Hacker News: AngryData

New comment by AngryData in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

AngryData — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:45:05 +0000

I actually had my gmail's backup email at yahoo recycled and I had to remake that account. But genrally I consider these email accounts as my master key to all my other accounts. It has a master password that I am certain I could not lose except simultaneous major head trama and destruction of all my belongings.

If that email was lost, yeah I could be screwed out of other accounts. But no security system is perfect.

New comment by AngryData in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

AngryData — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:46:53 +0000

I barely use my gmail that often. But I still need an email for password recovery.

New comment by AngryData in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

AngryData — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:30:23 +0000

I would think just because everything is so cumulatively complicated and interconnected that if you tried to trace a line through a complex biological processes and explain it all you will end up with 1,000 PhD thesis topics to figure out and thousands more you just hadn't noticed yet. And at the end of the day none of that might be all that useful for describing the larger process at work. So at some point when someone ask "Why does X do Y" you gotta just settle on "because that's the way it is" and move on.

New comment by AngryData in "45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC"

AngryData — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:48:49 +0000

To be fair many of those are multiplayer games with required updates and anticheat.

New comment by AngryData in "45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC"

AngryData — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:45:06 +0000

Yeah that is what I do with an OG steam controller. I don't really understand why so many people are resistant to the idea. It makes a far better media center than any smart tv too in my opinion.

New comment by AngryData in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

AngryData — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:10:23 +0000

It is far from complete but yeah I got co-op 1 gig fiber in my rural 56k only area like 2-3 years ago. Some places nearby still don't have it but expansion is ongoing. Some select areas are starting to offer 2 gig but im unsure what most users would use it for.

New comment by AngryData in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

AngryData — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:04:26 +0000

Part of the problem is also the margins to support the top heavy capital class (and the restrictions and permits also favor the capital class). The same reason auto manufacturers put more effort into making expensive luxury cars instead of cheap commuter cars.

Why would someone build cheap houses that would net them the same profit in 10 years as building luxury houses that would in 5 years? Especially if the people on top investing the capital only deal with the accounting books and not actual customers and their desires.

New comment by AngryData in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

AngryData — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:53:52 +0000

If you level a city you just removed 95% of the reason for trying to capture that city.

Spending untold billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives for a pile of ash would never pay itself off.

New comment by AngryData in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

AngryData — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:37:28 +0000

To me it seems like the minority would be far more interested in implementing surveillance tools so they can target the majority in order to try and gain and maintain power.

New comment by AngryData in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

AngryData — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:35:13 +0000

Once the chip fabs get bombed much of modern society collapses and insurrection and civil uprising becomes everyone's #1 concern. Politicians are just too stupid to realize this because they live in a protected bubble of fantasy land where nothing they do usually ever directly effects them.

New comment by AngryData in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

AngryData — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:32:54 +0000

Politicians don't gain their position by being smart and down to earth.

New comment by AngryData in "Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days over 'Stolen' Plates"

AngryData — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:33:11 +0000

Well they get lots of fines and fees from court and jail when someone is charged. But even if the stolen plate isn't really stolen its an easy excuse to pull someone over and catch them for other crimes. It's why cops sit around fast clear roads and pulling everyone going 5 over but aren't giving speeding tickets. They are fishing for usually drug related crimes but also people on probation or behind on their license or tags, or technical DUIs if someone admits to taking a narcotic at lunch. They legally can't pull law biding citizens over randomly just to check, so they need and find excuses to do so and shitty ai flags are good enough.

New comment by AngryData in "Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days over 'Stolen' Plates"

AngryData — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:45:36 +0000

Or they don't have to care about mistakes because most people are too poor to pursue a case against local cops and courts or flock. Any excuse to pull someone over will be used by police to extort people because thats how cops and courts fund themselves, they will always fall back on "it was procedure, therefore we hold no liability." There are more than enough victimless crimes on the books with high monetary penalties to just drag net citizens and profit.

New comment by AngryData in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

AngryData — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:55:21 +0000

Yeah, I treat my phone like a landline phone. If I don't answer right away then you gotta leave a message and ill see it when I have a break to check it or not.

Im not sure being available 24/7 365 by everybody for every reason is mentally healthy.

New comment by AngryData in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

AngryData — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:23:46 +0000

Its obviosly more dangerous with medicine but I see the same thing with other non-tech topics here like agriculture and construction trades so I always take non-tech topic comments with a grain of salt on here. There is a good diversity of experts on here but of course they can't be expected to correct everybody all the time.

New comment by AngryData in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

AngryData — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:15:01 +0000

Ive seen a few single hose AC units that worked okay. I still don't understand why they exist though. The window installment at its minimum span is still putting the ends quite far apart and would increase efficiency.

New comment by AngryData in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

AngryData — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:11:46 +0000

My house in the US has windows like that. I have a cut and painted board to replace the window with in the summer because of it. I hate these windows because of that though.

New comment by AngryData in "Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament"

AngryData — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:49:29 +0000

Because they shouldn't be scanning private messages indiscriminately no matter for what. Lets rephrase it and look at it from "private companies will scan their users private messages for evidence of crimes and report people to police." Where is the limit here? I think it is naive to assume this will stop at csam and will soon be used as a judicial bludgen to extort random citizens for petty crimes that in any other case nobody would ever care or know about.

New comment by AngryData in "All Star Wars Games Ever Made – Released, Cancelled and Mod Archive"

AngryData — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:22:15 +0000

Nostalgia bomb. Although I noticed it is missing DroidWorks.

New comment by AngryData in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

AngryData — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:43:31 +0000

If you move to a rural area your "neighbors" should be far enough away that they and you won't care if each of you are banging plates of metal together, shooting guns, revving engines, blowing things up, or whatever else.