Hacker News: JudgeWapner

New comment by JudgeWapner in "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:59:36 +0000

Absolutey irrelevant to my point. Why do so many of your comments in your post history denigrate women and minorities?

New comment by JudgeWapner in "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:58:32 +0000

it's reddit-ization of the comments. Reddit -> facebook. HN -> reddit

New comment by JudgeWapner in "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:55:21 +0000

what's happening here is reddit-style comments have been slowly but steadily creeping in. I dont blame the mods directly, but indirectly they should have just capped membership once the tone lost its tech edge and comments began to drift to "me too!/relevant username/orange man bad/etc" about 30-40% (by my estimation) of HN comments are what reddit comments were a few years ago. The only way to fix that is to throttle membership.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:24:20 +0000

YES! Uber should be personally responsible for reimbursing all costs. I'm glad you get it.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 13:34:38 +0000

When microseconds/frame rates/audio buffers count, you're only one garbage collection away from a complete thread lockup. Those gigabytes of heap aren't going to clean up themselves!

New comment by JudgeWapner in "How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:02:17 +0000

My Android device that runs slower after each "update"?

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:26:04 +0000

there's a charitable way to read that, which is that they did ample statistical modelling/risk analysis of CDS and "concluded" they were safe enough to bundle mortgage debt under. Then you could sort of "blame math" (or the abuse thereof) in that circumstance. I know CDS is only like 1/10 chapters of the whole crisis, however.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:22:36 +0000

Biglaw pays 200k in high CoL areas where Big-N tech workers start out at 200k.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 02:35:47 +0000

just be sure to allocate enough swap space for the gigabytes of bloat.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts"

JudgeWapner — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 01:28:07 +0000

and we'd be better off if x+1 planes had improved quality/security software than x.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "The Case Against Octopus Farming"

JudgeWapner — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:19:41 +0000

If there's one thing you should absorb from the Bible it's to learn some basic principles about kindness and love. Because nearly all your comments are tainted with hostility, snark, and utter rudeness. No wonder you can't hold down a job. Who would hire someone like you?

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?"

JudgeWapner — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:09:17 +0000

I meant specifically in the US market where one aspirin pill is billed to the patient as a $30 expense. Not in a country with free healthcare.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?"

JudgeWapner — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:12:46 +0000

They have that last part. It's called the count.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?"

JudgeWapner — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:09:35 +0000

The fact that patients get infected doesn't mean the hospital rejects "germ theory".

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?"

JudgeWapner — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:05:12 +0000

There wasn't a nursing shortage back when the county ran the hospital in my area. But you know the laws of supply and demand: corporations have to manufacture scarcity to drive up KPIs

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?"

JudgeWapner — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:59:59 +0000

The nursing shortage could be solved by hiring more. They overwork the few they hire so the MBA execs can buy nice things

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens"

JudgeWapner — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:58:09 +0000

Do you shelter your money into "tax havens" ? If so, why do you cheat the system this way (note: I didn't ask the question "is this legal", so please don't bake that affirmation into your response).

New comment by JudgeWapner in "In Pentagon Contract Fight, Amazon Has Foes in High Places"

JudgeWapner — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:32:10 +0000

Uranium One is exactly the type of company Hillary Clinton loves. Solyndra is exactly the kind of guy Obama loves. Both parties are the same.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data"

JudgeWapner — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:22:35 +0000

they should be sued based on the number of breached records, period. let their insurance company dictate what hash algorithm to use. Damages would be automatically awarded to plaintiffs based on what data was breached. Just like a car accident: you destroyed my rear bumper, tail light, and window, the damages were $3200. Pay up.

New comment by JudgeWapner in "Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US"

JudgeWapner — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 02:54:46 +0000

People act differently when they know they're being watched. The government does not have the right to alter my behavior that way.

Next reason is that their laws aren't enforced equally. This tech is more likely to be used for small time crooks (and disproportionately, minorities) than used to stop CEOs or Epstein's, or cops that strangle handcuffed suspects of nonviolent offenses