<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Litmus2336</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Litmus2336</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 20:03:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Litmus2336" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Litmus2336 in "Which jobs most often pair together among married couples"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm also curious what percentage of people married to people in their career field is due to meeting on the job. Are you more likely to marry someone in your profession? Or is "working together" just a very common way to meet your spouse?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:15:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010739</link><dc:creator>Litmus2336</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Litmus2336 in "“I just woke up one morning and it struck me that I was a murderer. so I quit.”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Although if one side in the cold war had good anti-ballistic missile tech they would be incentivised to first strike.<p>That's the reason for the ABM limitation treaties<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treat...</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_trafficking_and_emerging_zoonotic_diseases" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_trafficking_and_emerg...</a><p>I have no doubt that there are cases of wealthy people consuming exotic meat as a delicacy, but I would bet pound for pound it is largely people in poorer regions without much alternative.<p>Unfortunately I'm looking for real stats but am having trouble as most of the trade does not keep records, is illegal, etc</p>
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<p>Yeah, people don't eat bushmeat and from the garbage can because they choose to - they have (or feel they have) no other choice.</p>
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<p>For a person to get <i>both</i> bottom and peak right. But hey, I'm less picky</p>
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<p>All you need to correctly pick the bottom and peak of a year is 365 people. 366 in leap years.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that'd theoretically work. But I wonder how it would go in practice with the limited information of each driver. Perhaps if they provided drivers with statistics (average offering price, bottom 10% offering price, ride volume over time, peak areas etc) then it would work. Interesting proposition.</p>
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<p>It seems to me that the option to refuse drives is the bigger change.<p>But regarding pricing, Uber is no longer "mandating" the drivers accept a price, instead Uber drives agree to the rates Uber sets. Maybe that has some bearing? I'm no expert.</p>
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<p>Hacker News without cynicism would be like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:16:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971476</link><dc:creator>Litmus2336</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Litmus2336 in "Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Many argued at the time that J&J was at fault because their packaging wasn't sealed or tamper-evident.<p>Do you have a citation for that? I don't doubt it's possible but I've never heard it. As far as I know no major pain medications had tamper resistant seals at that point in history.<p>I've read a lot about this (being from Chicago myself) and do not believe you're representing it correctly. J&J took responsibility insomuch as they pioneered tamper resistant packaging, but they very clearly blamed a saboteur. The initial allegation was that Tylenol was unsafe. J&J successfully re-spun it, correctly, as an external terrorist poisoning their medication. And, to their credit, they did a great job making future Tylenol very safe.<p>But the bottom line is that these two incidents are very different. In J&J's case they were not at fault. In Boeing's case they were.<p>Info taken from <a href="https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/02C2/Johnson%20&%20Johnson.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/02C2/Johnson%20&%2...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:30:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867086</link><dc:creator>Litmus2336</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Litmus2336 in "We do not use foreign keys (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In this case, they use "foreign keys" in the sense that there are keys which correspond to keys in other tables.<p>There are no foreign key constraints, the keyword is never used.</p>
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<p>Seriously.<p>"As a C developer, I never check exit codes of child processes. We can just enforce it by ensuring child processes don't have bugs"</p>
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<p>Because, theoretically, these companies would not be profitable if their interest rates were regulated, and therefore nobody would offer loans.<p>But I don't have statistics on default rate or anything of that sort.</p>
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<p>It went great, expect where they totally missed sales targets and shuttered the program. The TriStar was a great plane. It should've done better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:55:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21339927</link><dc:creator>Litmus2336</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21339927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21339927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Litmus2336 in "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I 100% agree with you, as a Java dev who is very interested in optimization (particularly register coloring) at a certain point I think you have to realize that any "compiler type" optimizations you do (Ooh, I'll optimize my variable declaration order to not spill to memory!) is just ignored and re optimized by most compilers worth their weight in salt. Therefore, it's totally counter productive. All the time spent worrying about GC lag is, IMO, wasted compared to other more productive things. I haven't programmed anything mechanical in over 6 years. Basically, for your average developer, while I highly recommend learning the whole stack, I don't believe the notion that understanding the whole stack will actually lead to tangible improvements for programmers. They'd be better served focusing purely on theory (and by theory I mean algorithms).<p>As a side note: I hate hardware, but I love graph algorithms, which is why I love register coloring so much :)</p>
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<p>How will an AI decide what the optimal allocation of food for the hungry is, how many computers everyone needs, and whether we should build basketball courts or if it's just a waste of time?<p>Those are all value judgements, and capital allocation is a value judgement too. I don't think an AI can optimally make decisions like that without the input of people. And an economy based on the input of people is still a free market. Perhaps with an AI in control and personal input we could make a much more democratic market though, which would be interesting.</p>
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<p>The negative interest rates discourages holding money and encourages spending (and investment), which drives inflation. I do not believe negative interest rates destroy money, but I am not an expert. I cannot find any literature to prove or dispute that.</p>
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<p>Theoretically, if he has fiduciary duty, he has to act in the best interest of his clients. I'm not sure if he has that duty (I've googled but can't find anything) but if he did they could argue leaving money in cash is clearly not what's best for investors.</p>
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<p>Technically, you can have a lease of any length. I've seen 3 and 6 month leases. I'm sure it's possible to have a 24+ month lease.</p>
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<p>>And yet, proposition 13 is rarely cited as a significant contributor to California's housing issues, especially by the "this is simple supply and demand" crowd. Personally, while I suspect proposition 13 has contributed, there are lots of other factors, including foreign investment [4].<p>Really? Because I am vehemently anti prop 13, and I don't think you have to go far to find people that hate it too. So I'm not sure you can use that criticism against me. That's essentially a straw man.<p>> Less houses will be built, as less profit is being made.<p>This is more or less a factual statement, that if less profit is to be made by renting houses at least some portion of people will choose to invest in other things. Whether that portion is even noticeable, I don't know<p>>There were two other comments in this same subthread pointing out that people are in fact moving out of California. (One of them has been deleted.)<p>>It's almost as if f(california_net_migration) is multivariate.<p>If you want to have a serious conversation, being snarky isn't going to help. Regardless of net migration statistic, California is still growing in population. SF is still growing, and the state overall sees positive growth.</p>
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