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New comment by kfprt in "Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’"

kfprt — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:22:46 +0000

This is hardly unsubstantiated as it is a widespread acknowledged problem. [1] It should also be noted that this is not the first time I criticized the UK's 'unique' take on justice. The reception then was quite different however. Is moderation at the whim of the mob? Perhaps 'joke of a country is a bit harsh' but I can't think of a better description of such lopsided priorities.

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/839509/Britain-towns-citie...

New comment by kfprt in "U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huawei gear"

kfprt — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:04:33 +0000

China's hostage diplomacy is a bit different than breaking export laws.

New comment by kfprt in "EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]"

kfprt — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 23:55:12 +0000

Write everything at work as if it were going to be read by a judge.

New comment by kfprt in "Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate"

kfprt — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 23:13:49 +0000

I suppose teslas could come with warnings, "this vehicle is not intended for use in Arizona".

New comment by kfprt in "Navy failures destroyed the Bonhomme Richard"

kfprt — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 23:11:26 +0000

I tend to think the military needs to be split in two. One half to deal with boots on grounds kinetic action and a second to deal with the permanent economic and cyber war. Of course integration of women would be far easier the the latter.

New comment by kfprt in "Man left shocked as his house is 'stolen'"

kfprt — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:01:27 +0000

These things always happen when a low trust society comes into contact with a high trust society.

New comment by kfprt in "Prague's Brutalist Buildings"

kfprt — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 20:42:30 +0000

When a classical building is run down people flock to visit it. Pantheon/Coliseum. Brutalist buildings we're ugly and depressing as built.

New comment by kfprt in "Navy failures destroyed the Bonhomme Richard"

kfprt — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 23:02:01 +0000

I believe no one died in this incident.

New comment by kfprt in "Prague's Brutalist Buildings"

kfprt — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:08:48 +0000

Brutalism was just another communist crime, razing old europe so they could stamp their manifestations of authoritarianism on it.

New comment by kfprt in "Biometric and behavioural mass surveillance in EU Member States"

kfprt — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:06:39 +0000

Unfortunately liberties are almost never given back without violence. It is a shame on the west for accepting this abject surrender of individual liberty with docility.

New comment by kfprt in "Turning stem cells into human eggs"

kfprt — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:38:45 +0000

> I suppose you can get mad at God

Do you think God has sovereign immunity?

New comment by kfprt in "Turning stem cells into human eggs"

kfprt — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:36:05 +0000

> Most other differences seem to be too weakly correlated with genes we've identified to result in such a stark change to society.

These findings were always driven more by politics than science.

New comment by kfprt in "U.S. government owes over $100M for TSA's patent infringement"

kfprt — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:24:15 +0000

Every societies security model relies on people simply not wishing to act violently. Literally followed by a police team and still stabbed people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Auckland_supermarket_stab...

New comment by kfprt in "U.S. government owes over $100M for TSA's patent infringement"

kfprt — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:20:00 +0000

If you set a price and multiple people are willing to pay it then it can't be exclusive.

New comment by kfprt in "Europe’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Sea-Going Ferry Is Powered by Renewable Energy"

kfprt — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:00:46 +0000

I don't understand this thinking at all. Hydrogen itself doesn't weigh much but the containment does. The actual change in mass due to hydrogen being used up should be <1% of the ship mass. This is entirely unlike aircraft.

New comment by kfprt in "Poor parents receiving universal payments increase spending on kids"

kfprt — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:52:03 +0000

This is of course ridiculous. UBI money is much more likely to be spent increasing the velocity of money in the economy than if it were spent bailing out companies. It's very hard to run a consumer economy whilst making the consumers too poor to afford to spend much.

New comment by kfprt in "Poor parents receiving universal payments increase spending on kids"

kfprt — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:40:56 +0000

A better question would be whether housing prices are increasing the same everywhere.

New comment by kfprt in "New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012"

kfprt — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:29:30 +0000

With the iPhoneification of their product line I'm sure that's exactly what's going to happen.

New comment by kfprt in "WWII ships from Battle of Iwo Jima raised by volcanic activity, seismic shifts"

kfprt — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 05:17:42 +0000

>bomb them or something

I thought we agreed that in principle the correct response to a deliberate attack would have been to bomb them in 1967? I don't understand why you keep intentionally misinterpreting this.

>who you think the US is not being neutral towards

I find the less you know about someone the easier it is to be neutral.

>the Palestinians

As I said before the Israeli/Palestinian intra semitic conflict is one America should stay a country mile away from.

>That doesn't seem plausible to me.

I've yet to hear of the Lesotho lobby and practically zero people in America care about Lesotho. How about Belarus or New Guinea? The link between lobbying and public opinion seems quite strong to me.

> anti-Israel rhetoric?

Please stop with the unfounded assumptions.

All I'm advocating for is for America to not get bogged down in foreign quagmires and for other countries to stop trying to drag us into their conflicts. It is beyond me how anyone can find this such a difficult concept. Mandatory disclosure of foreign interests would go a long way here.

If you are interested the Great War channel has a series that covers Mandatory Palestine. This is however entirely irrelevant to US foreign policy.

I always enjoy expounding upon my ideas in public discussion but when the conversation retreads over already trod points and the counterparty is disingenuous and intentionally mischaracterizes what I have plainly stated then I am forced to question whether their motive is discussion or to score cheap points in a discussion that no one will likely read.

New comment by kfprt in "Where have all the insects gone?"

kfprt — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:53:21 +0000

I'd say modern science is concerned with selling something while science is the discovery of what currently exists.