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Re:Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elit...
on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:40PM (#46768804)
Good for you! Then you must know that the internet connection in Iran is not back to normal [1].
Re:Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elit...
on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:48AM (#46762577)
Good points! I’m not an expert, so I’ll wait for people who know more to weigh in. But as far as I know: (1) they still need to import basic necessities like food and medicine, and (2) despite heavy investment, they haven’t managed to build an intranet that’s fully isolated from the internet.
Re:Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elit...
on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:20AM (#46762420)
Hard to make it airtight without tanking the economy. Since the economy is already tanked, I guess they don’t care anymore.
Re:Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elit...
on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:50AM (#46762265)
Astroturfing much? I haven’t been able to talk to my family for three weeks. Friends who manage to connect are hopping from one workaround to another because IPs are routinely blocked.
Re:AI Needs More Power
on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:12PM (#46212465)
Well, even Blake knows that Overture is highly unlikely to survive as a product. Best of luck to him with this pivot. I really wish him success. He has spent more than a decade of his life on this project.
Re:Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time
on Sunday November 30, 2025 @10:03PM (#46103056)
What is exactly the point of this post? How is related to HN? Wish you best of luck in your surgery but this post if off topic.
Re:Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-Day from Earth
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @02:47PM (#46061573)
There isn’t much value in gravity assists from Uranus or Neptune since they move much more slowly than Jupiter and Saturn.
Re:It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post
on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:13PM (#45723633)
No, don't use it to fix your grammar, or for translations, or for whatever else you think you are incapable of doing. Make the mistake. Feel embarrassed. Learn from it. Why? Because that's what makes us human!
I do understand the reasoning behind being original, but why make mistakes when we have tools to avoid them? That sounds like a strange recommendation.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:20PM (#45306766)
Again, it doesn't matter. You could apply for 100 candidates hoping to get one candidate accepted. For these firms, individual candidates don't matter. They want to get X number of cheap employees into the US per year. And they never file for a green card.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:54PM (#45306442)
Unfortunately that doesn't work in practice since the consulting firms submit multiple applications for multiple candidates to get one candidate in. I believe charging extra for each application is a good way to discourage this practice but I'm not sure if $100k is the right number or not. To me it seems a bit too high.
Re:Tariffs on China set to rise to 104% on Wednesday
on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:01PM (#43628253)
The largest and the most regressive tax since it impacts mostly the lower economic class that's already struggling with the cost of living.
Re:A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
on Friday April 04, 2025 @11:19AM (#43583691)
That was the point of TPP which the US withdrew from in 2018.
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @01:21AM (#43565054)
I still have my T61 thinkpad from 2007. Other than the dead battery, it works great.
Re:SpaceX launches Starship Flight 8 - Loses attitude control
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:46PM (#43286807)
True but on the way down, two out of 15 Raptors didn't fire. And of course the Raptor on the Starship failed too.
Re:SpaceX launches Starship Flight 8 - Loses attitude control
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:20PM (#43286682)
It’s a poor design. When you have 33 engines, the failure rate is 33 times higher. Although I’m not sure what’s the absolute minimum number of engines for a successful mission.
Regardless, it will go down in history as another unreliable design like the space shuttle.
Re:A Letter to the American People
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:06PM (#43224930)
You understand that USPS is not sending you junk mail but some advertiser pays them to do so, right? So perhaps you are suggesting that USPS should increase the rates? Because otherwise your comment doesn’t make much sense.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?...
on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:59PM (#43007581)
Indeed although it wasn’t a fighter; it was a reconnaissance aircraft.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?...
on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:14PM (#43002615)
And they have not! Both F22 and F33 are significantly slower than say F4, F104, or F106 all designed in the 50s.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?...
on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:27AM (#43000660)
Physics has not changed since the 60s. Wave drag due to shock waves is still a thing.
Re:Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
on Thursday January 30, 2025 @01:08AM (#42875344)
Obviously you’re not a pilot. It might be helpful for you to listen to a few ATC transcripts of emergency situations.
Re:Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:22PM (#42874822)
How would you deal with all sorts of emergencies involving human pilots? For unmanned aircraft(aka drones) it’s a lot easier to implement unmanned traffic management (UTM).
Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon
on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:48AM (#42792782)
I’m also wondering why a full pardon rather than a commutation.
Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon
on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:47AM (#42792768)
I don’t get it. Was every non-violent drug offender in federal prisons pardoned or only this guy? If so, why?
Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:12PM (#42658204)
Seven and a half years after the publication of James Damore's infamous memo, Google's ideological echo chambers, and his subsequent firing, Silicon Valley has embraced his vision.
Re:MAGA's war on talent frightens CEOs–and angers Elon Musk
on Monday January 06, 2025 @11:41PM (#42619317)
Hard to say what the "war" is against; Up until last month it was about illegal immigration. Now it's about H1-B and OPT. I guess next month it will be against the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship. Hard to keep up with the madness.
Re:Elon's IQ Shredder: Our immigration strategy accelerates Idiocracy
on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:48PM (#42592212)
"He’s selecting for the smartest people, collecting them, and exposing them to massive anti-reproductive pressures"
Assuming the statement above is accurate, why is the fertility rate falling across all developed and even most developing countries, many of which also experience net negative immigration?
Re:Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k yea...
on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:59PM (#40713659)
I suspect most of our thinking is not in language until we try to articulate it to others.
Re:Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed
on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:18AM (#40282893)
A starliner is not nearly as reliable as a Boeing 777. Just look at what happened to the space shuttle. That’s also why Russians had reliable launch vehicles but not so reliable jetliners.
Re:Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed
on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:01AM (#40282814)
“ Space is orders of magnitude more complex than air flight”
Not true! The challenges are different but space is in a sense simpler since the reliability requirements for space are not as stringent.