NATO countries in the past, no total war started.

So if NATO put troops in ukraine to just defend it (not attacking pro-actively russian forces or territories), what would happen?

Is the scare now that Putin is so mad that he would immediately start nuking random NATO cities around the world if that happened?

Why can't the western nations seaze all assets of the oligarchs. For example take their super yachts and drive them out to sea and blow them up as a symbolic gesture? Take control of all their appartments etc. Drive all russians out of their countries (yes it will hurt "normal" russians but so what, this is war, maybe they would start to think about their leaders a little bit more).

What have these two people actually done, except lying all the time? And abusing their workers?

Also, these "magical" landings have been made 60 YEARS AGO! Go Musk! Hyperloop! FSD! Robotaxis! Semi! VTOL with pressurized air! Tesla robot! Pedo guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39cjZTCay24

It won't. They haven't been able to get costs down in 10 years now, actually they have gone up.

And reusability has its own problems, like lowering the amount of payload by 25% (you need to save fuel for re-entry).

You can maybe get 10-20% savings if you ever get it working (see previous failed attempts...).

NOT Musk promised 100x price reduction for launches, that will never happen.

Really? In 5 years ROCKETS will be as safe as airplanes? And as cheap? And possible to fly over cities etc (talking about Shotwells promises here)? You really think this?

Yes. See Theranos.

There has to be some sensible ratio of bullshit/vision.

Does this make starlink any more feasible? I thought that the math just doesn't work out. Not to mention the massive amount of space garbage (40k satellites replaced every 5 years?) See for example a "busted" video https://youtu.be/zaUCDZ9d09Y?t=912

"No inheritance - no more digging through the massive world-tree of objects to find the code that actually does things."

You still have interface methods? I had problems navigating a new codebase and find the places "actually doing things". Some object was passed in somewhere which mysteriously implemented a one method interface defined on the spot in the other go file. I.e. the implementation had no relation to the interface which was obvious without a lot of searching and finding the right implementation.

Also passing in functions (callbacks?) all over the place is a little messy at least for a newbie. It was hard to find where the functions where called and at what point and how the program flowed.

(this is hard to explain but maybe somebody gets the point...)

edit: somebody else touched on what I also meant: " duck typing make refactoring and understanding new codebases error prone"

Also the modules and dependencies management surely is a joke? Pulling stuff from github willy-nilly? Quite bad in any case when compared to maven where you have a local repository with all the dependencies (so they don't change or disappear from the internet so that you can actually build your software 5 years later, exactly in the same way)

Jeep is actually enforcing this! In the game hill climb racer 2 there were two vehicles, "Jeep" and "Super Jeep". They had to change the names of the vehicles in the game... (To "Hill Climber").

Why do we still talk about "safety" when discussing nuclear even though this has been handled over 30 years ago. Or in other words I haven't seen any arguments presented in this paper "debunked". http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/

In short a few points:

- nuclear power is the safest form of energy production by far

- storing the waste is an easy problem (store on site and reuse later with better technologies), or just make glass cubes of it and dump in the ocean (yes really)!

- the high price of building nuclear power plants is in many ways the result of "nucular paranoia"

- non-military reactors (ie. all "western reactors") can't have the same failure modes as chernobyl had

Jeez, I don't get hacker news downvoting (and yes whining about it is against the rules I guess). Was there some fundamental flaw in my argument, was it too "mean" or did someone just disagree and downvote because of that.

"great way to make money".

Do they really make enough money to pay for their food, housing in the city they work, health care, pension, kids and kids education?

If not these sorts of jobs (or with this pay) should be banned. Else it's just subsidies from taxpayers who need to pay for these things through government "subsidies".

Where I live (a nordic country) eg. taxi drivers used to be able to live a very comfortable life with their pay. And the taxi service was excellent. Not even that expensive if you think about having a private chauffeur driving you around.

Now they changed the rules (to enable "gig economy") and most of the taxi drivers don't pay proper taxes or know any address without gps, and they don't get paid nearly enough to get by without government handouts/social security, or have any pension accruing so they will need even more government/tax money when they are old.

I don't get whats so special about Tesla anymore. Eg. you can get cars like this from mainstream car producers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP7of0p-GGU

And on the lower end a friend has a Renault Zoe. An excellent car on all accounts. I saw a base level black model 3 the other day parked and I tought what a cheap looking car, it was truly underwhelming (where I live there aren't many Teslas). Then I saw that it was a Tesla which costs about 50000$ here...

I don't care about model S ludicrous mode acceleration, nobody actually needs that kind of acceleration from traffic lights. Well maybe if you have low self esteem and try to compensate for something?

Well maybe this "face" is real but it isn't a "person". I hope, or maybe I'm getting too old :)

http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/results.php?r=0&p=0&i1=fakeim...

Urine is sterile. That's why it's good to pee on wounds.

Edit: Wow, what harsh downmodding :) Yes I was wrong and learned something, isn't it still useful to keep my comment here for other's education? I literally heard this "urine is sterile" comment in the last couple of weeks. I stand corrected, thanks!

Chernobyl was a "military reactor", ie. could produce plutonium. Normal reactors don't even have the same failure mode possible. So you can blame the accident on the cold war or something, not nuclear in general.

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter7.html

Well in Finland you can (eg. Elisa has opened the first 5g networks already). Only the client hardware is missing now :)

And we are "soon" moving to 6G anyhow, maybe I'll skip 5G :) https://www.oulu.fi/6gflagship/

In Finland when we had a terrorist knifing people and killing some, the police just shot him in the groin and the man is still alive. Some justice I suppose :)

Look at how calmly they handle the aftermath when bystanders want their piece of the attacker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ktuyfsHCA

No guns drawn!

He said that the experimental research was useful, so shame on you. What kind of a silly strawman are you trying to build.

I can see from the responses here that the field is obviously quite volatile and full of big egos with practicioners taking criticisms so personally :)

I think your reply is knee-jerk and "lame". Why don't you enlighten us, instead of taking it so personally when somebody criticizes your field.

I thought the article was excellent and made good arguments.