Hacker News: egman_ekki

New comment by egman_ekki in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

egman_ekki — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:57:39 +0000

…and from here, it’s turtles all the way down.

New comment by egman_ekki in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

egman_ekki — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:45:43 +0000

But has she ever passed a test to prove she doesn't have the SRY gene?

New comment by egman_ekki in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

egman_ekki — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:23:07 +0000

You can try an electric bike for those longer distances. It’s really fun to ride if you find a good one.

New comment by egman_ekki in "The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (2017)"

egman_ekki — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:50:56 +0000

Vitamin D good. Higher levels than previously thought.

New comment by egman_ekki in "Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant"

egman_ekki — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:58:01 +0000

This is only for Crypto. For stocks, it's even (but some instruments are taxed at every Dec 31st, even when unrealized).

New comment by egman_ekki in "Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant"

egman_ekki — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:55:16 +0000

Denmark says hold my beer, as usual with taxes. Gains are taxed at 37-51%, as regular income. Losses can only be deducted at about 26%.

You can be in loss from crypto trading and still owe taxes in DK. Yay!

New comment by egman_ekki in "Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study"

egman_ekki — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:57:05 +0000

I think they want more than 18c. 18c is pretty cold to sit in for a prolonged time.

New comment by egman_ekki in "Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores""

egman_ekki — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:33:23 +0000

> EU leadership are actively rooting for [a war] and waste no opportunity to stoke the tension

Yes, we should all just stop building our defenses and increasing our resilience and roll over. Let's roll out a red carpet for Russians all the way to Paris (or maybe Lisbon?). The same peaceful folks who talk about bombing our cities every week on their national TV.

New comment by egman_ekki in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

egman_ekki — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:59:02 +0000

I think your view is a tad optimistic. Many people had difficult lives just because they didn’t want to be members of the party. Thier kids didn’t get to good schools, or got to the one 30 minutes by train, they lost jobs and were forced to dry laundry with engineering degrees.

There was even a joke about this:

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In Poland, during the times of hard socialism, a math associate professor calculated that a shipyard worker earned three times more than he did. So he thought “screw this,” crossed out the titles before and after his name, and went to work in a factory.

Of course, he was doing well in the factory — he didn’t strain himself too much and earned three times more than at the school. Then the factory introduced an evening school for workers, with the promise that whoever attended would get a raise. So the associate professor signed up and started going.

On the very first lesson — bam — mathematics. The level was like the first year of high school, so the associate professor was just dozing off, not paying attention. The teacher noticed him, called him up to the board, and asked him to calculate the area of a circle.

The professor started writing, but for the life of him couldn’t remember the formula for the area of a circle. So he decided to derive it. He wrote the conversion to polar coordinates, then integrated it, and ended up with –πr². So he stood there, wondering where the minus sign had come from.

And from the back row, someone whispered: “Reverse the integration interval.”

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Also, behold, people queueing for toilet paper in 88 in Czechoslovakia: https://youtu.be/O6qUqFy2FEU

New comment by egman_ekki in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

egman_ekki — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:14:26 +0000

yet, many people claim they were happier back then. At least in the country where I’m from. No options in life, no hard decisions or responsibility for their lives. Our current PM said he didn’t notice the fall of communism. shrug

New comment by egman_ekki in "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation"

egman_ekki — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:03:28 +0000

You're giving a 10% chance to Denmark allying with Russia over a threat from US? Even right-wing parties in Dk aren't really pro-Russian, so I'd say the chance is closer to 0 than 10%.

New comment by egman_ekki in "Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes"

egman_ekki — Sun, 18 May 2025 15:24:33 +0000

But they don’t get stolen as often, if at all.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped [video]

egman_ekki — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:39:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4YRO7G0wE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999120

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by egman_ekki in "Swimmable Cities"

egman_ekki — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:26:36 +0000

You can see it in the By & Havn app (City & Harbour in Danish): https://byoghavn.dk/ny-app-til-alle-os-der-elsker-koebenhavn...

Also in Badevand app: https://kbh.badevand.dk/

New comment by egman_ekki in "Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?"

egman_ekki — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:22:59 +0000

then make sure you don’t move to Denmark where you pay tax on unrealized gains (for some asset classes)

New comment by egman_ekki in "WP21"

egman_ekki — Tue, 28 May 2024 10:36:13 +0000

> Example : woo commerce.

> Orders ? In the WP_POST db.

No longer true, at least for new installations: https://woocommerce.com/document/high-performance-order-stor...

New comment by egman_ekki in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

egman_ekki — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:51:31 +0000

So a FHPUW, then.

New comment by egman_ekki in "Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired"

egman_ekki — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:28:35 +0000

Not necessarily. Layoffs mean higher profit margins and that often leads to an increase in stock price as it means higher potential payout for shareholders.

New comment by egman_ekki in "Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less"

egman_ekki — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:45:06 +0000

tell me you don’t have a convertible without telling me you don’t have a convertible

New comment by egman_ekki in "Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech"

egman_ekki — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:40:17 +0000

I think you should first consult the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168105 :)

tl;dr: Hell is AI's code ;)