<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Pica_soO</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Pica_soO</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:45:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Pica_soO" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "The Man in Seat Sixty-One"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the best case train is like being driven in a Limo on a free interstate</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2019 14:51:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896861</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think, actually that the region would have had its melt-down one way or the other. The Arab spring would have happened anyway. 
And he most likely would have swept Hussein away. Vietnam told us, that in the long run, no foreign power projection prevails against local interests aligned with local powers.<p>And it will happen again, in about 1.5 generations- waving over a region, who will be very much beyond peak oil. 
Which will have all those in power at that moment, trying to vent the tension the good old European style- by sending those revolutionary's with all the emotional words and no plans on how to make the world a better place into endless ditch wars.<p>So the board for the great game is been lay out- now the most relevant game piece has to be determined. Who is the Germany of the middle east?<p>As in a currently disassembled power-house without resources, that reassembled is capable of innovation and thus is a danger for all current major players.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:45:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18819600</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18819600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18819600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If a lawyer would look at the contract, he would say we fulfilled the requirements of the contract.<p>If a customer would look at the contract, he would say "Never again, and will warn everyone i meet".</p>
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<p>Never think like a spy. Never think of other people just as assets, constantly scanning for flaws and weakness to roll them "downhill", think about all the people you know - your family, your spouse, your kids, your neighbors as individuals you could get to do anything, so entangled in lies and corruption.
Never be a spy.
Because once you are a spy, can can never stop being one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:12:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18786511</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18786511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18786511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was a lot of meta-game you could not grasp as a newb in arena-shooters. You heard the opponent grab the shotgun shells, you knew he could either reach door a or door b in 5 seconds. So you grenade launched into Door A and flung yourself at Door B.<p>For newcomers this resulted in dying horrible most of the time, all the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2018 23:26:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18773580</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18773580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18773580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds strange. Just have a collector service, that cleans them and you get a certified fresh package at the super-market?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18702632</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18702632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18702632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "A Swiss Dress from the 16th Century (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those enthusiasts do go all the way for the medieval dresses. As in buying wool and dying themselves, following medieval recipes.
They even have books on the garments and stitches found with ancient bodies in those swamp ponds. Or they recover them from wood carvings - as seen here.<p>We had a dinner following the ancient roman cuisine with one of these history buffs once. These guys definitely overdid it with fish-paste and spices- to show off there riches.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:29:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668295</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "A map that shows how territorial wolves are"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are a deer, the save zones are obviously the territory borders. You migrate from one voronoi cell of trouble into the next.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:33:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634305</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you could have a  liquid 3D printer below the starting surface and a solid PLA printer above, you could start in the middle of the object and print into two directions, at twice the speed. Of course- the basic question remains, what holds the middle? Retractable titanium bolt?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:31:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634299</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "Fortnite addiction and parenting in the age of screens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually, participation often ruins the hobby. If your dad is better then you at a game/sports its loosing its value to differentiate you from your siblings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 23:30:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18632640</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18632640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18632640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually mobs holders are a great idea. I'm a men, and i find that jiggling fat disgusting. If you made that a new social norm, i would push it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:21:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602110</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ultrasound device identification? Had you two your phones on with the web-side loaded while meeting?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 08:21:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525963</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Saudi Arabias school book dont have nice words for america either. The 9/11 cause was that a whole generation of islamic men grew up hating infidels (russians & americans alike).<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_textbook_controversy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_textbook_controv...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18517401</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18517401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18517401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "What does WhatsApp’s upcoming monetisation mean for the company and its users?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder, could one use users as bridges- like in irc - and communicate with whats app groups from outside the walled garden?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:33:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432466</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "Sick Building Syndrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are lots of buildings, with a dark history. Glue used for the carpet that constantly exhales solvents- its especially horrible if your building was a industrial site before. Those brick buildings near trainstations, that where formerly train maintenance sheds are particularly horrible, as the oil in most trains was highly carcinogenic and seeped right into the brick during maintenance.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil#Polychlorinated_biphenyls_(PCBs)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil#Polychlorinate...</a>
Always read up on the history of the building you are working in.<p>Also, always google industrial scandals in the local news-paper- usually they just rebuild right over spill sites- and the stuff smells up after rain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:39:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428454</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me its the similarity to another pre-relativistic concept- the invisible ether between the worlds- that rubs me the wrong way.<p>And its tough to imagine the consequences of something you are absolutely not able to detect, you could be flying towards with 250 km/s. Its kind of scary- imagine you hit something like that and it causes earth quakes or a shake up of the solar system. Just think if that missing gas giant was actually a Blob of DM cycling the solar system.<p>And, well - the situation seems similar to this over focused on the problem situations you sometimes have in coding. Everyone has committed to a very narrowed down problem solution, that is just not working out, but instead of stepping back, a thousand angles are tried to solve the problem in the narrow scope.<p>Many here, just want to help. 
Which, given the Enlightenment as a project of everyone capable, against a Elite fighting for dogmatic ignorance - is a good thing in my book.<p>The article is missing in my opinion a confidence rating for every observation- how often this has been tested in experiments or observed in space. Otherwise it was good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18208851</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18208851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18208851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem often starts, when the power dynamic in such a relationship suddenly swings around. It takes somebody well grounded to reality, to survive this with love.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:00:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097408</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its one of those features of asymmetric warfare, that you can drag the enemy into the moral-mud-pits of combating opposition among the civilian population. 
For the opposite side this has the benefit of getting new recruits among the relatives and survivors and obviously of leading a far superior enemy by the noose ring through the public arena -which raises Opposition in a democracy - and reduces combat effectiveness in the military in dictatorships and democracy's (sovjet afghanistan).<p>I would really love to have the CIAs Information on how much vietnamese population was in active opposition to the american "police" action. My estimate would be around 75 %.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2018 05:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044653</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "Magic Leap Is Bidding on an Army Combat Contract"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry but- after the JSF debacle- is this not already a dead duck? Honestly- on a battlefield, everything in addition you want has to be unobtrusive, totally intuitive and non-view obstructing. The last thing you want after a IDE has blown up, to see MS Clippy hoping through the wreckage, producing friendly fire.<p>Just take the integrated battlefield promised with the JSF, generating more Noise then usage. Im sure, you could add something similar in theory to a FPS, basically estimating the position of a retreating shooter.<p>But why bother and risk - when some well placed mortars will do that?<p>Just because it looked good in scifi movies, doesent mean its good in reality.<p>Only parties that could benefit from this, are specialists- meaning, drone-flights, commanding officers and upgraded personal- (medics in need for direct instructions by a doctor) - even those could usually be easier given without the AR.<p>And thats from someone who is a huge AR fan. Maybe im overlooking some benefits- i would really appreciate some usecases - if i missed them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:47:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042550</link><dc:creator>Pica_soO</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pica_soO in "I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do no longer think that people actually learn from history. They do so if they percieve to gain a advantage from that, but the advantage of something "normal" like peace and prosperity in europe, is only visible in hindsight.<p>I think, people must be vaccinated against radicalism, again and again, by experiencing the outcomes for themselves.<p>If you are discriminated and robbed in your favorite online game, for no other reason then who you are or your name-  without any success when appealing to the "state", you begin to understand what it is like to have been a jew in europe.<p>Another difficult fact remains- only the prosperity of the past and the nuclear weapons kept these dark tides at bay.<p>The politics, the memorials and the activism did & do nothing.</p>
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