Hacker News: 988747

New comment by 988747 in "Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe"

988747 — Tue, 16 May 2023 09:08:09 +0000

And yet a billion people in this world are starving... Cutting back on industrial agriculture means participating in a genocide, basically.

Some geeks here are coming up with sci-fi ideas of producing food in vertical farms, or underwater, why don't we start by simply using existing techniques?

New comment by 988747 in "Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research"

988747 — Thu, 11 May 2023 14:27:14 +0000

And what's wrong with that? "Gig" is not a real job, so it doesn't have to pay a real salary :) It's a temporary solution for people in-between jobs.

New comment by 988747 in "UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill"

988747 — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:53:36 +0000

> Poland and Hungary are shitfests, with almost complete political control of the justice system.

That's not exactly true, Poland is a country where most of the judges are basically in open rebellion against the current government, and the government can't do shit about it.

New comment by 988747 in "Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends"

988747 — Mon, 08 May 2023 16:44:21 +0000

Effective allocation of resources means firing people that are not necessary for the company.

Also “people aren’t just workers” might be true in general sense, but for the company they are exactly that: workers. Their private lives are not the company’s concern. They shouldn’t be. The thing I hate the most is when my employer tries to take care of my wellbeing outside work. I consider that invasive of my privacy.

New comment by 988747 in "European DSA Recipients of Services Report"

988747 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:02:56 +0000

I think the point is: App Stores for iPhone and iPads are in reality one and the same. Apple tries to artificially split them, so they can avoid regulations for at least one of them.

New comment by 988747 in "Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster"

988747 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:24:57 +0000

Ubuntu is shit. Use Fedora instead.

New comment by 988747 in "Prehistoric timeline in Africa pushed back by more than 10M years"

988747 — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:54:04 +0000

So the first third took millions of years, second third took roughly 6-7k years, and the last third took 200 years?

New comment by 988747 in "Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave"

988747 — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:48:26 +0000

She had WiFi in there...

New comment by 988747 in "Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia"

988747 — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 16:19:36 +0000

What mental gymnastics? Green card is not citizenship, green card holders are not Americans, they don't have American passports.

New comment by 988747 in "Kubernetes is hard"

988747 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:11:19 +0000

Yes, they did, but did it really take less effort than running it on Kubernetes?

New comment by 988747 in "Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia"

988747 — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:00:45 +0000

I remember them deliberately limiting hash rate of their cards because the did not want them to be used by miners.

New comment by 988747 in "Roubini warns US bank failures, Credit Suisse contagion could spread globally"

988747 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:06:52 +0000

Roubini is a victim of his own popularity. He was nicknamed "Dr. Doom" once, and now he desperately wants to live up to that name, so he keeps predicting the next doom. I wouldn't take any of his predictions seriously.

New comment by 988747 in "The Coffeeshop Fallacy (2011)"

988747 — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:53:13 +0000

OP mentioned that the coffe shop show was staffed with 17-20 years olds. They don’t need to earn 20 bucks per hour, they don’t need to be able to afford mortgage, or even rent apartment by themselves (they can have roommates). No one would work such job their whole life anyway. It’s temporary almost by definition

New comment by 988747 in "FTC bars GoodRx from sharing consumers’ sensitive health info for advertising"

988747 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:54:56 +0000

But if they don't re-offend that means that this "parking ticket" actually worked, right? The goal is to make the company follow the law, not push it to bankruptcy as a revenge.

New comment by 988747 in "French workers protest plan to increase retirement age"

988747 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:06:27 +0000

that 6.2% from your employer is in fact also part of your paycheck, it's just not shown on your pay slip (probably to fool you, by making you think you got something "for free").

New comment by 988747 in "EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)"

988747 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 22:59:20 +0000

When was the last time in history of mankind when taxes were actually distributed to the poor? I mean in significant amounts, not as a lame attempt to win upcoming elections.

New comment by 988747 in "EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)"

988747 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 22:12:42 +0000

> (insulation, ending car dependency, and legislating products that aren't landfill help the poor rather than hindering them)

That's not at all what "Fit for 55" program is about. I agree, those things, over long enough timespan (say, 20 years) could be net positive. Instead, "Fit for 55" means imposing additional "carbon tax" on many industries, and on goods imported from China, based on how much carbon was emitted when producing them. And given the short, 7 years time frame the net result of those policies will be what I originally claimed: pushing everyone to poverty.

EU politicians say it quite openly really, that in order to "save us from the climate catastrophe" we need to sacrifice the standard of living.

New comment by 988747 in "Heroes of Might and Magic III was released on this day 24 years ago"

988747 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 01:21:06 +0000

I think it is just a draft, given more time they could come up with better units.

The thing is, Might and Magic RPG series was always merge of both worlds: creatures looked mystical, but you were made aware that the story takes place on some distant planet (and occasionally you visited a spaceship, and shot a blaster). Having Forge faction in Armageddons Blade would be a direct continuation of the plot introduced in Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor, but I think 3DO did not realize that Heroes series created their separate fanbase, not familiar with the RPG games at all...

New comment by 988747 in "Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars"

988747 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:56:47 +0000

public transit already is subscription model: you buy a ticket for a ride, or the monthly pass. It is even easier to deny you access to some form of public transport already (think subway entry gates, or long distance trains where you cannot really avoid ticket check). All this follows Klaus Schwab vision for the mankind "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy".

New comment by 988747 in "Heroes of Might and Magic III was released on this day 24 years ago"

988747 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:44:11 +0000

Heroes III purists will count all the things you listed as downgrades :) For me Heroes IV is the favorite game in the series.

One piece of trivia that I learned recently about Heroes II Armageddons Blade: there was supposed to be a race based on high tech, which was ditched, because of the fan's outcry: https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_(town)

I really wish they included it.