Hacker News: git_rancher

New comment by git_rancher in "Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)"

git_rancher — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:08:52 +0000

A few hundred thousand dollars worth of tech replacing what used to be a massive industrial investment is amazing. And I thought enriching uranium is something that counties with nukes go to extreme lengths to make it not accessible.

New comment by git_rancher in "A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived"

git_rancher — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:40:22 +0000

What about unique patterns of wealth redistribution across the economies they participate in? Surely this is a value to society.

New comment by git_rancher in "The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized"

git_rancher — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 04:16:26 +0000

> There is one other use case for identity, and yes, it is decentralized and bottom-up, because it is about dividing into secure, self-sovereign affinity groups, and the reasons for doing that are on a very short list of uses. Super fun, but basically a weapon.

A weapon against who? A self sovereign affinity group could just be a community trying to self organize without relying on non-owned infrastructure. Aka prepper stuff.

New comment by git_rancher in "Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite"

git_rancher — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 03:11:42 +0000

Everything is already automated if you consider the universe’s noise to be an organizing force.

New comment by git_rancher in "The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology (2007) [pdf]"

git_rancher — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 04:15:56 +0000

There’s a tragedy of commons problem in engineering. The engineering orgs collective ability to handle complexity is the community resource. Without safeguards in place this resource is squandered by engineers because the easy solution to a problem often paradoxically leads to higher complexity in the code base. Why? Because it’s easier to make ad-hoc new connections between things than to abide by a larger plan. And connections are the complexity.

One thing I’ve noticed that sometimes leads to this idea is using a “survival of the fittest” approach to percolating ideas.

Interesting parallel to this article perhaps.

New comment by git_rancher in "America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches"

git_rancher — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:33:26 +0000

This probably mirrors the concentration of power that’s happening.

New comment by git_rancher in "Free, Open Spaces: Brian Eno’s Favourite Records (2016)"

git_rancher — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:15:28 +0000

The what list?

New comment by git_rancher in "Thousands of Americans Will Be Denied a Passport Because of Unpaid Taxes"

git_rancher — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 18:46:58 +0000

This makes the whole US a debtors prison of sorts. Not sure if this is a useful way to think about it though.

New comment by git_rancher in "Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry"

git_rancher — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 20:59:58 +0000

Does anyone else remember being taught in Econ 101 about globalization and comparative advantage and how great it is? Either the educators didn't know this would happen or it was a campaign to sell the public on the idea. Or maybe it was just bad teaching. I wonder which one it was.

New comment by git_rancher in "Is Sleeping with Your Baby as Dangerous as Doctors Say?"

git_rancher — Tue, 22 May 2018 04:54:47 +0000

Strictly focusing on minimizing risk to life imo leads to practices that neglect quality of life. Imagine if keeping your baby isolated at night meant that later in her life she would have trouble trusting the world and would as a result be handicapped when it comes to making and keeping healthy relationships. That's what some folks believe will happen.

New comment by git_rancher in "Is Sleeping with Your Baby as Dangerous as Doctors Say?"

git_rancher — Tue, 22 May 2018 03:50:55 +0000

The constant skin to skin contact between baby and mom from cosleeping and breastfeeding is believed by some psychologists to contribute to baby's healthy psychological development. Humans are highly social animals. I'm amazed and sad it's common practice to isolate babies for such a large portion of the day.

We coslept with our first and are now doing it with our 2nd who is still a newborn. We're 3 weeks in and are already close to getting enough sleep each night.

New comment by git_rancher in "Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)"

git_rancher — Sat, 12 May 2018 17:06:28 +0000

Fat vs glucose being the energy source depending on diet? Where can I find more info about this?

New comment by git_rancher in "How our heartbeat shapes our thinking [video]"

git_rancher — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 05:42:34 +0000

My therapy involves periods of getting in touch with my body, e.g. tension in my forehead or tightness in my chest, and then as I focus and try to be present with the sensations, words tend to pop into my mind that often yield insights into suppressed feelings and ideas. There's a book that nicely presents the therapy technique named body centered psychotherapy by Ron Kurtz.

I wonder if focusing on ones heartbeat employs the same underlying mechanisms that help self-insights happen.

New comment by git_rancher in "Billionaire Khosla Is Asking the Supreme Court to Keep People Off His Beach"

git_rancher — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:10:54 +0000

I wonder how long until a critical mass of people get fed up with the resource hogging of the ultra rich. Seems likely to happen at some point if current trends in wealth inequality continue.

New comment by git_rancher in "Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say About Future Journalism?"

git_rancher — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 03:10:47 +0000

A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press releases.

Edit: typo fix

New comment by git_rancher in "Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB"

git_rancher — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:55:41 +0000

Can we keep age discrimination out of this discussion please?

New comment by git_rancher in "Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?"

git_rancher — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:32:55 +0000

Run the examples to see what it does, try to build something with it to get a deeper understanding of the depth of its capability, then finally dive into the code itself by fixing a bug or adding a feature or even just playing around and changing stuff. Join the developer channels and ask questions. People usually love it when you show an interest in what they've built.

New comment by git_rancher in "What are the best, less well-known blockchain white papers?"

git_rancher — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:30:14 +0000

Skycoin is interesting. https://www.skycoin.net/whitepapers/

New comment by git_rancher in "Boring Flamethrower"

git_rancher — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 01:26:08 +0000

Maybe this is the "make a favorable impression with rich people at LA parties" PR tactic.

New comment by git_rancher in "Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (2013)"

git_rancher — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:00:37 +0000

Can you share more about your interest in this? Eg just cryptocurrency or for something larger?