boonhet
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- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 hour ago:
23 is from the movie of the guy escaping from the number 23 I think?
- Comment on A swing and a miss 7 hours ago:
Or Tony Montana for that matter
- Comment on Milking this one 1 day ago:
So does your back hurt yet?
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 1 day ago:
Even with Alibaba and Aliexpress, there is some marginal value-add from a middle man. Like I said, in the EU, sellers are liable for 2 years of warranty for manufacturing defects.
But any dropshipper worth their salt has other sources for their shit too. Not necessarily direct from manufacturer, but companies that provide better prices than publicly available for B2C. I hear some of them are more or less invite-only. In any case, the Alis aren’t considered great dropshipping vendors at all, since goods can take very long to reach customers.
And then as a dropshipping business expands, you can have local stock for some items. Generally, a dropshipping business should fill a specific niche and not have a billion items on sale, but rather be curated. So if you’ve got like 4 or 5 alternatives in some specific product category and one or two clearly sell better than the rest, on a consistent basis, you can order those in bulk and ship to your customers faster. The downside here is that you have more work to do, but you’ll provide more value to your customers. And if your dropshipping business is honest, you can lead times visible on the website… And customers will love seeing “tomorrow” instead of “14-21 days”.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 days ago:
Well a lot of these bulk sellers don’t sell B2C. I could start my own company to buy shit, or use a middle man.
Sellers in the EU also have to give their shit a 2 year warranty, including for dropshipped items. No such requirements for Aliexpress.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 2 days ago:
In my country it would be 24%
if you source the crack from a VAT paying business you get a refund on that bit. Which isn’t much.
The question is if you’re selling it for 5000 + VAT or 5000 including VAT. B2B sellers usually list their prices the first way, B2C the second way.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 days ago:
This is the same thing your local department store does. It sells shit it buys in bulk, much of it manufactured in China.
Dropshipping gets scammy when you start implying you produce the stuff you’re selling IMO.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 2 days ago:
You’d still have to stop so what’s the difference?
It would be illegal to pee while driving round these parts I’m pretty sure. Distracted driving and all that
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 2 days ago:
… Why did I think they were made of metal lmao
- Comment on chemotherapy mother 2 days ago:
What the actual fuck is this, please tell me this wasn’t written by a sentient being?
- Comment on Has anyone considered maybe Epstein was sex trafficking donald trump? 2 days ago:
It could very well be, I’m just saying this isn’t a smoking gun that Putin necessarily has the photos, but the thing having happened is implied more strongly.
I don’t know any more than you do, but that’s just how it sounds to me: the thing likely happened, the existence of photos is implied too, but the Putin part could be meant either seriously or jokingly. That part sounds kinda iffy to me.
- Comment on the 'wow you're really annoyingly explaining simple items with complex words cause you're a nerd' starter kit 3 days ago:
These just read like they belong in a game of Jeopardy
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 days ago:
Do we know yet what the energy loss is?
I think if it’s like <= 10%, it’s fine. If we’re talking about 50%, this is beyond unacceptable.
This article claims 90% efficiency has been achieved for moving vehicles, but it should likely be taken with some grains of salt. On the other hand, with phones it’s unimportant on the level of the individual using it, so perhaps the phone wireless chargers aren’t particularly optimized and it’s possible to do better?
Or you know; trains for long haul freight…
Lovely idea and I’m very much in support of trains, but in a lot of countries the railroad infra just isn’t there and can’t be built on all routes. In my country, the 2nd, 4th and 6th largest cities by population likely can’t be connected by rail. It’d be a popular route for passengers for sure, and likely useful for cargo too given that I’ve for sure seen plenty of trucks driving between those cities, but there’s TWO large areas of wetlands in between. Super simple on a map, just draw a line east to west pretty much, but just isn’t happening in real life. Easiest way to take a train is to go through the capital. So 4-5 hours by train vs 1-2.5 hours of driving depending on what route you’re doing (actually one of the train routes to the capital is closed too right now, for a number of years already, but it’ll be replaced by Rail Baltica eventually at least so that’s nice). And that’s despite the trains being faster than cars (speaking passenger cars and trains here - I wouldn’t know about cargo)
It’s not a super long route end to end, but you could save on weight of batteries, which in turns increases maximum weight of cargo, since the total weight is limited. And charging would be a pain for long haul truckers in Europe because of the regulations on driving hours. E.g if because of a charge, your allowed 9 hours of daily driving time ends at midnight, well now you can’t start driving again before 9 AM and that’s if you haven’t used up your weekly allowance of 3 9+3 hour split rests yet - otherwise you’d have to wait 11 hours. I’ve heard tales of long haul truckers in Europe skipping their piss breaks just so they could make it to a good rest station in time instead of having to stop at a random roadside parking lot. The system sucks in some ways and truckers hate it, but it prevents their employers from coercing them into driving dangerous hours (and “hero” truckers can’t willingly do it either).
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 days ago:
Well, it sorta makes sense in hindsight, it’d be even longer otherwise + this way you can clear lower obstacles on curves… But holy shit does it look like it shouldn’t be possible. I mean they’re super heavy, right? Right?
- Comment on Has anyone considered maybe Epstein was sex trafficking donald trump? 3 days ago:
Well that reads as if the Putin part could be a joke. If you remember, it was a common theory online at the time (or was it later?) that Putin has some kind of video on Trump and that’s why he’s so pro-Russia. As of now I don’t think any such video has been released? But I could easily see them joking about Putin having a video of something that happened for real on Jeffy E’s island.
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 3 days ago:
The paid one is Kagi and search results are pretty good.
- Comment on Attitudes 3 days ago:
If I’m doing it for free, it’s going to be open source or I’m owning part of it.
You want to own what I make, I’m getting paid.
- Comment on Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy 4 days ago:
Aren’t the three letter agencies constantly bickering?
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 4 days ago:
Yea you don’t really get to choose though, unless you’re willing to go with a 2 generations old CPU just to get DDR4. Even the newest generation is over a year old for AMD, the DDR4 compatible stuff is 5 years old now and leaves you no upgrade path.
Mind you, I’m on a Ryzen 3000 series CPU, I could still upgrade to a newer and more coreful AM4 CPU AND get more RAM without having to go DDR5. But anyone building in 2026 probably doesn’t want to get a Ryzen 5000 series CPU anymore.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 4B 5 days ago:
Load bearing Mac Mini vs gigantisch raspberry pi. Wonder who would win in a fight?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 5 days ago:
I rented one once for an hour, that was all the Tesla experience I needed tbh.
Wasn’t a P100D or anything, just a Y Long Range, but I no longer have any curiosity about it. Interior was bland af, ride quality was barely any better than a cheapo Hyundai… The only good things are the giant tablet not being slow as hell, and the powertrain being fun.
You get a lot more with European cars if you’re willing to pay Tesla level prices. Or you can get a completely OK car from Korea or Japan and pay less (as long as it isn’t a Lexus, those are expensive).
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 5 days ago:
Guess udemy was too affordable and that needed to be changed. In a sane world this would be prevented by anti trust legislation.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Must never be allowed to leave, Estonia would be devastated
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
Let’s just say some people I know lost their mother at a very early age and when one of them finally asked the father about it 30 years later, his explanation was “well person X was at work that night, ask him”. Person X being a business partner of his, somewhat of a low-end organized crime guy. Dead for like 10-15 years at that point.
When I say lost, I mean she hasn’t been found decades later. Not even a body.
Early 90s were a crazy ass time here in Estonia.
There’s more details I know, but honestly if I go too into detail and the story makes its way out of our tiny community here, people who know about the whole thing will instantly figure out who I am and who I’m talking about and I don’t want that. Not because I’m in any danger from anyone - just because I don’t want it to happen.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
Some do.
Soldiers who killed enemy soldiers
Starting to get more likely in Eastern Europe now than the US I’d say. Never know when you might run into a former Russian or Ukrainan soldier.
People who killed in self defense
Probably less likely outside of the US since no guns, but assault is still a thing and you can kill an assailant without a gun.
Doctors and nurses who have made mistakes that accidentally killed patients
This is universal.
People who killed people in accidents such as driving accidents or hunting accidents
So is this.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
Damn. That still going on in your extended family, or has it died down now?
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
It is quite likely that someone I knew either killed a person, or had them killed.
Said potential murderer is dead for a few years now and tbh I don’t think anyone wants to uncover this mystery anymore. Since the whole thing was very long ago, it’s easier to just ignore it instead of ruining everyone’s memory of a person. The other person who could’ve done it has been dead for a decade or 2 too.
- Comment on elixir of a god 1 week ago:
Diogenes
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
He seems to be one of the less accurate ones, yes. Turns out when you use really wide brackets for numbers predictions, that makes it easier to get things right (who’d’ve thunk) and even then he only gets like 50% of claims right.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 1 week ago:
YouTuber, Jewish one at that, who creates kids videos and has dared call for the end of bombing Gaza. Now she’s suddenly a Palestinian terrorist to the zionists.