Hacker News: RichardCNormos

New comment by RichardCNormos in "California’s Rap Lyrics Bill Becomes State Law"

RichardCNormos — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:22:34 +0000

We're not against rap, we're not against rappers, but we are against those thugs...

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Office vacancy rate in San Francisco just hit a new high"

RichardCNormos — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:00:29 +0000

Absolutely. Low-income housing is the perfect use for all this extra office space. San Francisco has a problem where the low-income people who work to serve high-income people can't afford to live in the city that they work in.

Converting office space into affordable housing is a win for everyone, except the landlords, but I won't shed a tear for them ;-)

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Jq Implementation of Jq"

RichardCNormos — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:55:50 +0000

jq as a project should be re-named. In white supremacist circles, "JQ" is an antisemitic dog whistle (it stands for "Jewish Question").

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)"

RichardCNormos — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:23:39 +0000

You only have to look as far as Canada to see this in action. Canada leveraged banks for political revenge this year: https://yesithappened.substack.com/p/canada-froze-bank-accou...

New comment by RichardCNormos in "UberEats Adds Weed Delivery to App in Toronto"

RichardCNormos — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:17:22 +0000

This isn't an innovation. My dealer did this in the '90s.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Washington Needs to Tax Empty Homes. and Its Cities Should, Too"

RichardCNormos — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:11:34 +0000

This emotional rationale is what enabled the Boomer generation's near-complete regulatory capture of the real estate market.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Washington Needs to Tax Empty Homes. and Its Cities Should, Too"

RichardCNormos — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:25:02 +0000

Permits to build, permits to remodel, taxes for simply existing year-over-year, taxes for having too few people living in the house... is there a limit to how far government will go to control what people can and cannot do with their own property?

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Kanye West to acquire free speech platform Parler"

RichardCNormos — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:57:11 +0000

If he'd said it about whites, nobody would care. It looks like Black Twitter is noticing, too.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "What happens when race is everything"

RichardCNormos — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 04:01:27 +0000

> "Stop turning public life into a brutal struggle of group against group."

Excuse me, NYT, but you were entirely complicit in, if not a driving force of, the recent racial enmity in the United States.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "CDC’s raw v-safe data obtained by ICAN"

RichardCNormos — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 03:57:33 +0000

In college, I had a pretty based statistics professor who said: "a skilled statistician can make the data tell whatever story his employers want". I chose not to pursue statistics as a career after that.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Cloak: Censorship Circumvention Tool"

RichardCNormos — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 13:55:42 +0000

The vast majority of censorship today happens server-side, not in the transport layer.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC"

RichardCNormos — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:22:40 +0000

Calling people "anti-science" is something of a canard, a trick of speech designed to belittle and demean anyone who questions the validity of current research.

I might add that "the science" was consistently wrong about many things during the pandemic.

Here is a collection of scientific gymnastics: https://yesithappened.substack.com/p/a-collection-of-insane-...

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related memory decline in mice"

RichardCNormos — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:14:48 +0000

I, too, keep my specifics in the pedantry.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "[dead]"

RichardCNormos — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 23:05:05 +0000

Cocaine addiction develops with a horrifying efficiency. Cocaine users are much more prone to violence than marijuana users. This is a bad idea.

Source: lived experience.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "“Women are wonderful” effect"

RichardCNormos — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:08:18 +0000

My ex-wife used to physically abuse me (hitting, throwing things). An attorney friend told me to leave the house whenever that happened, because if anyone called the cops (including me), the police would arrest me instead of her. It's called the "Duluth Model" of domestic violence enforcement.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "“Women are wonderful” effect"

RichardCNormos — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:06:04 +0000

What does it mean to be "well-behaved"?

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies"

RichardCNormos — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:01:46 +0000

The Pirate Bay has all the seasons. Even with the hassle of starting my VPN, downloading, making sure it's in the right format, dealing with subtitles (looking at you, Better Call Saul), piracy is a better experience than fragmented streaming.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "“I spend $600/mo taking women out for dinner”: Do men always have to pay?"

RichardCNormos — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:54:59 +0000

Before I got married, I would always offer my dates a gamble when the check came: both of us put our cards down, and the waiter chooses one behind their back. That person pays for dinner.

I've never had a date refuse, and in the long run, I came out ahead (better than 50/50). It's egalitarian, sporting, and adds some excitement to a failing date.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Elon Musk, Jason Calacanis on return-to-office mandates as ‘gentlemen’s layoff’"

RichardCNormos — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 18:25:04 +0000

This smells of "old, entrenched interests fighting against a disruptive innovation". Remote work is the future for the tech industry. Whether or not the current generation of leaders want to believe it is immaterial. We've proven that it works, and that many people prefer it.

- Someone who works remotely and will never live in an urban pod, or waste my time on a commute, ever again.

New comment by RichardCNormos in "Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year"

RichardCNormos — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 22:52:46 +0000

My city government here in California calls them "people who live outside".