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throwaway879 | 4 years ago | on: Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M

This and the first few replies to it feel like they're coming from bean counters, not engineers. Who reads HN? I mean anyone can, but who's the core audience. I'm confused. Shouldn't the top voted thread be about the tech and the engineering behind it, and debating whether it's worth funding or not based on that, not based on things that are mostly the concern of business people. Is it that most engineers today have MBAs or are MBA wannabes? or well roundedness? But this focus on business metrics is not well roundedness, for an engineer, IMO.

throwaway879 | 4 years ago | on: Experts Weigh in on Pentagon UFO Report

Except, they have video footage of radar screen spotting objects flying at high speeds and disappearing into the sea. Not sure that there is any other way to explain it than acknowledge that there are physical objects that pop up randomly, move at high speeds and disappear. What you make if it is up to your imagination, but you cannot dismiss as optical illusions. Maybe this planet is capable of producing physical objects that fly at high speed and then disappear into the sea. Some kind if illusive sea creatures that pop up to say hello then disappear?

throwaway879 | 4 years ago | on: Experts Weigh in on Pentagon UFO Report

Teleport? Wormhole? Advanced tech that makes them pop up in our space? I doubt it. But not sure how else we have those things caught on military radars and pilot cameras that are not always explainable by optical phenomenon related to orbital objects or natural atmospheric phenomenon.

throwaway879 | 4 years ago | on: Why Don't Americans Use Bidets?

Flushable Wipes.

I used bidets growing up (discrete unit as well as seat integrated) and 99% of the time it worked but the 1% of the time when someone's poop got stuck to the fountain head/tube was enough to turn me off. However, wiping your anus with dry toilet paper, especially if you're a grown adult with a hairy anus, is bound to leave your own poop smear on your own anus, so these days i use flushable wipes. Works too if you're using a porta potti - just carry flushable wipes with you.

throwaway879 | 4 years ago | on: Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

Using a made up but probably good enough analogy, if scientist created a blackhole in the lab that could end up sucking in the entire planet and the solar system, would it be OK for someone to jam the mechanism that sustains it? I think of PoW gambling casinos slash Ponzi schemes (Bitcoin) in the same way. If the governments don't have any motivation to stop the mayhem, then the company whose products are being used to create that blackhole should step in. I never liked Nvidia, but this is a necessary decision.

throwaway879 | 4 years ago | on: What can mRNA treat next?

To those downvoting:

“The most worrisome part, he said, is that antibodies also can make subsequent infections worse, creating so-called antibody-dependent enhancement. Two vaccines — one against a coronavirus in cats and another against dengue, a flavivirus that affects humans — had to be withdrawn because the antibodies they induced caused potentially fatal reactions. If an antibody binds weakly against these viruses or falls to low levels, it can fail to “neutralize” the virus, but instead help it get into cells.”

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/09/09/for-an-effective-covid-...

throwaway879 | 4 years ago | on: What can mRNA treat next?

Why would anyone down-vote a question asking if there is any merit to some concerns raised by a clinical researcher? The target audience is people working on mRNA vaccines who might be able to shed some light.
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