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New comment by schwarrrtz in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?"

schwarrrtz — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:17:17 +0000

That's fair. Still, I suspect the use cases are very different. People who use guns for hunting and defense against large animals don't need concealed carry permits, nor do they need to carry their guns in the city. People who use guns for sport don't need their guns anywhere except at the firing range.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?"

schwarrrtz — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:03:17 +0000

So, you’re saying that about 1 out of every 5 times a gun is used, it is used for a criminal act? And... you think that’s a good statistic?

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Boeing-Backed Startup Lands JetSuite for Electric Plane's Debut"

schwarrrtz — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:30:09 +0000

Have you heard of bicycles?

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

schwarrrtz — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:23:55 +0000

Case in point: ads in Windows 10.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Robert Langlands, who linked number theory, analysis, and geometry (2015)"

schwarrrtz — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 18:20:35 +0000

With respect - you are both being overly general about Canadian media, and showing an American bias. The Star is not representative of all Canadian media, and there are many American publications that trumpet American exceptionalism at every opportunity.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Elon Musk: SpaceX and Tesla almost went bankrupt in 2008"

schwarrrtz — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 23:29:38 +0000

This isn’t really a news article. Almost everything in here was covered in the Vance book.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "First firing of air-breathing electric thruster"

schwarrrtz — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:34:40 +0000

It’s an elephant!

New comment by schwarrrtz in "U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars"

schwarrrtz — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:32:49 +0000

What power source do you propose for a long-duration human mission to Mars, if not nuclear? Solar won’t work, given the loss of output during a dust storm.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Google forked Swift"

schwarrrtz — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 02:36:10 +0000

Because Google devs write iOS apps, presumably in Swift, and want to contribute to the development of the language they use?

Seems like the simplest explanation to me.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’"

schwarrrtz — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:44:27 +0000

> Didn't he actually design the first rocket himself?

I'm pretty sure there were core employees (not Musk) working on every part of the rocket from the beginning. This is documented in the Vance biography, IIRC.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video]"

schwarrrtz — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 06:36:02 +0000

Carbon neutral assuming you are creating the CH4 using atmospheric CO2. On Earth I suspect that most CH4 comes from natural gas. On Mars it would be carbon neutral - but that's actually a bad thing, assuming that your goal is to increase the atmospheric density on Mars.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace"

schwarrrtz — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 04:10:26 +0000

Sexist drivel has no place here. The logout button is at the right hand side of the navbar.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "Read Apple CEO Tim Cook's Email to Employees About Charlottesville"

schwarrrtz — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:13:13 +0000

Can anyone at Apple comment on the perception of Cook inside the company? He seems like a fairly inspiring leader to me, considering his position on LGBT issues, the FBI decryption incident, and now this. I don't work for him, though, and I'd be interested to hear from someone who does.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "The Crisis of Connected Cars: When Vulnerabilities Affect the CAN Standard"

schwarrrtz — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:34:38 +0000

The takeaway is that by tampering only with CAN messages sent by a particular system, you can force that system to disconnect from the network. For example, an attacker might use this exploit to disable the airbag, or disable the engine while the car is driving, or cause other safety problems.

Brief history of foreign buying of Vancouver real estate

schwarrrtz — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:31:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-a-brief-history-of-foreign-buying-of-vancouver-real-estate-2017-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14983250

Points: 2

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New comment by schwarrrtz in "Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk"

schwarrrtz — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 06:45:58 +0000

It's also a complete HR catastrophe. How could anyone feel comfortable in their position, knowing they could be fired at any moment, publicly and without warning? Terrorizing your employees is completely unacceptable as a manager.

Edit: I guess I don't have much experience with HR at large companies - I use the term to refer to aspects of management related to maintaining employee wellbeing, workplace culture etc.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "How Canada became an education superpower"

schwarrrtz — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 09:19:20 +0000

Ok so I have some actual stats now:

> More than 45 per cent of Metro Vancouver residents are foreign born, according to the 2011 census. There are only three major cities on the globe that have a higher percentage of foreign-born residents.

> They are Dubai, Brussels and Toronto.

http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/vancouver-fourth-fo...

New comment by schwarrrtz in "How Canada became an education superpower"

schwarrrtz — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 06:02:24 +0000

> Migrants coming to Canada, many from countries such as China, India and Pakistan, are often relatively well-educated and ambitious to see their children get into professional careers.

> Prof Jerrim says these families have an immigrant "hunger" to succeed, and their high expectations are likely to boost school results for their children.

Speaking from personal experience as a native Canadian, this can also motivate non-immigrant children to work harder. When half of your peers have an immigrant's work ethic it can be a real positive influence.

Disclaimer: this is an anecdote, my personal experience may not generalize, etc.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket"

schwarrrtz — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:59:11 +0000

I'm not saying that video wouldn't be helpful, just that realtime video wouldn't be helpful. They surely record the video for later analysis as others have mentioned.

New comment by schwarrrtz in "SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket"

schwarrrtz — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 18:08:24 +0000

I mean, it's not like a really robust realtime feed would be much help for them anyway. As far as I know the rocket is completely autonomous, so even if something was going wrong during the landing a higher-quality feed would just give them higher-quality reasons to tear their hair out etc.