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New comment by jljljl in "Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car"

jljljl — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:43:28 +0000

The term "zero-emission" has a specific meaning for the DOA, EPA, and CARB specifically referring to the tailpipe and combustion emissions produced when operating the vehicle.

https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric-basics-ev https://afdc.energy.gov/laws/4249

New comment by jljljl in "Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car"

jljljl — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:59:36 +0000

What's the issue with the zero emissions rhetoric?

New comment by jljljl in "Nearly 600 economists sign letter, defend independence of the Federal Reserve"

jljljl — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:50:41 +0000

You probably can't eliminate any sort of political bias, but a single 14 year term puts you pretty much outside of any electoral cycle considerations, which is important for maintaining long term stability in monetary. Making them have to stand for election or make the president happy every 4 years would completely eliminate any ability for the board to focus on the actual technical issues. There's a reason why countries that eliminate CRB independence tend to see hyper inflation

It also isn't a lifetime appointment, and tenures are staggered so the board isn't fixed in place for generation like the Supreme Court

New comment by jljljl in "Nearly 600 economists sign letter, defend independence of the Federal Reserve"

jljljl — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:59:10 +0000

Fed governors are subject to democratic accountability (nomination by the president and confirmation by the Senate), but their term is 14 years instead of 4. The Chairman is subject to the same accountability, but on a 4 year term.

There are good reasons why the board of governors is designed to turn over slowly -- it keeps the board focused on long term performance of monetary policy instead of focusing on the next election.

New comment by jljljl in "Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good"

jljljl — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:53:19 +0000

The ability to switch modes is going to be important. I'm on the latest iPadOS beta, and when I'm using it to do work across multiple apps the new macOS like window management is amazing. When I'm just trying to read a book, watch a movie, or do some other focused activity, it's mostly annoying.

New comment by jljljl in "Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor"

jljljl — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:58:38 +0000

Is this avoiding politics at work?

New comment by jljljl in "Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils"

jljljl — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:19:14 +0000

Bundling a little script into your path like that is pretty cool, just overkill to use a flake + nix for _just_ that

New comment by jljljl in "All-In on Omarchy at 37signals"

jljljl — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:03:06 +0000

Does that affect developer productivity at 37signals though?

New comment by jljljl in "Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils"

jljljl — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:50 +0000

I was somewhat expecting that the flake would include nvim bundled with the vimrc in the folder.

You could then just open nvim in the `nix develop` environment (or even use something like direnv to activate it when you cd in) and have a minimal journaling environment

New comment by jljljl in "That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake"

jljljl — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:28:37 +0000

I think it is troubling to say “the lie has value”, but it is worth thinking why certain stories and hoaxes resonate. It’s similar to how sci-fi and horror can reflect the anxieties of their contemporary society

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

jljljl — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:13:24 +0000

From the article it sounds like they had strong market share in Digital Cameras in the early 2000’s. What really killed then was phones becoming the dominant form factor

New comment by jljljl in "Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase"

jljljl — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:42:57 +0000

This metric of underemployment is captured in U-5 and U-6 in the BLS statistics.

It's less common to report, but in the aftermath of the financial crisis I remember hearing more about it. You can construct a chart in FRED that covers it:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1JWGw

New comment by jljljl in "IRS Direct File"

jljljl — Fri, 30 May 2025 05:15:10 +0000

Direct File was rolled out gradually as a pilot program. It was also only available for taxpayers in 12 states.

My guess: since the tax code is so complicated, they probably wanted to support the simplest and most common filing cases in the first release. Handling all the edge cases would delay the launch, and prevent them from collecting feedback. If the feedback and demand was positive for v1, they could expand the surface area in the future.

Unfortunately, it didn't last long enough

New comment by jljljl in "Designing Tools for Scientific Thought"

jljljl — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:22:28 +0000

Is there a collection of note taking practices (such as they exist) among the great thinkers/scientists in history? Is there an assessment or study of their notebooks somewhere that distills best practices? Are techniques like ZK or spaced repetition based on those practices or studies? Have they been studied for desirable traits?

The science of notetaking so far seems to have a lot of art and opinion, but little science

New comment by jljljl in "RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines"

jljljl — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:50:48 +0000

Yeah that makes sense. If there was an update of MMR, and there was a 50/50 chance that your child does not actually get vaccinated against MMR, you’d refuse to participate in the trial.

New comment by jljljl in "RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines"

jljljl — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:49:10 +0000

I guess the danger here is that for vaccines that we already know reduce the risk of deadly diseases, you’d either:

Randomly expose patients to the risk of contracting a known debilitating/deadly disease

No one who comes in for the vaccine will consent the trial

New comment by jljljl in "RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines"

jljljl — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:20:36 +0000

What would be the benefit of a placebo study vs studying the differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations?

Is the hypothesis that there is some kind of psychosomatic/placebo effect to vaccines, where just the process of getting injected changes outcomes? I find that hard to believe.

New comment by jljljl in "„Fluoride reduces IQ" report needs to be retracted"

jljljl — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:34:50 +0000

In the latest report I can find (admittedly ~10 years old), Hawaii has some of the worst oral health and highest rates of tooth decay in the nation:

https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/02/why-hawaii-continues-to-ke...

Framework pausing sales of certain laptop models due to tariffs

jljljl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:57:19 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1909304225072394380

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616389

Points: 11

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New comment by jljljl in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

jljljl — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:42:05 +0000

Proposal number 2 will destroy the US economy, completely destabilize prices, and make recovering from recessions painful and slow. There is a reason that no country today, including the ones that produce things, use the gold standard.