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New comment by duelingjello in "San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident"

duelingjello — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:52:28 +0000

Maybe your parents didn’t teach you empathy when you were growing up, as is so prevalent these days. There are millions of retired people on fixed incomes who bought their homes when they were normally priced. For example, my grandparents bought a house in Los Gatos for $30k in 1969 and now it’s priced at $1.4M. Is that their fault? Why should elderly people, who cannot take the stress of being uprooted and moving, be forced to sell their homes and lose their balance sheet savings in the process? If anything, discounts on capital gains and property taxes should be based on both income and balance sheet apart from real estate ownership. What if that were you?

New comment by duelingjello in "Video Apparently Showing Flight 572 Missile Strike Geolocated to Iranian Suburb"

duelingjello — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:40:56 +0000

Juan from the Blanco Lirio channel just consolidated the rumors that two (2) Tor (Gen 1) (NATO: SA-15 “Gauntlet”) short-range missiles were probably fired from a battery near the takeoff path based on NATO forces’ SIGINT identifying a lock-on from fire-control radar onto the aircraft and radar tracks of the missiles. It’s interesting how Western sources could identify such signals either from space or hundreds of miles to the south from the Caspian. I guess there is also a possibility of visual/IR sensors seeing the exhaust plume of the solid rocket motor moving quickly at a distance.

New comment by duelingjello in "Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019"

duelingjello — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:03:24 +0000

I remember the smell of carbonless copy paper from an Okidata dot matrix printer hooked up to an AT&T 6300 (same as Olivetti M24) at my dad’s garage (shop). It’s like an earthy “new car smell,” probably cancer-causing VOCs, but it is what it is.

New comment by duelingjello in "Linus at realworldtech: Don't use ZFS. It's that simple"

duelingjello — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:59:10 +0000

Canonical, FreeBSD, Joyent and upteen Sun customers over 15 years disagree with an opinionated non-programmer jerk with anger issues espousing Tweet soundbites lacking any data to backup a wild claim worthy of John McAfee.

New comment by duelingjello in "After the W3C approved DRM, it’s not possible to make a functional indie browser"

duelingjello — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:33:59 +0000

Stupid, stupid, stupid.. design-by-corporate committee.

“Open standards” my left foot.

New comment by duelingjello in "Boeing 737-800 Passenger Jet Crashes in Iran Due to Technical Issue"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:03:28 +0000

No 747 has been used for mainstream commercial passenger service for almost a year because it’s an old, uneconomical design that simply can’t compete anywhere except in cargo.

New comment by duelingjello in "Boeing 737-800 Passenger Jet Crashes in Iran Due to Technical Issue"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:59:30 +0000

That makes it a 737 NG. The NG’s structural components were mostly manufactured (badly) by a subcontractor, Ducommun, but Boeing insisted on installing them anyhow. In 2010, there was a cover-up and a whistleblower; Al Jazeera broke it in a long-form documentary that apparently no one watched.

New comment by duelingjello in "Boeing 737-800 Passenger Jet Crashes in Iran Due to Technical Issue"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:56:37 +0000

You watch too much CNN or MSNBC to dredge up the disproven Russiagate conspiracy theory FUD. Maybe you should wait for investigators to provide their preliminary findings, eh?

New comment by duelingjello in "Proposed FAA Rule Would Kickstart New Economy for IDing Drones"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:53:15 +0000

Kid: flies an R/C airplane at a park.

FAA: “You’re under arrest for unlicensed drone operation!”

Is this sort of scenario we really want? More government control and monetary extraction from every single, benign human activity? Should kites and paper airplanes require licenses too?

New comment by duelingjello in "Iran Air Flight 655 (Wikipedia)"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:48:41 +0000

So, has HN turned into a political conspiracy theory and propaganda factory to beat the drums towards war? I just don’t see how this is relevant except to egg-on the paranoid InfoWars hobgoblins.

New comment by duelingjello in "'Reverse microwave oven' quickly cools drink cans"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:38:55 +0000

So is it sonic, cryogenic or something else (either fraudulent or real)?

New comment by duelingjello in "Almost 9 out of 10 Canadians feel food prices are rising faster than income"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:31:56 +0000

North American feelings are more important than data, rationality and logic... because ignorant people “know better” than climate scientists and subject-matter experts. It sucks, but that’s what most people believe and they vote that way too.

New comment by duelingjello in "Iran Air Flight 655 (Wikipedia)"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:26:29 +0000

Basically every US Navy ship with radar constantly records radar data. It would be easy to demonstrate the aircraft’s flight profile to exonerate the ship. Hiding it means they’re hiding the truth.

New comment by duelingjello in "Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:36:15 +0000

FUD. It’s not lightning.

New comment by duelingjello in "Why Are Young Americans Killing Themselves?"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:33:56 +0000

Whether things are causes, consequences or side-effects is overly-simplistic, linear thinking that isn’t helpful when there are many real pains. Don’t bikeshed on labels or categories, please.

New comment by duelingjello in "Why Are Young Americans Killing Themselves?"

duelingjello — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:30:56 +0000

Inverted totalitarianism imposed by the consequences of extreme greed by the very rich has created ALL of these conditions: divided-and-conquered polarized populace, learned helplessness and corrupt government.

The only viable solution is, unfortunately, violent overthrow of the established order because peaceful revolution has been made totally impossible. It’s the rich’es fault for creating the status quo and ours for accepting it. It’s not an anarchism vs. capitalism vs. communism trinary choice, but a difference in continuum of corruption of the established order working for the people on one extreme and working for only the elites on another. Incrementalist “hoping” nibbling on the periphery or peaceful change aren’t going to happen because the elites concede nothing (except crumbs) without a fight.

New comment by duelingjello in "Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)"

duelingjello — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:20:56 +0000

Empathy, shame and the Golden Rule have to be taught.

If not, feral kids tend to grow up to be self-absorbed, mean, psychopathic, selfish pricks.

PS: I grew up middle class but am now completely destitute and semi-homeless.

New comment by duelingjello in "How to Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda"

duelingjello — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:17:08 +0000

It’s typical for centuries, if not millennia, that politicians will start external dramas (i.e., wars) as smokescreens to deflect and to distract from internal controversies.

New comment by duelingjello in "Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz"

duelingjello — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:26:14 +0000

Possibly from a “BETAMAX” features point-of-view, but it’s not as pervasive as WiFi (“VHS”).

My front door lock is Zigbee only because a WiFi camera is its WiFi-to-Zigbee bridge. Everything else is WiFi.

Maybe in the future smart home stuff will convert over, but then it means one company or another will have to sell a bridge and be the gatekeeper. Perhaps the home/ISP-provided access points should include Z-Wave / Zigbee that is open to provision and configure from FAANG’s and smart home products?

New comment by duelingjello in "Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz"

duelingjello — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:18:03 +0000

Using higher GHz is all about selling more hardware.

Let’s use 500 GHz so you have to have one in ever corner of every room to work. And don’t breathe or take a shower because that will block the signal.