Hacker News: rtuulik

New comment by rtuulik in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

rtuulik — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:28:20 +0000

Its free at the endpoint for user. That's what the "free" means here. No one is pretending that resources for things like roads, police, firefighting, primary schooling and others come out of nothingness and don´t have any cost.

New comment by rtuulik in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

rtuulik — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:59:09 +0000

He is a small guy. He did say that same list would take up to 20L of space if you are larger.

New comment by rtuulik in "AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024)"

rtuulik — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:39:52 +0000

Its not. For the US, energy use per capita has been trending downwards since 1979. For the developing worlds, increase in energy usage is tied to increasing living standards.

New comment by rtuulik in "Basic Social Skills Guide"

rtuulik — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:45:42 +0000

Roundabouts are a one way road, you don´t need to signal when driving on it. But you do need to indicate when you are leaving the roundabout.

New comment by rtuulik in "The purge of German science in 1933"

rtuulik — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:54:46 +0000

> When did the soviets deny physical phenomena like the photoelectric effect? I believe they had issues with the kind of non-falsifiable metaphysical arguments put forward to try to explain or understand quantum mechanics.

There were many, but the most famous example is probably Lysenkoism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

New comment by rtuulik in "SETI at FAST in China"

rtuulik — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 09:58:07 +0000

> I'll never understand why China spent so much time and money finding the perfect remote karst for radio astronomy and then built a radio-loud amusement park around it.

Because it is a prestige project for Chinese government. Any science coming out of that is secondary to that.

New comment by rtuulik in "Henry Kissinger Has Died"

rtuulik — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:42:27 +0000

The claim is that Kissinger sabotaged peace talks thus extended the war in order for his guy to win the elections.

New comment by rtuulik in "Henry Kissinger Has Died"

rtuulik — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:39:10 +0000

Kissinger is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands people. They had families. They were real people who died. Death doesn´t absolve someone from committing crimes against humanity. To claim that people should only talk about the good things person did is a serious case of decorum poisoning. Nobody celebrates serial killers.

New comment by rtuulik in "Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s cartels, killed in ambush"

rtuulik — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:16:40 +0000

Using drugs is decriminalised.

New comment by rtuulik in "Google Pixel Fold"

rtuulik — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:46:51 +0000

The "tiny hands" joke isn´t funny because Donald Trump has tiny hands, no one cares about that or if it is true.

The part that makes the joke funny, is its origins. In the 80s journalist was writing a story about Donald and mentioned his small hands in it. But Donald Trump is so insecure that even 10 years later he kept sending cut off pictures of himself from magazines to the author, with his hands circled with a marker, to prove that his hands werent small. The fact that the marker was gold coloured was a cherry on top.

The sheer stupidity of this entire thing is what makes the (though overplayed) joke funny.

Some random source with not that many details. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/history-donald-trump-small-h...

New comment by rtuulik in "EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars"

rtuulik — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:44:49 +0000

For the last 20 years battery cost per kW/h has fallen around 10% average every year. ICE engines have thousands of moving parts driving up the complexity and price, while electric engines have what, 3 moving parts? It is inevitable that the electric cars will take over, ICE engines just can´t compete on price.

New comment by rtuulik in "Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken"

rtuulik — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:22:33 +0000

Do you mean tripwire force? The idea behind them, using your example, is that when the invasion happens, it will kill a number of American troops, whose death will act as a tripwire to triggering full size war. Its one of the methods for deterring invasions.

New comment by rtuulik in "Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken"

rtuulik — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:18:16 +0000

Tripwire troops have been in Baltics for a while now. You don´t need to set up a permanent base for that.

New comment by rtuulik in "Culture shock"

rtuulik — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:48:21 +0000

I think "reverse culture shock" covers it somewhat.

New comment by rtuulik in "Iceland almost gets female-majority parliament"

rtuulik — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 20:42:27 +0000

Its not the first female majority parliament in the world, its the first female majority parliament in europe.

Right now, there are five countries where there is a female majority: Rwanda(61%), Cuba(53%), Nicaragua(51%), Mexico(50%) and United Arabian Emirates(50%).

New comment by rtuulik in "Peter Bourgon: I have been permanently banned from all Golang community spaces"

rtuulik — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:07:08 +0000

> You might think that just because you're a beta male that chastises everyone on every internet forum about 'muh sexism' to win points with the girls, even though they'll never fuck you cause you're beta, you're immune but this is proof that it is not the case.

wtf is this drivel? Please keep your incel worldviews away from hackernews.

New comment by rtuulik in "World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale"

rtuulik — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:40:25 +0000

Wind is caused by the sun. In a single hour, the amount of power from the sun that strikes the Earth is more than the entire world consumes in an year. Humans are currently using nearly as much energy, as 0,011% of sunlight.

New comment by rtuulik in "Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database"

rtuulik — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:39:30 +0000

Estionian Personal Code number works just as a unique identifying number. American Social Security Number work both as an unique identifying number AND as a verification of identity. Basically its similar to estonian ID number, but instead of PIN1 and PIN2 you have just the SSN.

New comment by rtuulik in "Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video]"

rtuulik — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:16:09 +0000

Economy size tends to shrink, when nearly half your population decides to leave.

New comment by rtuulik in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

rtuulik — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:44:19 +0000

> "After large-scale political changes I want there be no changes that might affect me personally."

.eu domain has certain registration requirements: - A Union citizen, independently of their place of residence. - A natural person who is not a Union citizen and who is a resident of a Member State. - An undertaking that is established in the Union. - An organization that is established in the Union, without prejudice to the application of national law.

Its completely normal for entities to stop servicing other entities after they aren´t in accordance of laws or rules.