Hacker News: newuser94303

New comment by newuser94303 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

newuser94303 — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:34:44 +0000

If the employees bought it, it would probably make more sense. Random people don't seem invested enough.

New comment by newuser94303 in "The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust"

newuser94303 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:07:54 +0000

I would never use a Microsoft language since they discontinued VB6. Open Source languages are the only sane option.

New comment by newuser94303 in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

newuser94303 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:58:59 +0000

Chinese investment in the US is inherently risky. For example TikTok. BYD would be stomping GM and Ford. The next thing you know, they would need to sell their factory.

New comment by newuser94303 in "Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record"

newuser94303 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:56:31 +0000

Solar panels WERE cheap until 145% tariffs were applied

New comment by newuser94303 in "America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back"

newuser94303 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:24:09 +0000

I don't know why people keep thinking that China will attack Taiwan. It took HK and Macao without a shot. I think China is following Sun Tzu.

"subduing the enemy without fighting," is the epitome of strategic thinking in his book, The Art of War. This means achieving victory through cunning, deception, and maneuvering, rather than through direct confrontation and bloodshed"

They are increasing their military knowing that US military costs 4+x as much. It might be 4x better so don't fight. Just bankrupt the US. Trump wants a $1T military budget next year.

Why would China want to conquer the West? Buying what it wants is cheaper than an uncertain military battle fought with Nukes.

New comment by newuser94303 in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

newuser94303 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:55:01 +0000

China installed more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined.

https://ifr.org/downloads/press2018/2024-SEP-24_IFR_press_re...

https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robotics-race...

New comment by newuser94303 in "Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web"

newuser94303 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:40:23 +0000

I love Chromebooks. Windows is tras. Even if you buy a MacBook, Apple is able to reconfigure your machine at will.

New comment by newuser94303 in "Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?"

newuser94303 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:37:12 +0000

which country?

New comment by newuser94303 in "The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment"

newuser94303 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:51:48 +0000

What about the people that report parents to the police for endangering their children by allowing them to walk/bike to school?

New comment by newuser94303 in "China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows"

newuser94303 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 02:21:27 +0000

TSMC is stalling to get more sweet US tax dollars.

New comment by newuser94303 in "China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows"

newuser94303 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 02:20:36 +0000

Way more concerned about the US starting a new war to force China to buy some US crap.

New comment by newuser94303 in "Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps"

newuser94303 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:24:43 +0000

Some of the Google errors are caused by malicious people doing user-generated nonsense. There is a parking lot next to water in Foster City called boat park. Inside the boat park, there was a dog run. Someone relabelled boat park into dog park and moved the boat park several hundred yards inland. I corrected it but it kept changing.

New comment by newuser94303 in "Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy"

newuser94303 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:30:50 +0000

I have no problem with the owned scooters. The scooter rental market is designed to tax the walking infrastructure. They need to have plug in stalls like the electric bikes. There also needs to be a way of keeping them off sidewalks.

New comment by newuser94303 in "Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design"

newuser94303 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:37:53 +0000

I used to drive my kids everywhere. I lived in the SF Bay Area and transit sucked. I moved to Vancouver, Canada and my kids can just roam around. Kids under 12 can ride for free on transit. The mall is 4 blocks away and there is a skytrain station there. I do track their phones but it is way safer.

New comment by newuser94303 in "After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data"

newuser94303 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 01:45:03 +0000

The bigger problem for Boeing will be that they probably have fraud evidence in the 45G.

New comment by newuser94303 in "After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data"

newuser94303 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 01:42:46 +0000

A defense contractor should have better security

New comment by newuser94303 in "Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates"

newuser94303 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:02:27 +0000

I have been using an Intel samsumg chromebook for my dev machine and it is great. <$500. When I lose updates, I will buy a new one and still be ahead. Never buying windows or Mac again. Thinking about framework linux or chromebook

New comment by newuser94303 in "US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it"

newuser94303 — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:34:22 +0000

Gov'ts that want to monitor citizens for say a tendency to get an abortion have more power than a corp that wants to sell me diapers. One step at a time. Try to stop the worst offenses then work your way down.

New comment by newuser94303 in "The impact of the ‘long peace’ on modern military capabilities"

newuser94303 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:25:29 +0000

I don't think that China has any interest in conquering the rest of World. They just want to be rich. They are stealing IP and spying. The fact that the US needs to use military force is a failure of policy.

Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.

I think that China is pulling on the US what the US did to the Soviet Union. The US bankrupted the Soviet Union with an arms race. China is doing it much more economically by spending 1/3 of the US. This is money that the US could be using to build a high speed rail network or educating its citizens.

New comment by newuser94303 in "The impact of the ‘long peace’ on modern military capabilities"

newuser94303 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:04:37 +0000

I think that Globalization has increased the costs of war. You don't want to attack your suppliers. I also think that China is probably a paper tiger on offense but they are trying not to look like an easy target on defense. Most of their recent battles have been fist fights in the Himalayas.

Deglobalization is an attempt to make war feasible because some strong countries feel like they are losing economic war and want to fall back on real war.