Hacker News: PlasticTank

New comment by PlasticTank in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

PlasticTank — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:28:33 +0000

Let's say you're only allowed to write one more book for the rest of your life, what topic would you write about?

New comment by PlasticTank in "$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure"

PlasticTank — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:02:24 +0000

when the seconds count the police are only minutes away

New comment by PlasticTank in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

PlasticTank — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:55:31 +0000

My heart really goes out to those of you who went through long battles. Today would have been father’s birthday, sadly he passed away last year aged 61. I often anguished over how quickly he left us, two weeks from the day I found out he was sick to the day he died, I now realise that although I was robbed of time, he and I were both saved a lot of pain.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?"

PlasticTank — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 08:32:11 +0000

That seems like a strange line to draw, surely plenty of disabilities are genetic, implying bad genetics no?

New comment by PlasticTank in "Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China"

PlasticTank — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 08:26:11 +0000

I would like to see it your way but all of this so-called decoupling from China seems very half-arsed and appears to me to be nothing more than a show for the electorate. None of it seems very concrete, for years we’ve read that country X is going to hold China accountable for Y but China just keeps on steamrolling forwards without much consequence.

New comment by PlasticTank in "The Framework Laptop is now shipping"

PlasticTank — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:02:10 +0000

Another +1 for AMD from me, only reason I haven't bought one yet was I was hoping to get an AMD chip for my next laptop.

New comment by PlasticTank in "YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation"

PlasticTank — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:11:15 +0000

>Because Asian countries were basing their advice on science

Actually for the most part this isn't true, our government was also telling us to wear masks but because of our previous experience with SARS everyone wore them anyway. Now of course it is illegal not to wear one.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs"

PlasticTank — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 06:58:22 +0000

Maybe, just maybe you're the one of the opposite cliffs edge. But no, you'd never consider that.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Work on What Matters"

PlasticTank — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:16:54 +0000

Very true, it goes a long way to explaining the current state of news and politics.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII"

PlasticTank — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:51:22 +0000

Sure, it's not like the current lines of conflict haven't existed for hundreds of years or anything. This reductionist mentality is really starting wear thin.

New comment by PlasticTank in "We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)"

PlasticTank — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 04:01:22 +0000

Love this story, funnily enough it was the first story I ever read on HN on my first day of work as a junior developer.

New comment by PlasticTank in "TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong"

PlasticTank — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:44:15 +0000

Judging by some of the posts on HN in recent China related threads it seems we may have the attention of the infamous 50 cent armies.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Colleges rescinding admissions offers as racist social media posts emerge"

PlasticTank — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:01:07 +0000

Let's just ban people who think differently from education, that will surely be a great boon to the country... It doesn't matter if they grow out of it or not, who are you to decide who gets education and who doesn't, I thought education was believed to a be universal right.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Hong Kong internet firms ‘will have to comply’ with police requests"

PlasticTank — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:46:46 +0000

A similar vein of thought but much much broader. It Allows for the collection of content data by local law enforcement as opposed to the NSL "By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, for example, transactional records and phone numbers dialed, but never the content of telephone calls or e-mails."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

New comment by PlasticTank in "Hong Kong internet firms ‘will have to comply’ with police requests"

PlasticTank — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:54:28 +0000

For anyone not sure of the difference between this and most countries where companies have to comply with police requests, the big difference is that HK police no longer requires a warrant. HK Police may now demand data from companies such as Facebook without a warrant, it should be interesting to see how these companies handle it.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website"

PlasticTank — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:57:11 +0000

You don't need to compromise a site they visit regularly, there are plenty of other ways to get someone to visit a malicious page, phishing email or even a link on HackerNews for example. People will visit new sites for all kinds of reasons, you'd just need to understand your target.

New comment by PlasticTank in "GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”"

PlasticTank — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:35:04 +0000

They are hardly related. Will you be removing my master's degree next?

New comment by PlasticTank in "The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days"

PlasticTank — Tue, 19 May 2020 08:39:05 +0000

I believe sleep to be one of the most underrated and underutilized health strategies, I know so many who diet and do all sorts but then are proud of the fact they only sleep 6 hours a night. Study after study shows how incredibly deterementail even a slight lack of sleep can be, so much so that I usually don't believe I've read them correctly to begin with.

I would suggest this book to anyone interested in the topic: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker The author was on Joe Rogan at some point too but I haven't listened to it.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data"

PlasticTank — Thu, 14 May 2020 06:32:00 +0000

For two things to be equal is surely an impossibility, they would be one.

New comment by PlasticTank in "Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot"

PlasticTank — Thu, 07 May 2020 08:07:34 +0000

How long until you have to shutdown because it starts getting offensive like Tay?