Hacker News: Jedi72

New comment by Jedi72 in "Confusion as Democratic Results Are Delayed in Iowa"

Jedi72 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:06:13 +0000

The official position is that there was no foul play, but I still can't believe in this time of super-heightened cyber-security concerns, anyone in the Democratic party would try and use a smartphone app for anything election related. The whole platform (IMHO) is compromised when you're talking nation-state level adversaries, let alone when your opponent is the Commander-in-Chief of the NSA/CIA, the ones who we all know put the back doors in place to begin with.

Occams razor though - in 2016 Bernie got gypped and lobbied for a new process. Half a case of beer says that as soon as they have a proper accountability, it comes to light that nobody really has any clue how the system is supposed to work.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (2018)"

Jedi72 — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 01:20:24 +0000

This is not a case of consistent logic through ignorance. The same friends who will literally go out guns blazing before letting law enforcement take their AR15, believe Snowden was a traitor and the intelligence agencies would never abuse their power ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by Jedi72 in "Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (2018)"

Jedi72 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 15:21:13 +0000

I live in Texas, and I've seen awkward moments at dinner parties where pro-gun people say the government must not ever have a registry of owners or civilization will collapse. I bet that the next day, to let off a little steam, they bought bullets on their iPhone and had Google maps take them to the range...

New comment by Jedi72 in "Oliver Cromwell, the man who wouldn’t be king"

Jedi72 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:54:45 +0000

I highly recommend Mike Duncans 'revolutions' podcast for a thorough and entertaining history of Cromwell and the entire English revolution - as well as the American revolution, French (my current season) and about 6 others.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Those Mythological "Jobs Of Tomorrow""

Jedi72 — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:15:18 +0000

Dude they make you say the pledge of allegiance, every - damn - day. US schools are extremely culturally conditioning.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Nuclear Power: Game over (2016) [pdf]"

Jedi72 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:12:20 +0000

Regardless of the reasoning, if the US cant keep a site operating for even 100 years, how do we expect it to keep functioning for 10,000?

Storing nuear waste is a complete non-starter for me simply because of the timelines involved. Nobody can guarantee the safety of anything for thousands (!!) of years, when the USA itself is only ~400 years old.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?"

Jedi72 — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:21:20 +0000

Assume non-determinism - this is just pure pragmatism because if the universe is conpletely deterministic, what is the point of even this conversation? It would be immoral for god to create us without free will. If we have free will, we must be able to act immorally, else it's not really free will. So god is in a bind - he has to imbue us with the power to go against his wishes, morally speaking. Immorality in humans is a direct consequence of a moral creator.

New comment by Jedi72 in "America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign"

Jedi72 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:37:59 +0000

It's more like gangsters providing "protection" to local businesses. When it comes to the US, you have no choice in the matter.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Life at the End of American Empire"

Jedi72 — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:17:16 +0000

American pride won't save this country from long-term trends. Before any meaningful change can be made, the "we're the best" attitude has to go. Sometime in the next 2 decades China is gonna put a man on Mars before the US, I can't wait to see the shocked faces

New comment by Jedi72 in "Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes"

Jedi72 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:39:15 +0000

My 2020 prediction: k8 stacks are the new JS frameworks.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over"

Jedi72 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 21:58:58 +0000

Hopefully this bullshit opens up a new market for digital obfustication services. Pay me $100, I will show you how to save $300/yr in Uber fees by changing your digital appearance.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed"

Jedi72 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:19:43 +0000

lmao, so I just ran this idea by my girlfriend and she said "yeah its good but there would be trolls, I would just put hideous women with hot guys, and vice versa" - so, not so easy to succeed at (also, what a catch my girl is :P)

New comment by Jedi72 in "Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed"

Jedi72 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:14:26 +0000

This is actually a pretty good idea. I think women would really go for it, since most of the 'matchmakers' are probably other women

New comment by Jedi72 in "Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed"

Jedi72 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:11:26 +0000

Soounds like OP just wants to formalize the existing process. Dating is expensive!

New comment by Jedi72 in "TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram"

Jedi72 — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:23:19 +0000

Im surprised at peoples comments like "its not organic growth" and "they'll never be profitable" - how is TikTok different to snap/insta/fb in the early years? The thing that matters in that biz is hitting critical mass of users. Then they can spend the next 10 yrs bleeding their users in long tail of platform stickyness.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind a cult novel"

Jedi72 — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:05:24 +0000

He uses multiple dice a few times, but its more that he refers to "the dice" as some kind of god of chance, like "I shall let the dice decide my fate".

New comment by Jedi72 in "Bob Iger Takes the Gloves Off for Disney’s Streaming Debut"

Jedi72 — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 06:00:22 +0000

Once upon a time, Disney made films. Now they just make money.

New comment by Jedi72 in "Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia"

Jedi72 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:32:58 +0000

Am I out of the loop, what have Microsoft done to support open-source? Made linux containers easy to use on Azure? Wrote a code editor so that they extend and extinguish developer mindshare and get them onto Azure? Im being serious, what have MS actually done to claim they have supported open-source (and of course, open-source != free software)

New comment by Jedi72 in "A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?"

Jedi72 — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 10:37:15 +0000

The lack of appreciation of pure knowledge in this thread is truly saddening. If all you care about is getting a job, this question boils down to simple finance. If you want to truly learn, understand and engage in a topic, what can possibly be better than emmersing oneself in an environment of learning, inquisitive students and knowledgable professors full-time?

New comment by Jedi72 in "Betrayal at Krondor"

Jedi72 — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:55:21 +0000

"Tremble and despair, for I am power!"