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New comment by bejk22 in "Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds"

bejk22 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:25:01 +0000

I won't recognize (2) because it's false. Any current - and past - fwd will work just fine in Canadian snowy and icy conditions. Sure if you drive a shitty propulsion car you will get stuck everywhere but those cars are the exception.

Edit: you acknowledged yourself that argument is mostly bs later in your comment...

New comment by bejk22 in "Who Controls Your Thoughts?"

bejk22 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:43:29 +0000

Mammon. Or Leviathan. Or maybe they are one.

New comment by bejk22 in "I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist"

bejk22 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Will climbing Maslow's pyramid make you happy?

New comment by bejk22 in "Ask HN: Will the energy of the 80s ever come back to the West?"

bejk22 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:50:31 +0000

I never went there but judging by music and TV output I'd try west Africa.

New comment by bejk22 in "Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel"

bejk22 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:09:47 +0000

> because he's not like the rest of us.

He's human and killing other humans is something a humans can do, given the right circumstances.

New comment by bejk22 in "What happened to my search engine?"

bejk22 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:57:29 +0000

I like how a webpage about technology getting worse has text too small to read on images you can't zoom (but tapping on it uselessly display the same image in some kind of picture carousel), and randomly ask me to tap a button looking like a link to "continue reading" instead of loading the whole page at once.

New comment by bejk22 in "Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?"

bejk22 — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 05:46:36 +0000

That makes using https instead of http a lot less relevant.

New comment by bejk22 in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

bejk22 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:06:23 +0000

Windows 2000 was nothing like Windows 95/98/Me.

2000 isn't remembered as much as XP because it was never marketed to end-users but as an upgrade to NT4 and a workstation os. Home computers at the time came pre-installed with Windows Me, that was barely usable. When XP came out, it was so much better than Me that people loved it fondly, but in fact it was mostly Windows 2000 with a shitty Telletubbies theme.

New comment by bejk22 in ""No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel"

bejk22 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:28:46 +0000

I'm unsure the US can unilaterally decide if it's in a war or not. Do the opposite side consider it a war? Do the international community consider it a war? Semantic games internal to a single side do not matter much.