Hacker News: throwaway829

New comment by throwaway829 in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

throwaway829 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:30:22 +0000

"very, very long time ago", it was two years ago.

New comment by throwaway829 in "Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor"

throwaway829 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:46:18 +0000

"value" not "valuation". It has a value of hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars. It would require enforceable patents to have that value funnel to one company.

New comment by throwaway829 in "Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor"

throwaway829 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:39:16 +0000

Assuming the bacteria story is true, your open source analogy is wrong. Anyone can copy the bacteria (similar to open source) but there's no maintenance needed once the bacteria is released to the public. Anyone in any country can offer to give you the bacteria. It's naive to think that anyone but a non-profit would release something like this.

New comment by throwaway829 in "California will begin backing intentional burns to control wildfire"

throwaway829 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:01:12 +0000

No native writing system was known among North American Indians at the time of first European contact.

Please explain the type of evidence you could gather that would tell you American Indians thought intentional burning was a good idea and part of their planned forest management.

From what I'm reading on your link the evidence is evidence of fires burning things down, thus the Indians had an advanced forest management system in place.

New comment by throwaway829 in "Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand"

throwaway829 — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:46:29 +0000

America has been at perpetual war for decades. Other counties are hated for much less than this.

New comment by throwaway829 in "AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes"

throwaway829 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:41:35 +0000

If that were true, Apple would just add limiting Airdrop to 10 minutes as an additional default option. Removing Always on airdrop was done because it's the only form of community communications that doesn't go through the Censors.

New comment by throwaway829 in "WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear"

throwaway829 — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 04:33:58 +0000

judged, sure. Imprisoned, only in banana republics.

New comment by throwaway829 in "The Crimean Bridge Is on Fire"

throwaway829 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 05:46:27 +0000

Why don't you list your non-propaganda media sources? The only one I can think of was WikiLeaks, but your trustworthy, benevolent western governments made sure to destroy it.

At least you have CNN /s

New comment by throwaway829 in "US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis"

throwaway829 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 23:37:51 +0000

In this case, it's not 'quietly' because it's sinister, it's 'quietly' because it's extremely embarrassing. The US used all its political might to force a global boycott of Russia. Now it's telling farmers to buy Russian fertilizer. I'm no expert, but even I know Russia is a (the?) leading source of fertilizer. And to do this when we were already suffering high inflation? It's a blunder at best.

New comment by throwaway829 in "California 100 percent powered by renewables for first time"

throwaway829 — Mon, 02 May 2022 07:18:57 +0000

I imagine you're referring to the importance of good solar conditions for the production of electricity and I agree that's vital. However these articles give false hope by matching peak solar production to the lowest possible consumption period which is always on the weekends with 70 degree weather. You have close to zero commercial machinery, zero need for climate control, zero lighting (people are either outside or use natural light).

New comment by throwaway829 in "California 100 percent powered by renewables for first time"

throwaway829 — Mon, 02 May 2022 01:34:44 +0000

And it's always a Sunday when virtually no work is being done, on a day with perfect weather so no AC or Heating and most people have no need for indoor lighting. For most people a black out during this time would go unnoticed.

New comment by throwaway829 in "UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus"

throwaway829 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:52:34 +0000

Expecting any honest reporting on Israel is naive. That hasn't happened for 70+ years.

New comment by throwaway829 in "As climate fears mount, some are relocating within the US"

throwaway829 — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 06:28:05 +0000

Bill Gates and Obama are putting their money on coastal properties:

Bill Gate's San Diego beach front home: https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/bill-gates-is-turning-43m-mans...

Obama's home on the coast of Martha's Vineyard (an island in the Atlantic): https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/12/04/president-obama-...

New comment by throwaway829 in "As climate fears mount, some are relocating within the US"

throwaway829 — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 06:26:11 +0000

Here's just two examples of rich people who recently bought homes on the coast while telling the plebs to fear the rising water levels:

Bill Gate's San Diego beach front home: https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/bill-gates-is-turning-43m-mans...

Obama's home on the coast of Martha's Vineyard (an island in the Atlantic): https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/12/04/president-obama-...

New comment by throwaway829 in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

throwaway829 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:54:31 +0000

Ukraine joining Nato is akin to the Cuban missile crisis. Nato is WW3 in the making. It's an idiotic pact that agrees if Russia does anything deemed hostile, they all have to declare war. It's the same stupid type of pact that caused ww1 & ww2. The people pushing it want war with Russia. It will only benefit fat cat oligarchs. You will pay the taxes and you will be doing the dying.

New comment by throwaway829 in "Laravel 9"

throwaway829 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 06:47:09 +0000

The docs push you in the docker direction, but they also have Laravel Valet which "is a development environment for macOS minimalists": https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/valet

A lot of Laravel devs use Valet instead of Docker.

New comment by throwaway829 in "Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan"

throwaway829 — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 05:42:42 +0000

> all conveniently have something to sell you He's interviewed: - Elon Musk - Tim Ferriss - Neil DeGrasse Tyson - Sam Harris - Matthew Walker - Mike Tyson - Many more

I guess they all conveniently have something to sell(?) but they also have interesting things to say.

> insane disinformation and obviously reactionary nonsense Put another way, he's a person you disagree with on many issues. So should we cancel him now? I guess the principle of free speech is only important when your ideas are repressed.

New comment by throwaway829 in "Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan"

throwaway829 — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 03:38:37 +0000

> never listened to a single episode Then maybe that’s why you don’t understand why people would listen. I only listen to Rogan occasionally but he’s a decent interviewer and does long (3-4 hour) interviews. Many guests are mainstream personalities like Neil deGrasse Tyson but he also invites people the mainstream shuns.

New comment by throwaway829 in "Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying"

throwaway829 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:57:03 +0000

I'm planning a similar setup. Cloudflare now as email forwarding in beta and then use my personal Gmail account to send mail as by custom domain. Here's a tutorial on setting up Gmail's "Send Mail As": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEheS8gM4Xs

New comment by throwaway829 in "Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens"

throwaway829 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:08:13 +0000

They're also our greatest ally (tm). So great Congress must pledge allegiance to them: https://youtu.be/AC8pJvY8Wdo?t=170