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New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history"

TearsInTheRain — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:35:35 +0000

If you want easy access to wild pigs just move to Texas lol, they have a real problem with them

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI"

TearsInTheRain — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 13:24:30 +0000

Are there special circumstances with the openAI board? For a normal company the board is supposed to represent the interests of investors. If investors ask for him back the board should comply. Who's interests are the OpenAI board representing?

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“"

TearsInTheRain — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:58:45 +0000

sell the same plot of forest to n number of people. Send everyone the same pic of the forest they "saved"

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say"

TearsInTheRain — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:10:37 +0000

Do you think a stargate is easier to figure out than redirecting an asteroid?

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft"

TearsInTheRain — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 23:55:00 +0000

CEOs at his level dont just leave on a whim. They have multi year transition plans.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie"

TearsInTheRain — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:55:27 +0000

Do you personally know how much your employer pays in tax to employ you? I bet most people dont have any idea. I just had to look it up myself. I would never know if the rate changed provided I didnt read about it in the paper.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie"

TearsInTheRain — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:50:32 +0000

I doubt they would... Its not going to make someone more likely to buy their product just because they know how much is going to tax.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent"

TearsInTheRain — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:09:53 +0000

Musk is defaulting, student loan forgiveness is the taxpayer picking up the tab. A better question would be if those people think students should be able to default on their loans.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates"

TearsInTheRain — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:28:02 +0000

"In addition, there is a problem specific to medical practices - you can't just hand them over to your kid!"

- Doctors partner with the person that will take over their practice for years before retiring. PE is destroying this system and the latest crop of doctors will lose out on mentorship and the opportunity to run a practice. Everything will become big corporate offices and everyone will suffer

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April"

TearsInTheRain — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:53:48 +0000

What is the US interest in accepting more countries into NATO? Just to solidify its hegemony?

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

TearsInTheRain — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:56:19 +0000

So your opinion seems to be that investigations can never be political? Keep in mind that Trump is being indicted for a misdemeanor that they are contorting into a felony to avoid statute of limitations issue. I think everyone has to make up their own mind when an investigation is political and imho this one is comically so. So much so that i really struggle to see how any one can in good faith claim otherwise

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

TearsInTheRain — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 05:45:31 +0000

8 years of investigations, two special prosecutor, two impeachments 3-4 non federal investigations all for different crimes... its almost comical to list all of that out and still have people think this isnt purely political.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Ask HN: Do you think this is the start of the new financial crisis?"

TearsInTheRain — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:55:15 +0000

But also bank failures are disinflationary so is the bailout negating the rate hikes or just negating the new regime of tighter lending standards by banks? I dont think anyone has a solid answer to that question

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says"

TearsInTheRain — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:12:14 +0000

Totally agree. That should be and has to some extent been made public. The China portion of the story is a complete mystery.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says"

TearsInTheRain — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:10:56 +0000

I strongly disagree that they are not doing anything special. They are literally going out into remote bat caves and harvesting coronaviruses and bringing them into large population centers to study.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says"

TearsInTheRain — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:55:43 +0000

If China is engaged in a behavior that lead to a global pandemic, we have to know everything about what they were doing so that we can stop this from ever happening again. Who gives a crap about thawed relations after the extraordinary amount of damage this pandemic has done to the world

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment [pdf]"

TearsInTheRain — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:04:53 +0000

intent matter for a lot of crimes across the board

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce"

TearsInTheRain — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:26:02 +0000

why is that a good thing?

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "NYC to require salary ranges be included in job postings"

TearsInTheRain — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:00:20 +0000

And you can of course bring it up early on in your calls with the company as well.

New comment by TearsInTheRain in "Will I Ever See the $36MM Oberlin College Owes Me?"

TearsInTheRain — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:40:47 +0000

You can take out federally backed student loans at Oberlin...