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berjin commented on 2024 Kawasaki Ninja 7 hybrid motorcycle first ride review   cycleworld.com/motorcycle... · Posted by u/harambae
somerandomqaguy · 2 years ago
To be fair, this is Kawasaki we're talking about. Only company I know that's nuts enough to put out a 250cc inline 4 screamer in the ZX25R. Then also produce the H2 which has a supercharger with holes cut into it so that you can hear the chirping of the impeller blade tips exceeding the speed of sound and generating a small sonic boom.

Don't know of another large motorcycle company that's willing to try wonderfully silly things like this.

berjin · 2 years ago
I guess loud noises sell more bikes because the riders tend to be obnoxiously noisy assholes.
berjin commented on Show HN: Use ChatGPT, Bing, Bard and Claude in One App   github.com/chathub-dev/ch... · Posted by u/wonderfuly
berjin · 3 years ago
It reminds me of DogPile which used to be a search engine of search engines in the 90s.
berjin commented on Vice files for Bankruptcy   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/7ero
berjin · 3 years ago
Whenever I think of Vice I think of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA
berjin commented on TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges   businessinsider.com/new-l... · Posted by u/consumer451
Lucasoato · 3 years ago
I would be extremely surprised if a state-actor like China couldn’t access most US company data at will. If you can invest several billions and have thousands of people working to create a breach, no company is safe, not even AWS or Microsoft.

In this case, that’s even way easier, the company is Chinese, the CCP can have this access lawfully, is this something unexpected?

I’m much more concerned by the laziness of most western governments in understanding if this was a threat or not.

berjin · 3 years ago
Even if the tech is secure there are still thousands of foreign employees working in those companies. It's not uncommon for people to be sympathisers of their homeland. And it's not symmetrical since very few westerners work for Alibaba, Huawei etc.

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berjin commented on My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)   teamblind.com/post/My-fri... · Posted by u/luu
runlaszlorun · 3 years ago
I’m going to go out on a limb here and be “that guy”.

But in my experience, there’s a big difference between perspectives on cheating in the US vs perspectives in… let’s just say broadly… “some other nations”. I say this as an American who has lived overseas much of my life and, lest you think I’m just a flag waving parrot for the US, prob prefer living overseas and am more than willing to criticize the heck out of the US on a range of topics when relevant.

I prob shouldn’t be afraid of listing out these specific cultures where cheating is not just ok but encouraged- as these are things that come from multiple occasions of direct experience- but I’d rather not make this look like a racist judgement on certain cultures.

I’m not saying here that there aren’t Americans who cheat and I’d be lying if I said I had never cheated on an exam in undergrad. And there are certainly cultures outside of the US that on average are at least as intolerant of cheating or more so.

But I think the big difference between that and a lot of the opinions I’ve seen in comments here and in the article is that- at least in my case- these were slipups done in moments of desperation and I damn sure wouldn’t be bragging about it on a message board and am overall somewhat ashamed at having done it.

Feel free to downvote me or call me a moron…

berjin · 3 years ago
It's the elephant in the room and it has small ears.
berjin commented on AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts   techradar.com/news/amd-pr... · Posted by u/jacooper
berjin · 3 years ago
Even if were twice as performant as M2 the windows laptop companies would ruin it with their tacky plastic chassis and tiny little touchpad.
berjin commented on The core problem with hamburger menus   bt.ht/hamburgers/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
berjin · 3 years ago
Sitemap footer is not the best idea since I lose my scroll position.
berjin commented on America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan   woodtv.com/news/kent-coun... · Posted by u/rmason
catiopatio · 3 years ago
> Ban at the source.

I think we need a stricter regulatory mechanism for proving the safety of products that can pose a substantial risk to health or the environment, akin to that of the FDA.

Right now, it seems like you can put something relatively unproven on the market, and by the time we realize it’s unsafe, everyone has become dependent on it.

In response, companies cook up an analog that does the same thing, and the market switches to that.

Eventually, we discover that the analog suffers from very similar issues, and the entire process starts over again.

berjin · 3 years ago
Yes.

I recommend watching The Poison Squad documentary which digs into the reasons the FDA was formed in the first place. The meat packing industry used to sell a lot of spoiled food containing chemicals unsafe for human health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuukM9OY-is

berjin commented on America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan   woodtv.com/news/kent-coun... · Posted by u/rmason
cushpush · 3 years ago
Strong arguments, ideally legislation would ensure plastics break down and if not, some sort of breakdown cost incorporated into the goods. But that stifles industry and innovation. Maybe we can have incentives for packaging that breaks down, I believe the technology exists at this point in time.
berjin · 3 years ago
Incentives are good but you still have to watch out for greenwashing lies. If you take a look at carbon credits for instance there is an incentive to plant trees but what happens in reality is quite different; the industry is full of frauds such as not planting out forests that are on someones books. Sure you can use cardboard for a a lot of things but liquids and pressurized goods like soda are difficult. I don't think there is a way to have a biodegradable coke bottle. We need go to standard sizes of glass or s/s packaging. It will require infrastructure and it will cost some money which of course the companies won't like.

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