Hacker News: staplor

New comment by staplor in "Starship V3"

staplor — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:12:13 +0000

Shouldn't we be able to detect radio coming from SAR satellites? If SpaceX were to launch a cover SAR constellation, why can't they just use starlink as an excuse, why do they have to invent a new businessline?

New comment by staplor in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

staplor — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:03:32 +0000

If you consider 'trading' to be short term buying and selling of stocks, then yeah. Holding stocks long term is nothing like trading commodities though.

New comment by staplor in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

staplor — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:31:06 +0000

I’ve had similar thoughts, but I’ve come around to this buildout being rational. All of the big ai labs are still jockeying for compute and are having trouble keeping up with inference demand.

New comment by staplor in "iPhone Air"

staplor — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:21:29 +0000

Most people aren't old.

New comment by staplor in "Ford CEO: Tesla's Cybertruck Is Only for 'Silicon Valley People'"

staplor — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:59:38 +0000

The linked article just looked at collisions that happened and compared danger by vehicle weight. If I had to guess, I would assume lighter vehicles generally have a shorter stopping distance and hit pedestrians less.

New comment by staplor in "Ford CEO: Tesla's Cybertruck Is Only for 'Silicon Valley People'"

staplor — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:23:03 +0000

> The authors find that being hit by a 1,000-pound heavier vehicle results in a 47 percent increase in the baseline probability of being killed in the accident

https://www.nber.org/digest/nov11/vehicle-weight-and-automot...

New comment by staplor in "Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged"

staplor — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:38:35 +0000

> The argument to allow second user sales of computer games is that it drives first user sales.

Digital games have their own benefits — sales. If games can be resold, one person may buy a game and then sell it to another person. With non resealable games, both of the people in the above example would buy the game later in a sale. Sales are one of the best uses of price discrimination; practically everyone gets to play a game eventually if they want to, but those who especially want to can pay more.

> So, Netflix should only allow one person to watch the screen at a time, and everyone in the room watching the tv show needs to purchase an account, or maybe a pay-per-view watch?

I don’t see how my statement implies this. Single use tickets and subscriptions services are different things.

New comment by staplor in "Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged"

staplor — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:32:07 +0000

I think it makes sense that video games shouldn't be resold. Do you think you should be able to resell a movie ticket? I don't because I see the purchase of a movie ticket as the right to see a movie once. In the same way I think purchasing a game should give you a right to download a game from your account.

New comment by staplor in "[dead]"

staplor — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:24:40 +0000

Hey, Dang, Idk if this is allowed because this is politics, but I thought it was a noteworthy thing for a world leader to do. However, I understand if you want to delete it.

New comment by staplor in "Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste"

staplor — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:17:29 +0000

Yes, but even if the referenced security risk is patched you would still be able to find out if some has an account or not since a password reset page will tell you if it has successfully sent an email to an account.

New comment by staplor in "California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035"

staplor — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:19:17 +0000

It is the governments job to deal with this. Polluting the atmosphere may be cheaper for an individual consumer, but is a negative externality for everyone else on earth.

If the government didn’t involve itself in any green energy, Tesla would not be profitable.[1]

[1] https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/tesla-s-mai...

New comment by staplor in "U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation"

staplor — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:52:57 +0000

You should look into Ernesto Miranda. He did horrible things but the Supreme Court said that he incriminated himself without knowing his rights. Because of this, his conviction was overturned and now cops have to read ‘Miranda’ rights to everyone they arrest.

New comment by staplor in "Micromort"

staplor — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:02:52 +0000

This is pedantic, but going twice in Russian roulette would have an 80% mortality rate. This is because the second shot is a 3/5ths chance, not 1/2.

New comment by staplor in "Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes"

staplor — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:49:25 +0000

Piggybacking off this, if you are the teacher from Saudi Arabia, send me an email. address in bio.

New comment by staplor in "Radioactivity in Tobacco"

staplor — Sat, 02 May 2020 12:00:03 +0000

I believe it would since cannabis also has sticky trichromes on its bud and surrounding leaves.

New comment by staplor in "French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold"

staplor — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 20:45:41 +0000

I think this is bad; not necessarily for the consumer, but for the industry as a whole. Reselling means that copies sold after the release benefit random consumers, not the developer. On the other hand unresellable licenses along with sales mean that everyone pays the same price, but the developer gets all of the revenue. Digital goods cannot be scarce; we shouldn't treat them as if they are.

New comment by staplor in "A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52"

staplor — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:12:49 +0000

Yes, it is more likely for a serviceman to die in training than in combat.

New comment by staplor in "How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll"

staplor — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:45:28 +0000

I disagree. What's the point of having a scroll if you are unable to read it? Now it is in a form(digital) to last another thousand years.

New comment by staplor in "Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US"

staplor — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 02:51:34 +0000

Am I missing something or does that article about a hook not include a picture of said hook?

New comment by staplor in "An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]"

staplor — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:15:48 +0000

It's not as if similar toasters don't exist. I have a similar one in my kitchen.

https://www.kitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances/toasters/tw...