Hacker News: Can_Not

New comment by Can_Not in "China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week"

Can_Not — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:06:54 +0000

> Marxist indoctrination

As opposed to good old fashion American indoctrination.

New comment by Can_Not in "Twitter starts to require login to view tweets"

Can_Not — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:10:32 +0000

Twitter threads are a confusing mess to look at and usually I can't figure out OP was trying to convey by posting a link to 30 tweets that probably should have been a text post somewhere.

New comment by Can_Not in "Add dark mode to your sites, or at least let the browsers do it for you"

Can_Not — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 01:43:23 +0000

> I suspect that dark-mode-everywhere fans turn up their monitor brightness way too high and then complain about bright mode websites.

This weird contrived strawman scenario is an insult to people with disabilities.

New comment by Can_Not in "Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps"

Can_Not — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:59:56 +0000

So then you'd be in favor of Universal Healthcare, subsidies for gym memberships for low income individuals, stricter regulations against lying/misleading in fast food/junk food, and stricter regulations/penalties for pollution?

New comment by Can_Not in "Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News"

Can_Not — Mon, 31 May 2021 05:27:43 +0000

This is why it's basically illegal for businesses to ask someone to prove they need their service animal.

It's annoying as duck to 1.) have a disability in the first place and 2.) have every random person ever acuse you of lying about it for literally no reason.

New comment by Can_Not in "GameStop Is Creating a NFT Platform"

Can_Not — Wed, 26 May 2021 22:08:18 +0000

> being able to skim off the top of second hand sales

Steam's current strategy of "no second hand sales" (but better sales and distribution instead) really beats anything NFT has to offer and doesn't require forcing a blockchain and mintinv fees into the scenario.

New comment by Can_Not in "Civilization Is Older Than We Thought"

Can_Not — Wed, 19 May 2021 03:35:16 +0000

True, but if you invented writing today and decided to record a 500 year old story, in that scenario are you really likely to be able to discern what the term flood meant back then, or if the word flood was even in the original story? Hundreds of years later people who weren't there are going to get lazy with the details.

New comment by Can_Not in "Watches from the Soviet Union"

Can_Not — Sun, 16 May 2021 12:32:41 +0000

>but there is no public reaction about the soviet union

There's literally non-stop public reaction against the Soviet Union, a country that stopped existing 30 years ago, especially in threads like this that are completely non-political. Case in point, you, congrats on being the first person who thinks watch connoisseurs are committing wronkthink by talking about watches.

You need a chrome/FF extension that adds to every comment an extra sentence like:

- "I disagree with Stalinist grain policies"

- "The Soviet Union murdered millions"

- "I think the Ukrainians are right to complain about the USSR"

- "They were too many gulags if you think about it"

- "But of the course, the Soviet Union was bad"

- "Stalin? No, I disavow him"

Then you don't have to derail a thread about watches to defend the Nazis and United States from the ghost of Stalin.

New comment by Can_Not in "DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized"

Can_Not — Sun, 16 May 2021 03:18:25 +0000

That's incentive for someone living in silicon valley to not do it, but outside of the hubs most of the United States has miniscule demand for tech workers (using that term very loosely), and the majority of the world would average out to something like "30k, but the job only exists if you live in the capital".

New comment by Can_Not in "Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)"

Can_Not — Fri, 14 May 2021 03:07:31 +0000

The scene with the mountains and the cloud was really cool. After that, there was some build up but kind of just went nowhere. "Here's some circles, now you can hallucinate the future" was overall a pretty underwhelming drift into fantasy.

New comment by Can_Not in "Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)"

Can_Not — Fri, 14 May 2021 01:29:43 +0000

Much better explaination than that nonsense about off-screen wizards casting bootstrap spells onto the hexcubes.

New comment by Can_Not in "Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)"

Can_Not — Fri, 14 May 2021 01:22:56 +0000

> It also somewhat bugs me that pretty invariably the folks that crap all over these movies are huge Trek or Babylon 5 fans, shows that have endless literal magic in them, and they're just fine with it.

Interstellar was heavily hyped as being "realistic".

New comment by Can_Not in "US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack"

Can_Not — Wed, 12 May 2021 02:03:58 +0000

Meanwhile Microsoft and "app" developers are training normal users to avoid updates by continuing to push anti-user updates...

New comment by Can_Not in "The XY Problem (2014)"

Can_Not — Sat, 08 May 2021 16:06:37 +0000

Also the "I'm withholding simple answers to simple questions until you give me a full backstory".

New comment by Can_Not in "The XY Problem (2014)"

Can_Not — Sat, 08 May 2021 15:10:55 +0000

> Then don't make them devine

Nobody is making them devine, they do it themselves and pat themselves on the back for reading that XY problem article and spamming XY "answers" everywhere.

New comment by Can_Not in "Reddit aims to double in size as social news site invests for growth"

Can_Not — Sat, 08 May 2021 03:32:53 +0000

Discord offers a chatroom, not a forum.

New comment by Can_Not in "How Basecamp Blew Up"

Can_Not — Wed, 05 May 2021 22:54:42 +0000

Allow me to introduce "Fallacy Fallacy", the fact that someone might have arrived at a conclusion via a fallacy does not mean the conclusion is false.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy

New comment by Can_Not in "An NFT That Saves Lives"

Can_Not — Wed, 05 May 2021 03:52:14 +0000

> Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

But in the case of NFTs, there's no baby in the bathwater.

New comment by Can_Not in "An NFT That Saves Lives"

Can_Not — Wed, 05 May 2021 02:26:11 +0000

I understand why somebody would buy a baseball card, even if I would never want to. I understand why someone would right-click and download a jpg of a baseball card, or screenshot one, even if I would never want to.

But when you add "pay $100 in etherium for a reference to a publically jpg hosted on some website" you completely lose me.

New comment by Can_Not in "Labor shortage or terrible jobs?"

Can_Not — Sun, 02 May 2021 18:54:53 +0000

> you're trying to live somewhere that you chose to live precisely because it was more exclusive

*didn't get lucky when searching for a unit

source: got lucky so I don't pay $1400/month, still live 1hr away from work.