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New comment by rqtwteye in "Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event"

rqtwteye — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:40:07 +0000

Same for me with boxing. I once sparred with a natural champion of my country. The speed and power were just incredible, actually frightening. And that guy was far away from Olympics level or top professionals. It’s hard for a normal person to understand how good the top people are.

Another one: when I was a kid. There was a guy a few years older who would basically win the matches in his youth league alone. He would often score 10 or 20 goals per match . He finally made it to the pros. There he played a few matches and didn’t get another contract because he wasn’t good enough. Now imagine how good somebody like Messi must be.

New comment by rqtwteye in "The Icelandic Voting System (2024)"

rqtwteye — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:26:10 +0000

The two main parties in the US are way too happy with the status for any change to happen. If there is one thing they hate more than each other it's another party.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness"

rqtwteye — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:08:18 +0000

" find my mind just doesn't want to go beyond about 5-10 minutes of breathing, vs the 30 minutes I did in breathwork sessions."

Same for me. I did a workshop with Wim Hof and the breathing exercises were great with really profound effects. But I couldn't make myself practicing at home with the same intensity regularly. I also developed a pretty bad cough after a few weeks. Probably from the dry air where I live.

New comment by rqtwteye in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]"

rqtwteye — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:31:36 +0000

I think it’s ignorance and arrogance. The US seems to be on a path to lose technological and science leadership. The current leadership doesn’t seem to understand things that aren’t flashy. I wonder when they’ll dial back on food safety. I am sure RFK knows some vitamins that protect against salmonella

New comment by rqtwteye in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"

rqtwteye — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:33:00 +0000

Seems they should read Andy Grove’s books.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Shame and Revolution: Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism"

rqtwteye — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:05:52 +0000

My read is that started as anti colonialism against the French but then the big powers took sides so the Vietnamese started fighting each other.

The sad thing is that a lot of problems could have been avoided if the Americans in the 50s wouldn't have been so scared of any kind of communism or socialism. They messed up Iran, they drove Egypt into the arms of the Soviets, and they may have even had friendlier relationships with Fidel Castro.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Googler... ex-Googler"

rqtwteye — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:36:03 +0000

"I have seen people (one was a VP of Engineering) escorted out of the building, sent in a cab to home along with a security guard (this was in India), not allowed access to computer or talk with other employees. "

Some companies are just paranoid. My company has now had several rounds of layoffs, people were kept on for a few months, got severance and everything went as harmonious as layoffs can be.

The cruelty the way some companies and now Musk with DOGE are doing it is simply not necessary and reflects a lot on the character of leadership. To me it looks like they are deeply insecure and hate their people.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Comparing economic inequality between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty"

rqtwteye — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:18:16 +0000

“ There is no expectation, for example, that a billionaire should provide welfare or build a stadium out of his own pocket and provide free entertainment to the masses”

It’s the other way now. The taxpayers are paying for stadiums so the billionaires can charge a ton of money for entertainment

New comment by rqtwteye in "Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021)"

rqtwteye — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:54:19 +0000

I definitely would like to see that. The advantage with Venus is also that the turnaround times would be shorter compared to Jupiter or Saturn.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

rqtwteye — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:51:24 +0000

That's definitely how it looks like

New comment by rqtwteye in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

rqtwteye — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:49:49 +0000

The result is still that certain companies are getting exemptions for their products while others aren't. And there is no real rhyme or reason behind these decisions

New comment by rqtwteye in "Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft"

rqtwteye — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:09:57 +0000

My main gripe for work laptop is that Windows 11 is dog slow. I think they have rewritten Explorer but not for the better. Word is also driving me nuts. The formatting does a ton of weird stuff that's totally unpredictable. Outlook has this weird flat UI where it's hard to tell what is a button and what isn't. Search has been broken for a long time.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans"

rqtwteye — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:21:28 +0000

To my knowledge Homo Sapiens developed long before writing was used. And there are plenty of tribes who use only oral transmission. I agree with the idea that we are archivists, be it written or oral. With written you can archive much more info though.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Isaac Asimov Describes How AI Will Liberate Humans and Their Creativity (1992)"

rqtwteye — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:18:43 +0000

A while ago I saw a video of a robot doing exactly that. Seems there is nothing left for us to do.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

rqtwteye — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:10:31 +0000

People who are retired and don’t have multi million portfolios are certainly suffering. I bet this will kill off a lot of small businesses

New comment by rqtwteye in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

rqtwteye — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:08:45 +0000

Anybody who could investigate probably got fired. After the pardons of Blagojevich and the Nikola guy it’s pretty clear that scamming is ok now.

New comment by rqtwteye in "American Disruption"

rqtwteye — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:50:21 +0000

That's my feeling too. The tariffs are just another variation for the plan to replace income tax with sales tax. You could argue tariffs are a little better because in theory they result in more jobs at home.

New comment by rqtwteye in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

rqtwteye — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:08:28 +0000

MMA fighters did a lot of cool stuff during the Pride days

https://www.sherdog.com/thumbnail_crop.php?image=http://www....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkV8TohDyGA

New comment by rqtwteye in "The Greatest Motorcycle Photo"

rqtwteye — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:02:45 +0000

It would illustrate the phrase "rubbing salt into someone's wounds" nicely

New comment by rqtwteye in "The narrowest escalator in New York City"

rqtwteye — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:39:51 +0000

Reminds me of a slot canyon in Anza Borrego that’s called “fat man’s misery”