Hacker News: LadyCailin

New comment by LadyCailin in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

LadyCailin — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:50:20 +0000

Probably, but without government regulation to make ruinous fines for allowing your data to be breached, the thought experiment is moot.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

LadyCailin — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:40:59 +0000

You can’t make millions from shorts unless you’ve already got millions to risk.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

LadyCailin — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:55:48 +0000

The answer is because YOU haven’t fixed it yet. Chop chop, we’re all waiting on you.

New comment by LadyCailin in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

LadyCailin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:02:31 +0000

I don’t read that as a joke, I read it as them pasting in their response from the support chat.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

LadyCailin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:32:15 +0000

You mean the meat communicates?

New comment by LadyCailin in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

LadyCailin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:46:59 +0000

It’s not a war, it’s a special military operation.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper"

LadyCailin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:11:01 +0000

Except Place doesn’t have amazing vending machines and konbini like Place, Japan does :D

New comment by LadyCailin in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

LadyCailin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:05:03 +0000

Switzerland? Cows? I can’t help but be reminded of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySxyPMZkrwU

New comment by LadyCailin in "Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702"

LadyCailin — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:29:38 +0000

The constitution lost its power long ago, and is now a mere fig leaf of legitimacy. Plenty of things ought to be unconstitutional based on a plain reading of the constitution. Civil forfeiture, unlimited gun rights, qualified immunity, FISA courts, various “emergency” powers, deportation of US citizens, etc, etc. The trouble is that a huge portion of Americans don’t really care about any of this, so long as these violations are used to stick it to liberals, all is forgiven.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Stop Flock"

LadyCailin — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:51:50 +0000

The trouble with this is that I, at least, am trying to live in a society. And society has both rights and responsibilities. Sometimes you are forced to do things, or don’t do things, contrary to your desires. Every freedom has two sides, you can’t ignore the fact that increasing some freedoms for one decreases other freedoms for others.

The shirt and shoes example is a great example in fact that illustrates the point. You don’t have unlimited freedom to not wear shoes, just like a business does not have unlimited freedom to impose whatever terms it likes, just because it put it in its ToS.

New comment by LadyCailin in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

LadyCailin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:59:51 +0000

Except that the analogy is that they already have, or can easily create, that list. If they couldn’t, their value proposition would be lame. “We know you’re looking for a specific license plate, here’s a million hours of footage from all over the city, have at looking through it all.”

New comment by LadyCailin in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

LadyCailin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:21:41 +0000

Well, I’m a billionaire, why would I vote against my own interests. I mean, yes, I’m currently a bit down on my luck (it’s embarrassing, to be honest), but I’m sure my net worth will move right up there with Elon’s very soon, and so it would be foolish for me to support taxes on the wealthy.

New comment by LadyCailin in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

LadyCailin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:09:28 +0000

I’m not saying it would be revenue neutral, but a UBI would (or should) eliminate a bunch of various other entitlements. Even social security should be relatively non controversial to get rid of.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

LadyCailin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:06:59 +0000

I’d be curious to hear your opinion on things like Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech then. I’m not defending the violence in this case, to be sure, but like, in general, I disagree that violence is always the irrational choice.

New comment by LadyCailin in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

LadyCailin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:21:15 +0000

I’m not sure how exactly this should be worded in law, but I really wish they would pass a law requiring supporting people without smartphone apps. Obviously there would be some exceptions where justified, even for things other than “the app is the whole point” and those need to be thought through, but in this case and plenty of others, there’s just no reason they can’t accommodate non app users. “It costs more to support non app users” is not a sufficient justification.

New comment by LadyCailin in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

LadyCailin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:57:13 +0000

It’s not a fact though. I support the draft for women. For me, that’s what feminism is. I’m sure you can point out some feminists that are only for drafting men, but that’s not what you stated, you stated a patent falsehood, dressed up as a “fact” so you could dunk on feminism.

New comment by LadyCailin in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

LadyCailin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:33:45 +0000

Sorry to burst your strawman argument, but I would support the same draft mechanism for women, as it is in Norway.

But sure, continue to rail against equality and feminism for no reason.

New comment by LadyCailin in "The Hackers Who Tracked My Sleep Cycle"

LadyCailin — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:54:17 +0000

I have no clue if this worked at all, but in college I made a site that had a checkbox that said “check this box if you’re human” and then hid it with bizarre CSS. If they checked the box, we errored out. I didn’t really do telemetry at all, so no clue if that worked at all, but yeah, I’ve had the same thought!

New comment by LadyCailin in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

LadyCailin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:11:00 +0000

Dunno! I would have expected Germany and Norway to be the same.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Treason in the Futures Markets"

LadyCailin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:10:11 +0000

None of this is any surprise to people who had two brain cells to rub together. He showed massive corruption in his first term, and despite being impeached twice, got away with it scot free. Then got a huge mandate from the people to be a shitty person, so yeah, he’s corrupt. The majority of voting Americans don’t really seem to care.