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New comment by jakear in "Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate"

jakear — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:05:59 +0000

There was no war declared then. The actions were identical to Mexican immigrants coming over and going on murdering spees here. Would you not consider that an example of crime that should be accounted for?

And the falseness of that distinction is exactly my point. Nobody watches their baby get murdered and says "Well at least it was at the hands of a government agent! My country is still a very safe place to live!". Yet if you were to believe those stats that's exactly what they're claiming: deaths at the hands of government agents "don't count" when considering the safety of an area.

New comment by jakear in "Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate"

jakear — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:50:37 +0000

At least 280 Palestinians were killed by Israelis in 2021. With a population of ~5,000,000, that alone accounts for 5.6 deaths per 100k lives.

Here's a list of those killed: https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/2021deaths/. Pay special attention to all the women and children.

This is not a country to we should aspire to match murder rates.

New comment by jakear in "X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims"

jakear — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 05:31:16 +0000

Does anyone know of a second source to back this claim up? These numbers are "estimates ... based on machine learning algorithms using data from various websites and apps". We all know machine learning algorithms produce the outputs you train them to, and the nature of the company producing the data combined with current events gives me reason to pause before accepting it at face value.

That said, I haven't been able to find a good second opinion on this.

New comment by jakear in "Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains"

jakear — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:15:41 +0000

Better than government banning flights all up.

New comment by jakear in "Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains"

jakear — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:57:34 +0000

Rather, the answer (as always) is carbon tax.

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:36:28 +0000

Yikes. You've gone totally off the rails. Have your handler review your prompting... 10 questions in a row with not a coherent thread connecting them does not a meaningful comment make.

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:49:23 +0000

This is probably accurate. Everything seems about the individual nowadays. Lot's of people aren't even having children anymore, preferring instead "travel" and "fun". Why would they give a shit about what will happen in 100 years?

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:48:04 +0000

Well that came out of left field. Care to elaborate?

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:47:31 +0000

Exactly. HN seems the worst of all wrt the apocalyptic fortune telling. Perhaps a group of well-off people would be expected to fear change the most. But to tell anyone else that in 50 years things will be bad... they'd laugh in your face.

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:41:26 +0000

"I'm right because the corporate interests governing openAI's output agree with me" isn't the dunk you think it is.

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:37:06 +0000

New ecosystems will form, eventually. Humans love to think their time scales are the only ones that matter.

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:36:17 +0000

Basically any religion is in large part centered around preparing for death.

New comment by jakear in "Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why"

jakear — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:34:40 +0000

If voting could change anything it'd be illegal.

In CA we aren't even allowed to vote anymore. Gavin simply appoints senators who look the way he wants and we get stuck with them.

And that's something as simple as senators (who barely have any power in the first place). A change to the world power structure (corporate interests that profit of mass-consumerism) is achievable only through violent revolution.

But nobody cares enough about the climate for that. They just complain online, put soup on things, and pat themselves on the back.

New comment by jakear in "Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring"

jakear — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:23:50 +0000

Who died and made you the arbiter of Truth?

I provided sources, you didn't. Engage in a facts based debate or don't engage at all. Shallow dismissals have no place on HN. (by the actual site guidelines, not my made up declaration)

New comment by jakear in "Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring"

jakear — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:23:29 +0000

At what cost?

New comment by jakear in "Have a complaint about CVS? So do pharmacists: Many just walked out"

jakear — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:20:15 +0000

Just route the sender to spam? Do you really put this much work into every spammy sender? Any decent email frontend should fulfill your desire in a single click.

New comment by jakear in "Have a complaint about CVS? So do pharmacists: Many just walked out"

jakear — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:12:56 +0000

Speaking of CVS, they have one very cool feature I haven't seen replicated anywhere else: the price printer machine. Many places have scanners that will show you the price of an item on a screen, but in my experience only CVS has one that actually prints out a physical paper showing the price of the item.

Accordingly, I make a point to print the price of at least one of my items each time I buy from CVS (for morale).

New comment by jakear in "Mozilla.ai"

jakear — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:08:11 +0000

Right? Like who honestly cares.

I blame all the people who freaked out over making prompts like "create a python function to show me how much to pay employees based on their skin color. "Garbage in, garbage out" should have been the end of discussion there. Instead we have a whole era of useless AIs that give you pages of justification about meaningless "nuance" instead of an answer.

New comment by jakear in "Starlink quietly lost over $250M in burned satellites this summer"

jakear — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:45:38 +0000

If shielding is insufficient the control systems fry, or at least get wonked.

Evolution of zoom lens optical design technology and manufacture (2021)

jakear — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 18:49:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/optical-engineering/volume-60/issue-05/051211/Evolution-of-zoom-lens-optical-design-technology-and-manufacture/10.1117/1.OE.60.5.051211.full?SSO=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37537498

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