<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: SamReidHughes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SamReidHughes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:43:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=SamReidHughes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Apple announces largest-ever $110B share buyback as iPhone sales drop 10%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Long term, buybacks aren't about supply/demand -- they increase a share's percentage ownership of the business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 03:02:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40243601</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40243601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40243601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Philly cheesesteak sellers in other locations often advertise they use real Amoroso rolls shipped from Philadelphia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980869</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Talent Density at Coinbase"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They seem to mean talent density in the sense of the amount of talent per person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 06:38:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300294</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Singapore obviously had a lot of differences, particularly the PM's past close relationship with the unions, and the early stage of development making it more rational for workers to ride the common prosperity of high economic growth rates instead of squeezing more percentage points in negotiation.<p>But Sweden can still outlaw selective parts unloading by dockworkers, forcing an all-or-nothing strike, if it wanted to, and enforce such laws.<p>And I don't know why you'd call Singapore parasitic; they weren't leeching off anybody, other than the British early on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 01:23:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38147046</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38147046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38147046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From his memoirs "The Singapore Story", Chapter 6, "Winning Over the Unions", on the ports:<p>> Recounting Britain's prodigal years of crippling dock strikes which led to the devaluation of the pound sterling in 1967, I warned, "If that happens here at our harbour I will declare this high treason. I will move against the strike leaders. Charges will be brought in court later. I will get the port going straight away. The Singapore dollar will never be devalued and I think the people of Singapore expect this of their government." I spotlighted the "selfishness of established labour." Cargo handled by the Port of Singapore Authority in 1967 increased by winning over the unions over 10 percent, but the number of workers employed did not go up because the extra work was all taken up by overtime. This was immoral at a time of high unemployment. I told the union delegates that we must rid ourselves of pernicious British-style trade union practices.<p>A very interesting book; of course, it's his side of the story.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:56:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146883</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Channel their inner LKY and deal with it the way he did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:28:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146709</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Whatever Happened to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For computers, it's surely that common office keyboards have changed from awful squishy keys to units that are more chiclet-like, or even if not, still have a better key action for a rubber dome keyboard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:11:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38122356</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38122356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38122356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The thing is, by the time you get to this book, most students have probably taken DiffEq or multivariable calculus, and had exposure to linear algebra there.  (If not in high school.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:58:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38063259</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38063259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38063259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They want eBay to enforce the law on merchants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:04:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835373</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They want to further outsource law enforcement to a due-process-free zone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835158</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Argentina's Senate approves bill to eliminate income tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything you're talking about has nothing to do with federal taxation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:52:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825947</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No.  Their presumed nukes are more useful as a deterrent against more capable enemies that might develop their own nukes.  And they'd immediately become an absolute pariah state.  That would damage them in every way.</p>
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<p>So, actually, 47% of them by dollar amount, according to the report you quoted. 
 Selectively quoted.  Why do you behave this way?<p>Here's a question for you to think about:  Why do they reverse some claims but not others?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:53:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37489041</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37489041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37489041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Streamer in Japan Gets 2yrs Jail Time for Uploading Let’s Plays, Anime Spoilers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not an author or artist or creator of any kind, but if some guy made a bunch of "plot summary" videos of my work, I'd want him hunted down and sentenced to hard labor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:47:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37488957</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37488957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37488957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Transactions where you got scammed aren't the same thing as unauthorized transactions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487409</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "Streamer in Japan Gets 2yrs Jail Time for Uploading Let’s Plays, Anime Spoilers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He undid all the hard work that the visual novel creators put in and undermined the creative industry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:51:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473521</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Truthfully I don't think this is an issue the federal government is in a position to solve any time soon. The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supply of housing,<p>Federally they can do an immigration moratorium.  Immigration-driven population increase is clearly making quality of life worse for Canadians.</p>
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<p>An enterprise that "strains the grid" still has to pay for that electricity, so it's not some perverse incentive at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:31:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37429743</link><dc:creator>SamReidHughes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37429743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37429743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SamReidHughes in "The missing C++ smart pointer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've seen this sort of pointer (assuming the author means it's nullable) be called "clone_ptr<T>" but it called T's clone() method.  Because T might be a base class, invoking the pointee's copy constructor in C++ is not a great idea.</p>
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<p>It's not prosecuted murders.  The baseline stats aren't built on that number, they're built on the race of the perp when known.</p>
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