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New comment by pchangr in "This blog is written in en-GB"

pchangr — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:09:23 +0000

TIL mm:hh is a thing o_O

New comment by pchangr in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

pchangr — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:30:18 +0000

I remember a professor once told us “democracy might not be the best kind of government. It’s just the best we have found to organize a peaceful power transition”. And .. to this date .. I agree .. it’s not about making the best decision.. it just allows us to come to a decision on a seemingly fair process.

New comment by pchangr in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

pchangr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:57:37 +0000

From my understanding, the state or community owning the means of production (in this case, ai labs) is one of the central thesis of communism.

New comment by pchangr in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

pchangr — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:46:07 +0000

This is an experimental feature. Not part of the standard yet .. imho.. shouldn’t be included (yet)

New comment by pchangr in "Coarse is better"

pchangr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:33:53 +0000

The steam engine, for example

New comment by pchangr in "Coarse is better"

pchangr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:32:16 +0000

Correct, and I am saying the Luddites were a group of people that suffered mass unemployment following a technological change. Specifically, the luddites were a group of 19th century textile workers that were left out of work due to the introduction of automated machinery in the textile industry. In other words, they are a perfect example of what GP claims hasn’t happened.

New comment by pchangr in "Coarse is better"

pchangr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:38:27 +0000

It has happened. There is a related term we use which is related to a historical fact .. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

New comment by pchangr in "Alternative World Map Projections"

pchangr — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:50:35 +0000

If you find the list of projections interesting, check out also the wiki page of the map projections topic itself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

It’s a fascinating rabbit hole ^^

Inspired by

This map is not upside down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292694

New comment by pchangr in "This map is not upside down"

pchangr — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:48:55 +0000

You should totally check this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

For a list of alternative projections

And also this one for a whole deep dive in the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

People have gotten very creative about the topic .. also.. the UN actually uses a north-centered view of the world to compromise on this.. it’s really cool

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Sm...

Alternative World Map Projections

pchangr — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:40:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302860

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by pchangr in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

pchangr — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:24:41 +0000

I remember when I was studying for an MBA.. a professor was talking about the intangible value of a brand .. and finance.. and how they would reflect on each other .. At some point we were decomposing the parts of a balance sheet and they asked if one could sell the goodwill to invest in something else .. and the answer was of course .. no… well.. America has proven us wrong .. the way you sell the goodwill is to basically enshittification.. you quickly burn all your brand reputation by lowering your costs with shittier products .. your goodwill goes to 0 but your income increases so stock go up .. the CEO gets a fat bonus for it .. even tho the company itself is destroyed .. then the CEO quickly abandons ship and does the same on their next company .. rinse and repeat… infinite money!

New comment by pchangr in "Models of European metro stations"

pchangr — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:46:05 +0000

I think you forget to take into account how centralized Japan is. Tokyo is not only the biggest city in the world. It’s also extremely centralized in terms of its infrastructure and as much as other Asian cities have developed similarly, they have also developed more recent and with a different urban model. It’s unlikely that the hub system used in Japan will be replicated somewhere else on that scale.

New comment by pchangr in "Ask HN: Can an amateur make contributions to pure math or theoretical physics?"

pchangr — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:27:09 +0000

It still happens from time to time Claude found me this examples :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Luogeng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Friedberg

https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yie...

New comment by pchangr in "Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter"

pchangr — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 05:01:35 +0000

I believe this refers to the fact that, before Jupiter, the most powerful computer in Europe was HPC6, which is owned by Eni S.p.A, a private company, and the following most powerful computer was the Alps system, located in Switzerland. So, in this context, this new supercomputer is owned by Europe, “the public” and it’s located in the European Union sovereignty within Europe, the continent.

Edit: I found the full quote in the website of the Jülich Development Center and I guess it makes sense why it was editorialized for the eu-wide website.

“This is a historic milestone. With JUPITER, Europe is reaching the highest level of high-performance computing. JUPITER is also a testimony for Germany's long leadership in HPC. Today, it became the home of the most powerful computer in Europe and the fourth most powerful in the world. From European perspective, JUPITER is a pioneer. It shows that when we combine national vision with European cooperation, we can achieve global excellence.”

Source:

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2025...

New comment by pchangr in "Zuckerberg's AI hires disrupt Meta with Swift exits and threats to leave"

pchangr — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:18:49 +0000

Agreed, it got me for a few seconds

New comment by pchangr in "The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households"

pchangr — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:44:18 +0000

It was net positive in all the studies I found. Here’s some for Germany

https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/topics/latest-news/20...

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/306683/1/GLO-DP-1530...

In Canada, economic immigrants are net positive while refugees and sponsored (family reunion) immigrants are net negative.

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/102505/1/MPRA_paper_102505.p...

New comment by pchangr in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

pchangr — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:26:52 +0000

Germany actually uses their own card system .. or cash. They are very much against visa/mastercard due to their “high commission fees” and “privacy concerns”

Girocard charges a 0,3% fee vs visa/mastercard 3%

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard

New comment by pchangr in "I accidentally deleted Levels.fyi's entire back end server stack last week"

pchangr — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:30:35 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20250707213532/https://www.reddi...

New comment by pchangr in "An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It"

pchangr — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:49:26 +0000

Afghanistan was almost never a democracy tho. It was mostly monarchies until 1973.. then a totalitarian state from 1978-ish until 1989… then mostly in civil war until 1996.. when it was again mostly a totalitarian state.. then it got invaded by the US in 2001.. until 2021 when it got again under a totalitarian state.

New comment by pchangr in "Bulgaria to Adopt the Euro"

pchangr — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:45:15 +0000

May I suggest you to show some data supporting your claims?