irixusr

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by irixusr 9y ago
The guy who got AKed could have burned his draft card, gone to jail for a few years and loose his SS benefits. That's not fun either, but he wouldn't have died in a jungle half way across the world a young twenty-something to prop
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by irixusr 9y ago
Not more just. But when the situation is more asymetrical the more farcical the powerful side's complaints of the weaker's perfidy. (Tons of examples. The most universally accepted were Germans killing 1-10 civilians in retaliatio
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by irixusr 9y ago
Yugo was way richer than Albania, and I doubt Poland was as poor as Romania. So wasn't just a "we don't care they're mere peasants" Again, ppl were technically allowed to leave the USSR (and East Germany too). But i
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Ask HN: Do you use social media?
20 points by irixusr 9y ago|27 comments
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by irixusr 9y ago
the ezception that proves the rule. You could, theoretically, leave the USSR, if you paid back what society had invested in you. De facto it was very hard to leave You can quit your job. Except many of us de facto can't (H1B1, non comp
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by irixusr 9y ago
Sorry, I read it like an aggressive "citation needed"
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by irixusr 9y ago
on what? The production quotas are my only factual claim. But here's wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_farming_in_Canada (The national post had a great series of articles about it. The Canadian newspaper
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by irixusr 9y ago
Interesting. I've never heard of this fragility of hormones, could you expand a bit?
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by irixusr 9y ago
Unavoidable? Hardly. You just have a veal industry on the side. Milk has been produced for millennia before hormones of any type were added. Furthermore Canada has milk production quotas so, depending how they're set, hormones might n
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by irixusr 9y ago
I thought if that, but This is a Canadian study. Canadian diary industry is very different from the US, so it's not obvious that you'd find hormones in the milk (there are per cow milk production quotas). Certainly not in the quan
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by irixusr 9y ago
How can you counterfeit money with an inkjet? You'll get caught in days (wrong paper, streaking, poor quality print) with or without the dots. You'd have to be blind not to notice the difference, but then you'd feel the diffe
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by irixusr 9y ago
Why forget the dates after the effort shoving them in? And why not ask what is the value of knowing the dates of important events? The polish school system is hardly unique in this requirement. I hated memorizing dates as a kid. Horrible at
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by irixusr 9y ago
I'm hypothesizing, but you could make the slightest of changes to the print. For example, if it's text, modify the font ever so slightly so it's invisible to the eye but measurable to someone looking for it.
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by irixusr 9y ago
Not necessarily. In fact the Stasi thought it was a swell idea!
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by irixusr 9y ago
Well dodging the train fare is pretty nasty thing to do. But jail time??? Wow.
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by irixusr 9y ago
Agreed. But how many ppl are in low security vs. max security? How easy is it politically to build a min security facility in an area affluent enough to have day jobs for prisoners vs. building a max security prison in the middle of unemplo
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by irixusr 9y ago
Yes. Well no, because of lack of general availability. But I pay extra for many things to avoid certain corporate behaviour. In a free market, that's my right. We're trying to wean ourselves off of Amazon, in fact, but we're
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by irixusr 9y ago
I'm not entitled to their labour, I can't afford higher price labour (well I can). Also, middle class salaries can barely afford current rates (in this forum we're mostly upper middle class or higher. A lot looks cheap to us.
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by irixusr 9y ago
You can use a bank of capacitors and the power itself is not a huge deal (still not trivial, but it's been done for 60+ years). The problem is also that at 1kW for every 1Mw you still only use 0.1% of the energy you pumped in. And the
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by irixusr 9y ago
well insurance companies have something similar now where they track your driving using GPS. In principle I like that because you pay for the risk you are, but in practice it sucks because I have no way to force the insurance company to jus
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by irixusr 9y ago
Why would libertarians hate tolls? If anything they hate free public roads. Privatize, charge a bundle to use them and they're happy like pigs in poop!
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by irixusr 9y ago
touche. the question really is a generalization of "what research would I do if I had a few orders of magnitude more computer resources?" Well how many orders of magnitude are we talking about [1]? What would the HN guys do? Why l
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by irixusr 9y ago
Will private citizens be allowed to hack Sony next time they instal spyware on consumer computers (presumably there will be an exemption for government sponsored hacking)?
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Ask HN: What to do with an infinite computer
1 points by irixusr 9y ago|4 comments
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by irixusr 9y ago
I meant English is my second language
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by irixusr 9y ago
Go to a graduate engineering program, find the worst speaking foreigner. He has passed the toffle exam and probably outscored the Americans in the English GRE. Then ask yourself: how? (In case anyone's offended, I'm a foreigner wi
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by irixusr 9y ago
No, it isn't. It's the difference between driving in the EU and driving in N America. I can't think of any 500 km route in Europe that wouldn't destroy me. And a little engine screaming for dear life wouldn't help
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by irixusr 9y ago
Well you can't compare the two unless you mention the fuel type.
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by irixusr 9y ago
Good points, but diesel's higher MPG doesn't have to do with the difference in energy density but in cycle efficiency. The Diesel cycle is, all things equal, inherently less efficient than the Otto cycle. Hoever, since it allows m
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by irixusr 9y ago
Too far apart does mean that A to B is so much further than A to B in Europe. It means that there's nothing in between them, so it would be insane to build a passenger rail line (i.e. high speeds, high priority on the queue, locomoti

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