Hacker News: TravisCooper

New comment by TravisCooper in "Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions"

TravisCooper — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:27:50 +0000

It's all designed. Top down, one mind. Designed. That's why it all works.

Think about all the cells, and the thousands/millions of jobs they do, in perfect coordination just in your fingers or hands.

It's all designed.

New comment by TravisCooper in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

TravisCooper — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:27:42 +0000

They should make recommendations, and then before anything goes into effect, these recommendations must be passed into law (Congress passes bill, President signs it).

They could bundle these up regularly.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

TravisCooper — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:26:55 +0000

Starting at the bottom with basic facts helps build understanding.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

TravisCooper — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:23:53 +0000

Almost seems too-good-to-be-true right? Such a tight margin-of-error...

New comment by TravisCooper in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

TravisCooper — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:23:10 +0000

CO2 is 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere, amazing!

79% Nitrogen

21% Oxygen

0.9% Argon

0.1% Other (includes CO2)

New comment by TravisCooper in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

TravisCooper — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:08:40 +0000

Amazing how precise we can get these number with what appears to be a very tight margin of error.

The temperature estimating margin-of-error for sponges must be super tight! ;)

New comment by TravisCooper in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

TravisCooper — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:01:48 +0000

CO2 is 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere, amazing!

79% Nitrogen

21% Oxygen

0.9% Argon

0.1% Other (includes CO2)

New comment by TravisCooper in "New exoplanets identified that could potentially harbor life"

TravisCooper — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:31:00 +0000

Spoiler: There's no life on any of those planets.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

TravisCooper — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:55:02 +0000

This is the correct take. Well said.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)"

TravisCooper — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:07:49 +0000

Another great memory was writing "broken" HTML comment tags so you could disable "auto-inserted" ads from Geocities and Angelfire (and other) sites so you could look cool with your premium, ad-free site.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)"

TravisCooper — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:05:57 +0000

So, so much time spent on DynamicDrive. It was the future. Thanks for the reminder!

New comment by TravisCooper in "Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies"

TravisCooper — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:13:01 +0000

Agreed. Glad to see the "opening up" of Aerospace/Military that SpaceX has enabled by simply being extremely competent. Anduril is also making great plays in the Military contractor space. They don't do "cost plus" projects, but design and build the entire POC themselves then offer it to US Armed Forces.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares the Innocent (2016)"

TravisCooper — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:08:05 +0000

Agreed. This is absolutely immoral. I don't know how we can trust that this evidence is useful in an "real" sense.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes"

TravisCooper — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:56:20 +0000

Just put this out there:

The higher the stakes, the less we should trust what we're "told". Esp if we're told to "believe and don't question".

It won't always be obvious to you directly, why something is wrong or corrupt, rather this is a sense we have to develop over time: question the people and ideas that we're supposed to "trust".

New comment by TravisCooper in "Ask HN: Are height adjustable desks worth it?"

TravisCooper — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:08:35 +0000

Yes. But you have to know how to use them. And I don't mean "pressing buttons".

New comment by TravisCooper in "Forging signed commits on GitHub"

TravisCooper — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:06:23 +0000

This is the correct take.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building"

TravisCooper — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:05:43 +0000

This is awesome. A lot of good comes from colocating office work into a central building so the outlying areas can be used for "life affirming" purposes.

Housing, parks, churches, restaurants, entertainment etc.

We should want more "lone wolf" office buildings like this in every city.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?"

TravisCooper — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:59:43 +0000

If you have an erroneous view of life and it's origins on earth, you'll come up with variations of this type of thinking.

However, life didn't evolve through a random walk of chemical reactions turning into complex systems with the ability to replicate and gain ever increasing complexity over time. Not possible.

Entropy is increasing.

New comment by TravisCooper in "Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service"

TravisCooper — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:09:55 +0000

Glad to see that SpaceX has lit a fire here. We'll look back and marvel at how much SpaceX accelerated our technological timeline due to aggressive optimism and engineering leadership.

New comment by TravisCooper in "'No cash accepted' signs are bad news for unbanked Americans"

TravisCooper — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:04:35 +0000

Terrible for personal freedom and autonomy.

We have to mandate that sellers of essential goods (grocery, fuel) must always accept cash.

Obvious that this will be used against "anti government forces" in the future... which will grow over time to encompass everyone. CBDC discussions already market their ability to limit what/when/how you can use your "money".

Killing cash is just step one. Watch this space.