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WhyKill··on We've known how to prevent a school shooting for more than 20 years
Grenades aren't banned in the US. It's called a Destructive Device.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840...

WhyKill··on Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security
It's called compost honey, look it up.

But seriously, composting, no till, stop spraying R0undup aka glyphosate, plant trees in fields, more cover crops, more green mulch, more pollinators, more ponds, more pastureland, more aquaculture, more polyculture in general. The problem is the desert style of farming that led to the dust bowl and will lead to the next one. This comes from a very new (<3 years) farmer who has read a bunch and microfarmed for three years on 5 acres.

The problem is people got sold a bunch of lies about machines and chemicals and those lies are now coming home to roost. Organic and no till and permaculture are probably the way out of this. You can absorb nitro from the atmosphere but that's one way, nature has been doing it another way for eons.

WhyKill··on Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place
Underground. Under the sea. Under the ground under the sea. Pfffft. The sun was already trying to kill you that's why living underground is smart anyway. Frankly there should be no expectation of privacy for things you can observe from space...
WhyKill··on Is it better to plant trees or let forests regrow naturally?
permaculture. google it. the answer is of course BOTH.

naturally regrowing forests by using ancient technology to understand the best way for things to be arranged physically for optimal soil regeneration.

the Amazon was cultivated by humans for thousands of years. we can do this all over the planet

WhyKill··on Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
Red flags: ask if they have a standard operating procedure document or employee handbook. Basic stuff like where to go for healthcare, who to talk to about sick leave etc. This sort of logistical stuff is a weight on employee's to have to constantly be asking direct reports about. It's a bad sign when a company can't take the time to do a basic doc like this.
WhyKill··on I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible
HA! Try growing or raising animals and not using Amazon...
WhyKill··on Grant Imahara Has Died
Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.
WhyKill··on MNT Reform: The Campaign Is Live
The hardware heroes we need. Amazing and the best laptop design in years.
WhyKill··on Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon
Amazon sucks now. I can't buy most of the specific items I use in my work, and when I do find something it's swimming in a sea of clone crap. The best thing it does still is books. Anything else is a mizxed bag. AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.
WhyKill··on A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
Just to answer. None of your concerns are covered by the license he has (Special Occupation Tax aka SOT). With a SOT7 + one of the other ones you can own and transfer machine guns and Destructive Devices legally. This is the same license a gunsmith will get to manufacture and sell(transfer) firearms incidentally.

No this is not a license to kill.

WhyKill··on Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
yeah that wiki thing never amounted to anything more than being the ninth most popular website.
WhyKill··on Sorry–organic farming is worse for climate change
Sorry, this article is propaganda for BigAg and BigChem.

They looked at one meta study and one study that was ESTIMATING the effectiveness of organic based on land usage.

Organic farming is needed to increase top soil depth which results in increased carbon sequestration and water absorption.

Organic farming isn't specific enough. It's permanent agriculture which is needed, usually in the form of organic agriculture.

WhyKill··on FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ messages about the 737 Max
why regulation capture is bad in a nutshell
WhyKill··on Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
I hope they do a kit.
WhyKill··on Yogababble
He's demonstrating that he ate his own dog food. Instead of "restoring the middle class" (bullshit), they are producing short form video and podcats (not bullshit).
WhyKill··on Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’
If you have the ability to speak out for an oppressed class of people but do not you are de facto supporting the dominant regime. Silence is collaboration with the status quou. It's subtle but it IS racism. If you have the time to talk about social issued with your co workers, you have the ability and time to stand up for truth, justice, and freedom from oppression. If you don't get back to work. It's precisely the silence that is deafening.
WhyKill··on Younger Americans less trusting of other people, institutions
anything in the last hundreds years related to pop sci, nutrition, or health advice.
WhyKill··on The Show Horse and the Work Horse
Actually no, it's amazing one. This is how markets have been for thousands of years, within walking distance of the homes of the people using them. But yet it isn't compatible with modern "advances" like zoning, parking lots, and NIMBY driven politics.
WhyKill··on Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions
Hey, lets ignore Toyota Production System (which was invented by a startup, Toyoda Automatic Loom) and then perfected on building cars with small amounts of resources and minimal failure. It's pretty clear they don't use TPS at Tesla, which will be their downfall...
WhyKill··on Floating solar farms could make fuel and help solve the climate crisis
Sounds impractical is like a marketing level neg. It's completely possible, and it might just be necessary in the coming years.
WhyKill··on Cracking the puzzle of automated low-cost malaria diagnosis
Wrong. It's a $250 microscope. Any other cost is culturally imposed. Values are not objects.
WhyKill··on US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
Gas pressure just can't linearly accelerate something as efficiently as magnetic force can. You can get so much more velocity for the same barrel diameter instead of scaling barrel diameter and thickness because you have thrust being added through the whole length of the barrel instead of gas pressure being used to propel a slug at the end and then dissipating.
WhyKill··on Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful
its almost like encouraging the uneducated to get educated without educating them on why doesn't work out so well.
WhyKill··on Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces
It's about as bad as any other technology. I bet therapy gets a lot easier when I can write my anxiety reduction function for myself.
WhyKill··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
Welcome to the world of startups: I hope you developed some secret sauce!
WhyKill··on Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?
Sell a product that people want to buy and then don't run out of business making that product. If you have traction already, leverage it. Keep costs super lean. Expect slow but steady growth. The only reason to take VC money is if you are reasonably certain someone with better funding than you could eat your lunch. How to know if someone can eat your lunch: do you have any IP or trade secrets or secret sauce? No? Maybe you should raise VC money, but realize you will be competing on execution and not on special sauce.
WhyKill··on Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC
This is 100% the reason why drug testing in the workplace exists. There is no other reason other than safety for heavy equipment users. If you don't work in a dangerous place drug testing is punitive.
WhyKill··on Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life
Not everybody has the same values as you.
WhyKill··on Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission
tl;dr working for assholes gets you treated poorly. BigCo will always treat you more consistently, but they won't necessarily treat you better or worse than a small or new company. This headline could have been one of those questions where the answer is no.