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michaeljohansenon Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any

"Drones are key to not losing wars".

michaeljohansenon Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

If you're tired of AI now you're gonna hate where we are going. Strap in!

(…or take a good step back from the news cycle, check in once or twice a week instead of several times daily. News consumption reduction is good for mental health.)

michaeljohansenon Ask HN: How do you keep marching?

This could lead to never finishing anything. OP is asking about how to get through the infamous "valley of death". Just stopping is not necessarily the right action.

michaeljohansenon Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use

Some humans are programmed to stop using printers after a certain amount of use

michaeljohansenon My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)

Are you me? I've been keeping a txt file for the last 12 years too.

Synced in Dropbox, only available on my laptops (on purpose), only ever opened with Sublime Text, and using my own syntax highlighting, keywords and autocompletions. A new block of text for every day. Nothing is ever deleted. Consistent writing style, lots of checkboxes, and an onthology of tags to categorise everything.

File size at time of writing: 3.5 MB.

michaeljohansenon All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan

23andMe provides checkboxes for everything you could want to change. Even better than checkboxes on a paper form, these are consents you can give / retract at any time:

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/privacy/

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/research/

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/records/

michaeljohansenon Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

Are you sure about that? Appears to me that you need a registered trademark in Cape Verde, which Marcaria also has a process for (costs a lot and takes up to a year). I'm fairly certain your domain will expire within three months after purchase without a valid trademark certificate.

michaeljohansenon Ask HN: Are we in tech-stock bubble?

S&P500 has a total market cap of $31T. Tesla's current piece of that index is ~2%. A bubble pop would be unlikely to "take the whole economy with it" (thankfully).

michaeljohansenon Students create device to capture car tyre microplastic debris

After emissions is solved (EVs), tyres is the next big challenge in a sustainable car. Been thinking a lot about this problem. Up until I saw this video I thought it was almost unsolvable because something needs to touch between car and road. That friction will rip something loose. The fact that those microplastics are positively charged is, at least to me, very good news. Maybe micro debris from the asphalt / cement can be captured as well.

michaeljohansenon Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y

(I get that you're trying to be funny. That's OK.)

Nevertheless: He means that electric cars have a "low center of gravity" which matters immensely in collision scenarios.

See this short video of a Model X in a capsizing test: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1310623334367989761?s=...

michaeljohansenon Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

Plunging is a strong word, but this is still an excellent point. Just bought the stock for support.

michaeljohansenon Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff

Well. We Norwegians joke that SAS stands for "svensk alt sammen" (Swedish all together). Some of us consider Norwegian Air Shuttle to be more of a Norwegian airline.

And yes, a bailout is likely. The govt will likely help keep Norwegian Air's planes flying during the Coronavirus period. Additional help is possible.

michaeljohansenon A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song

This is not the Bond villain we want.

michaeljohansenon Norweigan oil fund

Norwegian software developer here. I pay my taxes with pleasure, knowing that the money supported my education, my ability to go to the hospital, good roads, good airports, and lots of other public functions that are great because we collectively invest in them. I think anything below 20% in taxes simply means a country's public functions will suffer.

It's weird to me that Americans have so much against taxes. If a country has a low degree of curruption, and has incentives to innovate in the public sector, then taxes are a good thing.

Obviously I can't speak for the general population, but as for my close proximity: My colleagues think taxes are good too. No brain drain here.