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steve19··on Sci-Hub Creator Under Investigation by US Department of Justice
Alexandra is not a fan of Russia. She even blocked Russians from accessing sci-hub at one point.

As far as I understand, she is an old school communist.

steve19··on Indoor CO2 could cut our capacity for complex, strategic thinking: study
Thanks for the concern. Yes it is bad, which is why I built a CO2 meter. I need to get alerts to ensure either I get more air to me, or I leave the office.
steve19··on Indoor CO2 could cut our capacity for complex, strategic thinking: study
I monitor my office. It works its way up to 1300-1400 ppm during the day. At the start of the day it is the outdoor baseline.
steve19··on Mike Bloomberg is plowing millions of dollars into a secretive tech firm
> Really Dems have been quite behind the Republican data trust

Do you have any actual evidence for that? Because mainstream media have been saying the opposite since Obama.

What you said is exactly what a company looking for dem dollars would say. Which is pretty much what Cambridge Analytic said to the gop candidates.

steve19··on France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to €22k
If that is true then it sounds like a great protectionist measure, so not PR at all!
steve19··on US Spaceforce.mil Goes Live
Taxes and debt.
steve19··on CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culprit in Most Vaping Deaths
I don't vape or use cannabis so am ignorant. In what way is lead used? I would have thought that a metal with a low melting point out not be found near a heating element.
steve19··on Airbnb Isn’t Uber, Says European Court of Justice
> renters deal directly with hosts throughout the process

Hardly. You pay Airbnb, insurance is in theory done through Airbnb, disputes are done through Airbnb. It's quite possible to have almost zero interaction with a host (host just messages a code that unlocks building and apartment). With Uber you are dealing with the driver as much as you are with a Taxi.

steve19··on The Mac Pro and Apple's Slide
> It's arguably the best workstation money can buy, with a forward-looking architecture that should satisfy any professional in need of massive performance

This seems like nonsense. It may be the best looking workstation, but money can buy more powerful workstations with high end Nvidia GPUs.

steve19··on Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
> All the time.

Then I am sure you can give us some recent examples in the media where the manufacturer is blamed for bad modifications by users.

If I pour a gallon of gasoline on a tractor and set it on fire, and the media reported "man sets farm on fire after torching a tractor", no tractor buyer is going to blame John Deere.

Your argument relies on the false premise that informed consumers (tractor operating farmers) would react negitivly to a brand if something happened involving a modified tractor. When in reality farmers are crying out to be able to repair and mod their tractors.

Compare to the tech industry. How often do PC gamers mod CPUs out of spec and end up shortening thr lifespan, or killing them? All the time. Nobody blames Intel.

> That are used internally... Are your internal docs customer friendly enough to help them repair the most minute problem?

Have you seen car repair manuals? They are very detailed and complete and third party dealers have access to them.

steve19··on Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
> liability

When has any company been held liable for a customer modifying it.

> distribution channels

It might be annoying to create but they won't lose money on parts, it would likely be a profit center, just not as big a center as doing the repairs themselves.

They already distribute parts to dealers around the world who service the tractors.

> documentation

They already have repair documentation that they distribute to dealerships around the world.

Nobody is asking manufacturers to make huge sacrifices, just stop holding customers ransom.

steve19··on So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?
Scroll down to the table "Comparison of PoE parameters".
steve19··on So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?
I am not sure how Wikipedia can be more explicit, they even have a table showing the voltages and wattages of the different standards. [0]

According to that table, the latest standard, 802.3bt Type 4, can provide 71 W to the device at the end of the cable (and inject 100W into the otherside).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet

steve19··on If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead
No it is not "normal" but for people who suffer from it, it is very debilitating.
steve19··on If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead
> - you can afford the lower productivity (e.g: you are not a freelancer that needs a regular output)

Why lower productivity? The person who created it thinks it will lower RSI therefor increase productivity.

steve19··on Win32 on macOS
Does apple have a good reason for killing 32bit support? I play a number of games that will now never run without a VM.
steve19··on Intel 2020s Process Technology Roadmap: 10nm+++, 3nm, 2nm, and 1.4nm for 2029
With Intel it is always important to ask if the powerdraw includes or excludes the fridge hiding under counter*

* https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-28-core-cpu-5ghz,372...

steve19··on Intel 2020s Process Technology Roadmap: 10nm+++, 3nm, 2nm, and 1.4nm for 2029
"WikiChip is happy to see Intel remains committed to furthering Moore’s Law for the foreseeable future with an ambitious roadmap."

What is Wikichip? Some sort of Intel mouthpiece? How can anyone belive an Intel roadmap at this point. At best it's fiction, at worst security fraud (according to the Matt Levine definition)

steve19··on Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Tech
The problem is that you can't just launch a ICBM without risking Russia or China lobbing a few (hundred) back, regardless of the destination.

It is less a tech problem than a political one.

A stealth ICBM on the other hand... now that is a scary. If any other nations got wind of that we would have another nuclear arms race.

steve19··on What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?
@dang can you please step in here before it is to late.
steve19··on Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime
The primary means is sanctions. War is a often a last resort.
steve19··on House Passes Bill Establishing a Clear Definition of Insider Trading
That is not quite the same as what people object to. They object to someone trading because they overhead two CEOs discussing a merger at the table next to them at a restaurant.
steve19··on It’s crunch time for Getty Images, and for photographers
Stock imagery is an art in its own right. Every newbie photographer thinks they can do stock images, but they can't.

Knowing what people want is key, along with the ability to perfectly execute it. For example "woman in blue dress sitting under fall tree looking at moon" might convey some of of commercial message that is used to sell everything from ebook readers to insurance and nets the photographer a fortune in licensing or royalties, but on the the other hand maybe nobody is interested in it, and if you cannot execute it perfectly, nobody will accept it into their catalog.

Why this Hanukkah photo is better than others, I don't know, but Shutterstock is featuring it right now so I guess it sells well and the colors and tones capture a popular trend:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/jewish-holiday-hanu...

steve19··on United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
No you can't, not on HN. Please see the guidelines here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

steve19··on Sinkholed
I want to know why law enforcement allows a private organization to seize private property based on some algorithm.

I have heard bad things about shadowserver in the past. Now I wonder how much other collateral damage they have done over the years.

steve19··on Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
An engraved metal or stone tablet could be left along with the CDs to bootstrap the process. It could range from explaining the MP3 spec, to as simple as pictograms showing human speech being converted to microscopic pits. Explaining ASCII would be even easier.
steve19··on How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
Can you explain what the rules to block that actually look like from a user perspective? Or does it require custom js?
steve19··on Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
It is because a lot of functionality is now bundled as part of the Automattic Jet Pack plugin. I guess the plugin is technically open source (due to the GPL) , but a lot of functionality depends on Automattic's server and requires a subscription.
steve19··on ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
"Our mission is to support and promote the development of the Internet around the world — an Internet that is open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy."

Prediction: they will achieve nothing, at all, whatsoever.

Everyone who voted for this should be ashamed of themselves.

steve19··on Making Git and Jupyter Notebooks play nice
The problem with that is when there are very long running cells and you want to see the output and keep developing, and committing code as you go along.
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