Hacker News: 65827

New comment by 65827 in "Is LIBOR, Benchmark for Trillions of Dollars in Transactions, a Lie?"

65827 — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 02:11:09 +0000

Are you dense? Matt Taibbi is possibly the most informed and important financial journalist of the last several decades.

New comment by 65827 in "Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions"

65827 — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:31:03 +0000

That was the dream a long time ago, mainly in the 1950s-1970s. You'd work hard in school and hope for a good job at a good company like IBM or Ford, then you'd be the best company man possible to cling to that job and rise as high in the ranks as possible, then retire with a substantial % of your salary paid out in pension and generous benefits until you died.

It was real, but mostly only for the high born, the nepotistic, people in the "correct" church, and the backstabby. And of course white males only, hahah that almost goes without saying. It wasn't quite as amazing as people thought, but those who benefited sure did enjoy it.

New comment by 65827 in "Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan"

65827 — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 21:48:50 +0000

Pretty much, the open space hype seems to have peaked in like 2010-2012, now we live in an enlightened time where even corporate leaders (gasp) are willing to admit different things work for different people.

New comment by 65827 in "How the NSA tracks people [video]"

65827 — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:19:07 +0000

The goal isn't even to watch everyone, even if you devoted 100% of all federal spending to watching everyone you wouldn't be able to do it. Not enough resources or time. The goal is to chill conversation and thought that is too critical of institutions. Mission accomplished.

New comment by 65827 in "There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to Be Alone"

65827 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:46:42 +0000

Yes, it's easy to dismiss him for many reason, but more interesting to me is how he survived the brutal Maine winters: by getting up in the middle of the night and pacing back and forth to warm up. Every night. For 27 winters. I don't know how you measure willpower but that's gotta be one of the greats right there.

New comment by 65827 in "Regarding Marcus Hutchins aka MalwareTech"

65827 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:52:17 +0000

I want to hate the FBI but also like this post. Also I'm hungry.

New comment by 65827 in "Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud"

65827 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 22:17:42 +0000

A study from 1976 might as well be from 976, we still ate humans and worshipped star gods back then.

New comment by 65827 in "Languages Which Almost Became CSS"

65827 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:25:21 +0000

Unfortunately the idea that you would just restyle the content a bit as needed and viola website is redesigned never really worked. At any point in history. I just wish you could get through a redesign without learning three new languages nowadays.

New comment by 65827 in "How we built automated support at Kickstarter"

65827 — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:11:18 +0000

I can see why you would want to spend as little time on support as possible (and actually the goal is to improve your internal workflows, which the article spends more time on) when your business model is founded upon taxing scammers 5% and ignoring users.

Sorry for the snide post, I'm just 0/3 now on kickstarter projects. All abandoned for years now, nothing delivered, no recourse, nobody cares, kickstarter aggressively ignores. It's beyond stupid and completely unsustainable.

New comment by 65827 in "Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements"

65827 — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:05:39 +0000

Needs to be said more. Not to mention every telecom company, which are unofficial government entities at this point.

If you work for these companies in any capacity you're being highly unethical. End of discussion.

New comment by 65827 in "Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail?"

65827 — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:00:59 +0000

Why is every arrangement of characters now a "meme". That word has moved beyond devoid of meaning, at this point it's like a black hole of nothingness of a word.

New comment by 65827 in "S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate"

65827 — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:59:04 +0000

You don't know how leverage works.

New comment by 65827 in "AWS is having widespread issues"

65827 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:13:34 +0000

I wonder how many people die because of their smart homes being dependent on some network thing this time around. I'm 80% kidding, I think?

New comment by 65827 in "The security content of iOS 10.3.3"

65827 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:40:59 +0000

Should be 84MB doing from 10.3.2-> .3, that should be about 90% of use cases I think

New comment by 65827 in "Coal CEO admits that ‘clean coal’ is a myth"

65827 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 16:59:01 +0000

It's odd how much utter nonsense you must embrace (at least publicly) to survive in so many companies in this world.

New comment by 65827 in "DeepMind expands to Canada with new research office in Edmonton"

65827 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:47:43 +0000

The amount of corporate worship that goes on around here is insane, holy hell just tone it down a notch or two they aren't your friends.

New comment by 65827 in "Transfer of atomic mass with a photon solves the momentum paradox of light"

65827 — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 13:40:26 +0000

Yeah this seems to be happening more and more often. I guess this is it.

New comment by 65827 in "Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late"

65827 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:42:30 +0000

Yeah this is an old theme for sure, but Google has screwed up with angular so epicly, it's just surprising from the company that invented so much of the web that they would miss the mark so badly. I think that's why the angular/react discussion is a bit more wild than the old ones of yesteryear.

It's really more interesting from a perspective of institutional blindness/incompetence/arrogance than any real technical discussion.

New comment by 65827 in "Tumblr – Heads-up for AT&T customers"

65827 — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:03:34 +0000

What the fuck happened to the internet?

New comment by 65827 in "Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads"

65827 — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:35:01 +0000

Yeah it's all inevitable and we are just powerless peons in the face of the purely efficient and all knowing machine.

That's certainly the bullshit narrative Google wants you to believe.