<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gnkyfrg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gnkyfrg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:47:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gnkyfrg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gnkyfrg in "United States Digital Service renamed to DOGE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That agreement does nothing but launder tax money into "green" companies.<p>We set oil burning records every year.<p>The people writing that agreement fly around in private jets.<p>Snap out of it!</p>
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<p>In the interest of DRY, naming things is hard because when you want to reuse code in a method or library, it should be easy and intuitive to find what you need.<p>Most, since, many devs name by what it does, rather than how it might be found.<p>For example naming a function calculateHaversine won't help someone looking for a function that calculates the distance between 2 latlongs unless they know the haversine does that.<p>Or they default to shortest name. Atan, asin, Pow for example.</p>
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<p>The other source of energy is kinetic energy. It converts the potential energy of gravity mgh, into electrical energy, back into kinetic energy,  1/2*mv^2.<p>You only put one energy in, the other source is gravity and recycled kinetic.<p>Besides hybrid means two motors gas and electric. Not two inputs.</p>
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<p>Toyota explicitly stated that the hybrid strategy spreads the lithium out to more cars, increasing fuel economy across the fleet.<p>Tesla's 800hp super cars aren't green and never were. They consume lithium to such a degree that they are, maybe even worse in the long run.<p>Using 800 horses to transport one human never could be efficient, no matter the technology.</p>
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<p>Dying worker bees ensure survival of the group without a measurable impact on death of the colony, which when seen as a super organism, means only a part of the organism, leaving the reproducing parts intact, since workers don't mate anyway.</p>
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<p>> we humans and nearly all other mammals certainly don't have a singular queen and a sterile caste of workers.<p>No we have many queens and many sterile workers. Almost all women have children and increasingly more men don't father children. We've outlawed polygamy, but society is trending that way anyway, especially considering online dating statistics. 80% of women are choosing from the top 20% of men.<p>Men die in war. Look at ukraine.  A million men dead, while women dance in clubs. Vietnam, on the American side: 55,000 men dead, 8 women dead. Most women stayed home, like the queen bee. Most of those men were sterile for all intents and purposes.<p>If we don't introduce artificial measures, the natural tendency is toward fewer women mating with more men and the end result is one to many.  There's a British lady trying to mate 1,000 men.<p>We are more like bees than we like to think.</p>
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<p>A lot if times yes. Almost always cash buyers pay the least, even less than those with insurance.</p>
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<p>How would you know the difference until you find the truth?<p>Are you suggesting we shouldn't have sought nukes?<p>That eve should not have eaten that fruit?<p>Who determines which truth isn't worth pursuing or dangerous to?<p>Maybe we should pursue no truth?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:13:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708571</link><dc:creator>gnkyfrg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gnkyfrg in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bush's no child left behind was catastrophic. Terrible strategy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708552</link><dc:creator>gnkyfrg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gnkyfrg in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the kind of contemptuous skepticism of facts from, and lack of trust for, folks trying to help you understand something that permeates neglected communities and interferes with the educational process.<p>That attitude is prevalent in poor schools, but rare in rich schools and is properly dealt with by better educators that prefer wealthy schools with good salaries.<p>That sort of antagonism toward authority is incredibly disruptive in a community of People who want to achieve something.<p>Parents want to get their kids away from it for a reason. It's unhealthy. You're an example of the point. I don't mean any offense by it, just that it's easy to sniff out that you haven't experienced both sides of the coin so you reveal stubborn ignorance.<p>It inhibits learning and communicating. It's repulsive.</p>
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<p>It's about exposure to the way richer people think and access to the same community resources. Property taxes pay for schools. The best schools are in the richest communities.</p>
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