Hacker News: Thinkx220

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Kagi Teams"

Thinkx220 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:10:57 +0000

Couldn't care less.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Kagi Teams"

Thinkx220 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:33:34 +0000

It's all about who you think is more likely to put you in a van. If you are an American it probably won't be the FSB. Different countries will vary on this decision.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Kagi Teams"

Thinkx220 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:17:11 +0000

It's a non issue if you don't live in Russia. Also not a coin flip. If you are outside of Russia using Russian based services is objectively better.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect"

Thinkx220 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:43:23 +0000

We could easily restrict them from selling in the US

New comment by Thinkx220 in "FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect"

Thinkx220 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:42:53 +0000

You could easily ban foreign products from being sold on US web platforms. We have done it to a limited degree many times.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect"

Thinkx220 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:22:38 +0000

Why should a foreign marketplace get the same benefit of the doubt as a domestic market? Especially if those foreign markets belong to countries that are hostile to mine?

New comment by Thinkx220 in "FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect"

Thinkx220 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:21:06 +0000

Classic Hacker News to complain about the market abusing the public's trust but when someone suggests a government make a change that benefits their own constituents over other countries it's down voted.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

Thinkx220 — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 22:36:39 +0000

Literally the entire reason these products exist is to be a replacement for meat. A replacement should be as good as the thing it is replacing.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system"

Thinkx220 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:09:37 +0000

By lowering taxes and deregulating the economy.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products"

Thinkx220 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:09:49 +0000

Maturity is different than intelligence.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products"

Thinkx220 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:27:48 +0000

It's comments like this that convince me most programmers are arogant douchebags. Just because someone has a weird idea about an event that had almost no direct affect on the general population doesn't mean we should remove those peoples ability to have a choice in matters which will effect them.

Knowing more than someone else does not make you morally superior or give you more of a right to have a say in your own fate.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time"

Thinkx220 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:19:47 +0000

No it doesn't. Literally nobody would have to change anything.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

Thinkx220 — Fri, 29 May 2020 18:02:16 +0000

Or the other more logical reason being that free speech platforms are typically only clones of more poput platforms which don't offer any more features or increase ease of use.

I think it's completely possible for a popular pro free speech platform to exist provided it is able to be more user friendly or have some other killer feature.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

Thinkx220 — Fri, 29 May 2020 17:52:18 +0000

Unfortunately, both you, the media, and the looters keep forgetting the events are, as you said, history.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "[dead]"

Thinkx220 — Thu, 14 May 2020 02:16:25 +0000

Terraria: Otherworld was a planned spinnoff version of Relogic's main game Terraria which never came to fruition. Redigit, the president of Relogic, has stated that if he can get 100,000 signatures, he will open-source the game.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Music for Programming (2011)"

Thinkx220 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:52:25 +0000

You're not the only one. I'm this way too. However, I can listen to music while doing system admin stuff but for anything else I need absolute silence.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "The world’s climate goals are not sufficient. They are also unlikely to be met"

Thinkx220 — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:41:42 +0000

I am curious as to why you are willing to accept the scientific consensus on climate change while denying the historical consensus that communism absolutely lead to the death of millions. Seems like you are picking and choosing to fit your narrative.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)"

Thinkx220 — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 23:45:29 +0000

Another question I have is can these people describe objects?

New comment by Thinkx220 in "Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?"

Thinkx220 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:29:45 +0000

That's interesting because I frequently add Reddit to the end of my searches. Particularly when it's a niche topic and increasingly for regular topics. Apparently a lot of other people who are fed up with search engines had the same idea. It's a very unfortunate development but nowadays Google search is almost unusable for some topics.

New comment by Thinkx220 in "A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)"

Thinkx220 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:21:14 +0000

When I take notes I take them with a laptop precisely because of the increased speed it provides. Usually I find that note taking in general is actually counter productive because it diverts my attention away from the lecture. As a result I want the note taking process to have a low cognitive burden so I don't miss what my instructor is saying.

I usually use Emacs Org-mode for my note taking and then refactor my notes once class is over.