Hacker News: AlgorithmicTime

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "When Kodak and Polaroid went to war"

AlgorithmicTime — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:56:33 +0000

> dead industry with the last indoor mall built in the US in 2006

Well that's straight up false.

The American Dream mall in East Rutherford, NJ opened in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_Meadowlands

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say"

AlgorithmicTime — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:38:38 +0000

Literally the entire population of New Jersey would revolt. Everyone's doing a minimum of 10 over unless there's traffic.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Science fiction and the death of the sun"

AlgorithmicTime — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:17:53 +0000

Luna 9 used an airbag system, not a soft landing system.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?"

AlgorithmicTime — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:25:29 +0000

I don't think most TSA employees are vets... I'm a veteran and it's relatively easy to identify a fellow vet most of the time.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle"

AlgorithmicTime — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:44:16 +0000

Half the point of special forces is to be covert, which is made hard when your transportation is a giant rocket streaking through the suborbital zone.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud"

AlgorithmicTime — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:38:50 +0000

> SSDs in the cloud are attached over a network, and fundamentally have to be.

No they don't. I work for a cloud provider and I can guarantee that your SSD is local to your VM.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai"

AlgorithmicTime — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:23:30 +0000

At the core, it's all military technology. Canned food was invented for Napoleon's Grand Armee.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds"

AlgorithmicTime — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:48:17 +0000

Some SUVs qualify as trucks under the definitions written into the law.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel"

AlgorithmicTime — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:36:17 +0000

Most fuel mixes for rockets are just Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen, at least in the USA. Seems like most of the next generation are aiming for Methane and LOX.

Burning plastic incompletely would most likely produce more noxious stuff than Kerolox or Methalox engines. Maybe on par with existing Solid Rockets or Hypergolics.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "US oil lobby launches ad campaign to promote oil as 'vital' to global security"

AlgorithmicTime — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:42:51 +0000

Are they wrong? I would say they're right, oil is in fact vital to global security.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "The great cousin decline"

AlgorithmicTime — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:03:46 +0000

That's absurdly cheap... I pay about $900/mo per child.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving"

AlgorithmicTime — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:45:21 +0000

Color me skeptical... people have been drinking for thousands of years. I would be terribly surprised if moderate drinking had a statistically significant effect.

Either way, this is an irresponsible recommendation at a time when birthrates among native populations are falling precipitously. Adding yet another mental/physical hurdle to having kids is the wrong thing to do. Shit, next generation in South Korea will be 40% the size of the current generation with the way things are going.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in"

AlgorithmicTime — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:08:06 +0000

A strike is between a company and its workers, or maybe an industry and its workers. Postal employees, the fire department, transit employees, they don't work for Tesla.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "'Safe' alternatives to engineered stone bench tops may not be so safe: study"

AlgorithmicTime — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:17:04 +0000

They're pretty much in every recently renovated housing unit... not just rich people houses.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Eurostar Amsterdam to London trains cancelled for six months"

AlgorithmicTime — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:18:31 +0000

My experience with international trains between the US and Canada is that the customs checks happen on the train.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "The EPA wants total removal of lead pipes"

AlgorithmicTime — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:44:26 +0000

Jets don’t use leaded aviation gas.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating"

AlgorithmicTime — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:38:19 +0000

That seems absurd. People often have no idea that a product would be useful or desirable beforehand. Perhaps our current level of consumer choice is somewhat absurd, but that brings you to a Soviet style system.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'"

AlgorithmicTime — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:25:09 +0000

Some state and local judges are elected.

The Federal Judiciary is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds"

AlgorithmicTime — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:11:29 +0000

>Can't pay your rent? That's a crime, and the sheriff will be knocking on your door in 30 days.

What on Earth are you talking about? There was an emergency order during COVID that prevented anyone from being evicted for about two years. A ton of landlords got absolutely screwed because their tenants stopped paying rent and could not be evicted by any means.

New comment by AlgorithmicTime in "US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices"

AlgorithmicTime — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:03:16 +0000

Most of those are probably honeypots for the feds.