Hacker News: publicola1990

New comment by publicola1990 in "Writing a good design document"

publicola1990 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:41:18 +0000

Yes this is also a question that comes to my mind. Where are the design docs from the past 50 years of software development. There must be something concrete for people to study and learn from.

New comment by publicola1990 in "BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of"

publicola1990 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 02:51:29 +0000

While this is is interesting, the "nobody's heard of" phrase is rather condescending and such phrases leave a bad taste in the mind.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain?"

publicola1990 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:07:43 +0000

India possibly. It's not much in the geopolitical discussion, but in 50 years time, may be earlier, India will have a larger economy than the US. That will truly be then end of the "American Age". Whole playbook which has been applied to USSR, China won't apply either.

Even as on today, moving to India and Indonesia and similar countries will bring similar quality of life that people get in the US at a lower cost. Rents, Healthcare, labour all are much cheaper. Interest rates are much higher.

You'll even get things like quick-commerce, which isn't really taking-off in the US.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns"

publicola1990 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 02:37:25 +0000

The transcript of the video doesn't really work that well as the intro text in GitHub. The tone of it feels haughty, before even it has entered into the main details of the project. My suggestion is to rewrite it toning down the things that work on video but not as standalone text.

New comment by publicola1990 in "LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs"

publicola1990 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 04:09:02 +0000

Isn't it dogmatic to think so. Sometimes it makes sense to rent tools.

New comment by publicola1990 in "From Reform to Ruin in the USSR"

publicola1990 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:38:58 +0000

In pop history the influence of Chernobyl is wildly exaggerated.

In the complex set of events that lead to the collapse, Chernobyl is only a footnote.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Brick and Mortar Triangle Fraud"

publicola1990 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:46:37 +0000

Customers in many other countries have no problem with it. Other large countries have rolled it out fairly quickly.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Brick and Mortar Triangle Fraud"

publicola1990 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 05:26:46 +0000

But why is that so? Can't the credit card regulator simply mandate the use of PINs for credit card transactions.

New comment by publicola1990 in "$8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating"

publicola1990 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:09:21 +0000

And it could even cheaper since like about 40% of price of many cars in India is reportedly taxes and duties.

New comment by publicola1990 in "The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards"

publicola1990 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:53:25 +0000

The Vietnamese romanized their writing, they seems to be doing fine.

New comment by publicola1990 in "India fails to re-establish communication with its Moon probe"

publicola1990 — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:54:06 +0000

There has been other probes that continued to operate over multiple lunar cycles, how did they manage?

New comment by publicola1990 in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

publicola1990 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:33:21 +0000

Also did they use image processing to guide the landing this time? American and Chinese probes seems to use it to do the final phase of soft landing.

New comment by publicola1990 in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

publicola1990 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 05:37:08 +0000

Do English intellectuals even criticise Churchill?

New comment by publicola1990 in "The Status Quo Coalition"

publicola1990 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:09:55 +0000

Analysis seems to miss out considering most of Middle East and Africa.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Lately I've been using timers daily"

publicola1990 — Thu, 18 May 2023 14:02:41 +0000

A washer-dryer combo gets rid of that problem 100% of the time. I don't know why isn't popular in the US.

New comment by publicola1990 in "So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules? (2016)"

publicola1990 — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:31:33 +0000

There was also news reports that Saddam Hussein was trying to challenge George Bush Jr to a duel before the second Iraq war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2297371.stm

New comment by publicola1990 in "United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately"

publicola1990 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:53:35 +0000

Some US companies still are having operations in Russia. Cargill seems to be one of them.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Netflix's New Chapter"

publicola1990 — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:50:09 +0000

ARPU could be smaller but the user volumes would be much higher. In absolute terms it could be a significant portion of revenue. Netflix perhaps is not doing as well in these markets, presently.

There are reports that Netflix is doing badly in India, for example, which is a massive potential market.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Netflix's New Chapter"

publicola1990 — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:43:05 +0000

What about the state of affairs in emerging markets, which are likely going to be bigger revenue source than US/Europe in the not too distant future?

Also what about (live) sports coverage? Does Netflix have a strategy there? For many subscribers it is appealing if their streaming service carries sports coverage.

New comment by publicola1990 in "Recommendations for Japan Travel"

publicola1990 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:45:16 +0000

But Japan seems less "fundamental" than many other cultures including the Greeks, Persians and Chinese for example who all lay claim to thousands of years of cultural significance.

Is there a Japanese equivalent of Budha or Aristotle or Confucius.