This is what makes Hacker News such an astounding resource for thought provoking insight. I take the American perspective on free speech as nearly a theological imperative despite the problematic side effects. The alternatives strike me as far worse. Free speech drives faster resolution and remediation to the socially unacceptable. The ideas and behaviors highlighted by the reviewer are not new to society and collectively we do not stand in a place in a place, "never before seen." Our tools for communicating, identifying, and correcting the evils in this world are better than ever. Evil is just so damned ingenious. That isn't speech's fault.
Readit Newsel_don_almighty commented on The Tongue Is a Fire lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n... · Posted by u/Petiver
The kimberlite source of these phytoliths and their age makes me question our confidence in their origination from the arctic surface. Is it at all possible this material was cycled through plate tectonics which subducted it from a southern source and eventually ejected far north through volcanic action? I mean, a lot could happen over 48M years...
el_don_almighty commented on The Physics of Sailing (2003) phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sail... · Posted by u/Tomte
I can't take this page seriously. It entirely fails to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
Real sailors arrive using the "colada" effect but lately there's been a growing reliance on the "chelada" effect since Modelo introduced those tasty red cans! They go down fast and make a day of sailing go even faster.
el_don_almighty commented on Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/Jimega36
This problem has already been solved by the MRI machines at your local airport. Cost and performance are not the issues. For $25 your luggage gets an MRI that automatically differentiates between organic molecules in seconds. How easily could this be adapted for free annual screenings at the mall?
But that's not the objective, and so your research is doomed
The medical equipment industry will not suffer fools who don't understand 'regulatory capture' and 'rent seeking.'
Those hospital machines are expensive and rare for reasons that have very little to do with cost or performance
"put down the release and step away"
el_don_almighty commented on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat releases.ubuntu.com/noble... · Posted by u/jeswin
Joke: Did you know a ton of Ubuntu folks work at Home Depot? They like replacing windows.
love this
China no longer wants to be an underdog and wants to be a super power itself, thus forming geopolitical rivalry with USA.
so put your big boy pants on and compete!!
Don't run under grampa Biden's rocking chair and hope he doesn't glide over your tail.
I saw Bugs Bunny take a train to Rancho Cucamonga
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Rancho Cucamonga is not Los Angeles. Victorville is not Los Angeles. How the hell are you supposed to get to Rancho Cucamonga without a car? For Las Vegas people going to LA, what the hell are you supposed to do when the train dumps you in the middle of Rancho Cucamonga?
If you want real ridership, public transit in both LA and LV needs to be functional.
Connect it to Union Station and LAX if you want some ridership. On the Las Vegas end make it stop smack in the middle of the strip.
Otherwise this thing is useless.
Also 125mph is not high speed rail. LA-LV in 2 hours + time spent getting to the train station + buffer time to avoid missing the train + long slow car rental line on the other end while 15 people ahead of you each have a chit chat with the one employee dealing with the rentals would be more time than just driving end to end. These people just don't get it.
Try LA-LV in 1 hour and maybe we're talking. But really, fix public transit in both cities first.
I saw Bugs Bunny take a train to Rancho Cucamonga
Now I need a catalog, archive, or historian function that archives and pulls the elements easily. Amazing work!