Hacker News: iterationx

New comment by iterationx in "Will the Pope Change the Vatican or Will the Vatican Change the Pope?"

iterationx — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:31:33 +0000

Anyone who has enough interest in this article should have enough interest in this video "What Francis Really Believes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjmveYw0tE

New comment by iterationx in "Homeland Security: Crypto makes it harder for Feds to find “terrorist activity”"

iterationx — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 19:36:01 +0000

If everyone was in a cage there would be no terrorist activity.

New comment by iterationx in "Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State"

iterationx — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:23:29 +0000

The Frontline is pretty interesting. The US military left hardware including vehicles and weapons undefended which ISIS simply took. Then some time passed and ISIS decided to attack an oil town in the north that the military actually cared about. A fighter jet was deployed - the pilot hit a button that deployed smart guided missiles - and that was the end of that idea. Not a threat to the US. But some soldiers raping people and chopping peoples heads off.

New comment by iterationx in "College Apologizes for Serving Mexican Food During Sci-Fi Event"

iterationx — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 05:16:02 +0000

>>So if they had Chinese food buffet, would people also call it racist?? If it could be used to hate on "guilty" whites, they certainly might try it.

New comment by iterationx in "Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?"

iterationx — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:38:25 +0000

"Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?" by Viktor Suvorov

New comment by iterationx in "What 800 Nerds on a Cruise Ship Taught Me About Life, the Universe (2014)"

iterationx — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:11:58 +0000

Isn't that the nature of a group - it needs to have boundaries that define it both the positive and negative sense (eg. people in our group support X and don't support Y). Otherwise the group or culture has no boundary and therefore includes everyone and cannot be considered a subset.

New comment by iterationx in "Turkey blocks Twitter, YouTube over hostage photo"

iterationx — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:26:00 +0000

The reason they banned youtube is because the evidence was on youtube. You need to re-evaluate your assumptions.

New comment by iterationx in "Turkey blocks Twitter, YouTube over hostage photo"

iterationx — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:05:01 +0000

The first time around it didn't get adequate attention in the US media.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a conversation was leaked between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.

The leaked call details Erdogan's thoughts that an attack on Syria "must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]".

In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to "make up a cause of war".

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-youtube-ban-full-transcript-...

New comment by iterationx in "The F-35's $400k helmet"

iterationx — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:35:39 +0000

That and the plans were online and hacked by the Chinese as reported by Snowden. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snowden-chinese-hac...

New comment by iterationx in "Portland’s New Car-Free Bridge"

iterationx — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:35:37 +0000

You are happy because the new bridge isn't "dangerous and awkward", but I maintain your standards are too low.

New comment by iterationx in "Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?"

iterationx — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:02:41 +0000

Passively learning survivalist skills by watching Survivorman.

New comment by iterationx in "Ask HN: Former freelance client screwed me. Having trouble moving on. Advice?"

iterationx — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:57:58 +0000

Your physical and mental energy and time is a finite resource. Don't waste it.

New comment by iterationx in "Portland’s New Car-Free Bridge"

iterationx — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:38:44 +0000

They make a bridge without cars and they only give the pedestrians 4 ft for 2 ways? That's preposterous. What's wrong is that it isn't wide enough. Maybe I can get an upvote by someone from Europe where they have bridges that are wide and pleasant to walk across.

New comment by iterationx in "Portland’s New Car-Free Bridge"

iterationx — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:07:00 +0000

So what is that 4 ft wide for two way pedestrian traffic? That's kinda sad. #sidewalkshame

New comment by iterationx in "The melting of Antarctica"

iterationx — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:58:44 +0000

NYT isn't credible.

New comment by iterationx in "Ask HN: I just got my Stackoverflow Python gold badge - is it worth anything?"

iterationx — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:03:21 +0000

In the context of gamification you have a high score in the video game of stackoverflow. In the context of tool usage, you are good at using python. What you build with that tool is what will give you status. Don't spend too much time using the tool to beat the video game.

New comment by iterationx in "Assembly Line Nuclear Reactors Are Quietly Building Steam in the Northwest"

iterationx — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:23:27 +0000

CBS San Francisco, Nov 21, 2014: Rare cancers, blindness, birth defects and now, two deaths. Hundreds of U.S. sailors… say they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation...

Was that so hard?

New comment by iterationx in "Assembly Line Nuclear Reactors Are Quietly Building Steam in the Northwest"

iterationx — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:21:07 +0000

The report published on Tuesday by the Japanese newspaper Tokyo Shimbun said figures from authorities in Fukushima Prefecture showed a total of 1,232 deaths in 2014 were linked to the nuclear disaster.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/10/401156/Deaths-tied-t...

New comment by iterationx in "Assembly Line Nuclear Reactors Are Quietly Building Steam in the Northwest"

iterationx — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:31:13 +0000

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fukushima+uss+reagan

New comment by iterationx in "Radical Vaccine Design Effective Against Herpes Viruses"

iterationx — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:10:27 +0000

According to the article: " Also, babies born to mothers with active genital herpes have a more than 80 percent mortality rate"

How can this be if 1/6 people has herpes in the US ? Seems like you would hear about a lot more infant deaths.