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Bendingo··on Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing
I think one reason for the "Assange is an asshole" hate is that there are many people all over the West who love and believe in the USA as a unequalled force for good, and they are filled with resentment towards Assange for destroying that belief.

They can't deny the terrible acts perpetrated by the US, so they try to reclaim some moral superiority by accepting and repeating the completely unsubstantiated (and in some cases, ridiculous) smears against Assange.

Bendingo··on Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing
Very well said.

And thanks for the interview link.

Bendingo··on Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it
And if you don't know who Brian Kernighan is, you're not informed enough to judge him.
Bendingo··on Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
Fixed: Tesla's marketing is so powerful, that they don't even need to advertise.
Bendingo··on Kroger (chain grocery store) is running paramilitary spy gear in parking lots
Hmmm. I didn't know this.

What are some countries that aren't nations?

Bendingo··on We’ll Be $1Trillion in the Red in 2020. No Big Deal
> other countries have one or two of something the United States has at least ten. This goes for planes, tanks, cruisers, helicopters, missiles, pretty much whatever

This is correct except for tanks [0], where Russia has about 3 times more than US. This is not unexpected, given that no-one is going to invade US by land, and that Russia has been repeatedly invaded by land.

[0] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Military/Arm...?

Bendingo··on Gears
Excellent - thx !
Bendingo··on How the cancel culture was leveraged against RMS
> terrifying

Unhinged hyperbole. Nothing about RMS is remotely terrifying.

It is the unchecked power and intolerance of your movement, that is truly terrifying.

Bendingo··on How the cancel culture was leveraged against RMS
> decided that the guy was capable of pretty much anything

We are all lucky that you have the power of divination. Thank you for keeping us all safe.

Bendingo··on SpaceX’s first astronaut mission could take off in May
> ... Soyuz ... the 1 Russian member

Well to be fair, it's completely understandable that US astronauts would never be allowed unsupervised access to a Russian spacecraft. Hell, US are lucky they even are granted any Soyuz flights at all, given the crazy Russophobe behaviour.

Bendingo··on China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus
Wow. That's quite an imaginative claim. Got anything to support it?
Bendingo··on Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
Would be great to have a tech thread that didn't degenerate into low-grade political opinion.
Bendingo··on Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
> Narcissists are broken people

I would add that Narcissistic Personality Disorder, like all personality disorders, is essentially unfixable [0]. However it's unlikely that OP has NPD, since someone who actually has an NPD would not be aware if it.

[0] According to my psych friend.

Bendingo··on SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave
"Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack" --> "Jamaican field cricket or maybe cicadas" [0]

[0] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/the-real-story-behin...?

Bendingo··on Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
This is 100% what's going on.
Bendingo··on Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
> basically match the Iowa results so far

Actually, they don't quite match at all.

Sanders campaign released partial results on 4th/Feb that shows Sanders:29% and Buttigieg:24% [1][2]

[1] https://twitter.com/HCTrudo/status/1224578194948468739 [2] https://www.salon.com/2020/02/04/sanders-campaign-releases-i...?

Bendingo··on Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World
My translation (as a beginner in Russian language) of Stalin's letter is:

"In negotiations with Eden on the issue of Aerocobras you acted cowardly. This is not worthy of the Soviet ambassador. The British behaviour on the question of the Aerocobras, I consider the height of arrogance. The British had no right to redirect our cargo to their account without prior consent. The reference of the British to the fact that forwarding occurred by order of America is a jesuitism(?). Not hard to understand that America acted here at the request of the British. Don't let the British think that we will tolerate the insults inflicted on us not the first time by the English rulers. Soviet government requires that 154 Aerocobras captured by the British be immediately returned to the Soviet Union. We urge you to bring this British piracy to the attention of layers of British society. I regret departure of Beaverbrook: while Beaverbrook was in charge of British supply, England faithfully fulfilled its obligations, after Beaverbrook departed England became treacherous."

Bendingo··on Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World
Indeed that irony will be completely lost on most (western) readers.
Bendingo··on The mysteries of aerodynamic lift
Thanks.

Minor typo in your lecture notes just after equation (22).

"The assume the flow is steady, inviscid and and incompressible."

should be

"They assume..."

Bendingo··on CBS gets YouTube review of 'Picard' taken down for using 26 seconds
GP's attitude is fine - there's nothing offensive about stating "You're wrong".

People's search (need?) for offense is becoming pathological.

Bendingo··on Who Says Tcl Rules?
No-one yet mentioned expect [0][1], which is the most amazing, general-purpose automation tool I've ever used.

IMHO it's creator Don Libes [2] is an original-thinker/innovator in the same league as Ousterhout.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect?

[1] https://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/expect.1.html?

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Libes

Bendingo··on Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks
Maybe UK would rather be spied upon by Chinese Gov. than by US Gov. I know I would.
Bendingo··on Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
Iran's issue with Israel is not related to Judaism. It's important to distinguish between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Iran is the former but not the latter.
Bendingo··on City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
Very cool!
Bendingo··on Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
Most realistic comment in the entire thread.
Bendingo··on America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign
> think Russia would annex a Baltic state

Baltics and Crimea are not comparable. - Crimea has Russia's only warm water port and would never be given up - Russia already has Baltic access (Kaliningrad and StPetersburg) - Crimea has been majority ethnic Russian for centuries and welcomes Russia - Baltics hate Russia

In summary, there is absolutely no logical reason Russia would annex Baltic state.

However, there are plenty reasons why non-Russian interests always repeat this narrative.

Bendingo··on To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air
> A compressor is an analog to an internal combustion engine - in reverse

A compressor is not the reverse of a IC engine.

IC engine is a heat engine, and the reverse of that is a heat pump (not a compressor).

Furthermore, Carnot efficiency refers to heat engine efficiency.

Bendingo··on Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral
> tells outright lies for a living

I'm not going to defend Alex Jones here, but surely you realise that this metric includes many main stream, "respected" media organisations?

Bendingo··on JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
> zero risk that my country might compel me through extra-legal channels to modify my work product

I assume therefore, that you must not be Australian [1]

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/12/new_australia...?

Bendingo··on China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal
It's not a threat -- it's an offer. Take it or leave it.
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