I’d have called Reagan very conservative, am I missing something?
Are you misreading the word consecutive as conservative?
Readit Newsbobthepanda commented on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession forbes.com/sites/mikestun... · Posted by u/alephnerd
Deeply unpopular? I suspect many Iranians would welcome the regime being toppled. Or do you mean unpopular in Western countries?
How well did that work out in Libya?
bobthepanda commented on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media yle.fi/a/74-20207494... · Posted by u/Teever
I don't know, it works in Japan.
One out of 190+ countries would be a poor correlation indeed.
bobthepanda commented on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media yle.fi/a/74-20207494... · Posted by u/Teever
I mean as of 2011 over half the native women are obese [1]. I don’t know what to make of it other than that’s a lot. Dr. Anne Becker may be really into preserving traditional Fijian culture or whatever but it sounds like some of the local girls don’t want to anymore.
The introduction of body shaming media vs. actually improving obesity rates is pretty poorly correlated. Introducing anorexia, bulimia, and now bigorexia to a population is probably neutral or net negative.
If it wasn’t, you would have expected those rates to decline after the introduction of media informing people.
bobthepanda commented on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media yle.fi/a/74-20207494... · Posted by u/Teever
>Who decides whether an ad is targeting children or not?
Much simpler than that, you just ban all targeted ads full stop end of story. The ad-funded internet existed in the 90s before ad targeting was a thing.
You went on a car forum, you'd get ads about car parts. You went on a PC forum, you'd get ads about PC parts. Pretty simple stuff that didn't need to know your age, gender, political affiliation, ovulation status, etc so it's not like the web will go bust without ad targeting.
Targeted ads are exploitative and manipulative, and a crime against humanity, or at least on society.
Ads and media are generally exploitative and manipulative, even if not targeted specifically at anybody.
3 years after the nation of Fiji received its first television broadcasts in 1995, dieting and disordered eating went from unheard of to double digit percentages among teenage girls.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/20/world/study-finds-tv-alte...
> Before 1995, Dr. Becker said, there was little talk of dieting in Fiji. ''The idea of calories was very foreign to them.'' But in the 1998 survey, 69 percent said that at some time they had been on a diet. In fact, preliminary data suggest more teen-age girls in Fiji diet than their American counterparts.
bobthepanda commented on The hidden engineering of runways practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
There are entire subway systems built with tire-on-concrete where the trains ride precisely the same routes down to the millimeter. Montreal’s is a famous one. These systems are not as efficient as rail, but they are quieter and gentler than the typical subway.
The problem is that the optical guided bus was built with the intention of reducing cost, since painting lines is a lot cheaper than building rails.
The moment you have to build rail-like things you lose most of the cost advantages.
bobthepanda commented on Television is 100 years old today diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/qassiov
Circle tube, rectangle case.
The issue is not so much that you can't pack them at all but any packing solution is going to waste a lot of space in the truck compared to a bunch of box shaped TVs.
bobthepanda commented on The hidden engineering of runways practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
I work at a self-driving car company and we observed a similar problem when we did some off-road testing on dirt tracks. The cars were too precise and they were cutting deep ruts into the soil. We too solved it by adding a pseudo-random offset to the track.
Before the current wave of automation there was a previous technology to automate buses using optical sensing and lines in the road which had the same issue.
bobthepanda commented on Television is 100 years old today diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/qassiov
I've sometimes wondered how things would have been different if the TV pioneers had went with circular CRTs instead of rounded rectangles.
Circles would have had a couple of advantages. First, I believe they would have been easier to make. From what I've read rectangles have more stress at the corners. Rounding the corners reduces that but it is still more than circles have. With circles they could have more easily made bigger CRTs.
Second, there is no aspect ratio thus avoiding the whole problem of picking an aspect ratio.
Electronically the signals to the XY deflectors to scan a spiral out from the center (or in from the edge if you prefer) on a circle are as easy to make as the signals to to scan in horizontal lines on a rectangle.
As far as I can tell that would have been fine up until we got computers and wanted to use TV CRTs as computer displays. I can't imagine how to build a bitmapped interface for such a CRT that would not be a complete nightmare to deal with.
Circles don’t pack together well. And they need a different solution for standing up.
bobthepanda commented on Ask HN: Did past "bubbles" have so many people claiming we were in a bubble? · Posted by u/bmau5
Which is why I'm sceptical of past predictions. Infinite typewriters and monkeys, and such.
I've seen "China is collapsing" videos for the past 10 years. They seem to be going rather well over there so far. They're making the best EVs while American and German cat veterans struggle with electrification. Go figure.
I mean there are legitimate problems with the Chinese economy like youth unemployment.