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iOS/Web developer in Vilnius, Lithuania. http://hackernewsers.com/users/rimantas.html rimantas@gmail.com
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rimantas··on What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines
Which areas is film superior to the modern sensors?
rimantas··on When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
This bug can only make you believe something is true, but not make that said thing true (except in some cases where the two overlap).
rimantas··on Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
You know what fans (the real ones) do? They try to know more about the thing they are fans of, and to understand it. Your comment shows nothing of the kind.
rimantas··on When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
Repeating a statement will not make it a fact.
rimantas··on In praise of cash
How many communist countries have you lived in? Cared to name a couple, where barter was preferred?
rimantas··on In praise of cash
Unless you keep all your cash collected under the pillow it does cost money to deposit it at the bank.
rimantas··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
"should" is the key word here.
rimantas··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
To park, not to drive. And the speed in this case is 2km/h instead of bicyclist doing 20 among pedestrians.
rimantas··on Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
Of course, we all know that Tim makes money by selling ads. And Google, on the other hand, has nothing to do with it /s
rimantas··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
Land Rovers do not drive on sidewalks, for a start.
rimantas··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
That's a really shitty comparison. Unless cyclists really do drive in such packs (which they don't). In reality, the effective space taken by cyclist on genera purpose road is bigger than a car — you need a huge safety margin to overtake a cyclist, and if you cannot do that you a forced to follow them untill you can and that's really ineffective. All this does not apply to dedicated cyclist roads/lanes, of course.
rimantas··on Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
Google is also a big part of the reason of the poor health of the web.
rimantas··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
So people use Uber because it costs less to ride and because it does not allow tipping idea being that companies should pay more. This is a sound logic.
rimantas··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
I thought drivers are not employees…
rimantas··on The Privacy Revolution that never came
And how many reading books 60 years ago were learning to write them?
rimantas··on Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns
That was not a serious question. I just wonder wher it all leads. Immune system, when it has nothing to do starts to attack the body itself.
rimantas··on SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
1) It is much easier to stay on Earth than to got into space

2) All the nations have a capability to stay on Earth

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rimantas··on Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns
Ok, so I should probably get fired for saying "Hi" for the female coworker not on my team: because how do you know where to draw the line?
rimantas··on A crater formed in Siberia's permafrost is growing
As opposed to a hundred years ago when these were thriving places?
rimantas··on CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
But I do hear that self driving car has no idea to look for the traffic light if it was not informed beforehand it is here. That does not bring any confidence.

Also, I still don't know what problem is IoT supposed to solve.

rimantas··on Saudi Arabia's Oil Wealth Is About to Get a Reality Check
Energy is necessary in any process where you want to decrease entropy.
rimantas··on Saudi Arabia's Oil Wealth Is About to Get a Reality Check
There is also more food than humans need. But there are some starving ones. Distribution is the problem. As for universe, the only meaningful sources are earth and Sun, anything farther away may not exist at all.
rimantas··on The Future of Not Working
Feed the homeless to the starving. Solves two problems at once.
rimantas··on The Future of Not Working
Overpopulation will not be an issue. IIRC we are already past "peak child".
rimantas··on Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
We have already established this is not the case.
rimantas··on Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
Well, maybe we should choose our projects based on time we have for them, instead of using a hammer to drive in a screw?
rimantas··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
That environment is still out there.
rimantas··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
But 2.25 miles per hour is not fast. And you get 16hours to rest.
rimantas··on Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

  > How do you feel about tech in general where diversity
  > is big issue. 
I do not feel it is an issue at all. Unless you think that there is some deliberate attempt to prevent blacks and hispanics from joining IT.

Why does some field need to mirror racial/whatever composition of the society? Are you concerned that NBA demobraphics does not represent general demographics?

rimantas··on Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture
Those do not look like fuckups to me, i. e. things what happened accidentally. They look like the logical outcome of the very same culture and that thing does not change easily.
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