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New comment by triplesec in "Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other"

triplesec — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:55:42 +0000

but train tracks is not that kind of edge case, tbh, it's so vanishingly situational

New comment by triplesec in "Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other"

triplesec — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:50:12 +0000

Guess what: Musk will probably get this rewuirement scrapped by his orange mate.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-...

New comment by triplesec in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

triplesec — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:44:25 +0000

France seems to have the most, out of the European countries I have spent time in. But it's not like the US

New comment by triplesec in "Garbage collect your technical debt (2021)"

triplesec — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:24:13 +0000

what was your response?

New comment by triplesec in "Fighting an anti-doping finding"

triplesec — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:11:55 +0000

This is too glib. Some organisations do a a lot better than others, have better culture, responsiveness to evidence, and management.

New comment by triplesec in "300k airplanes in five years"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:42:22 +0000

Quality control is a LOT lower in China than in the US, and that's even considering the US's bias towards industry in its legislation. This is why chinese electronics catch fire a lot more (than Japanese ones, for example, too).

There's a huge amout of corruption, and almost no regulation.

New comment by triplesec in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:34:19 +0000

You misunderstand the utility of masks, where it is significantly more an infected wearer of the mask who protects others by their wearing. So, being infections before you have symptoms is the problem, which is why people should - as is standard in Japan, for example - wear masks in public whenever they feel unwell or feel a 'cold' coming on.

New comment by triplesec in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:30:23 +0000

Except the experts are mostly objective. However, the waters have been muddied in the public's view by anti-maskers, like anti-vaxxers. This is a real catastrophe of the pandemic.

New comment by triplesec in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:24:04 +0000

You are using a perfection fallacy, or black-and-white thinking here. That a significant number of ordinary peopple do not mask well or do not have / know of the correct mask to use doesn not make the masks or the process ineffective.

New comment by triplesec in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:21:26 +0000

Thank you, I hadn't seen this yet, and it's a legitiately well-researched piece by medical scientists with methodological expertise and communicative clarity, which is not always the case.

New comment by triplesec in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:14:17 +0000

Your comment is amusing and biting! Sadly, with and irony are not particularly valued on HN. Direct clear expressions are preferable for the expected neurotypes of this pseudo-community.

New comment by triplesec in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:03:56 +0000

Please note:

1. surgical masks are pretty ineffective, but N95 and better masks are very effective, subject to proper use and quality control

2. Mask research and experience pre-COVID in the West was not widely understood by non-experts even in the medical field. Which led to all sorts of doctors with huge egos getting onto Youtube and misinforming people with their poor grasp of science and studies. (Most doctors are not medical sceientists, but artisans).

3. Then look at the huge number of studies since 2020 and you will find that indeed when a study looks at the correct masks ued properly, they work as intended. the biggest problem is the meatsack using the masks, because most of them are not diligent or kind enough to use them.

4. We should allow scientists and medical practitioners to make a mistake, and own up to it to make 180 degree u-turns. This means ghey are using data and experience to update their beliefs, which is good science.

New comment by triplesec in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

triplesec — Sat, 25 May 2024 08:57:31 +0000

Your comment does read like 'My grandma has smoked 20 a day all her life and she's still alive at 90'. statistics do not preclude people from being luckier or unluckier than the average.

New comment by triplesec in "Sliding Doors: The Time GM Fumbled Its Chance to Launch the First Minivan"

triplesec — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 06:21:48 +0000

you could update the wiki too!

New comment by triplesec in "Epic vs. Google: Google Loses"

triplesec — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 06:07:22 +0000

This is a poor analogy, because there is no coparable access to build other app stores, as this is not the same kind of ecosystem for a market.

New comment by triplesec in "The Morgan XP-1 is an eccentric English electric vehicle"

triplesec — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:10:13 +0000

Clearly you're not aware of the classic cross-ply tyre which is what classic cars used before radials became standard. These are car tyres, and while I'm sorry somebody crashed into you, this was more their lack of attention than anything else.

Also, the damage to the Morgan was the point: the crumpling f its front end is exactly waht led to the driver suffering only bruised ribs rather than the horpitalisation or death that might have been with a less-modern-safety design from the 1930s. This is how cars are safe: they absorb the energy by crumpling so that your body doesn't have to.

New comment by triplesec in "Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green"

triplesec — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:45:18 +0000

This stuff's been around a while. I remmeber a decade back, a happy friendly idiosyncratic engineer in a warehouse in SF I know very well, who showed me gleefully all the objects he had cvered in Europium powder. The glow was a little underwhelming, but it was interesting.

also, being concerned about possible toxicity, not really knowing my lanthanide chemistry, I did keep my distance, however.

New comment by triplesec in "Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery"

triplesec — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 14:49:41 +0000

This looks like what the classic russian bots do nowadays

New comment by triplesec in "Why did The Beatles get so many bad reviews?"

triplesec — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 06:50:48 +0000

This review is as flawed as other roc lreviews, by making incorrect claims and merely asserting that oterh bands have better music, without any deal analysis, except for moaning about rock critics

New comment by triplesec in "Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars"

triplesec — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:30:33 +0000

This famous edict: Don't Talk to Police, now seems to include calling 911.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE