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New comment by Ididntdothis in "Perchlorate, used in rocket fuels, may be more hazardous than previously thought"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:51:12 +0000

Interesting. Can a state or a county decide that killing people or bank robbery is OK? I am honestly curious.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "Perchlorate, used in rocket fuels, may be more hazardous than previously thought"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:29:06 +0000

I can’t imagine Mars soil having any usable nutrients since there are no microbes or any other biological activity. You probably have to bring or produce all fertilization from scratch.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "Perchlorate, used in rocket fuels, may be more hazardous than previously thought"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:25:11 +0000

Maybe we should eliminate nationwide regulations on theft and violence too? Let the locals deal with these things since they are local issues. That way municipalities with funding problems could save some money.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "If you see the cops, start recording"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:17:11 +0000

Very true. Especially the petty drug arrests they have to do are poisoning relationships between cops and citizens.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "If you see the cops, start recording"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:59:39 +0000

So we don’t even need to to pay more. Just better management, training and accountability.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "If you see the cops, start recording"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:44:51 +0000

I work in medical devices. I don’t have to take liability insurance to do my job. I get training on FDA regulations and if I don’t follow them I get warned or fired. We also have internal and external audits with Independent auditors that have the power to demand changes or shut us down. The whole company culture is about doing things the right way and this is coming from the top. As far as I can tell all this is missing in US police or if there are auditors they are toothless or corrupt.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "If you see the cops, start recording"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:39:10 +0000

If that’s what’s needed to attract reasonable people into the police then so be it. If we aren’t willing to pay for proper training and supervision then we have the police force we deserve.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "If you see the cops, start recording"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:17:02 +0000

"So, we should have the cops take out liability insurance and pay damages?"

No, they should get proper training and be held to professional standards.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 19:16:58 +0000

i don't think the previous poster meant moving buttons around and changing icons as "innovation".

New comment by Ididntdothis in "Study finds political bias skews perceptions of verifiable fact"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:24:24 +0000

What facts and evidence for what did you present?

New comment by Ididntdothis in "Qualified Immunity: Explained"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:53:46 +0000

At least the municipalities then would have to choose between never ending payouts or fixing things.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May"

Ididntdothis — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:24:38 +0000

Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

New comment by Ididntdothis in "More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 23:19:01 +0000

That’s very doubtable. I would guess biggest cost is salaries.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:12:58 +0000

The companies that are renting their space also have fixed costs.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:55:11 +0000

We may do better than the bankers who like to design fragile systems as long as they can make boatloads of money :)

New comment by Ididntdothis in "More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:43:17 +0000

It should start up when the renter is not forbidden by government to make money to pay rent.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:34:22 +0000

This would make sense to me. Why are some businesses being shut down and have to deal with income losses and others like landlords can keep going and demand their income? This seems fundamentally unfair to me.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "Study finds political bias skews perceptions of verifiable fact"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 19:41:34 +0000

When I look at this chart I see ups and downs but overall a pretty steady upward trend. I don’t see eights years of Obama misery and then triumph under Trump. That was my point.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "Show HN: interviewing.io is out of beta and open to engineers of all levels"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:43:11 +0000

“Your "dream" job at a FAANG might be more unpleasant and boring than you've been expecting.”

The money can compensate for a lot of unpleasantness. I think finding a “dream job” is an illusion for most people. The question is usually “bearable” or “unbearable”.

New comment by Ididntdothis in "Study finds political bias skews perceptions of verifiable fact"

Ididntdothis — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:38:00 +0000

From what I can see the real problem is that most people don’t care about facts anymore. They just want to hear what they think anyway and the political parties are too happy to feed that.

When you talk to left wingers and right wingers about the economy of the last ten years the left guys will tell you it was paradise until 2016 and then everything went to hell. The right wingers will tell you it was misery until 2016 and then the boom started. When you look at stock indices, unemployment or other charts you will see a steady rise over ten years. You won’t even see that the president has changed. But pointing that out is futile. Most people don’t want facts.