Hacker News: AWildDHHAppears

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Google News Should Remove Paywall and forced adblock removers from feed"

AWildDHHAppears — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:07:01 +0000

I pay for NY Times and WSJ. If more people did that, we'd have less malicious "fake news."

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Theranos and David Boies Cut Legal Ties"

AWildDHHAppears — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 05:04:52 +0000

You know who did commit fraud and was never, ever prosecuted? The millions of homeowners who applied for mortgages they had no way of paying back.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of [detainee]"

AWildDHHAppears — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:41:22 +0000

Without any facts, I'm skeptical. He should either move on with his life, or make a formal complaint and/or a lawsuit.

Taking the middle road with a story with few details on Medium doesn't help anyone.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids"

AWildDHHAppears — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:28:25 +0000

Won't the bullies use this app to lure "losers" over and then make fun of them? I don't see how this will help.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat"

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:41:15 +0000

This bad advice may have directly contributed to the deaths of millions of people.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered"

AWildDHHAppears — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:48:47 +0000

I think he's paid by Apple.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Association Between Cesarean Birth and Risk of Obesity"

AWildDHHAppears — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:35:10 +0000

Why would a person who had had a "Cesarean Birth" choose to eat more? This raises more questions than it answers.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password"

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:21:55 +0000

That's why I keep them written down in my safe!

Google Execs hire “reputation” companies to get clean rep w/fake DMCA requests

AWildDHHAppears — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:21:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/who-filed-fake-copyright-infringement-complaints-against-agencyspy/114112

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12309281

Points: 2

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Why isn't there a touch-enabled Macintosh?

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 23:01:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/15/12475620/touch-enabled-mac-computer-touchscreen-laptop-imac-macbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294171

Points: 2

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New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Can Facebook really make ads unblockable?"

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:33:57 +0000

I'd be happy if all ads became served from the same domain, an integral part of the page (no popovers, popups, focus stealers, etc) and not-dynamic. That would remove 90% of my objections to them.

Third party ads with javascript can and have been used to introduce malware, through deception or zero-day/drive-by exploits, even on otherwise reputable sites. It is for that reason that I block ads.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "How Home Loans Have Changed since 2000"

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:28:15 +0000

If everyone had to pay 20% down, house prices would be lower.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "The cost of small modules"

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:05:32 +0000

In pure functional programming, which is most of what I do, there are zillions of "small modules" and everything seems to work just fine...

Is Obesity an ADA Disability?

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:13:16 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=71b72322-cfef-4e4e-91b0-3743e613e7a2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290164

Points: 1

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Food Label Accuracy of Common Snack Foods

AWildDHHAppears — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:04:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605747/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605747/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290121

Points: 3

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New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All"

AWildDHHAppears — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:50:55 +0000

It reminds me of IPV4 addresses. All this panic about "we're going to run out and the Internet will stop working" yet we haven't seemed to run out. We keep finding more! And we have an obviously finite supply.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?"

AWildDHHAppears — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:40:39 +0000

The guy likes his houses symmetric. That's about all he said.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Albuquerque program hires panhandlers to work in maintenance jobs"

AWildDHHAppears — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 03:48:18 +0000

No. I am concerned about the city's property being stolen.

The recyclables belong to the city once I leave it out for recycling. They collect the value from it, including any deposit value.

As a Taxpayer, I want this value to go to the city.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens"

AWildDHHAppears — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:57:41 +0000

Yes, but SDR allows for the quick and easy experimentation, even if the hack ends up being implemented on other equipment.

New comment by AWildDHHAppears in "Albuquerque program hires panhandlers to work in maintenance jobs"

AWildDHHAppears — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:53:40 +0000

Exactly right. People _steal_ recyclables in my area, too, and many Progressives seem fine with theft and the unreported income that results. We have many other criminal acts (which have been caught on camera) associated with this, including rummaging through cars and package theft.

When "three strikes" was foolishly overturned by pro-crime Californians, the amount that you have to steal to be charged with a felony also increased. So people can steal items from cars and doorsteps, in addition to recyclables, and never have to worry about spending a day in prison.