Hacker News: Over2Chars

New comment by Over2Chars in "US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek"

Over2Chars — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:53:38 +0000

I propose the death penalty for politicians who propose ineffective laws.

(P.s. I'm not a politician)

New comment by Over2Chars in "[dead]"

Over2Chars — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:16:04 +0000

Real authoritarianism is easily found in Communist countries.

You will be thrown in jail for six months for saying the wrong thing.

New comment by Over2Chars in "TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister"

Over2Chars — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:40:46 +0000

The surveillance harms/thread of a Chinese state owned app need to be fully explained to really make sense.

Unfortunately, going into the minutiae of app based surveillance technology would run head-on into other surveillance based tech from Facebook, Google, and so on.

And it would bring up the touchy subject of data privacy. Oh gosh, if Americans had data privacy this would impact a lot of American businesses based on surveillance tech.

So let's just accept, on good faith, that what the Democrat's portrayed as Trump's Xenophobia, was OK as a natsec issue when Biden did it (no xeno here, folks!), and now that Trump has his bargaining position it's time for "let's make a deal!" (and that Republican who stalled the initial TikTok ban has probably been a good boy this Christmas, and maybe deserves a quid pro quo gift).

New comment by Over2Chars in "Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:07:38 +0000

It says "The following is the dedication of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary wars with the Americas."

blah blah blah

New comment by Over2Chars in "So you want to build your own data center"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:52:54 +0000

Indeed, I've seen "data center" maps, and was surprised they were just a tenant in some other guys data center.

New comment by Over2Chars in "So you want to build your own data center"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:48:10 +0000

I guess we can always try to re-hire all those "Sys Admins" we thought we could live without.

LOL?

New comment by Over2Chars in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:31:46 +0000

now?

New comment by Over2Chars in "In Defence of 'Productivity Crap'"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:51:14 +0000

You aren't familiar with Software Defined Chainsaws (SDC)s? It's all the rage.

I recommend against Rust.

New comment by Over2Chars in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:50:02 +0000

I suspect it might have something to do with the prevalence of earthquakes, the likelihood of said structures being damaged in earthquakes, and building codes (I've heard) that require re-building on a regular basis.

When you build you civilization on active volcanoes having long-lasting buildings may not be a reasonable assumption.

And, yes!, they have insurance. So if you can insure buildings in volcano country, you can insure anything, anywhere, maybe?

New comment by Over2Chars in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:47:02 +0000

The topic was "is the world becoming uninsurable?" with some climate-panic being implied, oh gosh.

If a country with 1/10th of the worlds seismic activity can have (earthquake) insurance, then well dammit, I think it can be done.

Insurance, afaict, is just gambling, and well darnit you can gamble on anything.

The odds might be terrible, but there's ways of hedging your bets I've heard.

I am not a gambler.

New comment by Over2Chars in "Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why"

Over2Chars — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:44:36 +0000

I like how despite my comment on Japan, I'm characterized as a geographically challenged American.

How about you take your stereotypes and go have a nice burger at McDonald's?

New comment by Over2Chars in "Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:29:45 +0000

In earthquake prone areas concrete and bricks fall over. You want that in hurricane prone areas.

New comment by Over2Chars in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:26:14 +0000

Its a country built on seismically active volcanoes.

If there's earthquake insurance in japan, it should be do-able.

"In and around Japan, one-tenth of earthquakes in the world occur. " https://geoscienceletters.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/...

New comment by Over2Chars in "Thoughts on a Month with Devin"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:44:31 +0000

No matter what happens with Devin specifically, I think this is a really important topic and I enjoy reading updates on this kind of review every time.

Please keep them coming.

New comment by Over2Chars in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:53:03 +0000

I would assume that earthquake insurance in japan is a reasonable model for "world insurance".

It looks like it's a reinsurance program:

https://www.mof.go.jp/english/policy/financial_system/earthq...

So, I think the answer is "no".

New comment by Over2Chars in "Starship Flight 7"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:45:02 +0000

It needs to give him a job :-)

New comment by Over2Chars in "Starship Flight 7"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:44:27 +0000

I think wandering in the desert is done because there is a promised land. Yes, it doesn't mean that it exists.

But if you don't wander, you'll never find out. You gotta believe

New comment by Over2Chars in "Show HN: I built a credit-based system API"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:36:58 +0000

This is a duplicate of this identical post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41147651

Where's the "showing"? It looks just like link flogging to me.

Here's a link for you.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24201/how-did-th...

New comment by Over2Chars in "TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:32:55 +0000

Trump says he wants to bring manufacturing back. Let's see what happens.

New comment by Over2Chars in "In Defence of 'Productivity Crap'"

Over2Chars — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:19:23 +0000

Prove it please.