Hacker News: Dagwoodie

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans"

Dagwoodie — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:29:09 +0000

The baker comparison doesn't work. You don't see one guy or even three companies in Colorado controlling 99% of the messages going on cakes, globally, like you do with social media speech on Google/Facebook/Twitter platforms in California. Whether you like it or not, they are monopolies who are coordinating attacks on conservatives by stifling speech that is by and large perfectly legal in the US. Very concerning.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans"

Dagwoodie — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:18:20 +0000

In fact, SV has begun to bring Chinese-style censorship to the US.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Newman's Own faces mammoth tax bill after lawmakers fail to spare the foundation"

Dagwoodie — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 06:36:58 +0000

The country has never been more divided politically and I highly doubt that had anything to do with Gingrich.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "The Intel Optane Memory (SSD) Preview: 32GB of Kaby Lake Caching"

Dagwoodie — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:54:17 +0000

Good point, eSports likely won't really benefit from Optane that much over a 960 EVO or PRO, but if they get into the eSports scene early they'll get a lot of free advertisement from all the various CS GO / LOL / Overwatch streamers who tend to play many other games that might benefit from it.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "South Korea’s deployment of THAAD upsets China, seen as espionage tool"

Dagwoodie — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:16:25 +0000

NK Has strategic value to China more than anything I believe. Although, maybe China just doesn't know what to do with North Korea and therefore just tries to get along with them as best they can, or they are actually happy to have NK on a leash and remain friendly enough to keep NK from biting them.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)"

Dagwoodie — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:52:07 +0000

I heard a professor tell a story about the founder of McDonalds going to a business class as a guest. He asked the students "What business am I in? Can anyone tell me?" and they all laughed, "why hamburgers of course". Then he corrected them. They're not just in real estate but they are very, very good at selecting franchise locations. The professor also claimed that Burger King's primary consideration on where to put their stores is the relative distance to McDonalds.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Leaked email from United Airlines CEO blames passenger for violent removal"

Dagwoodie — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:27:52 +0000

Perhaps he or his employer valued his timely flight at $5,000 or more while some other passenger would have gladly taken $501 in cash. Now it looks like United will end paying millions directly in court or settlement costs, plus many more millions in lost revenue due to negative publicity. Hopefully United, by paying his laywers will have bought themselves a clue and start offering real values to Volunteers. And other airlines will learn by proxy if they know what's good for them.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Leaked email from United Airlines CEO blames passenger for violent removal"

Dagwoodie — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:00:20 +0000

I doubt i'll ever book with United again. I had a flight with United the exact same day as this incident for business but I assure you they've already lost at least $800 from me in future flights as a result of this... bullshit.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Leaked email from United Airlines CEO blames passenger for violent removal"

Dagwoodie — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 04:46:37 +0000

Couldn't agree more. A law requiring the airline to keep doubling the offer for volunteers every x minutes until y number take it will solve this problem 100% of the time.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Milk that lasts for months"

Dagwoodie — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:15:14 +0000

Thinking I might be lactose intolerant I tried some lactose free milk some time ago. It was the best tasting and the longest lasting Milk I ever bought. Ever since, I tend to buy exclusively lactose free because of that.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix"

Dagwoodie — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 02:11:07 +0000

Linux running FreeBSD Kernel, last I heard.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "The Future of Not Working"

Dagwoodie — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:28:48 +0000

Here's how I think the only possible way this will ever be realized: A non-profit organization will have one of the highest (top 10 to pick an arbitrary number) net-worths of any company on earth.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Enforcement of the Immigration Laws to Serve the National Interest [pdf]"

Dagwoodie — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:14:17 +0000

By US Culture my simple definition is the respect of the current laws of the US. The left doesn't respect some laws like immigration, so it's quite logical that they are for the mass influx of others who don't respect them either. That's how cultures change, quickly.

Not sure on "no-go zones", but did you see some jouralists got assaulted [0] when they went to investigate the crazy claims of violent muslim immigrants in Sweden?

[0] http://www.dailywire.com/news/13664/american-journalist-sava...

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Enforcement of the Immigration Laws to Serve the National Interest [pdf]"

Dagwoodie — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:21:37 +0000

The Government is elected by the people, who have specific rights under the Consitution. Once you start letting other cultures, many of whom are hostile to US Culture walk freely across the border, the country won't last very long. You're seeing it play out in Germany, Sweden and other places where mass migrations has disrupted cultures and created pockets of lawlessness because the people have no affinity for their new governments. You might think they would be the most grateful people on earth, but that naive perspective assumes they were all really 'refugees' and that they all can simply forget their old cultures as soon as they cross the border.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network"

Dagwoodie — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:01:24 +0000

He voted for a Republican.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it"

Dagwoodie — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 05:28:43 +0000

Buying my first house gave me a high similar to some pain killers. Well, not literally, but it was so awesome having more space, more privacy, generally better neighbors and the ability to play music as loud as I want. I can also customize the interior any way I see fit. The thought of moving back into an apartment or condo is very depressing indeed.

In the end, people will keep trying to sell others on their own preferences, which is very much a nurture thing. If you grew up in the city, you're going to prefer the city. If you didn't, you probably won't enjoy living in the middle of downtown without a car. In fact, that prospect is extremely depressing and I'd honestly rather be dead myself than not have a car.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "9th Circuit Court Ruling WA V Trump"

Dagwoodie — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:43:04 +0000

Haven't read the ruling, but from the Bloomberg story it seems the 9th circuit seemed to argue from a position of political idealism and not from the law. Maybe it's just buried in the decision but the Executive has long enjoyed full-control of the nation's immigration policies. In fact, Arizona was slapped down for trying to enforce immigrations at the state level that the federal was refusing to enforce under President Obama. It seems like this is just another highly politicized decision and most likely, Trump will simply re-do the order or recruit congress to enact new laws.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Microsoft working with Washington State on suit against Trump immigration order"

Dagwoodie — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:14:05 +0000

Interesting, thanks.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Microsoft working with Washington State on suit against Trump immigration order"

Dagwoodie — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:56:01 +0000

What international laws, treaty or treaties are you referring to? I find your statement very hard to believe, but I'm no expert.

New comment by Dagwoodie in "Microsoft working with Washington State on suit against Trump immigration order"

Dagwoodie — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:45:57 +0000

Yes, the way it was communicated was pretty terrible. The Trump admin was contradicting each other which I think fueled 90% of this outrage.