Hacker News: Simon_says

New comment by Simon_says in "Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apartment"

Simon_says — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 23:34:12 +0000

An apartment with 50 applicants is underpriced.

New comment by Simon_says in "Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do"

Simon_says — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 07:03:23 +0000

Small price to pay for the truth.

New comment by Simon_says in "Passwordle"

Simon_says — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:44:12 +0000

The length of the password is 14.

  function randomPassword() {
    let letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
    let digits = '0123456789';
    let punctuation = '!"#$%&\'()\*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~';
    let s = letters.repeat(7) + digits.repeat(4) + punctuation.repeat(3);
    let length = 14;
    let res = Array.from({length}, (() => s[randomInt(s.length)])).join('');
    debugger; // どうぞ
    return res;
  }

New comment by Simon_says in "Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now"

Simon_says — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:09:07 +0000

Wow, I've never even considered tipping at Starbucks.

New comment by Simon_says in "U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient"

Simon_says — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:47:14 +0000

> we can easily live on plants alone.

This has only been true for about the past 50 years, when vitamin B12 was synthesized. There's no plant source for the vitamin. And I'm not even sure the vegans call a vegan diet "easy".

New comment by Simon_says in "U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient"

Simon_says — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:29:26 +0000

> treasure of flavor.

Heck yea, it is!

New comment by Simon_says in "John Madden has died"

Simon_says — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 04:15:50 +0000

>> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

And yet here we are.

New comment by Simon_says in "New York City bans natural gas in new buildings"

Simon_says — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 09:43:04 +0000

People will die either way.

New comment by Simon_says in "I resigned from Twitter"

Simon_says — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:43:56 +0000

Me too, Jack, me too.

New comment by Simon_says in "Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers"

Simon_says — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:49:31 +0000

"beg the question" does not have a literal meaning. It makes no sense unless you're so used to hearing it used that way.

New comment by Simon_says in "Apollo 68080 – Motorola 680x0 High Performance Processor in FPGA"

Simon_says — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 04:27:00 +0000

Tgg there too much

New comment by Simon_says in "Allegations against Aubrey de Grey"

Simon_says — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:56:32 +0000

Ycombinator is not in the UK.

New comment by Simon_says in "Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar"

Simon_says — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:42:44 +0000

It sure confused me.

New comment by Simon_says in "Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor"

Simon_says — Sat, 22 May 2021 14:02:27 +0000

No, fast food is actually just disgusting lab-made pseudo-food, if you’re accustomed to fresh, whole, real food.

I loved fast food growing up, but after a couple year stint eating only fresh foods, I went back and literally couldn’t stomach it anymore. It tastes good going down. (At the time) I had no conditioning or preconceived beliefs that it was disgusting, but within an hour my stomach felt queasy and I threw it up. After half a dozen times experiencing that, I gave up on fast food entirely.

New comment by Simon_says in "Marbles (2016)"

Simon_says — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:43:13 +0000

I imagine he's referring to the Doomsday Argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument). It's popular in certain circles but controversial.

New comment by Simon_says in "Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook"

Simon_says — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:14:24 +0000

HIPAA only applies to healthcare providers and a couple related industries. Facebook is not there (yet).

New comment by Simon_says in "Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis"

Simon_says — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 09:32:02 +0000

> taxi driving attracts a certain type

Or the stress of driving a taxi drives people insane.

New comment by Simon_says in "Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser"

Simon_says — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:19:22 +0000

Sounds like an idea for a Firefox addon.

New comment by Simon_says in "2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]"

Simon_says — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:44:50 +0000

If you give Alphabet money directly, you’re just encouraging them.

New comment by Simon_says in "Larry King has died"

Simon_says — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 13:47:12 +0000

Lotta that goin' around.