Hacker News: GuinansEyebrows

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

GuinansEyebrows — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:42:17 +0000

> Imagine Ring comes out with a nicer camera system for homeowners that has more comprehensive views around your house and is just as cheap. And we will ultimately be safer for it.

I wonder if people who feel this way will feel safer? In this scenario, you have a Ring camera system observing your entire property. Do you feel safer if someone comes onto your property and triggers an alarm? What if it turns out it's just a kid coming over to grab a stray frisbee? What if your neighbor noticed something needed a quick fix (say you left a can of paint open or something similarly benign) and wanted help in a neighborly way without first checking to see if you were home?

I guess we just take for granted that we live in a low-trust society. But we take that for granted at our peril, because the fear of a low-trust society is actively being exploited by people who want to sell individuals, businesses and municipalities the means to further erode that trust.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Mosh in a Lift (2012)"

GuinansEyebrows — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:15:46 +0000

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i hate that my memory is turning to absolute mush but i think i will always be able to recite this from memory

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Waymo in Dallas"

GuinansEyebrows — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:06:19 +0000

the other end of this is that all of those rewards are paid for through merchant fees, which lead to higher prices at the register. it's not free money. it's a fraction of a percentage of the profit credit card companies receive in fees paid by the places you shop. i would not be surprised to learn that even with rewards points we spend more money now that those programs are commonplace.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

GuinansEyebrows — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:20:38 +0000

Outside of cheap takeout places, I neither need nor want to see pictures of food on menus, because I can read the menu and decide for myself whether I want to try something based off the description. I'd rather a blown out flash photo of a plate of noodles than a generated image though.

I was under the impression that FTC laws require food advertisement photos to be the "real" thing. I don't know if the FTC covers food service but if so I wonder if they just don't want to bother slapping restaurants with fines over generated product images in menus (or if menus just aren't covered by the same regulation). Also I wonder if there's some grey area when it pertains to "photos" vs "generated images" (though the latter is clearly intended to stand in for the former).

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

GuinansEyebrows — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:53:48 +0000

i do not want to find common ground with people who do nazi salutes or those who excuse them. i want consequences these people because they wish harm upon me or excuse those who wish harm upon me. there is no "center" with this subject; there never has been, because nazi behavior forces the binary.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

GuinansEyebrows — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:40:03 +0000

i think (safe guess) a plurality of hn users live in cities with most or all of these types of businesses. unless you're somewhere very rural, exurban or suburban, you owe it to yourself to at least try to find these places (and even if you are, you might be surprised at what's nearby).

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "My burner email blocklist blocked me"

GuinansEyebrows — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:06:06 +0000

His own petard?!

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

GuinansEyebrows — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:24:38 +0000

"the environment" wants to "force people out of cars"? are you hearing yourself?

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

GuinansEyebrows — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:19:37 +0000

in the specific case of this article, "innovation" and "choice" are exactly the problem here. we know what works well - they're well-studied generic compounds. there's no social reason whatsoever that "dayquil" or "tylenol" or "sudafed" should exist when generics are readily available and clearly labeled.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

GuinansEyebrows — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:50:16 +0000

> By that standard, though, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, heck even Microsoft are all supporters of "technofascism".

certainly! fascism requires industry that cooperates with the state to produce the means of control; these are all companies that do exactly that!

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "My favorite keyboards"

GuinansEyebrows — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:43:45 +0000

if we're being pedantic, the concertmaster is an RDoM (rubber dome over membrane) :)

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children"

GuinansEyebrows — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:19:26 +0000

> This is just people seeing dollar signs asking for handouts. Nothing of an real value to society.

this is exactly facebook's business model ???

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

GuinansEyebrows — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:38:19 +0000

a rhetorical question, sure. i didn't really need to include the first question to make the point of the second one.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

GuinansEyebrows — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:39:07 +0000

> Mullvad's position is that privacy is a universal right

this is kind of a confusing statement considering the source. if you hold that privacy is a universal right, but you profit from gating access to it (along with someone who appears to have directed this profit to an appalling political project), are you saying that this right should only be afforded to those who pay for it? or are you just cloaking your business model in a moral shroud?

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

GuinansEyebrows — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:32:17 +0000

i can think of one notable right-of-center European party that featured those colors heavily.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition"

GuinansEyebrows — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:00:28 +0000

> when i'm doing large presentations to prospective clients my company gives me what they call a "look book". This is a deck with information about every person in the audience all the way down to personality traits, triggering words/phrases, and negotiating style. I think it's pretty normal.

this is antisocial manipulative behavior normalized under the auspices of "good business".

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition"

GuinansEyebrows — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:04:24 +0000

> This seems like a pretty normal thing to do

sorry to the rest of the esteemed hn community for the low-effort reply, but... gross.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Alan Greenspan has died"

GuinansEyebrows — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:03:26 +0000

hmm, an argument against expertise is not something i expect to see often on hackernews :)

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

GuinansEyebrows — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:23:15 +0000

i didn't read that as snark. they're just saying compressors were/are used to maximize the broadcast range of a source over AM radio. without them, the broadcast range is shorter, which means fewer people hear the ads on the radio show, which means fewer dollars for the radio station producing or broadcasting the show.

New comment by GuinansEyebrows in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

GuinansEyebrows — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:17:27 +0000

it could simply be that you value owning the object in terms other than money. sentimental reasons, completionism tendencies, novelty, some other "non-rational"/emotional reason; any of these can have a stronger pull on the mind than $1300 to someone who doesn't immediately need the cash for survival. i have some records like this (not in that price-range but still) along with a few other collectible items (some rare handmade keycaps that were going for over $500 a piece at one point) that I refuse to part with for money because i just... like them :)