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New comment by mynameisnoone in "Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data"

mynameisnoone — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:30:43 +0000

Americans "want" big SUVs because they're cheaper than mid-sized sedans. Unfortunately, they pollute more and they're less safe.

The SUV protectionism of import tariffs, safety exclusions, and pollution carve-outs must end because they're killing us on the roads, killing our health through more pollution, and killing the planet.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off"

mynameisnoone — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:24:18 +0000

Meanwhile, in Florida: the beef protection racket bans it. Recall what happened to Oprah in 1996 when she dared to express an opinion about beef during the global mad cow scare.[0] And, also the existence of beef libel laws in multiple states.

The cultured meat industry needs better lobbyists or the beef industry is going to squish them.

0. https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/10/time-oprah-winfrey-b...

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Y combinator codex (2021)"

mynameisnoone — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:17:22 +0000

Should sell mostly prints but some originals on Etsy.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Mitochondrial signal transduction (2022)"

mynameisnoone — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:11:50 +0000

It's "nerd-sniping bait" needs a more succinct metaphor. "Nerdbait"?

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Ask HN: What was it like when dot-com bubble collapsed during 2000-2002?"

mynameisnoone — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:06:51 +0000

FC and Slashdot. There was a lot less traffic in the Bay Area in 2002 than 2000, and it was easier to find parking in downtown Palo Alto, but the eBay parking lot on Hamilton Place in San Jose still looked like a supercar showroom of the PayPal mafia. (Probably because eBay was used to liquidate the detritus of speculative economy like :CueCats and Webvan promotional materials.) Silicon Valley (San Jose - Santa Clara - Sunnyvale) commercial real estate vacancy rates hit around 25%. I opted to return to finish my EE/CS undergrad and do security research and IT consulting in .edu to pay for university.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "FAA opens probe into Boeing 787: 'Employees may have falsified aircraft records'"

mynameisnoone — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:27:59 +0000

When precision composite or aluminum parts don't fit, just jump up-and-down on them until they do. Record on paperwork as "everything fit perfectly". A little lost durability or strength sells more repair parts! /s

New comment by mynameisnoone in "World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients"

mynameisnoone — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:19:40 +0000

Nice.

How I recreate a taste of my distant Kurdish friends' fast casual Mediterranean restaurant at home:

Turkish tea: Çaykur Rize Cayi tea, double pot, Turkish tea glasses, and sugar or honey

Turkish coffee: https://www.mehmetefendi.com, Turkish coffee pot, and sugar

New comment by mynameisnoone in "World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients"

mynameisnoone — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:09:56 +0000

It's all well-and-good to know about local cuisine, but sourcing them affordably and easily in other areas of the world is the key gotcha.

Middle America has greatly improved over the past 20 years in international ingredient availability. It used to be impossible to find organic vegetables or tahini (fresh or canned) in middle America, but this is no longer the case. One notable regression is with Whole Foods that doesn't carry any SKUs of pita bread in their flagship headquarters location, while H-E-B contains far more variety of SKUs (not everything WH carries), exceptional customer service, and lower prices.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain"

mynameisnoone — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:03:22 +0000

Better security theater through marketing.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Balsamic vinegar is likely fake"

mynameisnoone — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:40:38 +0000

Balsamic vinegar (TBV, TBVM, TBVRE), olive oil, maple syrup, wasabi, and more are all ripe (pun intended) for counterfeiting and deceptive marketing of inferior products. This is why PDOs & appellations for agricultural products exist. Caveat emptor.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices"

mynameisnoone — Mon, 06 May 2024 02:57:06 +0000

Apartheid South Africa also tried to ban news media. It's a sign of extreme desperation and signals political vulnerability. Hopefully, Israel will get elections soon, and center- or left-leaning coalition government will pursue different foreign and military policies that a significant majority of Israelis prefer over the absurdity of the militarists and militant settlers.

https://truthout.org/articles/media-and-the-end-of-apartheid...

EDIT: Haaretz is a good and honest news source that has been extremely critical of the current leadership. Also recommended documentary film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gatekeepers_(film)

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Texas A&M Qatar campus to close by 2028"

mynameisnoone — Sat, 04 May 2024 03:54:54 +0000

Pretty much the Saudi sphere of influence in a nutshell.

Parts of the maintained colonial vestiges within proper China are also equally absurd in splendor: marble from floor-to-ceiling, chandeliers as large as medium-sized aircraft, hedge mazes, indoor and outdoor sport shooting, and individual bungalows in the back by the lake filled with swans... and even the "cheap" rooms came with barber service and a "masseuse".

In many things, Americans don't realize how substandard or how (sometimes similarly) unequal their standard of living is relative to the rest of the world. I don't think most Americans have an accurate perspective because 2/3 don't even have a passport, and probably 70% of the only 1/3 who have one just have it to go to tourist traps like Tulum or Tahiti, or to be assholes in another country during Spring Break more-or-less the same as Miami Beach domestically who got tired of it.

If you want to see the world, get a backpack and ride trains across Europe, Asia, Russia, Africa, and all of the Americas too. Maybe join an international humanitarian NGO. Some people join the military, but that's a bad idea as per Smedley Butler.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood"

mynameisnoone — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:52:50 +0000

Interesting read: The relationship between blood groups and disease - Blood (2010)

https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/115/23/4635/27755/...

New comment by mynameisnoone in "McDonald's and other big brands warn that low-income consumers starting to crack"

mynameisnoone — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:14:54 +0000

An inevitable conclusion of extreme corporate profiteering and reckless and absurd inequality: a populace too poor to afford to pay into the consumption Pyramid Scheme. The skewed, power-law like distribution is now more lopsided than the Gilded Age. Even American millionaires (not billionaires) are asking to be taxed more because "Who wants to live in a poor country?", but have seen little traction because the billionaires' lobbyists have regulatory- and legislative-capture of the political class.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "Limited Run Games selling burned CD-R games which don't work"

mynameisnoone — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:05:06 +0000

It's rampant on eBay where there are copied titles/licenses being sold and what appear to be copied physical media too. And eBay doesn't do anything about it.

Examples of illicit digital copies:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255484863277

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235408586759

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255314441552

https://www.ebay.com/itm/233710824066

New comment by mynameisnoone in "The drinking fountain button"

mynameisnoone — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:00:19 +0000

I remember those. 4-sided either rounded bulbs or paddles that blended into the central hub. The disadvantage is that they require fine motor control and so aren't accessible to all people. The problem though is that most of the pushbutton types tend to require too great of force to be usable by anyone. I prefer the crashbar button type that requires some force to engage but much less force to remain engaged.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "R/Java bans Kevin Bourrillion because he mentioned another programming language"

mynameisnoone — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:00:11 +0000

Pretty much. Social media and related encourage cyberdisinhibitionism and tyranny through extremism including drama, fascistic policies, and a fundamental lack of compromise or benefit of the doubt. These tendencies aren't exclusive to one app or another, but are part and parcel of the medium. These tendencies tend to reward and encourage bullying and sociopathy while crucifying random people for trivial and arbitrary transgressions.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "New startup sells coffee through SSH"

mynameisnoone — Thu, 02 May 2024 06:59:58 +0000

While it's cute, it's a small business not a startup and still a gimmick that doesn't solve the problem that coffee is a commodity and so the business is fundamentally not defensible. It's equivalent to being a meal kit business, which is one notch away from being a restaurant.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "The drinking fountain button"

mynameisnoone — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:52:53 +0000

The style of toilet matters in the US. The problem is that the cheapest toilets tend to also meet all sorts of greenwashing (no pun intended) certifications while being unreliable, smaller, and not very good. Tankless ones are far more expensive initially, but are more reliable, flush with greater force, and use little water.

New comment by mynameisnoone in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

mynameisnoone — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:39:07 +0000

Is there a particularly favored and useful bank or CC that doesn't obstruct online gambling?