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New comment by ColanR in "Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars"

ColanR — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:16:39 +0000

But even the unreasonable must first see the world as it is, so that he can adapt it to himself.

I'm not advocating that we accept the status quo, but I do take issue with not seeing the status quo for what it is.

New comment by ColanR in "Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars"

ColanR — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:11:40 +0000

> This is a horrifying view of the world even on its face

The alternative is easily classified as naiveté.

New comment by ColanR in "Epicurus for Our Time"

ColanR — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:53:24 +0000

I think it just means he was really bad at it.

New comment by ColanR in "Technical Writing Courses from Google"

ColanR — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 20:23:52 +0000

Far as their public stuff goes, I'd tend to agree with you. If the OpenBSD folks published a course like this, though...

New comment by ColanR in "Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?"

ColanR — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:05:50 +0000

To me it falls in a similar category as how highly intelligent people are less likely to be overweight. I think that with intelligence comes a better sense of how to control oneself. Ever seen the stats on how often lottery winners end up going broke? Not that many people have the capacity and knowledge to control their emotions with their reason. Being wealthy is not a question of making money, it's a question of keeping it.

New comment by ColanR in "Commit comments no longer appear in the pull request timeline"

ColanR — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:40:57 +0000

I'd predict they have a plan to replace it with some GitHub-specific metadata. That would enhance lock-in and follow the usual Microsoft strategy.

New comment by ColanR in "Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?"

ColanR — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:49:31 +0000

Yeah. If there's an evolutionary aspect to the increase, we should expect to see c-sections as a generational phenomena, and correlated with cranium size. I wonder if that study has been done.

New comment by ColanR in "Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers"

ColanR — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:52:17 +0000

I'm guessing there'll be a big uptick in adoption once zig passes 1.0. At least for me, I'm just waiting until the syntax stabilizes, so I don't have to change my code later on or relearn how to do things.

New comment by ColanR in "The Nothing Phone (1)"

ColanR — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:37:54 +0000

> Imagine trying to break into the smartphone market. Turns out, having less money than Apple makes it a little difficult. Availability? Limited. Supply? Constrained. Even with a design so compelling that people pay ridiculous markups at StockX, nobody can get their hands on your fancy new flashlight. To top it all off, the assholes at dbrand have parroted your design and are making it for the competition. Sorry, Carl.

Their marketing copy sounds like a Seinfeld skit.

New comment by ColanR in "Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)"

ColanR — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:33:31 +0000

> The dude was a modern lunatic homeless man venerated into legend status for thousands of years.

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” It's funny, but if you visit some of the vagabond subreddits you can read some very Diogenes-esque philosophies. I don't think they're all crazy - there's a subset who chose that life, and I think some of them have chosen well. Diogenes wasn't mad; he could just hear the music we can't.

New comment by ColanR in "Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?"

ColanR — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:40:26 +0000

I think that's why sleep has been called the 'little death' since ancient times. In a sense, you die every time you sleep, and wake up a slightly different person.

Edit: ya'll have dirty minds. Homer refers to 'sleep as the brother of death' in the Illiad. Apparently Buddha said something similar too, though I can't find a source.

Edit2: just going to leave you with this: "each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." – Arthur Schopenhauer

New comment by ColanR in "How to structure your sales compensation plan to deliberately undersell"

ColanR — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:16:00 +0000

I imagine there's a psychological barrier to upgrading a plan. Make the customer break that barrier on their own, due to the necessities of their current usage, and they'll have less compunction to upgrade later on. Psychological barrier already broken.

Whether the decreased initial revenue is outweighed by the increased number of upgrades later on is a different question. Personally, I'm skeptical the strategy pays off.

New comment by ColanR in "WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency"

ColanR — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 16:05:01 +0000

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

New comment by ColanR in "Ask HN: Do you regret getting the Covid-19 vaccine?"

ColanR — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 02:53:31 +0000

The articles I linked used the two words interchangably. Clearly that distinction isn't relevant to the layperson audience. You're just playing with words.

New comment by ColanR in "Ask HN: Do you regret getting the Covid-19 vaccine?"

ColanR — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:23:59 +0000

If these were internal memos among domain experts, then understanding the nuances between "100% effective" and "immune" would be expected. But when the vaccine is being sold to the general population as "100% effective" I think we're just talking about wordplay.

Those articles made some pretty strong claims, and I'm not really sure what else a layperson is expected to take away from this besides "100% I won't get covid".

> Covid-19 vaccine is 100% effective

> Researchers observed 18 Covid-19 cases among the 1,129 participants who were given a placebo, and none among the 1,131 volunteers who got the vaccine.

> Pfizer COVID Vaccine Is 100% Effective in Adolescents

> A two-dose series was 100% effective against COVID-19, which was measured between 7 days and 4 months after the second dose.

New comment by ColanR in "Ask HN: Do you regret getting the Covid-19 vaccine?"

ColanR — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:09:23 +0000

Ok, let me quote exactly what I just said:

"We're talking about if they were ever claimed to be 100% effective....if you overpromise at the beginning, you lose your credibility, and then you get cheap shots."

New comment by ColanR in "Ask HN: Do you regret getting the Covid-19 vaccine?"

ColanR — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:44:41 +0000

>>> It was never sold as "you'll be immune".

> THE NEWS HASNT BEEN TELLING EVERYONE FOR THE PAST YEAR THAT VACCINES COMPLETELY PREVENT THE DISEASE

We're not talking about the past year. We're talking about if they were ever claimed to be 100% effective. Don't move the goalposts. Also, dude, chill out. And anyway, who said they're still claiming 100% efficacy? The anti-vaccine crowd has been mocking the media and Fauci for continuously decreasing the % efficacy claims. (Not that it's a legitimate criticism, since with a leaky vaccine it's to be expected: but if you overpromise at the beginning, you lose your credibility, and then you get cheap shots.)

> We soon discovered they didn’t last and the virus mutated.

There were plenty of people who saw that coming, but they were dismissed as 'anti-vaccine' and 'anti-science'. Why are you surprised by basic virology?

> We skipped the long-term studies.

Yep. Sure did. Wonder what else we're going to find.

New comment by ColanR in "Ask HN: Do you regret getting the Covid-19 vaccine?"

ColanR — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:26:38 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32170042

New comment by ColanR in "Ask HN: Do you regret getting the Covid-19 vaccine?"

ColanR — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:24:10 +0000

Yes, it was. But they'd be very happy for you to forget that.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/31/health/pfizer-vaccine-adolesc...

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021112...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/25/covid-vaccine-moderna-says-s...

Online Anonymity Project ProxyHam Mysteriously Vanishes (2015)

ColanR — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-anonymity-project-proxyham-mysteriously-vanishes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054654

Points: 5

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