Breaking, emergency braking in trucks? Kind of like reverse thrust in airplanes.

What has HN become - just endless anti-tech hate, downstream from idiotic TikTok politics.

Is it the moderation system that amplifies this nonsense here?

If those cold-air thrusters are getting commoditized, the real discussion here should be around what could be built around them. How to HACK them.

Reddit exists for this other nonsense pile on.

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You're mixing nationality, a piece of paper, with being "native", an ethnic group. Does not work in countries across Europe, Japan, Korea, etc. The settling of the USA and its cultural dominance has broken peoples brains. Europe is inhabited by its indigenous people!

The English are an ethnic group (ask 23andMe) and they are the founding stock of Great Britain. Source - the far right extremist wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people

London was 97.7% white in 1960. Now it is around 50%, and falling. Again, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

Is that good or bad? Leave that one up for debate, I mostly care about facts.

The official added that under the deal, the US has unilateral power to build additional military structures with no approval needed from Greenland or Denmark. It includes "permanent access, basing and overflights rights," the official said.

It also bans non-Nato countries from building bases in Greenland, and "bans adversaries from making investments in Greenland that could threaten the United States".

The official added that under the current status quo, adversaries have been allowed to invest in Greenland's "sensitive sectors without investment screening".

The official specifically referenced Russia and China, saying it blocks them from deploying troops or making investments in "sensitive sectors".

Without the official text being released, it is unclear how exactly the deal differs from a 1951 agreement with Denmark, under which the US can send as many troops as it wants to Greenland."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c63d7lexyym1o

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/trump-greenla...

A single Trident can (officially) carry 4-5 warheads, up to 476 KT each.

Office 2007 introduced the ribbon and got under pressure by the web (GSuite).

But the early aughts? Office 2003 with XML and Sharepoint just wiped out all other stacks, especially Exchange steamrolling Domino and GroupWise.

I was part of a consulting team back then, the transformation projects were all going in one direction. That stack is dominant to this day.

MSFT was so dominant back then that Gates had to rescue Apple to keep up the appearance of a fair market!

As an end-user, I welcomed Notes demise.

And don't get me started on its god-awful local/offline sync behavior. Outlook ran circles around it. Hard to believe from todays perspective, sure, but yes, Lotus Notes was so much worse.

Given new AI tooling, what seemed unsurmountable before is getting into reach.

DF the world system and core engine.

Marxism came first. Mussolini was a Marxist, then developed Fascism as a reaction to it.

When Marxist talk about "reactionary forces", what do you think it means?

Oh well, emperors, clothes, ... you know.

Cheap messaging is as annoying now as calling. Ruining the phone experience overall. Soon Apple will have to do something.

Forecasts to 2030 expect sub-Saharan Africa to continue having the highest incidence rates of both HIV and other STIs of any region.

How come a specific region of the globe has this issue? "Poverty"?

Many regions in India are poor. Afghanistan. Pakistan.

Love the science based debate here, btw, thank you all for the downvotes. Facts, not feelings.

I did not use drugs.

"I share needles because I can't afford my own" is an INSANE take. Don't shoot drugs in the first place! Poor people are normal humans, they have willpower, agency. It is a rich people myth that poor people are cattle, devoid of any chance of doing the right thing.

It is culture, behavior, social norms. Being poor does not force you to abandon the nuclear family, does not force you to engage in criminal acts. (there is reverse causality though)

In the early 1960s South Korea had a per capita income lower than those of Haiti, Ethiopia, and Yemen, and about 40% below India's. Did all South Koreans become heroin addicts with HIV?

This is factually untrue.

Being poor does not equal a HIV transmission rate. There is no 1:1 correlation.

A single protected (condom) sexual act between a male and female averages somewhere around 0.1-0.5% chance of pregnancy, and during the fertile window it could still be around 1% or more even with a condom.

Chance of HIV from one act of unprotected vaginal sex with an HIV-positive partner: ~0.08% male-to-female.

The high HIV transmission rates are NOT correlated with wealth, but social behavior. Unprotected anal sex with many partners? High risk. Now, Africa - the practice of dry sex contributes a ton to HIV transmission. Cultural belief that a dry vagina increases pleasure, hence woman use sand, chalk or bleach to dry out their vaginas, massively increasing HIV risk. Needle sharing of drug users? High HIV risk.

Not a class issue, no reason to punch down on poor people. Poor people have agency and many do not infect themselves with HIV in the first place.