Hacker News: Gargoyle

New comment by Gargoyle in "L.A. Company Wins China Hyperloop Deal"

Gargoyle — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:05:02 +0000

Hacker News has assured me repeatedly that this is an imaginary technology that cannot possibly work, so I assume this must be fake news.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch"

Gargoyle — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:50:42 +0000

This comment is Hacker News in a nutshell.

New comment by Gargoyle in "What Makes a Hit"

Gargoyle — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:44:46 +0000

I'm convinced Bodak Yellow was the result of a bet to see just how bad a "talent" producers could make a star on the basis of one good song.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Remains of the murdered Romanovs 'authentic'"

Gargoyle — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:31:57 +0000

I continue to be fascinated by the discussions you feel compelled to chime in on.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Social Media: An Apology"

Gargoyle — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:26:16 +0000

I get where you're coming from, and the point is valid in many ways.

But I'm relentless in cutting consistently negative people from my social media feeds, and its made my personal experience so much better.

While appreciate the principles you're discussing, I just don't need the constant negativity.

New comment by Gargoyle in "The full story of Thailand’s extraordinary cave rescue"

Gargoyle — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 05:40:13 +0000

Edit- NM. Have at it.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman’s Statement Confirms the Worst"

Gargoyle — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:53:56 +0000

There's no reason existing media release forms wouldn't work in this instance.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman’s Statement Confirms the Worst"

Gargoyle — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:50:14 +0000

I think the tweeter may end up having problems over the fact that she did try to exploit the tweets for fame and advantage. If it had been just sharing observations about something happening around her, she'd likely be fine. Trying to gain personally from the story makes it much more shaky on an ethical level for me.

And there's no excuse for encouraging people to seek out the subject's identity. Awful idea all around.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign"

Gargoyle — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:31:03 +0000

Fake advertising for the purpose of creating discord is as old as political advertising.

I had a friend run for state legislature in the 1990s, his opponent sent people around targeted neighborhoods passing out fake flyers for my friend's campaign. They used his name and photo, but attributed positions he did not hold to him.

I imagine before cheap printing, it was gossip. I'm sure it's been the case since democracy started.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich"

Gargoyle — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:27:11 +0000

There was a saying at my engineering school (and probably others like it):

EE->IE->IM->I'm Out.

Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, transfer.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election"

Gargoyle — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:09:35 +0000

I'm curious why it should stay secret when it's literally world-wide public knowledge they have it.

What would be at risk by sharing what is absolutely known to exist?

New comment by Gargoyle in "The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand"

Gargoyle — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:38:12 +0000

The LAFD might be the most admired municipal organization in the city. They have a very difficult range of environments and handle them very well.

New comment by Gargoyle in "When Sports Betting Is Legal, the Value of Game Data Soars"

Gargoyle — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:04:26 +0000

Sort of like the big con in the movie The Sting, but real.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015)"

Gargoyle — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:33:29 +0000

I was also a sales engineer 20 years ago. There was a ton of drinking involved, but never anything wilder. I was honestly a bit surprised how tame the after-hours excursions were given what I'd heard from friends at other companies with similar clients. Ability to drink heavily was a requirement of anyone on the sales team though.

I did get a lot of nice dinners and bbq lunches. Seriously, every client had a favorite bbq place they had to show off. Weird in retrospect.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Tesla Q2 2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries"

Gargoyle — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:25:52 +0000

I'm sure there's legit pessimism out there.

But there's also very likely an organized effort to keep negative Tesla stories flowing on a non-stop basis.

Both can be true.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Can Elon Musk and Tesla Reinvent the Way Cars Are Made?"

Gargoyle — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:06:59 +0000

As far as I can tell, that's what the people running the site want it to be. It's been a problem for years and years now and no action has been taken to stop it.

New comment by Gargoyle in "How to Steal 50M Bees"

Gargoyle — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:19:44 +0000

The most effective method is probably to spend a couple hundred a night to hire a security guard to sit with the hives while they're all so concentrated.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Facebook abandons Aquila, its internet drone"

Gargoyle — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 01:46:25 +0000

Google balloons still show up on ASD-B (aircraft transponder tracking) from time to time, but beyond that I dunno.

New comment by Gargoyle in "Revisting Neuromancer After Three Decades"

Gargoyle — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:33:14 +0000

I keep thinking I read Gibson said something along the lines of "Delany's Nova was his attempt to reach the heights of The Stars My Destination, and Neuromancer was my attempt to reach Nova."

But I haven't been able to find it again. Maybe I imagined it.

New comment by Gargoyle in "[dead]"

Gargoyle — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:31:54 +0000

This isn't much different from say Lawrence, Kansas, much less any decent-sized American city.