Voyage_wanderer
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7 years ago
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on: Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real
Assuming we are living in a simulation. Every our attempt of understanding rules and breaking through the simulation should be considered as a security breach by another side. So it gets fixed.
Hence no replication. It had been fixed, dumbs... it’s my theory and I will stick with it...
Voyage_wanderer
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7 years ago
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on: H. G. Wells' 1934 interview with Stalin (2014)
Just google “east Germany poll communism”. you will be surprised what poll results consistently shows year after year. (presentage of people thinking it was good times steadily well over 50%)
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop
Well. At about every sail club there is a guy who knows and says all the right things. Helpful and willing to share, bringing an owe. Until he gets at helm.
Over my brief following I had the growing suspicion that He is the guy. I might be wrong, but his sublime attention seeking become too annoying...
Just think about the article. You are frikking street cop fresh from the Academy. He just graduated. How being featured in New Yorker will help you working with other cops? It won’t.
So, apparently guy is not thinking about his job...
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop
I can’t without going back, I stopped following him at about his graduation from police academy time.
He says all the right things, however there are little details which just wouldn’t add up. Like his work history :). Why there is the restart from 0 every time he changes his course?
And the guy is undeniably an attention seeker.
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop
I followed the guy on twitter for half a year. Shallow, rumbling and full of shit. It’s kinda sad picture, with all the big words. Counterterrorism, CIA, Police, and now mass media via new Yorker.
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser
The problem is that once you walked over the line into psychosis, it is extremely difficult to come back to “normal reality”. Human’s psycho is very fragile thing. The weaponry basically creates an army of people who lost the boundaries of normalcy. It is not good....
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates
In other countries it called corruption. Not in US, because it is legal, what don’t you understand?
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Judge orders Wyoming to return $92k seized by officers
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Tesla Semi
There is also issue of highway funds. Tax on fuel goes into roads maintanence. There is no current mechanism in US to tax electric vehicles. I wonder if Tesla culculated non-yet-existing taxes into operational casts.
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Tesla Semi
Thanks for the clarification. However I’m a truck driver, I passed my English requirements for CDl. :)
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Tesla Semi
In US a solo driver can drive 11 hours before mandatory 10 hours break. Which, depending on route and traffic, puts you in 500-600 miles/day.
Rules around the world are about the same.
There are not enough simple parking spots around. So taking up on charging station problem is a bigger task than the truck itself.
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Tesla Semi
Merging into freeways is always a problem and a hazard to everyone involved. Quick acceleration makes highway safer. More pulling power also means less slow trucks on grades and less jams around them.
It is of course irrelevant for the bright future where are no human drivers.
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation
You should realize that every agent on the case or any case of money laundering have total and anabated control of money flow. They are a part of the system. Guys who caught are just stupidest of the bunch.
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Driverless shuttle in Las Vegas gets in fender bender within an hour
This is the reason I believe that self driving thing is doomed.
Significant amount of humans will refuse to stop driving. Fair amount of them will make life of self driving things unbearable. Sizable part - on porpoise. Just to check how good a computer is.
Seriously speaking from perspective of a truck driver.
The reasons truck driver backed into thing are:
He couldn’t see it.
It wasn’t there when he started.
Horn and flash of lights would stop a human driver. When I back up a truck I use all my senses, since I can’t see much. Easiest fix for the robot thingy - add horn and lights. (And wait until all residents start complaining)
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend my time as a 17-year-old who can code?
Just go sailing.
Ability to code is least needed commodity. Ability to fit is a better commodity. Be able to compromise if software development is your goal. Be a bussinesman if entrepreneurship is your goal. Be a politician if corporate ladder is your goal. Nobody needs coders. Besides your skills are outdated by the time you learned them.
So, go sailing.
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Kaspersky: The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security
Surge of leakers unable to resolve issues internally points to serious structural problems.
I remember times when soviets were prone to leak.
I don't believe that there is any global it firm independent of its handlers..
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist
Is there any pics of the boat propulsion system? Mutilation can be explained by the body going through a propeller. It is a meat grounder.
It is just another possible explanation.
Worst marine accidents happen when person falls aboard and gets sucked into propulsion system.
Not guilty until proven....
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
And you, and the regulators are very wrong. Since I have eLog in my cab (mandatory for all trucks by the end of the year), I can't cheat in any way. Meaning I'm forced to drive to meet my delivery obligations when I'm falling asleep. I also forced to sit 10 hours during my break, quite often in less than pleasant conditions. I don't need 10 hours for sleep. I need 6. I waste other 4 browsing hacker sites. Then I work 14 hours very much without any meaningful breaks(to browse above mentioned sites). Until recently, before we had elogs, I could juggle a paper log. Now I can't. Now I have the big brother computer, which is totally hackable, thank you government. The monstrosity you so afraid of just became much worse. Now about anyone with little skills can take control over my truck. Trucks are part of IoT nowadays. Just think about it. 40 ton monstrosity connected to Internet
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
Apparently, you know very little about the job and how much brain function (mind you, I didn't say education) it requires. And how difficult it is.(just search London taxi drivers study in your favorite search engine) And, at its base lavel how underpaid it is.
Last time I checked, 9/10 of Arkansas working population was involved in trucking or logistic industry. As a side note. Automizing this job will bring total and enormous poverty to US
Voyage_wanderer
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8 years ago
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on: Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
Are you sure? Truck burns 6 miles/ gallon. New EPA regulations in 21 century actually increased fuel consumptions since about 20% of engine's power goes to cleaning the air. Modern car use 30+Miles/gallon.
