Hacker News: Fezzik

New comment by Fezzik in "EFF is leaving X"

Fezzik — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:54:25 +0000

All of them, I think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_freedom

New comment by Fezzik in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

Fezzik — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:14:34 +0000

Same. My work laptop has a touch screen and every now and then, when I remember that fact, I’ll use it to scroll through a few pages of a PDF. It gives me a chuckle because it’s so inefficient and inaccurate… then I immediately revert to my click-wheel mouse.

New comment by Fezzik in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

Fezzik — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:00:09 +0000

A lot of people don’t get a lot of things; you know the adage about stupidity being a more likely cause than malice. Just last week I had to explain to a grown adult why spitting on the sauna floor was disgusting and rude to the other gym members. He was shocked.

New comment by Fezzik in "United Airlines says it will boot passengers who refuse to use headphones"

Fezzik — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:47:43 +0000

The bigger scourge is people feeling they are entitled to broadcast their media in public spaces. You’re not. Ever. Stop it.

New comment by Fezzik in "iPhone 17e"

Fezzik — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:49:47 +0000

I stupidly downgraded to a 17 from the 13 mini two-weeks ago and I hate it. It’s the first time I have been earnestly tempted to just get a dumb-phone and be done with it. The constant growth of mobile phones is perplexing to me but I don’t doubt Apple knows what sells.

New comment by Fezzik in "Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health"

Fezzik — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:41:36 +0000

I don’t think anyone believes that in its entirety. But if you don’t think green house gases are a problem you are, on that topic, a dimwit.

New comment by Fezzik in "Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health"

Fezzik — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:40:12 +0000

Because a bunch of other dimwits voted for him and then another group of dimwits have no scruples and are too scared to stand-up to him and then these other dimwits… you get the point.

New comment by Fezzik in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

Fezzik — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:27:58 +0000

Where is it $1k/month??? I just started Wegovy and it is $199/month from Costco with insurance not covering it. I picked up my four shots on Thursday…

New comment by Fezzik in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

Fezzik — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:57:17 +0000

What she presented to me was that more than one of her patients taking unregulated GLP-1s simply stopped losing weight, and in an unexpected way. I have no idea how many patients this was. My doctor is rad and very much pro-GLP-1s and pro-preventative-care. This is ultimately an anecdote.

New comment by Fezzik in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

Fezzik — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:43:32 +0000

Can you quote from the five sentences I wrote where I said anything about telling people what to do? I simply noted that my medical provider has first-hand experience with people getting questionable results from unregulated GLP-1s.

New comment by Fezzik in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

Fezzik — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:21:20 +0000

I just started taking Wegovy. Went the regulated route through my doctor, getting a prescription. She’s been monitoring loads of patients and noted that some of her patients going the ‘compound’ route had, in fact, had allergic reactions to their shots, or experienced their shots being less effective, after months of no problems. Nothing life threatening. But the fact is there is no oversight to what the GLP-1 is compounded with.

New comment by Fezzik in "A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked"

Fezzik — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:47:16 +0000

It’s a common HN practice. I’ve done it once or twice. Mods will do it often, especially with highly active topics. I imagine it started as a method to avoid duplicate posting thereby consolidating conversation and, also, so that karma attribution goes to whoever the original poster was.

I imagine automation would be difficult because the same topics come from different sources and occasionally there is additional/novel information in similarly titled postings.

New comment by Fezzik in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

Fezzik — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:43:51 +0000

France isn’t that interesting of an example given the exponential changes to how mail-in ballots work that have been implemented in the last 50 years. Using France as your lone example is like citing to the Challenger launch and ignoring every subsequent success in deciding if you’re going to launch a rocket. It’s almost delusional.

New comment by Fezzik in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

Fezzik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:03:36 +0000

Citations are needed when I can point you to six States that have vote-by-mail systems and there’s no evidence of meaningful fraud in those systems. And citations are especially needed when the very think tanks that are spending millions of dollars trying to disenfranchise voters by banning mail-in voting are unable to find meaningful cases of fraud to bolster their argument and instead rely on nonsense like ‘it’s inevitable that something bad will happen, trust me bro!’

New comment by Fezzik in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

Fezzik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:58:17 +0000

… in 1975.

I have EXCELLENT, current news for you, comrade. Since then, I can point you to six States in the USA that have implemented mail-in voting that is demonstrable secure and gives far more people the ability to vote than mandatory in-person voting. Isn’t that simply wonderful to hear? And, to boot, lest you worry about volume, one of those States alone (sunny California) is nearly the same population as France was in 1975! So even having large populations vote entirely by mail is proven to be a non-issue! Phew, I’m glad we can stop trotting out fear mongering and speculative arguments of unproven inevitable doom to stupidly disenfranchise voters!

New comment by Fezzik in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

Fezzik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:41:50 +0000

Do you have a citation for voting by mail being demonstrable problematic? None of the things you describe are even true. We’ve been voting by mail in Oregon for decades and the demonstrated instances of voter fraud are effectively zero. The Heritage Foundation, which is opposed to vote by mail, has a great list here: https://electionfraud.heritage.org/search?state=OR.

I encourage you to click the ‘Read’ tab to see the actual circumstances resulting in the convictions as most are for trying to game ballot signatures and have nothing to do with votes being cast. It just doesn’t happen because the system is secure.

Never once has anyone, outside of their expansive imagination, proven that voting by mail is not secure and effective.

New comment by Fezzik in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

Fezzik — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:29:30 +0000

Sonicare Electric Toothbrush. My grandmother bought me my first one in the 90s. I’m on my third, and that’s only because I take them backpacking. It’s my 1 luxury item on the trail. I know much of it is genetics, but a morning and evening cleaning make my teeth feel amazing and have helped me stay cavity free.

New comment by Fezzik in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

Fezzik — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:34:27 +0000

Also related and worth a read, I think, is the Supreme Court case Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952). The content of the dispute is different, as it involves the President seizing private property, but it is (one of?) the seminal cases regarding the scope of presidential powers. Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion is, at least for now, considered the best articulation of when the President may take unilateral action.

New comment by Fezzik in "Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study"

Fezzik — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:30:17 +0000

Though less critical to our lives, PE has ruined loads of retail and restaurant options as well - Sears, Toy ‘R’ Us, Red Lobster, and Shari’s come to mind.

New comment by Fezzik in "RFK Jr. says the U.S. should look to Europe on vaccines"

Fezzik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:55:00 +0000

The medical community realized early in the pandemic that blood clotting was an “extremely rare” side effect of Covid vaccines. Nobody tried to hide that. Also, monoclonal antibody treatments were limited because 99% of Covid infections were of the Omicron variant and it was clinically demonstrated that monoclonal antibodies were entirely ineffective against that variant.

https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2022/09/blood-clottin...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39354108/