<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: theendisney</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=theendisney</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:16:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=theendisney" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theendisney in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One protects against forein interests the other against domestic. The west is all about relative wealth building China is building absolute wealth.<p>To expand your fortune relatively other people have to lose. Its required.</p>
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<p>They dont have to, they are reqired to make the country work. Its like trying to make us roads profitable.</p>
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<p>I like vitamine D. The salmon is full of mercury, the hemp is criminalized, there is either not enough sun, to much, we dont have time or we have reduced capacity to produce. 50% has a deficiency and many can probably use more than the bare minimum.<p>UVB shouldnt just be legal, it should be mandatory.</p>
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<p>Someone (i forget who) wrote that if someone invented a technology equally beneficial and equally harmful it wouldnt even be considered today but 100 years ago they wouldnt even question it. It was labor as usual.<p>Personally i would like to see a more granual permission to drive based on performance, need and demography.</p>
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<p>I keep thinking of reeducation camps. For some reason the "safety" concept snaps right on. If one is to argue the result beneficial or desirable seems to change nothing to the concept.<p>If you are going to prevent some-things we "know" are bad and your method is "known" to belong on that list the best you can hope for is a pyrrhic victory.<p>If we anticipate the worse case scenario on both ends the conclusion must be that we are terrible at such predictions.<p>But hey, if we let money guide us at least some will be happy with the result.</p>
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<p>We do it like that with everything.  If you consider yourself an artist it is quite simple to say you cant put your name on it if anything changes. You can also explain what you just wrote: Youve hired me, trust me to do it and focus on your tasks. Or: we will be different from otters but in a limited number of ways and your suggestions dont offer enough roi to make the cut.</p>
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<p>I once had a project for novice freelancers. The idea was to take your abandoned fumble and put multiple people on it at 3rd world rates. There are lots of people in cheap coutries who can somewhat code. You can aford hiring someone for [say] 3 euro per day. If they describe where they got stuck in the daily progres report you can look at it and help a bit or not and Just let them figure it out.<p>You can pay more of course, buy them a computer, an internet connecties, books, courses, even an office but it isnt required.<p>Just pay 60 per project every 4 weeks and ignore it. If interesting progress happens its fun to look at.</p>
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<p>That is like the pilot losing his job if he doesn't follow orders. We can put the entire chain of command in prison. Including those who punish them for periodically not flying there.</p>
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<p>It was facinating to see airlines continue to fly into ebola zones eventho they barely had passengers.<p>Even if all seats are full they dont make earth shaking profit that cant be avoided. The economy doesnt require doing it. The risk benefit ratio is off the chart.<p>People making such decisions should really be behind bars? I cant think of a better way to kill. Just send some plague ships and it will make short work.</p>
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<p>Reading aggergated news is somewhat of an art. I add and remove feeds and do keyword filterin then i scan over the 5000 newest headines and find 1 to 4 things that are really great finds (to me).<p>Maybe if you do that for 1000 days some automation can find a pattern in it? I doubt it. Filtering out garbage hundreds of items at a time is definetly doable.</p>
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<p>I kmow all of the css/js hacks and tricks but the information i need is the screen size in real mm.<p>Currently i put up a visibility:hidden position:absolute left:-9000px div with nobr, put the first line of text in it, then get the width of it with computed style, calculate the root font size to make it the line exactly the screen width. Then the div is removed and the rest of the content is allowed on the page.<p>This is the only thing that works.</p>
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<p>Reminds me of pallet stacking software. Give it 200 boxes all different sizes and the robot stacks up the puzzle. I could watch it all day.</p>
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<p>Some day soom they will build a cage that will hold the monster. Provided they dont get eaten in the meantime. Or a larger monster eats theirs. :)</p>
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<p>The real problem is that plates disclose any information. It was a useful fearure 30 years ago.<p>Like for example what business do people have learning how new your car is? Some even buy a new car to avoid the badge of shame.<p>Why do i need to know when your registration expires?</p>
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<p>The soft sensitive people today have no idea how hard a condesending asshole has to work to live up to his own standards. When they do, one should still find something to troll them with. If you cant find it you complaint about the excessive border radius creating a child friendly fisherprice kind of environment. If that is the worse you can find they should agree and confess they have a fear of sharp edges.<p>How times have changed</p>
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<p>Architecting not knowing how to maintain it.<p>Edit: a legacy vibe coder</p>
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<p>And with your added layer of review the product would be superior.<p>I can think of many marketing formulas that would definitely work but since the game is not legwork but propaganda the industry should just die.</p>
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<p>>the probability of new physics here is essentially nil.<p>I dont function like that. I have true, false and unknown.<p>If i prematurely promote an unknown to true or false i would feel the need to defend my uninformed conclusion. Since i dont have what it takes to do that i would try to spoof the data. I would also blind myself to everything that contradicts the opinion.<p>You, feynman, the septic communty, you have sunk to a level that wouldnt even be legal if the man was alive. Claims of fraud and first degree murder?!?!<p>Unlike the inventor such claims require evidence and until you have it the accused is innocent.<p>But lets compare the two cobtradicting stories. One claims the other unplugged the device and claimed he really wanted to hold the plug in his hand and politely asked. The other claimed the one to have unplugged it himself and refused to give it back.<p>Which one of the two would require settling out of court?<p>The debunking doesnt really talk about Papp. You can copy paste it under any exotic claim.<p>>if the motor had any merit, he could refuse the out-of-court settlement and demonstrate the working principles of his motor.<p>No reason to think any demonstration would change information-free debunking.<p>Well over a thousand geet engines were build, hundreds of youtube demostrations but it is still not considered real.<p>There are now respectable publications about the pons and fleishman device with 100% successful replication but it is still not considered real.<p>If you personally build a working Papp engine it would simply not be considered real. People would say you are a fraud and a murderer and that would be the final word on the topic.</p>
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<p>Thanks, i have it on the agenda.<p>Perhaps we will get to see a future where great offers beat large advertisement budgets. Im sure many want to switch to that formula.</p>
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<p>To a suspicious extend the internet is full of articles praising the man. With the exception of the stripclub story (which only barely makes the cut) it is as if nothing negative was ever written about him. The www echochamber just doesnt want to hear it.<p>People get even more mad if you tell them there are many reasons to think Joseph Papp created a mixture of noble gasses, injected into sealed pistons of conventional combustion engines and then those engines would run for 6 months without adding any other fuel.<p>Feynman was amoung the angry mob. After hearing about it he went to a demonstration involving a big volvo engine funded by the navy.<p>After 10 min he climbed onto stage pointed at some electronics plugged into the wall, he pulled the plug and playfully dangled it above papp who protested loudly and said it was not safe. Feynman ignored him until papp went into full panic. The plug was returned, papp put it back into the wall and the engine exploded. 7 people were injured, one lost a leg and one audience member died.<p>The dubious thing to me was that  after much media exposure no one was interested in the physics.<p>Feynman oddly twists the story and said papp unplugged it and gave the plug to him. He wanted to hold it he said.<p>He also created a fantastic imaginary forensic report where he imagined papp put explosives in the engine.<p>After papp blamed him for destroying the engine they settled out of court.<p>The noble gas engine was now officially debunked.<p><a href="https://hoaxes.org/comments/papparticle2.html" rel="nofollow">https://hoaxes.org/comments/papparticle2.html</a><p>It gets more absurd where journalists and internet septics make an effort to change the story.<p><a href="https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28530/did-richard-feynman-see-josef-papps-machine-explode" rel="nofollow">https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28530/did-richa...</a><p>I generously give the Papp engine 0.1% odds of being useful technology which means we should be looking at the thousand claims of miraculous tech. If i look at the debunking there is never any evidence against them. Look at them fabricating, its quite amusing. Or do you see a single convincing argument the engine doesnt work even from the highly praised Feynman himself?</p>
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