I agree with you, but suggesting Astroturf is apparently against the rules here. I like it because it needs less water for football fields.

Unfortunately it emits methane and a lot of other toxic chemicals, as well as not providing a permeable surface for rainfall.

Whether you meant the attitude product or were jocularly using it a relevant metaphor for AI decanters both your comment and mine apply!

Mainly because it's not very helpful for a useful discussion. If it's true, the discussion is already dead, if it's false, all it does is annoy the accused.

It’s useful to raise awareness. The rules were made during a different period, where motivated state actors astroturfing were not that prevalent.

I think it's only useful as awareness that it's a thing that could happen. evidence for specific instances tends to be tenuous.

For a specific post it’s always a guess. When it’s as recurring and consistent as it is here across all posts, it has crossed the point of preponderance of evidence.

And highlighting when it happens is exactly what helps people realize it’s not a one off.

The titanium spar is filled with gas. If there was a crack in the spar the gas would escape, therefore tripping the pressure sensitive radiation shield. Releasing radiation that can be detected inside the helicopter.

Wireless systems aren’t used for opsec reasons.

Wireless arent used because they need power/wires and are less reliable than IBIS. Civilian versions of sikorsky helos use the same system.

Since the radiation source is only exposed if it's indicating a potential main rotor crack, and it's not a very strong radiation source in the first place (so it's not like it allows long distance tracking), it seems like a minor risk -- if the radioactive capsule is exposed, the pilot is going to be returning to safe place to land.

Beta particles typically only travel a few meters in air before they lose most of their energy.

Why? It's not like it's gamma radiation.

Wait until you find out about smoke detectors. Or microwave ovens. Or light bulbs. Or anything with nonzero temperature.

The enterprising Germans all left for the US to make bread

Seems like they all failed miserably, when all what you can get in USA is a white rubber loaf which never goes moldy.

I like variety of bread in Germany, but one of the problems is how quickly it goes mouldy. Even the cheap stuff I had as a student in Aberystwyth (coastal) from Lidl (German chain) didn't go off quite so fast so often.

Fastmail seems great

This is against site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

Do you see a referral link or code in their comment? No? Then obviously they aren't making money off it.

I've been searching for email provider that's not purelymail, fastmail really seems to be the best reputable option.

(Looking to switch off purelymail because the new design blows and I'm really unsure about the new owner. Can't put my finger on it, but I just dont trust the guy.)

This post got the definition of NPC entirely backwards. NPC = follows the rules exactly like they’re programmed to. That means not thinking outside the box, ignoring gut feelings, adhering to a routine, consumerism and generally politically unimaginative.

The blacksmith from Skyrim is a great example because along comes a player, puts a bucket on your head and steals all your stuff without any complaints.

"Oops our Google Maps team is on vacation, an intern messed up the lake names microservice called "Lacus" and it is currently unavailable for changes. It will take the Google Maps team 2 years to make this change."

Thats how they could have pushed back against a dictator. Every finger you give him is a hand you lose.

They are reducing to +25% from current +50%. So while the title is inaccurate in percentage it is factually correct that limits are going down.

This is not an obsession with hurting animals. It’s survival and earning a living for these Indonesian fishermen.

To incentivize them to stop you have to give them better options. In this case, teach a man to not fish with explosives and you’ll feed him for the rest of his life.

> It’s survival and earning a living for these Indonesian fishermen.

Why make excuses for greedy jackasses? Their ancestors didn't invent this 5,000 years ago and it's the "oNlY wAy they can survive." They fished without bombs once. Some guy realized this depraved method works, so now lazy people choose to do it so they can get money faster than the people fishing legitimately can. That's why it's illegal.

5000 years ago was pre-capitalist and if they had struggled getting food on the table and had explosives, they might very well have done the same.

In a world where all wealth accumulates at the top and leaves the bottom in precarious conditions, perversions like these are inevitable and could be resolved by treating human needs as priorities and make sure everyone has their needs met, which with todays productivity we could easily accomplish if we all worked together instead of against each other.

We’re just speculating on the economics here so let’s agree to say making it illegal is not fixing the problem.

These people make a few dollars a week, stop pretending you know anything about their problems and what its like to watch your children go hungry.

Except if you keep bombing the corals eventually there will be no fish for anyone, since the reefs are keys to the ecosystem being sustainable in the long term. If you kill the reefs there will be no fish and no fish in the future.

Exactly, that’s the last sentence in my original comment.

Why not reply to that top comment? Its still there.

User != customer