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big_chungus commented on The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass silahreport.com/2019/08/2... · Posted by u/_vbdg

baybal2 · 5 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_Pakistan

> Gun laws in Pakistan allow for the wide ownership of firearms there. Only tribal areas of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa permits the ownership of heavy weaponry including the use of rocket-propelled grenades, short, medium, and long-range rockets, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, etc

big_chungus · 5 years ago

I am suddenly very envious of Pakistan.

big_chungus commented on The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass silahreport.com/2019/08/2... · Posted by u/_vbdg

smabie · 5 years ago

Is it legal to make your own gun in most places? It's always been a fantasy of mine since I was a little kid, and I finally have the capital and attention span to do it.

Do people ever make non replicas? It would be unbelievably cool to design and Smith an a original weapon.

big_chungus · 5 years ago

The obvious warning - be very careful if you intend to fire it, do your reading first, yadda yadda. It's legal in America, though some states restrict production of certain things. Yes, you can absolutely make a non-replica, but if you want to actually design your own weapon, I recommend reading Chinn's The Machine Gun which has most of the requisite mathematical details.

big_chungus commented on Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf] dol.gov/ui/data.pdf... · Posted by u/treyfitty

bearjaws · 6 years ago

And they want us to believe that it will be ok because of a $1200 check and state unemployment benefits....

big_chungus · 6 years ago

And you want us to believe it will be okay if the government just "does something"? When will people quit turning to the federal government to solve their problems and take responsibility for themselves? Everyone ought to make his own decision whether to stay home or go to work and deal with the consequences accordingly.

big_chungus commented on Apple acquires Dark Sky blog.darksky.net/dark-sky... · Posted by u/_egt6

toomuchtodo · 6 years ago

You might re-read my comment. Nowhere do I say Dark Sky is a public good. I do lobby my congressperson for NOAA to have more open data practices and better funding for app development. Citizens can demand products from government be at parity or better than private corporation products, and government has the funding to do it. So why not do it?

big_chungus · 6 years ago

I'll note that you edited your comment after I posted my reply, and are now making it sound like you didn't. It originally included something to the effect of, "This shouldn't be allowed to happen."

big_chungus commented on People are planting more vegetable gardens npr.org/sections/coronavi... · Posted by u/NoRagrets

big_chungus · 6 years ago

I hope this convinces people to become more self-sufficient overall and grow a little of their own food. Living farther out from dense urban cores on more land will help, and conveniently, it will also make one less likely to fall ill. Telecommuting will hopefully enable people to live much less densely and avoid something like this recurring at its present scale.

big_chungus commented on Apple acquires Dark Sky blog.darksky.net/dark-sky... · Posted by u/_egt6

toomuchtodo · 6 years ago

More importantly, this should be protected and demanded to be expanded upon by citizens. No one can acquire and shut down the National Weather Service, nor any apps they develop with public money released to the public domain. Protect public goods.

big_chungus · 6 years ago

Dark sky is not a public good, it's a for-profit business that puts a shiny interface on the same information available to everyone. It also added user reporting and analytics, so added material value. The app cost money. Why don't you lobby your congressman to have NOAA develop a better app instead? You can't make a privately-developed program a "public good"; citizens can't just "demand" that dark sky remains independent and expands because they didn't pay for it. Either lobby the government for a better app, wait for the private sector to develop a better app, or lobby the government to attach a license to the data prohibiting commercial use (though this would kill the other apps, too).

big_chungus commented on Show HN: Ape – an easy-to-embed programming language in two C files github.com/kgabis/ape... · Posted by u/kgabis

big_chungus · 6 years ago

> Math: > + - * /

Why no modulus operator? While it could be implemented, it seems like a bit of an oversight.