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New comment by genman in "RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft"

genman — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:02:46 +0000

Or, they are just this stupid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

New comment by genman in "The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States"

genman — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:01:57 +0000

The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. It became quite obvious when the Arduino wave took the hold and people started to design their own PCBs and realized that they can get their designs done in China much cheaper and faster. It was by now over 10 years ago - this was the moment when the opportunity was really lost.

New comment by genman in "Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]"

genman — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:21:32 +0000

The most important aspect is to save/conserve the equipment and knowledge so it would be possible for somebody else to take over. Something like this happened with Polaroid - a group of enthusiasts got Polaroid equipment and managed to partially restore the development of Polaroid integral instant film (the one where everything is packed into single package). Unfortunately the much more beautiful and photo like "peel apart" instant film was already scraped by both Polaroid and Fuji. I would even consider this a cultural vandalism, similar to destroying important cultural artifacts.

New comment by genman in "Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)"

genman — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:28:24 +0000

What you claim is simply wrong. The problem was not that the doctors ignored religious superstition, but the Christian customs had been altered over the time and touching the dead was actually act of compassion - there were no impurity laws in late Christianity like it was in Judaism.

New comment by genman in "Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)"

genman — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:22:21 +0000

Is this yin, yang somehow measurable? If not then there is a fundamental problem.

Also Western medicine is very well aware of side effects, it's actually one of the fundamental concepts. For example it knows that taking Paracetamol is good against pain, but increases risk to the liver, especially when taken with alcohol. It's also very well aware of causes of fever and doesn't recommend lowering it for the sake of it, only from certain dangerous level. It also knows that taking antibiotics affects gut bacteria, so it's often recommended to take also probiotics. It knows that some medicine could affect women differently, especially when they are pregnant or are breast feeding. The list goes on, it's never black and white.

New comment by genman in "Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)"

genman — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 01:23:42 +0000

Why not apply scientific method to Traditional Chinese Medicine and use double blinded placebo controlled trials to test its validity? In the end also modern medicine is using exactly this method and can treat substances using the black box method.

New comment by genman in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

genman — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:26:05 +0000

The main wrong lesson learned was to promote Chrome instead of Firefox (also in what many HN readers have been guilty of).

New comment by genman in "New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?"

genman — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:34:09 +0000

JavaScript is hilarious through and through.

New comment by genman in "Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no"

genman — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:00:57 +0000

It looks like people need a new legislation to protect against such abuses.

New comment by genman in "Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no"

genman — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:00:07 +0000

Perhaps exaggerated, but the point remains - saying No has been made considerably harder for a regular user.

New comment by genman in "Being full of value‑added shit"

genman — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:59:23 +0000

Isn't it the symptom of current time - you have to blatantly self promote yourself? Or is it still easier to let your work speak for you instead of noisy self promotion?

New comment by genman in "When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment"

genman — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:38:48 +0000

I wonder if some external factors are at play like influx of people from different societies. There is now more wider cap also in England as presented here https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/10/boys-widen...

Interestingly earlier study found non existent cap in more equal societies https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/may/30/schools.uk...

I have similar criticism about the possible causation of the recent study. This research doesn't disprove innate reasons, it only shows that correlation is not dependent on age but exposure time.

New comment by genman in "Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?"

genman — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:59:28 +0000

Their venom is protein based so what can they do?

New comment by genman in "DARPA exploring growing bio structures of "unprecedented size" in microgravity"

genman — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:59:50 +0000

What would be feed stock for this?

New comment by genman in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

genman — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:53:33 +0000

Liars going to lie, ehh? No, the reason for this milirarny operatia was to exterminate Ukrainian nation, erase it from the history. Destroy and disperse it. There is enough proof for this, starting with the Putin's manifest about non existence of Ukrainians.

The only reason why Russia is so much against NATO is the article 5, because it makes attacking peaceful nations expensive and risky for Russia.

New comment by genman in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

genman — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:27:28 +0000

It only deceives.

New comment by genman in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

genman — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:26:13 +0000

You are unfortunately not understanding how you are being deceived. Confederate in this store didn't flee. They won and there really is the Real America on Long Island.

New comment by genman in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

genman — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:20:20 +0000

The only reason Russia is against NATO is the article 5 - it makes attacking peaceful nations more expensive and risky for them. That is all there is.

New comment by genman in "Jimmy Carter has died"

genman — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:28:35 +0000

You could have just written that you hate Jews. Could have been shorter. If we inherited the Rome, we also inherited its moral debts. The uniqueness of the situation of Jews doesn't invalidate our moral obligations. Brits could have claimed the Palestine for themselves - it was a Roman Christian territory after all, they chose to do the only moral thing imaginable - restoration of Jewish homeland in Palestine.

New comment by genman in "Why Canada Should Join the EU"

genman — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 07:14:39 +0000

The level of ignorance of some people here is astonishing.