Hacker News: mrarjen

New comment by mrarjen in "The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS"

mrarjen — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:45:48 +0000

Bayer these days and yes, avoid like the plague for nothing good will come of it.

New comment by mrarjen in "Terpstra Keyboard"

mrarjen — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:25:59 +0000

Can confirm, usually misunderstood too.

New comment by mrarjen in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

mrarjen — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:51:32 +0000

Flipping from discount everything store to monopolistic price gauging power house.

New comment by mrarjen in "Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers"

mrarjen — Wed, 05 May 2021 10:22:54 +0000

With all the weird structures of stock lending and synthetics going around, I believe it's been extremely valuable for Buffet to keep it as it is for all these years.

New comment by mrarjen in "Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029"

mrarjen — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:29:30 +0000

Personally I'm all for having mini reactors if it means we can generate reliable energy with minimal pollution. Anything that helps reduce emissions should be considered.

But this would need to be a fail save type of reactor and with a clear plan(s) all the way down to how the waste is handled till it's no longer active.

New comment by mrarjen in "“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”"

mrarjen — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:14:55 +0000

Ads have gotten to the point I'm once again getting the feeling I'm on IE with 80% of the page blocked by toolbars. But this time it's ads and video's blocking any content I want to consume.

Blockers are a valuable thing to simply be able to read or watch anything on most sites now a days. I also happily pay for proper media, but not when you complicate this by blocking parts of this action with ads to begin with.

New comment by mrarjen in "Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years"

mrarjen — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:24:52 +0000

This is mainly the case in the cities, other area's offer more space that is similar to other countries.

Also Amsterdam is the peak of tiny spaces here. Single bedroom 25 m2, with shared toilet/kitchen for sale can cost you €100.000,- easily.

New comment by mrarjen in "New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking EU law"

mrarjen — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:53:11 +0000

It's not proven yet I guess? But then again, the big companies keep saying they don't record/listen to voice commands for assistants either.

But the reports of third party companies suddenly having access to this data (for quality improvement purposes) tells another story.

Also my YouTube keeps suggesting videos for any show my phone is near when it plays.

New comment by mrarjen in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

mrarjen — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:38:43 +0000

Also lack of initiative by many 1st world countries, hopefully there will be plenty of new technologies developed in the coming years that reduce or capture carbon.

But with current developments this will be far too little too late and it will be a rough ride forward.

New comment by mrarjen in "Calm Technology"

mrarjen — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:52:21 +0000

Wish my Sony headphones had this for when switching modes or battery low indications. Currently it will mute all sound and speak in a voice regarding what is going on with limited info, instead of some clear beeps. Get to the point tech!

New comment by mrarjen in "British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest"

mrarjen — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:20:52 +0000

This is actually what happens, seen some articles pass by where people simply could not live with the burden.

New comment by mrarjen in "America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy"

mrarjen — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:48:26 +0000

Other non white milk type products, like milk based drinks with fruit flavors, protein drinks or breakfast replacement options.

New comment by mrarjen in "America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy"

mrarjen — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:33:16 +0000

> "accelerated decline in the conventional white milk category."

Overall it's not looking like people are drinking less milk, they simply want more variety and this company seems to be having a hard time in all area's from Walmart to slowly upcoming alternative milk replacers.

Seems also in part they haven't innovated enough in new types of product to draw more customers.

New comment by mrarjen in "Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video]"

mrarjen — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:40:16 +0000

Would be fun to calculate what is required for the dock to actually flip, the scale of it is huge, so you would see it coming a mile away no?

New comment by mrarjen in "Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video]"

mrarjen — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:38:19 +0000

Thanks for that! Now I'll have sweaty palms going past the equator in airplanes.

New comment by mrarjen in "Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video]"

mrarjen — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:11:53 +0000

Likely in some way also to do with the amount of moving parts and it's complexity, not saying the dry dock is simple, but compared to many "invisible" and prone to break parts due to dependence on one another, code can be quite harsh.

When one section of the dock doesn't work it won't suddenly flip upside down as could be the case for code.

New comment by mrarjen in "Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings"

mrarjen — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:58:38 +0000

I'd ague that Japan's quality is a bit better than EU but also depends on what food you are used to. Mainly healthy options wise I think Japan stands out even more.

New comment by mrarjen in "404 Page Not Found"

mrarjen — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:47:28 +0000

I'm already happy not half the page is ads on this one, but yes you get ripped right out of reading and it instantly comes off as a cheap site.

New comment by mrarjen in "Popular Local News Sites in the US and Canada Are Fake"

mrarjen — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:45:51 +0000

It's still Buzzfeed, but on wikipedia they do state some of these numbers.

Not even sure advertisers mind at this point?

New comment by mrarjen in "Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer"

mrarjen — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 07:50:07 +0000

Not saying it's nice, but these are things a company like Lego needs to do, or risk losing trademarks on the iconic block type... I looked at the examples and they do show similarities to their IP so they need to sue or risk losing their own rights.

For the SW Lego sets, Disney will be sure to take a big cut of that increased prices on the product. Can't really blame Lego for that either. I can't say for sure regarding quality, this might be a thing?