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yipopov··on Self-driving car accidents: Robot drivers are ‘odd, and that’s why they get hit’
Inappropriate yielding should be penalised just like lack of appropriate yielding.

At sea the COLREGS require ships with right of way to maintain their course and speed (unless of course they have to give way to another ship, or make evasive maneuvers). Of course fishermen tend to ignore this rule, changing their course and speed whenever convenient to them.

yipopov··on Ask HN: UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of Brexit?
Heading to Europe from where?
yipopov··on Migrating from RethinkDB to Postgres – An Experience Report
I've had a prodigal son moment with Postgres myself. I found that even for many tasks that seem to favour NoSQL (time series, etc.) you get lot more bang for the buck in terms of performance for the same resource usage with Postgres.
yipopov··on Polari: the dead language of gay British men
Shows the Church of England has ceased to be a church in any meaningful way.
yipopov··on Martin Shkreli Is Jailed for Seeking a Hair from Hillary Clinton
>“That is a solicitation to assault in exchange for money that is not protected by the First Amendment,” she said.

Is it, really?

People shed hair all the time, no need to knock her on her back and get to work with a pair of sheep shears.

yipopov··on Cops’ massive salaries are robbing taxpayers blind
>including one officer who pulled down $442,000, a new report shows.

Is that considered a lot for a senior wage for a skilled worker in the US? Sounds pretty tight, even with dramatically lower taxes than most European countries.

yipopov··on U.S. Wireless Industry Is Finally Competitive, FCC Says
For those who can't read the link in the OP: http://archive.is/FBbny
yipopov··on The making of Angela Merkel
archive.is it, please.
yipopov··on Ask HN: Why isn't there a modern MS Access clone?
MS Access is just a FileMaker clone, and FileMaker is still going strong, so I fail to see the problem.
yipopov··on Why I owned a Macbook Pro for a day
Glad I went with the older non-touchbar model. No complaints with that one.

But it does remind me of a dirty trick they pulled on me with a MacBook years ago. The hard drive failed only days before the warranty expiring, and when I took it in for a replacement they said the hard drives were out of stock (I don't believe for a second they didn't have a single 2.5" SATA drive in the entire service centre). They knew I was travelling and didn't have time to wait for several days, so they printed out an official-looking work order that I was to bring to a service centre on my next stop. Of course the work order wasn't worth the paper it was printed on and they treated it as any out-of-warranty repair.

yipopov··on Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?
>I always wonder why politicians/dictators from developing countries who can also observe these differences ever wonder that the average people in a developed country are living a good life so why not just copy what the developed country is doing and apply the similar policies back home to improve the lives of their own citizens.

They very much do, but they almost always do it in a cargo-cult fashion, imitating the appearance of western progress while remaining ignorant of or uninterested in the underlying mechanics. Take for instance Julius Nyerere, well-intentioned as he was, driving his country into the ditch not once but twice by uncritically accepting foreign ideologies of communist collectivisation first and then unchecked capitalism second, apparently thinking either was some kind of white magic incantation that would bring about prosperity, completely ignoring the systemic factors at work with ordinary Tanzanians.

yipopov··on Java Reflection, 1000x Faster
Why? I see why it might be a good idea depending on what problem you are trying to solve, but I don't see why anything has to have any references to its children in order to be a tree node.
yipopov··on JPMorgan's Dimon says Bitcoin 'is a fraud'
It's a fraud for sure, but I don't see how it's any more of a fraud than most consumer tech startups these days. It has certainly gone much longer than most of them without imploding yet.
yipopov··on Unearthed near Hadrian’s Wall: lost secrets of first Roman soldiers
Completely implausible, we're talking about medieval Europeans, not Flintstones era simpletons. The concepts of fortification and putting one rock on top of another were pretty well hashed out by then.
yipopov··on Why Sweden is close to becoming a cashless economy
>"We wanted to minimise the risk of robberies and it's quicker with the customers when they pay by card," says Victoria Nilsson, who manages two of the bakery chain's 16 stores across the city.

Nobody seems to be asking why Sweden all of a sudden has such a big problem with robberies.

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