Hacker News: JBSay

New comment by JBSay in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

JBSay — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:53:14 +0000

Just like any other authoritarian state

New comment by JBSay in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

JBSay — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:09:05 +0000

Most of government agencies are errors themselves

New comment by JBSay in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

JBSay — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:15:44 +0000

When China is more open than you, you've got a problem

New comment by JBSay in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

JBSay — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:51:05 +0000

Quite an interesting fact that both committed victimless crimes and both were victims of exceptional prosecution

New comment by JBSay in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

JBSay — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:44:26 +0000

Grossly excessive sentences for non-victim crimes while letting rapists, murderers and corrupt politicians go free with at best a slap on the wrist, is why people are abandon your "holy religion" in droves

New comment by JBSay in "Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds"

JBSay — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:56:07 +0000

Money is not created through fractional reserve banking. Money is loaned into existence by commercial banks. Similarly Coinbase can sell you coins which don't exist. Like a bank it doesn't have to make good on this IOU until you withdraw your funds.

New comment by JBSay in "It’s not still the early days of blockchain"

JBSay — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 09:40:34 +0000

The author admitted in her opening that she doesn't understand the point of decentralization. Reading anything beyond that point is a waste of time.

New comment by JBSay in "Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines"

JBSay — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:35:29 +0000

Vaccines are not magic. Every treatment has potential downsides. That's why they need approval to weight the potential benefit/harm trade-off.

New comment by JBSay in "70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers"

JBSay — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:32:20 +0000

As opposed to what? Twitter? All social media platforms are ideologically moderated.

New comment by JBSay in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

JBSay — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:19:14 +0000

This is just the same old keynesian fallacy. You can only consume if you produce. If we produce nothing it doesn't matter how much money we have. There is nothing to consume.

New comment by JBSay in "After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract"

JBSay — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 07:36:01 +0000

That's absurd. If a baker sells bread to a democrat politician it means he supports the Democratic party?

New comment by JBSay in "Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending"

JBSay — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:08:17 +0000

Nobody says that. All KNOWN future events are priced in. We are not doing divination here.

New comment by JBSay in "Ask HN: Who Is Firing?"

JBSay — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:39:28 +0000

Does your circle of friends exactly match the general population demographics? No? You're a racist!

See how absurd your expectations are?

New comment by JBSay in "Senate Stock Watcher"

JBSay — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:41:37 +0000

You're wrong. Bonds protect against depression and index-linked bonds protect against stagflation.

New comment by JBSay in "Senate Stock Watcher"

JBSay — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:37:10 +0000

Politics doesn't select for altruism. Politics requires lying, bribing and stealing so it's no wonder the very scum of the earth ends up in positions of power (same for most NGOs executives BTW). Power corrupts, so you will never be able to get altruistic individuals in power. You can't square that circle. The only solution is to severely limit their power.

New comment by JBSay in "Goodbye, Clean Code"

JBSay — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 08:50:09 +0000

I find this problem to be overblown. I've met dozens of dirty coders who happily copy-paste code without a single thought for maintainability and their colleagues. I've yet to meet a single clean code zealot.

It's impossible to tell from this example (because no actual code is included) whether refactoring the code was a bad idea or whether it was this specific implementation which was wrong. Clearly the math should sit in a geometry/linear algebra libraries and nowhere near the presentation layers.

New comment by JBSay in "WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO"

JBSay — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:34:15 +0000

Clearly false as there is no regulation to prevent the formation of very large companies (anti-trust laws don't apply). In fact companies tend toward giant behemoths in part BECAUSE of government regulation. Small companies can't afford the enormous fixed cost of compliance the way large ones can. Regulations are a huge incentive for market consolidation and large corporations love writing new barriers to entry regulations.

New comment by JBSay in "Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)"

JBSay — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 08:04:30 +0000

Do yourself a favour and open a history book.

New comment by JBSay in "Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap"

JBSay — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 08:03:06 +0000

Yes and he acknowledges that by saying they are "really HARD" to find. Clearly after 25 years in the industry he didn't wait for you to point out that reliable talented artists don't usually come cheap. He's simply decided they are not worth the price tag for his business.

New comment by JBSay in "Software Architecture Guide"

JBSay — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 07:53:18 +0000

I started reading his sample chapter on refactoring and I'm constantly put off by some really rookie mistakes and bad code practices like naming a function after nouns instead of action verbs (e.g. "amountFor" instead of "computeAmount").