<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: MichaelCollins</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MichaelCollins</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:14:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MichaelCollins" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just do yourself a favor and stick with using what already works.  Don't upgrade to the new shiny thing unless you already know the reasons why you want to.<p>Among all the other technical issues, Wayland devs have an attitude issue.  Users asked for fractional scaling for <i>years</i> and were faced with flat refusals and insulting quips from the wayland developers.  The only reason they've added it now is because Valve asked them for it.   Wayland devs think users are worms and corporations are gods.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33743271</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33743271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33743271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>People are safer on the street.</i><p>Only if you narrowly define 'people' to mean the tiny minority of people who are thieves, and exclude the overwhelming majority of people who aren't thieves.   Thieves are safer on the street but everybody else is safer with thieves off the street.   You've got your priorities skewed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:43:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739261</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Amazon isn't a pawn shop</i><p>Right, pawn shops are held to a higher standard.  They have a relationship with the local police and are made to keep records.   Amazon is a better fence than your average pawn shop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:37:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739221</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not necessarily a smoking gun; public libraries often give away old books they don't want to keep around anymore.   About a quarter of the books in my personal library are ex-library books, but none were stolen.<p>Of course if it's some popular in-demand book, it was almost certainly stolen.   Most of the free library books I've scored are 50 year old textbooks about obscure/obsolete topics.</p>
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<p>> <i>But surely Amazon is literally handling stolen goods?  Is there a smoking gun email?</i><p>If Amazon were a mom and pop fence, the local cops could bust them in a sting.  But Amazon is a huge megacorp, so even if the cops try to catch them in a sting nothing will stick because Amazon will claim their shear scale rendered them completely oblivious to everything and therefore not criminally culpable.<p>Yeah, it's bullshit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:30:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739177</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>cuts into your margins</i><p>It's not as though the thieves hire workers to do this for them.  It's something they can do themselves while tweaking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739165</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC’s Inquiry into FTX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Accurate maybe, but very imprecise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:19:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739126</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC’s Inquiry into FTX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Removing each other from committees is a far cry from kicking each other out of Congress.   That has only happened twice since the 19th century, and both times it came after a criminal conviction.   Merely being an absolute idiot isn't enough to get a 2/3rds vote to kick out a congressmen because that would be mutually assured destruction; they all know they're all absolute idiots so they don't expel each other out for that.<p>Also,<p>> <i>Both the House and the Senate make their own rules,</i><p>The rules for expelling congressmen are set in the US Constitution, they don't just make it up as they go.   Unless you're talking about their ability to amend the US Constitution, but that's even less likely than kicking these guys out the normal way.<p>The best way to get them kicked out would be to have them convicted for bribery/corruption, <i>then</i> you might get a 2/3rds vote to expel them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:15:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739111</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC’s Inquiry into FTX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This comment makes no sense in the context of America.  I guess you're from a country with some sort of Parliamentary system where governments are formed when a party is elected?<p>In America, parties aren't elected and don't form governments.  Accordingly, an American political party cannot kick out a congressman, much less replace one.   To remove a congressman requires a two third vote (from congress, not from a political party); this never happens in the modern era without a criminal conviction as the impetus.   And nether congress or a political party can simply bring in a new congressman; you'd need another election for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:10:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739088</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You know Singapore unabashedly beats the shit out of thieves, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739047</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>"The stores are insured bro, why do you care if people steal from them?  It's not your problem maaan."</i><p>This is why I care.  Criminals degrade society and we all suffer for their greed.</p>
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<p>Made a new account, huh?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:18:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33736346</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33736346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33736346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apparently Airbnb will delete any review that criticizes a property for something the property owner can't fix.    Loud traintracks with trains blasting by at 3am every morning?  That's not the property owner's fault, so that's a bad review.<p>As if reviews exist <i>only</i> to give constructive feedback to property owners, rather than to warn other renters away from a bad experience!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735918</link><dc:creator>MichaelCollins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelCollins in "Show HN: Speed up your site by running JavaScript when the browser is idle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who's 'we'?  The user, or the web dev?   Most javascript exists to scratch the itch of the webdev who made it, doing shit no user ever asked for.</p>
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<p>Every web dev seems to think that their site specifically is the reason everybody in the world bought a computer.</p>
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<p>> <i>Brits should realize this is not 1921.</i><p>Heh, well stated.  The sun set on the British empire a long time ago.   Expectations need to be adjusted accordingly.</p>
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<p>I'm saying Bankman-Fried has hurt a few orders of magnitude more people than Alex Jones, and allowing him to give interviews and flippantly defend himself is going to cause a lot of emotional trauma.</p>
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<p>> <i>I don't really understand the perspective your are saying.</i><p>He thinks that helping Ukraine defend themselves against a foreign invasion qualifies as "warmongering", obviously he's a Russia-aligned troll.  Don't waste too much time trying to unravel his thought processes.</p>
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<p>> <i>What is the definition of violence?</i><p>You've already conceded that words can hurt people (Alex Jones), so why are you trying to backpedal that now?</p>
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<p>I bet more than one corner shop worker had money in FTX.</p>
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