<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: trelane</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trelane</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:17:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=trelane" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by trelane in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suppose the bulb could get hot enough to burn the media storing the books.</p>
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<p>My favorite teacher strike was when the teachers stopped doing work when they weren't being paid. The district quickly caved.</p>
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<p>> is there shortage of teachers in USA?<p>No, there is a steady stream of teachers being fed into the maw of public education. The pay is low and job security is terrible until you get tenure. My wife was a teacher; I have heard horror stories.<p>You get paid based on a combination of how much money you earn your employer and how easy you are to replace. Schools get paid by taxes, and there are a ton of them produced every year. So, the pay is abysmal.</p>
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<p>> unwillingness to fund education.<p>"The United States spent $15,500 per FTE student at the elementary/secondary level, which was 38 percent higher than the average of OECD countries3 reporting data ($11,300). The United States had the fifth highest expenditures per FTE student at the elementary/secondary level in 2019 after Luxembourg, Norway ($18,000), and Austria and the Republic of Korea ($15,900 each)."<p>Source: <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country" rel="nofollow">https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...</a></p>
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<p>> It's literally less traumatic for a child to be in an active war zone than to be separated from their parents.<p>Unless they happen to go to war themselves, vanquishing an evil queen with the help of a lion and becoming kings and queens, and reigning for a long while themselves.<p>Those kids seem to mostly turn out alright. Small sample size though.</p>
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<p>> Yeah, but if I’m not customizing it, Linux is just worse in every way<p>I strongly disagree.<p>You can customize Linux, but that's not its only benefit.<p>> If you are going to do that why not just buy a Mac<p>Because I don't <i>want</i> iOS. I want Linux.</p>
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<p>> If you ban loud bass I don't think I'd mind<p>Not sure what you mean. I've been to many lakes and have yet to hear any bass.</p>
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<p>> I don’t have time to futz around installing Linux distros instead of getting laid like I did as a teenager<p>Good news! These days, you can just buy a computer with Linux preinstalled, with support!<p>Just leave the distro it shipped with alone and live your life.</p>
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<p>Ah, dang. Thanks for responding anyway!</p>
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<p>Fascinating! Only tangentially related: I've definitely heard of PMMA, and didn't realize it was plexiglass! It's used regularly in semiconductor fabrication. <a href="https://kayakuam.com/product/structsure/pmma-positive-resists" rel="nofollow">https://kayakuam.com/product/structsure/pmma-positive-resist...</a><p>(also waaaay down on the list of uses at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)</a> but I thought that first link was clearer. Look for "In semiconductor research and industry, PMMA aids as a resist in the electron beam lithography process.")</p>
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<p>Where is your thesis available?</p>
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<p>Or the soviets did to believers, for that matter</p>
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<p>> should open their eyes to the world around them<p>Amazingly brazen assumption right there.</p>
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<p>That is a lot of words for "my negative steroetypes about you and your country are fine, actually. Don't take it personally, bro. Maybe you're one of the few good ones!"</p>
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<p>> Most of HN readers/writers are American, of course they won't do anything unless they personally profit off it, the entire culture is built around this mindset<p>American culture is highly varied. For some this is true, for others this is wrong and highly insulting.<p>Maybe try a narrower brush next time.</p>
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<p>> someone has to pay for administrators<p>Turns out, this is <i>also</i> research grant money. Half or more of every grant usually goes straight to the university.as "overhead."<p>The universities <i>could</i> change this so more finding went to researchers, but they have zero incentive to.</p>
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<p>For women: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0d59e7wjlo" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0d59e7wjlo</a></p>
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<p>I also still daydream and have well before and after kids. If anything, sleep depravation with a newborn made it more vibrant and integrated.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://lovelace.ai/articles/we-built-something-that-didnt-exist-today-were-sharing-it-with-the-world">https://lovelace.ai/articles/we-built-something-that-didnt-exist-today-were-sharing-it-with-the-world</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952649">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952649</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
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<p>> Wasn’t the original intention behind facebook to accumulate a directory of hotties, probably with the aim of bringing them ‘closer’?<p>Sort of.<p>Wikipedia @ 2:<p>> Mark Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while attending Harvard University. The site was comparable to Hot or Not and used photos from online face books, asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".<p>Britannica:<p>> Despite its brief tenure, 450 people (who voted 22,000 times) flocked to Facemash. That success prompted Zuckerberg to register the URL <a href="http://www.thefacebook.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefacebook.com</a> in January 2004.<p>> They pretty much put it on the label; it’s not called personality book.<p>Wikipedia @ 3:<p>> A face book or facebook is a paper or online directory of individuals' photographs and names published by some American universities.<p>Wikipedia @ 2:<p>> Zuckerberg coded a new site known as "TheFacebook", stating, "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized Website is readily available ... the benefits are many."<p>[1] <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/Facebook" rel="nofollow">https://www.britannica.com/money/Facebook</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book</a></p>
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