Hacker News: wojt_eu

New comment by wojt_eu in "Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System"

wojt_eu — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:12:12 +0000

An example of how frequency is closely monitored before energy demand surge in Britain due to Tea Time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAvewWfrA https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/tea-time-in-britain-causes-...

New comment by wojt_eu in "Ask HN: Move to product management at 35?"

wojt_eu — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:17:31 +0000

I've read how being responsible for family make employees plan their work better because they want to get home for the dinner, how it makes them more responsible or loyal – but that's the first time I hear about parenting experience directly affecting management skills. Some similarities are obvious now that I think about it – you want to help them grow and flourish. You set expectations and put boundaries while avoiding micromanagement and try not to spoil internal gratification with bribes. Well, except firing – you don't fire kids early due to lack of culture fit.

New comment by wojt_eu in "After Decades of Growth, Colleges Find It’s Survival of the Fittest"

wojt_eu — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:46:31 +0000

This shows correlation but not causation. Hypothetically: people with certain background (social class) and traits (IQ) are more likely to go to college, and they would fare as well or better without college. I'd be very interested in stats of lifetime earnings difference that was corrected for selection bias.

New comment by wojt_eu in "[dead]"

wojt_eu — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:39:02 +0000

I love Q&A on that page:

Q: We are talking 'digital' audio, correct? 1's and 0's ... not analogue audio that really benifits from serious quality??!!!!

A: This cable is such good quality that it supports the transference of 0's, 1's and 2's.

Q: If I wrap this cable around my arm, can I punch faster than the speed of light?

A: No, that requires their 16 meter length version.

New comment by wojt_eu in "What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World"

wojt_eu — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 08:59:26 +0000

I already feel nostalgic about gas-powered cars, their place is alongside steam locomotives as movie props and tourist attractions. Imagine people doing gas-punk cosplay in a couple of decades.

New comment by wojt_eu in "Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack"

wojt_eu — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 07:34:21 +0000

Then the bank has incentive to shift responsibility back to you, e.g. by requiring withdrawal request to be signed with your private encryption key. And you have an incentive to care about security of this key.

New comment by wojt_eu in "Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks"

wojt_eu — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:52:19 +0000

Research that contradicts benefits of frequent physical activity for office workers? Paint me surprised. Can you share some links?

New comment by wojt_eu in "Interview with Mr. Money Mustache"

wojt_eu — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:20:24 +0000

I don't see that much of consumerism advocacy here. Quite the contrary - being frugal to extend runway, achieving ramen profitability etc.

Also with rampant ageism in tech you do need to retire before 40 /s

New comment by wojt_eu in "SEC announces 'Cyber Unit'"

wojt_eu — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:51:13 +0000

Poland has Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) and Internal Security Agency (ABW). They both report to Prime Minister, while Police reports to Ministry of Interior and Administration).

New comment by wojt_eu in "2.5 hours per week of exercise of any kind could help you live longer"

wojt_eu — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 07:17:09 +0000

> The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new report asking Americans to just do anything at all for Christ's sake for 30 minutes each day.

http://www.theonion.com/video/health-officials-urging-americ...

New comment by wojt_eu in "Scientists discover the first brainless animal that sleeps"

wojt_eu — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:22:23 +0000

And then replicate the experiment.

New paper finds no association of grit with creative achievement

wojt_eu — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:22:02 +0000

Article URL: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/09/15/lets-dial-down-the-hype-about-grit-new-paper-finds-no-association-with-creative-achievement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301473

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wojt_eu in "Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight"

wojt_eu — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:22:15 +0000

Well, the monkey seems to have borrowed the equipment and outsourced technical parts of the process to a specialist and focused on the creative part. Pity the camera owner did not sight a contract, he could have charge a fee for assistance or even negotiate some royalties.

New comment by wojt_eu in "Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper"

wojt_eu — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:20:53 +0000

If we increase our energy consumption 100-fold this estimation of net loss in wind would approach 1% which sounds bad. I guess we might need wind protector after all.

New comment by wojt_eu in "North Korea just might win a war, if it begins with EMP blasts"

wojt_eu — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 14:19:31 +0000

"One Second After" is a story of a town struggling after EMP attack on the U.S. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after

New comment by wojt_eu in "Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court"

wojt_eu — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:27:44 +0000

> Nazi's are an easy target. The problem starts when things are not as clean cut -- when actual politics are involved, as opposed to crude stuff like "exterminate all jews" and "blacks are inferior", etc that Nazi's might say.

It wasn't so clean cut back in Germany in the 30s either, there was always some other rhetoric: being "stabbed in the back" in WW1 by internal forces, using emergency powers to deal with effects of Great Depression and threat of Marxism.

[Update]

I encourage watching snippets of Hitler's speeches (with translations): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpTWKKWQ1o. Strip away swastikas and heils and these could be used by populist politicians today.

Even if we succeed in prosecuting hate speech there will still be plenty room for fanatics to come to power.

New comment by wojt_eu in "HackerNews Grid"

wojt_eu — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:29:36 +0000

Click-bait titles can be moderated and edited more easily.

New comment by wojt_eu in "The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous (2015)"

wojt_eu — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 13:34:21 +0000

One thing I've heard AA does right is asking attendees to talk about each their recent drinking acts and what preceded them. This forces some to realize their patterns and triggers for the first time.

Enclose.io: Compiling your application into a single executable

wojt_eu — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 12:20:47 +0000

Article URL: http://enclose.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957008

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wojt_eu in "Ask HN: Why is there no way to prevent scroll-jacking on a webpage?"

wojt_eu — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:45:37 +0000

They install more analytics, A/B testing scripts and survey popups to figure out why.