Hacker News: Jamwinner

New comment by Jamwinner in "[dead]"

Jamwinner — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:46:47 +0000

Very meta.

Consenting adults should be sufficient.

New comment by Jamwinner in "What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera"

Jamwinner — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:33:18 +0000

And encrypt them locally before upload.

New comment by Jamwinner in "You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (2014)"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:47:47 +0000

There is no scale of weirdness, and the idea alone is toxic. If you contribute in a positive way, people accept you, because you have made yourself useful. Beyond providing value, and not destroying it, 'weirdness' only incurs the occasional wrath of red tape.

Be weird, or don't. There is no fucking quota.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:56:08 +0000

Would anyone like to explaon why they disagree here? I see this being greyed out without any rebuttal. This seems SOP for facebook lately.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:52:57 +0000

Exactly. These people are petting the dog after it attacks their kid, oblivious to the training they are offering and reinforcing. We as a collective are just teaching big tech how to more effectively enslave us for profit.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Plans to Advance Diversity"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:43:40 +0000

That seems to be the trend. 'If you're not a facist, you're a nazi' looks to be the hip discourse lately. I have never been more happy, or genuinely nervous to be unaffiliated with any political movement burdened by other members.

Still though, remember the left, the right, the facists, the nazis, the whigs, and even stalin all think they were doing the right thing, and saving humanity by making hard choices at the expense of others. Power, no matter how it is held, can and will bulldoze the powerless, no matter who they are.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:48:15 +0000

Most is now reproduced for restoration. Even a well perserved cabinet has a bit of fading and wilting of the marquees and screen frame by now, not to mention the sides and control surfaces.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:30:56 +0000

Because it hasent happened? The roadrunner gag comes up every few years only to be debunked (by snopes and others). Computer vision is fooled by many things that are still very obvious to the human observer.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Am I Unique?"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:23:59 +0000

Pretty decent. I enable for one of 10 i'd say, and leave a whole lot more sites that require it needlessly without shedding any tears.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Am I Unique?"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:17:02 +0000

Many places will increase prices with low battery as a despiration tactic. Its shady af and should be illegal imho.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Am I Unique?"

Jamwinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:15:19 +0000

Most crawlers/bots, particularly the ones you want to be able to identify, spoof their user agent, making this mostly moot.

New comment by Jamwinner in "OK Doomer"

Jamwinner — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:50:48 +0000

Most people I knew burned a copy of the cd, and proceeded to wear it out in their cd player. Back then they just coded half the cd as audio and the CD was basically the new NIN ep. Those were the magic and fusturating days of bonus content on CDs. I wonder how such content will be saved in the future? Playing "hidden track.mp3" really isnt the same as finding track 99 and hearing a song after the 10min of silence buffer to fool you.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’"

Jamwinner — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:36:23 +0000

I own a few of them, as do I cars. I have so far managed not to murder anyone with either. Whats your point? We also have a lot of crime and an individualist attitude, and some large unintergrated culture bubbles which likely contribute more.

Murder is in the intent, not the tool.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’"

Jamwinner — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:31:04 +0000

Does enforcement count as infrastructure? As discussed, laws/signs without enforcement do little. Is seeing police that rare that everyone would risk it? Accountibility is foremost before progress.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’"

Jamwinner — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:27:34 +0000

Tolerating packs of stray fogs is the actions (or perhaps inaction) of men, only manifest as dogs.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Hippos have become an invasive species in Colombia"

Jamwinner — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:19:08 +0000

Sell hippo tags. Hunters will pay you to solve the problem.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Google Maps Hacks"

Jamwinner — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 18:29:37 +0000

Went back to using maps, with a quick glance at traffic cameras in problem spots, it gets me there faster, and with _less distraction_.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Google Maps Hacks"

Jamwinner — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 18:28:15 +0000

Is it? I think we can decide for ourselves.

New comment by Jamwinner in "China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen"

Jamwinner — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 18:05:38 +0000

Denmark is nothing like china besides being a country. If china wants to be compared favorably to other contries, the need to act favorible to most countries. Full stop.

New comment by Jamwinner in "Health-records software pushed opioids to doctors in secret deal with drugmaker"

Jamwinner — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 08:00:38 +0000

The people defending these types of actions here make me sick. What the hell.