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kjjw··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
I only quick charge my car. And have no problems. What does it matter if battery longevity is slightly affected?
kjjw··on Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
Cycle, don’t drive.
kjjw··on US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
Get over yourselves. From an outside perspective I am concerned about the US’s treatment of its own minorities. Have you heard how Trump talks about minorities?! Sorry but no, from where I stand I don’t see any difference on this between China and the US. And before anyone says anything about detention centres, I’m sorry but you can’t have a prison populations in the millions made up mostly of minority people and point fingers there.
kjjw··on US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
No thanks, while the US protects its digital economy from Chinese companies, it is also slapping tariffs (or is threatening) on European goods.

The US doesn’t have any friends any more because it acting like a shit to them all. Meanwhile every day it looks more like a dictatorship with no regard for its populace. Honestly it’s time the rest of the western world moved on. Relationship over.

kjjw··on Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system
Not in the UK.
kjjw··on Cargill: The Worst Company in the World
No it doesn't. The basis of the claim is a set of clearly communicated shortcomings.
kjjw··on World's largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate
"Meant to"? "Purpose"?
kjjw··on Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets
The uses of the words “brutal” and “fierce” are good examples of American xenophobia. Aldi pays its low-wage staff a living wage (far above the minimum required by law) in the UK and elsewhere. Walmart, no chance.
kjjw··on My Parents Give Me $28k a Year
I can't think of an example of this cycle in human history. It sounds great, though.
kjjw··on Complying with the EC’s Android decision
Sorry but I can’t see this as anything but akin to a victim-blaming argument.
kjjw··on Show HN: Weltschmerz by age
Funny I find it uplifting. The human experience is universal.
kjjw··on An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling
The idea that ecosystems are self balacning and always bounce back is discredited science. It’s still a popular idea in mainstream discussion, though.
kjjw··on I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam
It is great to see this problem highlighted but herein we have found a line that some people find hard to walk. Real shame this person [whose voice is in the video] has created such a distraction.
kjjw··on I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam
Maybe in the US it is not considered racist to mock an Indian accent but elsewhere it is.
kjjw··on London Rents Eating Up 57% of Twentysomethings’ Income
No. Westminster government has been obsessed with London as a finance centre to the exclusion of the rest of the country. Leaving the EU will only make things worse in London.
kjjw··on ‘Brexit’: The Vote That Could Sink Britain's Economy
I heard the Daily Mail is looking for staff.
kjjw··on Startup bank Mondo raised £1m crowdfunding in 96 seconds
If you're in the UK then the appeal is that they will be available in the UK.
kjjw··on More than 10k problems fixed through 'Improve Detroit' app
Reminds me of http://fixmystreet.com . Similar, for the whole of the UK.
kjjw··on The Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money
Indeed agreed.
kjjw··on Volkswagen Stock Plummets as CEO Apologizes for Emissions Cheat
Yes out of character. German public will not be happy with VW.
kjjw··on The Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money
I suspect you're correct. Issue is, from what I read, it would perhaps be better if most of those sorties were never flown. It seems that use of air power will tend to prioritise the lives of soldiers over civilians. ('Blue on blue' not withstanding, but then my point above was not really about that, but about the anecdotal nature of much of the conversation.)
kjjw··on The Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money
A terrible article entirely predicated on anecdotal evidence. I have no doubt that most of the 'technologically advanced' equipment Americans put into and will put into wars will ultimately fail to live up to expectations.

But let's give another anecdote about the A10. In Iraq, the A10, just like the B52 in Afghanistan, was responsible for killing two truck loads of British soldiers. Its pilot mistook the luminous arrow signs that indicated friendly forces for missile systems.

In Afghanistan, an American Apache mowed down a platoon of British troops after being called in as air support and mistaking the troops for the enemy.

The thing that links all these incidences is not low or high tech but the American military. Clearly its pilots, soldiers, staff are not trained properly. Just a bunch of reckless idiots. Much like the government that sent them.

kjjw··on ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research
I'm not sure replicatable or reproducible are better or worse than each other. They are just different things. Replicatable seems to hint at an easy way to run quite literally the exact same experiment or process as someone else has done in the past, while reproducible suggests there is enough information made available for someone else to re-create from the ground up a previous experiment or process.

It seems to me both have merits and one cannot assume that performing a 'replication' is a superior form of 'reproduction', nor the other way around. I suspect the merits and relative desirability of one or the other vary depending on discipline.

kjjw··on Banner “Fraud” Doesn’t Matter
"Honestly, at first when that article got posted I thought you were going to talk about something else: like maybe how the entire dream of the internet is a bit of a fraud for advertisers in general."

Dream of the internet (presumably they mean dream of the web) was not initially one of advertisement.

kjjw··on Idea of paying citizens a yearly stipend is gaining support in Switzerland
Pretty sure the situation is the same in much of Europe. Used to be different in the UK but these days the housing market is now all but in the hands of buy-to-let rent seekers. I read recently a startling figure from one of the large estate agents in the UK - 60% of house purchases are cash purchases, no mortgage involved!

Oh and yes - UK politicians too really do have their hands in the property market. Over a third of them report rental income on the register of member's interests.

kjjw··on Idea of paying citizens a yearly stipend is gaining support in Switzerland
Urgh really? That is so disingenuous I actually feel a bit dirty after reading it. Sorry, but surely you are invoking the comparison to North Korea because you hope to argue against guaranteed income by association.

Also, a bowl of rice a day really is fundamentally different to a guaranteed income that can be spent as the recipient wishes. It is more like food stamps in the US.

kjjw··on Distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day
Utter nonsense. Automated driving aids have been developed for a long time by European car manufactuerers. Audi is now testing a fully automated var. Daimler just released a partially self driving truck.
kjjw··on Thunderbolt 3 embraces USB Type-C connector, doubles bandwidth to 40Gbps
Confused. I have an Apple TB display and plug it into a ThinkPad mini DisplayPort port. Works fine.
kjjw··on What one may find in robots.txt
What do you mean 'with bots'? We're talking about anyone at all hitting a link blocking the IP they have.

Some mobile networks have every person on the network originating traffic from the same IP. Some large institutions, universities, government departments, large companies have all their traffic coming from one IP.

This person has effectively created a feature that will perform a denial of service attack on their own website.

kjjw··on What one may find in robots.txt
Users share IPs.
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