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bassman9000··on Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground
assuming there's a statistically significant increase in these kind of accidents: what's your theory on why this is happening? what has change since e.g. 5-10 years ago?
bassman9000··on VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development
it's not about being unable to be productive in windows

is about people forced to work on win vs their preferred linux/osx finding out productivity is, indeed, worse, but not as bad as expected

bassman9000··on Gemini and Google's Culture
this goes beyond getting some things wrong. It's conscious effort to be biased in a very specific way. When it struggles to put a white person in the generated images, or has trouble deciding whether Musk or Hitler were worse for humanity, you know it's been trained and guardrailed hard the wrong way
bassman9000··on Long Covid treatment: randomized, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial
Is it 41% or 4.1%

Is 4•1% some kind of notation?

bassman9000··on Show HN: Throw – A space for asking and answering questions anonymously
> Intend

For now.

A truly anonymous service would start by not needing apps, which are notoriously leaky, on purpose.

bassman9000··on Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18
BS

> Díaz graduated with a licentiate degree in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC),[5][6] and later earned three post-graduate degrees. Upon concluding her studies, she commenced working as a paralegal for a law firm. Later, she registered as an attorney at law and opened her own law firm, which specialised in labour law.[5]

bassman9000··on Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18
No.

This is middle class taxing. There's never enough rich people to fund these kind of initiatives, and specially not in Spain.

bassman9000··on Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18
Fun fact: the process will be made artificially slow to last til you are 23 years old, which means voters making 18 this year would have to vote for them, again, in 4.

Total corruption.

bassman9000··on 43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)
Assuming all those different groups thrown in together by nbc where white people, they would still be underrepresented, given the 2020 US Census data.
bassman9000··on Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
it was never profitable
bassman9000··on Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
Not an engineering issue. Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost. You weren't aware of it because, as someone mentioned, it was subsidized before. Now you are aware. You're free to contribute by paying, if content is worth to you, or walk away. There are alternatives, but you can't escape the fact that moving all those bits is not free.
bassman9000··on Senators Draft Bill to Ban Use of Digital Yuan in US-Based Mobile Apps
If you go to China, get a burner, or buy a Chinese cell phone, the same you're buying a plane ticket, or paying for a hotel. If it's for work, ask your company to pay for it.
bassman9000··on US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer's Share: $951k
feel that the Federal government is being irresponsible.

It is.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...

bassman9000··on Mariana Trench: Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java
_Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java Applications_

But it seems it's not for the JVM, only for Android APKs.

Edit: https://mariana-tren.ch/docs/configuration#command-line-opti...

Indeed, only APK.

bassman9000··on Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
If you don't use it for anything interesting, you're sticking out even more. A void can be as revealing.

If you're using it for something interesting, well, you're not sticking out in the "not having gmail" camp, but what's the point.

bassman9000··on Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
Still not addressing the critique. We banalize authoritarianism by putting things at the same level, when they should not be.
bassman9000··on Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
You could always link some news article on the FBI abuses.

But you also have a gmail address, so I don't understand the reaction.

bassman9000··on Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
What can you send from your phone that will get you arrested by the FBI, vs what can get you arrested by Chinese forces? Is this a valid comparison?
bassman9000··on Pieces of Shit
Wokeism shows all the hallmarks of a cult or organized religion, and it's being spearheaded by academia:

- Strict adherence to dogmas (_eg all whites are racist, not dating trans is transphobic_), under penalty of excommunication (_banished from academia and/or society_).

- Dissent is not permitted (_if you deny it, you must be racist/bigot/transphobic_).

- Cult of the leader as individual (_eg BLM founders, the Squad_), while at the same time arguing the group is paramount.

- Sacraments (eg _struggle sessions, street performances_).

- Colleges as main places of cult. Pilgrimages to holy places (_eg police brutality incidents_).

- Saints (eg _George Floyd_).

Academia is funded by the state via:

- Grants to projects not necessarily resulting in any benefit, apparent or not, to society. Projects lead by professors not teaching.

- Loans to students, knowing well many won't be able to pay in years, if at all, which end in the pockets of colleges.

bassman9000··on The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]
It's been studied over and over. Lower taxes mean more economic activity, and less tax evasion.

An article in Spanish

https://www.elindependiente.com/economia/2021/04/25/madrid-d...

Another one

https://www.libremercado.com/2021-08-03/el-efecto-laffer-de-...

En concreto, la región de Díaz Ayuso recibió de la caja común apenas el 23% de lo que ingresó en 2019.

Meaning that Madrid out of the 100% taxes it collects for the State, only 23% end up in Madrid. But that's still fine, because of the higher economic activity.

Madrid has been accused of "tax dumping", by having way lower taxes than other regions, and still:

Tanto es así, que Madrid aporta en torno al 68% del sistema de solidaridad interterritorial (más de 4.000 millones) frente al 25,5% de Cataluña o el 6,6% de Baleares.

Meaning that, even with low taxes, Madrid funds 68% (+4 billion Euro) of the inter-region fund system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

bassman9000··on The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]
In Spain

The exact amount varies between regions.

Wealthy regions like Madrid have abolished it. Non coincidentally, the regions that are economically doing better, and more contributing, per capita, to the central State.

https://www.businessinsider.es/impuesto-patrimonio-son-difer...

bassman9000··on The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]
Why "less spending" is never an option? Why do we need more and more trillions in taxes?
bassman9000··on Australia, the US and UK to announce landmark new defence pact
Power requirements on a sub vs a civilian power plant are on a different scale. A vessel reactor is small enough it easily contained and shielded, by comparison. You get free cooling. And it doesn't have to be cost effective.

I'd like more civilian reactors too. But scaling is an issue.

bassman9000··on AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions
One major drawback is the lack of Java native tooling vs e.g. Swagger/OpenAPI springdoc project. Document generation + API validation can be part of the same build, instead of having to have a separate Node toolchain and build.
bassman9000··on AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions
https://www.asyncapi.com/docs/getting-started/coming-from-op...

https://www.asyncapi.com/docs/specifications/v2.1.0

bassman9000··on Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
Explain this: https://nypost.com/2021/09/09/usps-exempt-from-biden-vax-man...
bassman9000··on Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
Except, it seems, USPS 600k+ employees

https://nypost.com/2021/09/09/usps-exempt-from-biden-vax-man...

thus proving this is not about science, but political, e.g. to stop talking about the Afghan fiasco.

bassman9000··on Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time
You can't pause it, so could be.
bassman9000··on How Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club
Author samples

https://www.popsci.com/authors/jess-romeo/

https://daily.jstor.org/daily-author/jess-romeo/

bassman9000··on Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88F3ceEKcqY&list=PLVAJkoGT9A...

Min 6:35

They may even doing him a favor: they're warning him he's breaking the law, and could face the consequences. And the things they're accusing him of are not just squatting.

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