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New comment by readhn in "How They Tried to Kill Me"

readhn — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:13:57 +0000

Europe, USA and the rest of the world can easily turn into what Russia had become, if certain actions are allowed to take place.

If Trump had his way (change constitution/replace/kill his opposition), we could have authoritarian state in USA in 5-10 years. EASY.

Whats happening in Russia should be a contestant reminder for the rest of the world of what happens when you dont have a system of check and balances. When you dont have functioning legal system. When you dont have freedom of speech / freedom to protest.

New comment by readhn in "Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud"

readhn — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 23:50:42 +0000

they had some big issues with their labs compliance if i remember correctly

New comment by readhn in "Dogs are good models for human psychiatric disorders, study argues"

readhn — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:11:14 +0000

dogs were built up by humans. dogs are connected to humans on emotional level, so this is not surprising.

New comment by readhn in "A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence [pdf]"

readhn — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:08:56 +0000

cool stuff. thanks for sharing!

New comment by readhn in "Putting an old digital clock (with an outdoor thermometer) on steroids"

readhn — Wed, 05 May 2021 03:14:03 +0000

LOL

New comment by readhn in "Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall"

readhn — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:31:53 +0000

People who are moving out now - are mostly renters. Homeowners will move out when they lose their jobs and cant afford high mortgages.

New comment by readhn in "Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall"

readhn — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:28:27 +0000

that's an excellent point!!

New comment by readhn in "Celebrate Woz's 70th"

readhn — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:41:15 +0000

> It's always interesting to think about who has had the more successful, fulfilling life between Woz and Jobs.

“You smell like a toilet.” This is what Steve Jobs told his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs while on his deathbed, she wrote in her new shocking tell-all memoir about her bumpy relationship with her father.

“I was afraid of him and, at the same time, I felt a quaking, electric love,” she wrote.

In her memoir, titled “Small Fry”, Brennan-Jobs says that a lot of her memories with her father were not a typical father-daughter relationship. She talks of him denying paternity despite a DNA match, not sending financial help to her and her mother, and saying mean things to her in the little times that he spent time with her.

New comment by readhn in "How the 2021 Ford F-150's onboard generator works"

readhn — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:18:03 +0000

Who else buys pick up trucks?

New comment by readhn in "Samsung researchers build solid-state EV battery with 500-mile range"

readhn — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:14:29 +0000

double the range 2x400miles - pound for battery pound.

New comment by readhn in "Samsung researchers build solid-state EV battery with 500-mile range"

readhn — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:13:40 +0000

>> Plus, the battery pack created during the research was 50 percent smaller than a conventional lithium-ion battery.

...so if you put the same pound for pound battery size (Tesla Li-ion 400miles) you'd get 800-1000miles per charge?

New comment by readhn in "I’m leaving academia"

readhn — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:41:09 +0000

Time to change a job...

1 meeting a week here .. Management is super against wasting everyone's time in endless useless meetings.

New comment by readhn in "Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox"

readhn — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:17:18 +0000

By 2027 all amazon delivery vehicles will be fully self driving. Cost savings due to logistics improvements will be enormous!

New comment by readhn in "The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia"

readhn — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:52:05 +0000

Totally makes sense. Fun fact: In the past i was involved in a company where they implemented anonymous feedback system. The feedback system did so well .... that they shut it down in a month and never discussed the results. It uncovered too many problems that nobody in the management wanted to address. This company is on the verge of bankruptcy now, 5 years after those surveys..

When people are allowed to speak up freely - truth will come out quickly. (Yes, you will get some noise too, but id rather adjust my signal to noise ratio then just deal with meaningless noise all the time).

New comment by readhn in "Why Climate Change Won't Be Stopped (2018)"

readhn — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:44:26 +0000

"If consumers were beating down car dealership doors to buy every EV they could, car manufacturers would shift heavily towards EVs. If everyone buying a house were looping in a solar panel installation into their loan, we'd probably see more competition and faster price drops in solar panels."

this logic is part of the problem. you live in a privileged bubble where people buy electric cars and install solar panels on their houses. Median American household has only $10K saved up, many below that and live paycheck to paycheck. What EV/What homes/ solar panels? First we have to solve socio-economic wealth gap issue THEN address climate change.

New comment by readhn in "Why Climate Change Won't Be Stopped (2018)"

readhn — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:37:54 +0000

"Climate change activism these days is almost entirely a concern of middle- and upper middle-class people in the industrial world: people, that is, whose lifestyles are disproportionately responsible for the dumping of greenhouse gases; people who use much more fossil fuel energy, and many more of the products of fossil fuel energy, than the average human being."

100% Agreed.

New comment by readhn in "Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX"

readhn — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 01:30:43 +0000

>In reality, when interviewed by officers of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at LAX on June 7, 2020, Wang provided information that he was, in fact, still currently a “Level 9” technician in the PLA, employed by a military university lab.

Are you seriously telling me that the guy who is supposedly sent to "spy" in the US - just tells them at the border , oh hey, no i actually i lied - i work for Chinese military. I dont buy this - there is more to the story. I mean, do they waterboard foreigners at LAX?

Something does not add up here.

New comment by readhn in "If you see the cops, start recording"

readhn — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 19:35:33 +0000

-Don't Talk to the Police-

Regent Law Professor James Duane gives us startling reasons why we should always exercise our 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

http://www.olddominionbarassociation.com/Resources/Documents...

New comment by readhn in "Germany bans digital doppelganger passport photos"

readhn — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 02:58:22 +0000

There is. Its just not official.

New comment by readhn in "US schools lay off hundreds of thousands"

readhn — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 02:50:39 +0000

They are funded by real estate taxes (high housing prices help fill local budgets) and income taxes.