Hacker News: sbaiddn

New comment by sbaiddn in "Ninth-Century Coins Change Our Understanding of Alfred the Great"

sbaiddn — Mon, 08 May 2023 17:00:53 +0000

Without a market, there is no fair evaluation of value.

New comment by sbaiddn in "The first planetarium projector was unveiled 100 years ago"

sbaiddn — Mon, 08 May 2023 01:14:42 +0000

"* Air change. I found out that commercial spaces (concert halls or airplanes etc) change the entire air several times an hour. "

With good reason - spaces that don't are terribly uncomfortable within ten minutes.

New comment by sbaiddn in "I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough"

sbaiddn — Sun, 07 May 2023 01:49:41 +0000

10% of the radiation of something with a half life measured in hours in a lot od radiation.

10 tons of radioactive Na leak.

1 ton is left after 2 days.

Thats a lot!

New comment by sbaiddn in "I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough"

sbaiddn — Sat, 06 May 2023 19:02:59 +0000

I understand half life. My point moisture currents can spread water soluble things very far very quickly.

Think of it this way, what happens if there's a catastrophic sodium leak? The winds carry it far and the Na gets into everything because it will be diluted into the wind's moisture. Won't you breath the radioactive Na from the air's moisture?

New comment by sbaiddn in "I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough"

sbaiddn — Sat, 06 May 2023 13:28:48 +0000

Run away where? To the next river basin? Na will dissolve into any moisture and be carried away by any moisture.

New comment by sbaiddn in "I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough"

sbaiddn — Sat, 06 May 2023 13:17:51 +0000

His understanding appears worse than that. Heat capacity is important, but as a second order. Absolute temperatures is the real deal since it sets the Carnot efficiency.

Another way to look at it, if I were doing a back of the envelop calculation (the most important calculations), I wouldn't look up the Cp of Na. Id only look up its boiling T

High Cp, low Cp... that can be remedied to some extent by running the pump faster or slower.

New comment by sbaiddn in "U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures"

sbaiddn — Fri, 05 May 2023 14:37:40 +0000

and I hope that corporation's ability to lobby Congress to change laws against the public interest banned, and their lawyer's ability to practice law removed for ever.

Free the Mouse!

Ask HN: Is Mobile Twitter Down?

sbaiddn — Thu, 04 May 2023 12:57:09 +0000

Or is it just me?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814529

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by sbaiddn in "Classic fountain pens"

sbaiddn — Tue, 02 May 2023 14:36:06 +0000

For a beginner, its hard to improve on the "pilot penenship"

Its only flaw, in my opinion, is its lack of a clip

New comment by sbaiddn in "Classic fountain pens"

sbaiddn — Tue, 02 May 2023 14:30:51 +0000

The grip is the best part of the pen!

New comment by sbaiddn in "PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law"

sbaiddn — Tue, 02 May 2023 14:29:40 +0000

Call me a prude.

Call me old fashioned.

Call me small minded.

But watching a woman getting chocked while DPed in her anus while a half dozen men ejaculate on her is not the type of extra-curricular activity [1] I want my soon to be teenaged daughters' boyfriends interested in.

Im just... overprotective I guess.

[1] If anyone calls me out for knowing what's on the front page of all of these smut sites, guess what? We all know what's on those sites!

New comment by sbaiddn in "Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada"

sbaiddn — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:33:16 +0000

Radio in YYZ:

Sam Roberts, Celine Dione, Nickleback, Avril Levine. Sounds disturbed.

New comment by sbaiddn in "Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada"

sbaiddn — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:31:46 +0000

When I went to visit my parents for Easter I was shocked to hear Sam Roberts' Milky Way song. That was shocking.

New comment by sbaiddn in "First clean water, now clean air"

sbaiddn — Mon, 01 May 2023 20:17:57 +0000

Does this "filtered vent fan" exchange air with the outside? If not, Im not interested.

New comment by sbaiddn in "First clean water, now clean air"

sbaiddn — Mon, 01 May 2023 12:07:23 +0000

That's why I'm not changing my very leaky and drafty windows - I don't want to live in a hermetically sealed Tupperware container.

Once I install an HRV system then I'll do the windows!

New comment by sbaiddn in "Four questions concerning the internet"

sbaiddn — Mon, 01 May 2023 03:02:50 +0000

Not really, but don't let that stop you from judging others!

Ask HN: Are You a Materialist?

sbaiddn — Mon, 01 May 2023 00:02:31 +0000

Title says it all. Do you believe in philosophical materialism?

If so, do you believe we're in a Turing machine of some sort? Are you a finitist?

If you are not a materialist, what metaphysical thing do you believe in? A Being Creator? Spirits? Do you believe in ghosts and fairies?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767703

Points: 6

# Comments: 17

New comment by sbaiddn in "Four questions concerning the internet"

sbaiddn — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:45:29 +0000

Its creative license.

He's illustrating how a description of the Antichrist from over 100 years ago so neatly describes modern man's deity.

You clearly understood the parallel, for you felt manipulated. His manipulation is not only intentional, it is admitted by the author!

New comment by sbaiddn in "Four questions concerning the internet"

sbaiddn — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:31:33 +0000

My favorite luddite on the only tech site worth reading. HN, how do you keep doing it? :D

His part Two is available (to subscribers at least)

New comment by sbaiddn in "The Italian farmers saving an ancient fruit with solar power"

sbaiddn — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:57:06 +0000

Thats not true. Take Afghanistan, it's hardly lawless. If anything poor peoples are the societies most intolerant towards crime.