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dfeojm-zlibon Unprecedented North Pole Heat Wave in Progress

Runaway greenhouse effect on Earth is impossible for a billion years or more for a variety of reasons. You're looking for doomsday cult nonsense rather than minor/major climate changes that are more nuanced and more probable.

dfeojm-zlibon Unprecedented North Pole Heat Wave in Progress

I hope Paul Beckwith does a video on this topic. The climate emergency is even more urgent.

dfeojm-zlibon Studies: Premarital Sex, Cohabitation, and Divorce

Thanks for flagging this Christian conservative propaganda.

dfeojm-zlibon China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home

IMHO, there's no need to delay or wait.. contradict and break this undesirable image by demonstrating positive and welcoming actions towards visitors of all kinds at every opportunity. I hope and make the future better by taking as many actions now to ensure it as I'm able.

dfeojm-zlibon Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

I swear Cannondale road bikes have more in common with aircraft than terrestrial vehicles. You gotta see the aluminum welds on insanely thin tubes.

Disclaimer: I lost my 20+-year-old baby-blue R800TT to frame damage that I bought while making $4.25/hour. #SadDayForMe

dfeojm-zlibon EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

Dang, you're always on top of HN, figuratively and literally. Thanks, bro for defending the community. :PrayerHands: :PeaceSymbol:

dfeojm-zlibon EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

This is a good reminder to buy and use satnav modules supporting multiple positioning systems and technologies: most of GLONASS, GPS, BDS, Galileo, IRNSS, SkyHook, etc.

Disclaimer: Trimble Ltd. alum

dfeojm-zlibon China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home

As long as people keep coming to the US to get an education, that helps the economics of academia; out-of-state tuition paid for by somebody else (usually, countries or rich families) is $$$$. Maybe the problem is the US isn't as welcoming socially, politically or bureaucratically (visa process) as it once was? That's a PR image problem that the current political climate tarnished through inept and ignorant messaging.

dfeojm-zlibon I Got Paid to Improve Rich Kids' Personalities on Their College Applications

It's not what you know, what you achieve or what you can do; it's who you know, who your parents are and how much money they have. Basically, the same as the criminal justice system.

I don't think "personality" rates very high in the interview process; it's really more about legacy, money and other pedigree qualities. They may swear up-and-down about diversity and other feel-good, aspirational virtues, but they're a business bent on exclusivity, first and foremost.

dfeojm-zlibon Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change

Any Boeing designed, built or remanufactured in the past 20 years is fundamentally risky to the flying public because of the corrupting influence of regulatory capture, i.e., lax oversight of phases of system engineering and manufacturing, self-certification.

In 2010, Al Jazeera presented an investigative report about Boeing subcontractor Ducommun's substandard manufacturing practices for critical support structural ribs and door frames that Boeing installed on 737 NG (-600/-700/-800/-900) airframes and management subsequently covered up an internal safety investigation. As a direct consequence of these choices, several 737 NG's have broken up on hard landing and runway overruns, killing passengers, whereas in the past, fuselages survived intact under similar conditions.

Also, the 787 is a disaster waiting to happen.. anyone who steps foot on this clusterF deserves what they get.

dfeojm-zlibon DuckDuckGo Tests How Much People Care About Privacy

Surfraw supports ddg.

    surfraw duckduckgo search for this

dfeojm-zlibon How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?

USB-C needs a Nutritional Information-like label:

- Speeds supported

- Currents supported

- etc.

dfeojm-zlibon Robot can forge handwritten signatures (2015)

As a protest, I always draw a figure in the signature box. There's no authorization, authentication or non-repudiation provided by a handwritten signature; it's antiquated, historical business/social theater.

dfeojm-zlibon New antibiotics effective against resistant bacteria in mice

The gist as I understand it was that Western medicine bet the farm on antibotics while Russian medicine went primarily towards phages. Because of it's Not Invented Here status, Western medicine was biased against it for ideological and political reasons.

dfeojm-zlibon Reiser4 Brought to the Linux 5.0 Kernel

4573 days since the last Russian mail-order bride premeditated murder!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Marriage_to_Nina_S...

dfeojm-zlibon The World's Shortcut: How the Panama Canal Works [video]

Due to climate change, there are now many shortcuts across the Arctic in the summertime.

dfeojm-zlibon Desert Truffles (2010)

Probably good accompanying: caramelized onions, roasted peppers/tomato/potato, couscous, hummus or tahini.

PS: I've been fasting for several days unrelated to any holidays.

dfeojm-zlibon Universal Basic Income Can Work, and Here's How: Andrew Yang

AY's on the right track and UBI would reduce inequality with a simple and effective plan, but the problem is he seems to be an one-issue candidate, and those are rarely perceived to be equipped to lead (i.e., overall strategy, track-record and stated positions on issues) and don't appeal to enough voters.

dfeojm-zlibon Doctors Slow to Adopt Tech Tools That Might Save Patients Money on Drugs

America is slow to adopt collective, independent negotiating of medical, hospital and prescription charges as happens in insurance, Medicare/Medicaid/Tricare. Med4all would solve this, rather than hunting around for big pharma "sales" and "promotions."

dfeojm-zlibon 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

Um, no. LP caused extensive damage in small sections of San Francisco, but the two eqs are nearly the same intensity.

PS: I lost my proverbial "I survived the Loma Prieta in San Jose" t-shirt. Lost half a swimming pool, bookshelves, dishes and so on... our furniture was anchored to the wall studs and computer monitors and other electronics were industrial Velcroed to surfaces.

dfeojm-zlibon New Zealand man jailed for 21 months for sharing Christchurch shooting video

All speech that doesn't cause imminent danger, no matter how heinous, hateful or unpopular, must not be restrained nor punished.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

dfeojm-zlibon Estimated 10k people in DC are spies

I've met Russians, Ukranians and Belarussians on a number of occassions in the SF Bay Area who's demeanor, attitudes and sketchy backgrounds indicate they are likely spies gradually increasing their foothold through businesses, startups and contacts in American military/aerospace industrial complex.

dfeojm-zlibon Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

Reminds me of the underground structures Colin Furze has conjured up:

- an underground multi-level beach hut: https://youtu.be/AojTrc_UMaM

- apocalypse bunker under his shed: https://youtu.be/KO25JYAaJC0

dfeojm-zlibon Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dfeojm-zlibon Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

People who are liabilities are liabilities. It's sad when naive people don't recognize them and/or don't defend sensible personal boundaries against crazy/unreasonable intrusions.

dfeojm-zlibon New York state lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan

Virtual-signaling, small-scale nonsense to claim they're "helping."

CCS (and SRM) at scale (tens of trillion$, on the order of the pointless MIC cash-grabs in the Middle East) need to be expended to reduce CO2 to pre-industrial levels (280-300 ppm). Cities and states cannot and shouldn't handle this.. international- and national-level collaboration to standardize, strategize and deploy solutions are the most appropriate avenues.

dfeojm-zlibon Younger generations are growing horns in the back of their head

If you're a normal, genetic male, this is normal. If you're female, then this would not be normal. In fact, a palpable structure at the farthest edge of the outer rearmost point on the skull is a way to tell one's birth gender in most instances: yes = genetic male, no = genetic female. Rarely (if ever) do gender reassignment surgeries eliminate this structure when transitioning from male to female.

Source: physical anatomy and anthropology courses.

EDIT: I suspect this "news" article is completely fraudulent, The Onion-style or an April Fools' joke.

dfeojm-zlibon Younger generations are growing horns in the back of their head

"Old scientists and/or yellow journalists don't like kids usage of technology, conjures up clickbait, alarmist FUD to judge their lifestyle and/or manifest insecurities."

dfeojm-zlibon Candida auris: A fungus hospitals don’t want to talk about

To eradicate it after one patient died, a hospital in Brooklyn even “had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles” in his room.

- https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/candida-auris-hospitals...

dfeojm-zlibon HBO Ending Its Nightly Newscast Produced by Vice Media

Yes. I think they made a classic mistake of raising too much money, expanding too quickly and not staying hungry. VBS.TV and early VICE were good; at least before they moved their HQ, they were cratering.

I'd like to see much more of sustainable, non-profit journalism that only raises anonymous, no-strings donor money and subscriber donations to stay afloat because this is really the only way out of the ad-supported corporate MSM abandoned fourth estate hell.