Hacker News: Ferrotin

New comment by Ferrotin in "New Sony Walkman music player"

Ferrotin — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:01:21 +0000

That’s for the OS and apps. Every user is going to use the SD card anyway, and 256GB or 512GB of good quality storage would be wasted on music.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Haiti left with no elected government officials as it spirals towards anarchy"

Ferrotin — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:15:52 +0000

Improvements for who? Certainly not for the DR.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Moderna CEO: 400% price hike on Covid vaccine “consistent with the value”"

Ferrotin — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:54:35 +0000

Why don’t any governments get in that business then? They could distribute it locally but sell the vaccines and pharmaceuticals they develop to foreign countries and make a bunch of profit.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Why Not Mars"

Ferrotin — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:47:05 +0000

It’s not desirable, but that isn’t the question. The question is, is it possible?

New comment by Ferrotin in "Why Not Mars"

Ferrotin — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 06:43:13 +0000

That is because of a treaty, not because of inability.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

Ferrotin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:18:41 +0000

The benefit of doubt is for yourself, to have an accurate understanding of what you know and what you assume.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

Ferrotin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:02:56 +0000

Sure they could. They could have lined up a job or impulsively lashed out, or think enforcing the policy gives them cover. It’s the sort of thing I might do.

This is just a probability you may have a different weight on.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

Ferrotin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:54:27 +0000

We know that was Vijaya and Roth. Bringing up Dorsey is transparent sleight of hand.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

Ferrotin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:49:26 +0000

Content moderators aren’t on H1-B’s.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

Ferrotin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:39:46 +0000

Content moderators can’t switch jobs so easily.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

Ferrotin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:14:16 +0000

Possibly malicious enforcement by Twitter staff in light of https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288

“Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme”

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

Ferrotin — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:07:23 +0000

Obviously he followed the car from the airport — how else would he identify the car with Elon Musk’s kid?

New comment by Ferrotin in "The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months"

Ferrotin — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 05:24:17 +0000

It is very reasonable to describe coldness as a distance from some reference temperature, such as room temperature.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter Office Supply Auction"

Ferrotin — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 02:09:03 +0000

This was not public knowledge, it was publicly denied.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter Office Supply Auction"

Ferrotin — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:44:18 +0000

They suppressed Trump’s account before the election…

New comment by Ferrotin in "Twitter Office Supply Auction"

Ferrotin — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:40:36 +0000

Yes it did.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image"

Ferrotin — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:26:23 +0000

The most important benefit of the public announcement is that showing successfully completed projects like this helps the defense industry with recruitment and encourages more students to become aeronautical and mechanical engineers.

New comment by Ferrotin in "Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image"

Ferrotin — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:19:18 +0000

Historically, yes, they’ve scheduled outdoor activity to avoid satellite overflight, if we’re not misled by books.

Maybe it’s not a strong factor here, because it was a few days before public announcement anyway. But you’d expect them to follow the same protocol or at least pick a more convenient time than 1:30am if they were not.

New comment by Ferrotin in "The Axiom of Infinity (2018)"

Ferrotin — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:31:17 +0000

I remember being a kid and having this discussion in elementary school. Kids have enough intuition to know that operations with fractions should get the same result as with decimal numbers. Or that 1-0.999… = 0.000…. Or that different lengths have a length in between them. All are legitimate and compelling arguments.

New comment by Ferrotin in "The Axiom of Infinity (2018)"

Ferrotin — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:22:25 +0000

Calling “0.999… = 1” very unintuitive is a very strange thing to say, because that makes perfect sense to most children. I’d like to see a result that truly is unintuitive, like what we get with the axiom of choice.