HoochieKoo's comments

HoochieKoo | 6 years ago | on: Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order of Japanese names

The The is fun to think about.

HoochieKoo | 6 years ago | on: McNugget Calculator

It used to be pink slime. I guess each to their own.

HoochieKoo | 6 years ago | on: I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit other workers

Totally agree with you. By the way, your user name checks out.

HoochieKoo | 6 years ago | on: Vietnam Doesn’t Trust Huawei

U.S., Burma and Liberia the only three countries NOT using metric.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

Eww

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

Let’s talk about Rampart.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon

True. In the next 100 years 99% of the world’s current population will be dead.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces

A few years ago, one of my sons’ soccer team finished in the second to last spot and so they were relegated to a lower tier. I knew that the team above was “cheating” by playing too many players from out of their district. Our Club President said “prove” it to me and I’ll do something about it. Well, it’s amazing how much public information is out there such as where the boys attend school, phone numbers they tell people on unprotected Twitter and Facebook accounts, etc. I felt dirty knowing all this information about young adults. In the end, even though we had the proof, we didn’t do anything about it.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: The Color Orange

Flight data recorders, also known as “black boxes” are actually orange in color. They were once black, like the other avionics boxes on the aircraft until it was decided that it would be easier to find them.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: Can a Supernova Cause Mass Extinction?

Mutations? Perhaps this is the way humans came about?

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: States should ban contracts barring employees from seeking higher pay at a rival

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

I wonder if he had spent more money on security, drivers, personal assistants, etc., whether that would have protected them more from unsavory people in their lives and these extra staff might have given the police more leads in the case. And why wouldn’t they have invested in better security and monitoring of their home? Crazy.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: The US Is the Lowest Taxed Large Developed Economy in the World

I find it interesting that Ireland is the lowest taxed country yet they have bet the farm on providing a haven for companies to avoid paying taxes back home. It’s a gamble they’ve made which seems to paying off but I’ve heard that if other countries closed this loophole they it would absolutely devestate the Irish economy.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: What did Earth look like X million years ago?

It would be cool if this could show what the Earth would look like in the future too.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers

Rural Japan? Wow, that must be amazingly different from the U.S. I’ve often thought about offering my services to different countries to experience what it’s like living there.

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have to go elsewhere

Yes, bring back stubby beer bottles!

HoochieKoo | 7 years ago | on: Compressing Networked State Data

Fun fact. Some flight data recorder (black box) manufacturers use a method like this to compress the data on the recorder. They record a base, full frame of data and then take delta frames and use Huffman (variable length) coding to reduce the amount of stored data.

HoochieKoo | 8 years ago | on: Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries?

So Chad and Sudan would be the only countries that are in both lists of countries?