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cedivadon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

> but 30% are holding everyone back

If you truly believe squashing the number of unvaccinated people will result in any significant benefit for the rest of us you are undeserving of the first place in this comment thread.

You could wait a few months for those vaccine laws to go into effect in Europe for proof. Or you could just look at the existing body of data that's staring at you in the face and are deciding to ignore because faulting someone else is one of the most primitive endorphins kicks you can get.

Signed: a fully vaccinated (and disgusted) user.

cedivadon Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow today (2021-10-04)?

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cedivadon Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow today (2021-10-04)?

I want to see what a truly organic traffic jump looks like in a graph, please, admins?

cedivadon Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

Sure, but if you don't have a GPU to go with that it won't even boot. The non-f version is twice that.

cedivadon Receiving SpaceX Falcon 9 Telemetry with a HackRF and 1.2m Satellite Dish

This is just a guess, but having read the FCC regs in the past, maybe it's because it's so much easier to be complaint when your link is unencrypted (and your rf standard published).

cedivadon 5/3nm Wars Begin

TI is aiming for 5nm?

cedivadon Hundreds of surveillance experiments along the U.S.-Mexico border

Fascinating. The article is talking about surveillance blimps and I can't help but wonder if someone is working on repurposing that tech to detect fires at their onset.

cedivadon Boeing's new CEO refuses to recognise culture problem, blames email authors

Their customers would need to be willingly ignoring facts not to be in the known by now. 2019 saw negative sales and the stock market is beginning to react.

Boeing decided it's business as usual when they had a chance to own up to some responsibility. I don't want to get into the details because I wouldn't make them justice, but the list is insane; from impossible engineering choices to brown envelopes (bribes) to the regulators.

They could have said something among the lines of "we are working on improving our processes to avoid future deaths", but instead we hear them blaming the pilots, again: "Calhoun focuses Boeing’s responsibility on faulty assumption around pilot response on MCAS".

As a reminder, MCAS could overpower manual trim and stick inputs. The crew never stood a chance, they were condemned the moment an engineer at Boeing decided it was ok to create a system like that acting on a single sensor that was known to be unreliable, and their process somehow allowed them not to test for its failure.

cedivadon Tesla races past $100B in market valuation

I would just like to point out this is 75% of Bitcoin's market cap, and at this point I'm not sure what the bubble is anymore. Maybe both? Or maybe TSLA proves BTC's demand could have been genuine?

Graph: https://twitter.com/cedivad/status/1220032154912088064

cedivadon Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement

2. is a great question I would like an answer to.

Here is a side by side comparison with an a320: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/61161/is-there-...

cedivadon Who’s Behind Those Mystery Drone Swarms? An Investigation

You are right, I thought this was quadcopters not fixed wing. I also built ~3 meter wingspan "drones" in the past for less than $2000/100km range, fun times.

cedivadon Who’s Behind Those Mystery Drone Swarms? An Investigation

6-foot wide drones are very expensive and there aren't that many people that can afford risking 50-100k in one go for whatever this is, so I'm guessing it's the military, which would be long overdue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/drones-FAA-colorado-ne...

cedivadon Boeing 737 Max: Worker said plane 'designed by clowns'

... nosedive command that can push the trim further than what manual controls allow you to override. It's just a shitfest. Any idiot looking at that specification could have told you what a terrible idea that was. I mean Ardupilot has better coding standards.

cedivadon Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters

Company values. On one end of the spectrum you have a relatively small group of people cheating and no idea where the bucket stopped.

For Boeing you have multiple lines (not only the 737 MAX but the 777 too) going as far as handing over bribes to the FAA, with upper management investing the budget savings on some yacht time.

cedivadon Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters

VW wasn't nearly as bad. People need to go to jail over those deaths and their legacy used as a reminder for those that come next.

Here is another damning Boeing message, follow the source for more:

https://twitter.com/cedivad/status/1215558552229683200

cedivadon The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money

*billion => million.

cedivadon The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money

He "hardcoded" a spam protection measure at a time when it was legitimately expected an attacker would spend a few dollars and clog up the blockchain significantly.

This was always intended as a temporary measure and it was understood by the community at large that the limit would be removed as soon as it started hindering adoption. As an example, see this reddit thread of mine 86% upvoted: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35hpkt/please_remi...

As history will remember, what happened then is that you decided you had missed out on the boat and you started raising money for your stupid little layer 2 solution while censoring everyone suggesting it had to coexist with a bigger block size.

I'm not going to mince words, you are the reason Bitcoin is a speculative scam instead of a real payments revolution as it was intended to be. It had one chance and thanks to you and your cronies the only people benefiting from it are the ones liquidating noobs on bitmex.

cedivadon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020)

Location: Dublin, IE

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Software > Hardware > ?

Résumé/CV: http://cedivad.com/cv.pdf

cedivadon A look inside TSMC

"Balanced on a 5nm point, the world could fall either way."

cedivadon China

Well, it does look like the West found its archenemy after all.

cedivadon 16-inch MacBook Pro

People in here would probably pay not to have to deal with the TouchBar at all.

cedivadon Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

Oh, so that's what those Google job listings for datacenter-builders were for...

cedivadon The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight

The root is our current form of capitalism.

cedivadon 81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent

Doesn't sound too bad to me. I mean, moral implications aside this is a fairly successful technical achievement.

cedivadon Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables

https://github.com/srsLTE/srsLTE

cedivadon Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables

You usually have cores doing what the specs requires and then a processor running your software gluing it all together.

cedivadon Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

"Here is most of a billion dollars upfront, that should give you plenty of funds to process my withdraws, looking forward to doing business with you!".

Yeah, sure.

cedivadon Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs

Only problem is, profit margins for hardware are tiny and the company will gladly sell your soul for an extra 1%.

cedivadon The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism

Just like Thiel said before becoming the most hated famous person in the valley, voters were desperate for an outsider. The politicians == liar equivalency was well established in people's minds and they wanted to try something different. "Drain the swamp" was an amazing slogan that worked perfectly for them. (Italian here). And as an Italian I will say that sounds like what Berlusconi was riding on during his first election.

cedivadon The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism

I have to say, this makes me sad. I visit HN daily, mostly look at the headlines and rarely engage in the discussion, but seeing what are supposed to be smart, thinking people commenting in here just saddens me. Same goes for the other 1k+ comments on the previous thread.

It seems you people think it's ok to have someone end up like this guy for helping a source get us information we all benefited from. You can say trying to protect this source's identity is conspiracy to commit computer hacking, but your head needs to be buried very deep into the sand to pretend this is anything but the excuse used to get him.

The actual crime here is holding governments accountable. Trying, at least.

I understand most of you didn't love him for exposing problems inside a political party otherwise set to win the election. I really do. I understand he didn't do much to be loved by the public. I understand 10 years of propaganda could make most people change their mind about a saint. But here, too?

I listened to his most recent interview today and I really enjoyed his views. I half expect people to point out this is Russian state media, and yes, the reds are out to get you but can listen to it in the background, that way the watermark can't bother you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98ed6oML2A

I lost one fifth of my karma yesterday defending the guy, let's see if this comment goes the same way.

Edit: funny enough my comment went to -3 in no time before slowing crawling its way back to +1. Almost like if... Nah.