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zed88··on The media's lab leak fiasco
Apparently they did so in consultation with the WHO :)
zed88··on Midair Collision over Denver
Metroliner, often jokingly called as "flying sewer pipe" is one hell of a sturdy plane it seems. Glad to see both parties okay, but this makes me think if BRS should be made standard by FAA on GA planes given the lives saved by the technology so far.
zed88··on Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Tbh...it all makes sense, given the speed of transmission and proves WHO useless again. I am wondering why WHO is getting it all wrong so far.
zed88··on Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation
It is still a contract of some repute with 11% stake. Do you think GM would sell to just any other startup with no history, if it wasn't for the hype??
zed88··on Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation
It's easy to create a prototype, the true test of any manufacturer is it's ability to roll these from the factories at scale. How many have they rolled yet?
zed88··on Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation
Nikola had contracts too, with the likes of GM.
zed88··on Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation
Crazy, they barely have a product. This is Nikola 2.0.
zed88··on DC-X Flight 8 – The Swan Dive Test
It's amazing to think that we had reusable single stage to orbit launch vehicle prototypes like this 25 years ago.
zed88··on Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
Agree. I got lots of Chinese friends, relatives and in-laws and not one of them are willing to openly criticise CCP about it. On the contrary, they are more on the defensive. Tells you the level of brainwashing going on.
zed88··on TransferWise changes name to Wise
Whatever the name, always loved their service.
zed88··on Male balding is a major risk factor for severe Covid-19
GQ says otherwise https://www.gq.com.au/grooming/hair/studies-say-bald-men-are...
zed88··on Male balding is a major risk factor for severe Covid-19
That's interesting, do you have any articles or sources?
zed88··on Male balding is a major risk factor for severe Covid-19
So this means Elon Musk is at high risk :) ?

Source - https://www.mcanhealth.com/elon-musk-hair-transplant-analysi...

zed88··on Show HN: A social platform with music in focus. Download the app
Hmm...how exactly can someone do that? Am curious.
zed88··on Clubhouse says it will improve security after researchers raise China concerns
Agora provides the voice chat infrastructure to Clubhouse.

So, Clubhouse is just a pretty UI built on top of their voice SDK.

https://www.agora.io/en/products/voice-call/

zed88··on Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC)
It's kinda sad that nobody cares, especially because we are dealing with a genocidal regime. It's going to bite us all back in the near future.

And to be honest their documentation is very poor.

zed88··on Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC)
And then you would be risking leaking your data to CCP. Not worth the risk. It will be bad PR for Clubhouse too once the media gets the smell of it.
zed88··on A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
Yeah I agree, there's lots of bloat as well, that's why I said that the transition of bubble tinkerers to actual coding with any high level languages and frameworks would be very liberating. Even a beginner could do a heck lot in something like RoR or Django, without even mastering the respective languages.
zed88··on A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
As someone who writes code, I found bubble.io quite promising, until I hit the usual bottlenecks that comes with any no-code platform.

https://bubble.io/

But I can see the lure for masses, driven by the startup subculture, but the truth is that if you can master something like bubble, the transition to actual coding would be seamless and often very liberating.

zed88··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
What I said is that Bitcoin is a perceived store of value, and like any currency it's valuable only if it's perceived by the masses to be so, no different than fiat. Bitcoin ticks that box and is scarce, as opposed to inflating fiat.

Porn doesn't creates value storages, except dopamine hits.

And am not making a personal judgement, but just making a contrasting argument for someone who says that mining bitcoin is a waste of energy.

zed88··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
The energy in mining is not being wasted, it's being converted into something of perceived value.

The real waste of energy, one could argue is pornography, which hogs around 30% of the internet, with little value output.

Imagine replacing those servers for something more productive for humanity as a whole.

zed88··on Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without slowing your website
Hey good luck with it, this is a genuine problem to be solved. Will give this a spin.
zed88··on Reddit and Robinhood gamified the stock market, and it’s going to end badly
I would replace 'gamified ' with 'democratized'.
zed88··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
I think what needs to be "mass adopted" is parking etiquette from ICE car owners.

Often do I find them parked on parking bays designated to electric car charging. This is such an annoyance when you have an electric car with limited range.

zed88··on How religion shaped modern economics
"When accusing western civilization of actively erasing other cultures with its modalities"

- It can't be discounted as a mere "accusation" when it is a "fact" that western civilisation, where-ever it went, systematically and categorically 'erased' the indigenous, and I am not saying metaphorically.

I live in NZ and the history and injustice here have been bloody, like any European occupied colony. The Maoris still suffer from systemic oppression here.

The cultural whitewashing is something that has always been operating at the intellectual echelons of 'European/white supremacy', they usually move into the scene to carry their jobs, after the military/warlords/mercenaries have cleared the scene.

And trust me, I do get the point you are trying to make, but that doesn't apply here. Nor I am saying that ideas from other cultures shouldn't be subjected to valid criticism or that Europeans should bear the brunt for it.

And if you do study history of other colonies a bit, you will find that police in colonies like India was created to instil the fear and British dominance in locals, with guns and batons.

The police there hasn't been reformed even now and is still brutal, following the same standards set by the British.

So there is a degree of truth in that congresswomen's words.

zed88··on How religion shaped modern economics
The idea of free markets existed in India, Arabia and China long before this, the 'Silk route/road' gave birth to first truly global and free market with many 'bazaars'. There is a whole book in Sanskrit named as "Arthashastra", which was written in 3rd century BCE.

This is again some kind of whitewashing the history where Europeans seem to have invented everything and nothing ever happened before them.

zed88··on Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
This is not scalable with the current grid infrastructure and will destroy grid equipments via the accentuated grid harmonics.

https://evreporter.com/harmonic-pollution-and-ev-charging/

zed88··on Show HN: Instil – Platform for creating and monetising live classes
Thanks.Both fixed cost per connected accounts and liability of chargebacks. We may switch to express based on how we go.Apart from that, we will be supporting PayPal soon though.
zed88··on Show HN: Instil – Platform for creating and monetising live classes
Implemented! It should be publicly accessible now. Not the best implementation, but we will improve this shortly.

https://instil.live/classes/learn-javascript-css-and-html-wi...

We plan to make the profile page public as well. Thanks for your feedback again :)

zed88··on Show HN: Instil – Platform for creating and monetising live classes
Thanks. Noted and we will implement this ASAP.
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