Hacker News: BrandonMarc

New comment by BrandonMarc in "The protester's guide to smartphone security"

BrandonMarc — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:53:56 +0000

While true, I'm kinda wondering if that's even possible ...

New comment by BrandonMarc in "The protester's guide to smartphone security"

BrandonMarc — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:51:03 +0000

Hiding from surveillance is not the same as planning to do something illegal.

... but it benefits the state if people think it's the same ...

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world"

BrandonMarc — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:43:45 +0000

I expect the company sees them as private, so that they'll only share capacity with competitors when they want to and for the right price, untilllllll ....

Some other country decides to pull shenanigans and cut / hack the cable, in which case the company will insist the U.S. gov't get involved, maybe pay for the repair. Saying it's crucial for national security.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Aldebaran 1959 Spacecraft Concept (2010)"

BrandonMarc — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:31:35 +0000

See also this image from the article. The design of the Aldebaran is a giant flying boat, with air intakes in the wings to help create the nuclear exhaust exiting the reaction chamber nozzle.

https://up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/image25....

New comment by BrandonMarc in "HTML Form Validation is underused"

BrandonMarc — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:57:19 +0000

I believe that was the commenter's point - that the designers described patronizingly virtue signal about their accessibility priorities, while their other decisions are troublesome.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

BrandonMarc — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:33:32 +0000

Sounds like the asylum process is an alternative stream, and the entire border has become a "port of entry."

When asylum is the low-friction way to enter the country and acquire a legal status, economics suggests fewer people will use the traditional immigration process.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

BrandonMarc — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:19:33 +0000

Unless I'm missing something that does sound rather HCOL ...

New comment by BrandonMarc in "GMC made a motorhome that pumped sewage through its exhaust on purpose"

BrandonMarc — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 04:43:55 +0000

I assume the 900°F part had a lot to do with making this a viable consideration.

Of course, I'm with you - wouldn't want to be behind it either. That said, in the 1970s cars left a cloud enriched with lead so ...

New comment by BrandonMarc in "GMC made a motorhome that pumped sewage through its exhaust on purpose"

BrandonMarc — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 04:40:57 +0000

Consider also how common leaded gasoline was in the 1970s.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive"

BrandonMarc — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 04:38:56 +0000

The universities and loan compaines win. Who loses? The chump who gets left holding the bag ... taxpayers. As usual.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive"

BrandonMarc — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:35:39 +0000

When former students need the federal government to bail them out of their debt, it's clear the value of higher ed has plummeted.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Mexico’s anti-avocado militias"

BrandonMarc — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:45:09 +0000

The corporate press went out of their way to solidify this notion. Because of course.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "The curious case of the missing period"

BrandonMarc — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:51:00 +0000

This reads like a story from the daily wtf

New comment by BrandonMarc in "The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA"

BrandonMarc — Tue, 14 May 2024 08:36:09 +0000

Fission company, eh? Wonder when we'll see the first stock split.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes"

BrandonMarc — Sat, 11 May 2024 21:24:18 +0000

"Mosquitos have been present in Scotland for millennia" ... now let's bring in climate change for click bait.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Depression Rates by Country 2024"

BrandonMarc — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:12:15 +0000

... If that's the which case, "2024" makes this post title misleading. Submitter likely didn't know, but still.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Cow Magnets"

BrandonMarc — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 02:21:02 +0000

... and for that kind of rumination, we have therapists to help out.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "For the love of cats in Turkey"

BrandonMarc — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:42:26 +0000

I can personally vouch for this.

In Morocco cats were everywhere. Cafes, high rises, farms, University, everywhere I went.

Even the airport! As we queued up to the ticket counter (this was decades ago) i saw cats wandering independently. I mused to my companion, "i wonder if they get into the secure area of the airport?"

Sure enough, after going through security and waiting at the gate, there goes a feline walking by wholly unbothered.

I wondered if cats ever got onto planes unwittingly. Didn't see any on our plane ... still wonder.

New comment by BrandonMarc in "What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)"

BrandonMarc — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:52:03 +0000

Brings to mind this quote from the film The Big Short:

"Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested."

(based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, a name I've seen elsewhere in these comments: go figure)

New comment by BrandonMarc in "Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets"

BrandonMarc — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:35:00 +0000

Rather abrupt end to the article. Lots of ethical questions left unanswered .... which i guess is the point.