r3pl4y's comments

r3pl4y | 2 years ago | on: Monsters of the Road: What Should the UK Do About SUVs?

> Cars should be taxed based on their weight

Not against that, but there should be an exception for electric vehicles, because these batteries are heavy.

r3pl4y | 2 years ago | on: 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight

How come there isn't one big red light saying "you're out of fuel"?

r3pl4y | 2 years ago | on: How the ISS will end its life in orbit

Instead of de-orbiting it towards earth, why don't they de-orbit it in the other direction, away from earth. Wouldn't that be safer?

r3pl4y | 3 years ago | on: Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4

Android, please! I promise to subscribe once it's available :)

r3pl4y | 4 years ago | on: What can mRNA treat next?

Thank you very much

r3pl4y | 4 years ago | on: What can mRNA treat next?

#ExplainLikeImFive

Could somebody explain to me what a PVC (Personalized Cancer Vaccine) is? Like what is the personalized part in there? Is there really a realistic scenario in which we'll get some regular vaccination and then we'll be cancer free in the future?

r3pl4y | 5 years ago | on: World's busiest international and domestic air routes

They listed Shanghai - Taipei as "international route", let's hope that site stays up.

r3pl4y | 8 years ago | on: Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censorship reaches new heights

Apple is turning into the definition of the "big evil" that MS used to be 15 years ago

r3pl4y | 8 years ago | on: An Ikea Bowl Has Been Setting Things on Fire

That's going to be the most sold bowl Ikea ever had, due to all the people who want to try this at home

r3pl4y | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: StockNerd – A community for index fund investors

iOS only... Not useful to me

r3pl4y | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?

I don't think that's actually frowned upon. Your reasoning makes sense and many countries should be happy if nomads earn money abroad and spend it in their local businesses, but often the laws are just outdated and still designed around the assumption that people earn money in the country where they work.

r3pl4y | 9 years ago | on: Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation

Spacewars, chapter one

r3pl4y | 9 years ago | on: Ecological Wealth of Nations

Very nicely made tool, unfortunately they forgot that red/green colorblindness is very common, so I can't really see anything in their graphs.

Shouldn't be hard to add a little menu that allows you to choose the color themes, so color blind people can select one where they actually see a difference between the regions.

r3pl4y | 9 years ago | on: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

I keep getting Ads about cars (probably because I'm 30 years old male) despite the fact that I've never even learned how to drive or been interested in cars in general... I assume their target grouping just isn't fine grained enough.

r3pl4y | 9 years ago | on: Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity

Now SpaceX only needs to start producing electric rockets, then they can all be unified.

r3pl4y | 10 years ago | on: Adobe tries to strong-arm me into keeping Creative Cloud

After this post, everybody is going to negotiate Adobe down by threatening them to cancel the subscription :)

r3pl4y | 11 years ago | on: Beware of Trivial Inconveniences (2009)

I agree with the basic point of the article but many of the stated facts are outdated by now. Since this article has been posted it has become much harder to bypass the firewall than it was back then.

r3pl4y | 11 years ago | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

Once you look at Korea, all those rules are only the basics...