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HopenHeyHion Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web

No kidding! At some point Genghis Khan invaded Afghanistan. Over the next century Pax Mongolica made it as far as Egypt. Conquered swathes of Persia, felt cute, sacked Baghdad. Just Mongol things.

Splintered into a bunch of Khanates that started fighting each other..

Arguably they fell apart because they picked up so many scripts and cultural and religious influences the different types of Mongols could no longer communicate or tolerate one another. Then the bubonic plague came and they became insular again instead of expansionist.

HopenHeyHion CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg

People don't always manage to vote their interests even if/when they manage to rationally identify what those are. Welcome to politics.

HopenHeyHion Google DeepMind

If Google were to go on a startup acquisition spree in this hot new competitive space in a further attempt to catch up - how would they locate and assess potential companies?

Asking for a friend.

HopenHeyHion Study links 'stuck' stem cells to hair turning gray

Ahem. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19965058/

HopenHeyHion Study links 'stuck' stem cells to hair turning gray

It works even better if you rub your belly at the same time. Not a lot of people have that kind of coordination tho.

HopenHeyHion BuzzFeed News is shutting down

https://assets-c3.propublica.org/pdf/reports/2022-Annual-Rep...

Page 43:

- 5.8 million monthly page views

- 506,544 newsletter subscribers

Page 44:

- 2022 revenue $42 million

- Online donations $4.3 million

- The rest is grants and gifts

- Expenses $40.2

This is... not good at all.. it is basically a tiny blog that runs 90% on donations from a few rich people. I've seen single tweets with more views than what they get in a month, propublica sadly can't be sustainable for much longer I wouldn't think.

This subject has been giving me anxiety since about 2006. Nothing seems to stem the decline and I am scared what kind of world we will end up in soon as a result.

HopenHeyHion Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)

Goddamit.

HopenHeyHion Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

This is actually smaller: https://busybox.net

https://re-ws.pl/2020/11/busybox-based-linux-distro-from-scr...

HopenHeyHion US could soon approve MDMA therapy

> we need professors who avoid politics entirely

We desperately need that, yes. It is much too late, unfortunately.

HopenHeyHion US could soon approve MDMA therapy

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

HopenHeyHion US could soon approve MDMA therapy

Pretty sure that is happening too. You might even be an unwitting participant right now.

Bet Manson type murders will happen as well. Race riots. A Kennedy type young president will show up and get assassinated. There will be a new space race, this time with China. AI Beatles-type mega band will emerge. A crowdsourced Woodstock some place. Sit ins, sleep ins. People on TV growing out their hair.

Time is a flat circle man. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

HopenHeyHion Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)

They currently send up Starlink satellites in batches of about 50 on the Falcon 9. On a more or less weekly cadence or 4 times/200 satellites a month.

When Starship gets going it might carry as many as 400+ per launch. In other words eventually they'll be able to throw more stuff into orbit in 1 month than they currently can in 1 year.

It literally means their bottle neck will be producing enough starlinks, and other payloads, per day. Incidentally, those things are also used by the military and in Ukraine.

Having this much payload capacity at this moment in time is very important. Without SpaceX people who want to put satellites into orbit would be somewhat at the mercy of Russia and China as capacity elsewhere is extremely limited.

HopenHeyHion Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)

I award this comment 218 doge for wholesome attitude. That clears all debts between us my good sir. Perhaps one day you can buy me a space beer on mars.

HopenHeyHion Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)

This is an enormously important launch. I had $20 it will be pushed to 4/20, so a lot riding on this. :)

But seriously, I can't help but feel this is a historical moment. Hope you make the time to watch and remember it.

HopenHeyHion Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time

> And I attempted to answer it in the comment you are replying to

An attempt that was not sincere.

"And no doubt others as well" <- You are just transparently grasping at straws. You very much should have doubt, this is not an appropriate attitude for a mod on HN.

"contains flamebait, name-calling, and snark. In a rather concentrated form!"

What to be clear beyond a shadow of a doubt for the record is the name, specifically, that I am "name-calling"? The snark is in your mind friend. I was talking about the demographics, full stop.

Here is the guide line you are violating:

  Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

"You had a substantive point to make in that GP comment" - Thank you for a minimal amount of honesty.

Repeatedly saying that mention of Metcalfe's law is "grandiose flamewar rhetoric" does not make it so. It just does not.

> If you had made the same point in a thoughtful, respectful, conversational way, that would have been completely fine.

I do not believe that to be the case at all. The objection is clearly to its contents and you are retrofitting "violations".

By all means can you demonstrate how my comment can be re-written without changing its meaning? You are not acting as an impartial moderator at all, I don't think you can. There is no "proper phrasing" possible. You took a very mundane post and exploded it into "grandiose flame bait" no less. I urge you to do some soul searching about your behavior.

Just so it is clear to you, there is a growing crowd here that grudge/group flags comments they personally disagree with. They go through peoples comment histories and punish them for wrong think, flag unrelated things, even one word comments like "thanks". Flag first to discourage what they personally find disagreeable and attempt to justify it later if at all. My mention of this particular, somewhat new behavior for HN, is not a "violation". As soon as I posted these users went and started flagging en messe (not just downvoting) random old unrelated comments - hence I edited my post. Their behaviour is acceptable to you? I am the one you call out?

Maybe they've moved what you consider "respectful" language a bit too far with these tactics. Your explanations given here are lacking. There was no flaming going on, none, it is benign neutral language. My most charitable explanation is that you are being played by this group.

And again, nobody will see this now but you dang - do as you wish with this feedback. Consider addressing that particular problem for one or at least acknowledging it.

HopenHeyHion Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time

What guideline specifically am I violating here in this thread and how exactly?

> And no doubt others as well.

I think you should do some soul searching.

> This is not that hard.

Pretty hard without specific examples from this thread. Which you have not provided.

Nobody will see this behavior deep in a days old thread. It is very clear that you are not acting impartially. I know it and you know it.

HopenHeyHion Ask HN: Abuse of Flagging and Downvotes on HN

shrug

All good, yeah. This place will end up a Mastodon instance of sorts but on the other hand HN is ancient and no community lasts forever. Onwards and upwards.

HopenHeyHion Ask HN: Abuse of Flagging and Downvotes on HN

For sure karma doesn't mean anything and if it was just somebody rage downvoting it hardly matters. Rage flagging appears to give regular users mod like powers.

I understand the counter argument you're making to my suggestion, hopefully somebody can come up with a better one.

HopenHeyHion Ask HN: Abuse of Flagging and Downvotes on HN

If 2-3 people decide that this warrenm fellow needs to be pushed out of the website for whatever reason they currently can coordinate and start flagging your posts left and right at every opportunity until you are effectively banned.

It will turn into reddit. Groups will start raiding each other over politics. Coordinated upvotes are not allowed, I don't see why grudge/group flagging should be.

HopenHeyHion Ask HN: Abuse of Flagging and Downvotes on HN

The suggestion is to expose those who downvote and flag not just one comment but all comments by a user and not just in one thread but across unrelated threads and comments. As well as groups that coordinate in this manner.

I don't know if it is viable or how else to fix the problem, just throwing an idea out there to generate a discussion.

HopenHeyHion Ask HN: Abuse of Flagging and Downvotes on HN

Flagging mafias that go through comment histories of people is several steps past that.

HopenHeyHion Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness

Nobody can really endure clockwork orange style viewing of anything for very long. That's not moly coddling. Banning cigarettes and amphetamines is not coddling either.

Younger people in particular are susceptible here due to peer pressure at a critical stage of socialization, meaning if all your classmates are using it is much harder to opt out for a middle schooler than a working age adult. This isn't simply a test of ones own character in isolation.

In fact that is why they are targeted in the first place. Get them hooked young. It is the ones who get hooked who might spiral into problems as a result. That seems like a plausible theory.

HopenHeyHion Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time

The subject is growth hacking and social networks.

Social networks grow big by targeting young female users as a vector for growth. Well documented countless times and talked about at length by the people who work there, this is one of the very key original "growth hacks" and not some sort of secret.

Rihanna posts baby pictures on twitter that get more views and engagement than all of the fediverse combined. This captures the key demographic.

You're welcome to publicly explain how the statement that you need buy in from content producers in the vain of Rihanna/Swift/Kardashians/BlackPink to capture the young female crowd, which brings in the young male crowd, which drives enough critical mass to bring in everybody else, an outright mathematical fact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law), as some sort of flame bait.

I am familiar with your link. What guideline specifically am I violating here in this thread please Dang? Thanks in advance.

HopenHeyHion Europe needs energy. Moroccan solar may be a clean solution

Solar panels on the moon are even less seasonal. How far away does it actually make sense to place them?

Is your solar capacity and storage maxed out? How much would it cost to max it out?

Is there a difference in practice between dependence on foreign gas vs foreign solar? Hint: you can store a lot of gas in case of supply disruption and immediately buy more from alternative suppliers. Whereas one UHV cable cut and you are left with no recourse for quite some time.

Is Morocco a stable country? Per chance does it have any disputes with aggressive neighbors?

HopenHeyHion Europe needs energy. Moroccan solar may be a clean solution

You want to look at actual exports by country not reserves.

Afghanistan is sitting on a couple trillion in minerals but you aren't getting that out reliably any time soon.

HopenHeyHion Europe needs energy. Moroccan solar may be a clean solution

Panels covered in sand after a storm are zero percent efficient.

In extreme heat they are 25% less efficient.

Transmission over long distances is not lossless.

HopenHeyHion Europe needs energy. Moroccan solar may be a clean solution

Arguments against:

- Sand/Dirt

- Excess Heat

- Transmission losses

- Political instability

- Geopolitics (Algeria, other issues..)

Arguments for:

- Gets around NIMBY

- ???

Panels need to be clean and cool (25c) to work optimally. Preferably close to where the energy is consumed.

Incidentally the interiors of many sunny EU countries like Spain are depopulated..

HopenHeyHion Inside a Fujitsu Ethernet chip from 1984

Thanks!

HopenHeyHion The ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind

Exactly. I bucket Titan Invictus together with my very great friends in Rome named Sillius Soddus and Biggus Dickus.

They happen to be respectable and fierce ladies actually. I also know a boy named Sue. Great guy, lots of character. Some minor issues with the parental unit.