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New comment by runarb in "Oil is near a price that hurts the economy"

runarb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:18:40 +0000

> Yeah you do. Compare the casualties and destruction in 19th century and 20th century wars.

Looking at Wikipedia's list of wars by death toll[0], it seems that people were capable of massive casualties and destruction without fossil fuels, too. Like the Taiping Rebellion in 1850–1864, with a death toll of 20–70 million. The Mongol invasions in 1206–1368, with a death range of 20–60 million, and the Three Kingdoms period in 184–280, with a death range of 34 million.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll

New comment by runarb in "Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%"

runarb — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:02:56 +0000

> Hydro (which may or may not be counted as renewable) counts as ~15%.

Why or when wouldn't one consider hydropower a renewable energy source?

New comment by runarb in "Living with 12 Strangers to Ease a Housing Crunch"

runarb — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:09:40 +0000

https://archive.is/x95bi

New comment by runarb in "AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API"

runarb — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:50:28 +0000

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute also have free forecast for any location on earth: https://developer.yr.no/featured-products/forecast/

New comment by runarb in "The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job"

runarb — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:44:08 +0000

https://archive.is/P9hbg

Tesla's wafer-sized Dojo processor is in production – 25 chips combined into one

runarb — Thu, 02 May 2024 18:02:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/teslas-dojo-system-on-wafer-is-in-production-a-serious-processor-for-serious-ai-workloads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239389

Points: 23

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New comment by runarb in "Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]"

runarb — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:53:08 +0000

> were the bolts missing because the Spirit team did not know they had to be put back

It would be interesting to know what ultimately happened to the bolts if they indeed were removed.

When I disassemble something, I do as I was taught in my mechanical class in high school, and always keep all parts I take of in the same box. If I am left with some extra bolts when finished, that would be a worrisome sign.

New comment by runarb in "Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time"

runarb — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:23:13 +0000

https://archive.is/SCgSa

New comment by runarb in "Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI's New CEO?"

runarb — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:34:26 +0000

https://archive.is/inaoT

New comment by runarb in "New York restaurants fight back against reservations by bots"

runarb — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:48:08 +0000

https://archive.is/pVN3I

New comment by runarb in "WeWork Skips $95M in Interest Payments"

runarb — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:20:02 +0000

https://archive.ph/F5aq5

New comment by runarb in "Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy"

runarb — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:52:21 +0000

Correct. From what I can read in the decision letter, Metas local Norwegian subsidiary, named "Facebook Norway AS", is being held collectively responsible for "fine of up to NOK 1 000 000 per day of non-compliance on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and/or Facebook Norway AS" - https://www.datatilsynet.no/contentassets/36ad4a92100943439d...

Facebook Norway AS did, however, only have a revenue of about 6.6 million USD in 2022, with a profit of 3.6 million USD, according to https://www.proff.no/selskap/facebook-norway-as/oslo/reklame... . They have 27 employees. The revenue from Norway are however much bigger and was speculated to be 233 million USD in 2021: https://e24.no/naeringsliv/i/A3r1Mz/facebook-bokfoerte-bare-...

New comment by runarb in "Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August"

runarb — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:55:10 +0000

> Fines like this are a nice little tax write off, just another business expense.

The fines seem to be leveled at Meta's local company in Norway. As I understand it, fines are not deductible in Norway.

(I am not an accountant, and my company has never gotten a find, but looking up this in the accounting system I use, it seems it is not deductible: https://kontohjelp.fiken.no/as/medMoms/7799?sok=7799 ( in Norwegian)).

New comment by runarb in "Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August"

runarb — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:36:44 +0000

From what I can remember from other cases here in Norway, the daily fines will be increased if the regulatory body sees that they do not have any effect.

The goal here is compliance. So the regulators will first try guidance, then a formal warning, then daily fines, then increasing the fine, fine (local) directors personally, and finally dissolvent of Metas local company.

Metas local company is named "Facebook Norway AS" and in 2022 did have a revenue of about 6.6 million USD, with a profit of 3.6 million USD according to https://www.proff.no/selskap/facebook-norway-as/oslo/reklame... . They have 27 employees. The revenue from Norway are however much bigger and was speculated to be 233 million USD in 2021: https://e24.no/naeringsliv/i/A3r1Mz/facebook-bokfoerte-bare-...

New comment by runarb in "Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data"

runarb — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:20:06 +0000

https://archive.is/dY6PE

New comment by runarb in "A Uber DEI exec placed on leave after hosting event “Don't Call Me Karen”"

runarb — Mon, 22 May 2023 11:52:04 +0000

https://archive.is/hgOIW

New comment by runarb in "Satellite takes image of another satellite"

runarb — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:55:33 +0000

During World War II many aircrafts had a camera to record kills of enemy aircrafts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_camera

New comment by runarb in "Banks Are Closing Customer Accounts, with Little Explanation"

runarb — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 15:34:56 +0000

https://archive.is/QaXWi

New comment by runarb in "Bell Labs gave up its roof to patch the Statue of Liberty"

runarb — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:44:49 +0000

Here are some gif showing the effect: https://www.nrk.no/nordland/mdg-mener-vindturbin-i-vindpark-...

The article is in Norwegian, but look at the pictures. It must be stressful to have all those read warning lights blinking all night.

New comment by runarb in "Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons"

runarb — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:02:43 +0000

https://archive.is/X6yM6