Hacker News: ThrowawayIP

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

ThrowawayIP — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:49:59 +0000

Okay, so say AI & MBAs are successful in replacing the labor spend of corporations on every level? What happens to "the economy"?

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton"

ThrowawayIP — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:33:22 +0000

You should read the CJR link. The "shared sense of identity and community" is being descendants of the victims of the slave trade and not the color of their skin.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration"

ThrowawayIP — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:02:34 +0000

Even with Tech Salaries, $1550/month is hugely damaging to your finances. I can't imagine trying to pay that on less than $15/hour.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Watch a 7k-LB Rivian R1T Destroy a Guardrail in Eyebrow-Raising Test"

ThrowawayIP — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:24:44 +0000

Kind of goes to show that the entire "I bought an SUV so that I feel safe" is a manufactured problem.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "The scam YouTube ads are getting better"

ThrowawayIP — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:41:26 +0000

I think that a good way to do this would be a triple-poison pill approach. Google et. al. are capable of policing the advertisements on it's platform, there is just not the business will to do it.

The triple poison pill approach: * Every user-report of a scam ad must be reviewed by an independent barred lawyer for a minimum of 15 minutes of actual time.

* If a person (institution, etc) with a public image is shown in the scam ad, they must be notified and should the advertiser and platform should share joint liability.

* If a person falls for a scam, they should have recourse against the platform and the advertiser.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "The scam YouTube ads are getting better"

ThrowawayIP — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:56:37 +0000

Why would Youtube care to police bad actors? They are taking this money directly to their quarterly revenue.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware"

ThrowawayIP — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:46:23 +0000

Honestly, that would be the much more dangerous attack to a company that must meet torque specs for safety. You can throw out a torque wrench, recalling already produced products on the other hand...

"We've hacked your torque wrenches since adoption & changed the torque values to deceive your Quality Control on random random bolts on random aircraft. Pay us ransom to tell you which fasteners on which products were changed or recall them all."

Re-torquing every bolt on an aircraft would be ungodly expensive.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Spotify's push into audiobooks sparks concern among authors"

ThrowawayIP — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:52:42 +0000

The push into audiobooks feels like the start of the ehshittification of Spotify Premium. With an artificial limit of 15 hours of listening, can we expect to have to start paying for specific albums or releases?

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2 party-line vote"

ThrowawayIP — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:07:47 +0000

My ISP absolutely was replacing ads with "Locally relevant content." I've got that email somewhere buried in my inbox.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Can You Trust Those Awards You See in Auto Ads? (2010)"

ThrowawayIP — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:58:14 +0000

You have to remember, you (the car buyer, employee, or shopper) aren't the target for these awards. These award companies market to mid-senior level VPs who have spending power and want to approach senior company leaders with a good story for their end-of-year review & bonus evaluation.

Nothing quite like the HR Director saying "Well under my leadership we were rated as one of the top 100 companies to work for!" But the awards company only has 100 spots available to consider, and you have to pay the awards company to evaluate you...

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "F1 Demands Las Vegas Venues Pay for a View of the Race"

ThrowawayIP — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:07:41 +0000

I hope it does help stop these disruptive events. F1 (and other sports orgs) come in and tout that they drive business for local businesses and city councils just lap it up.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Albanian gangs have set up their own CCTV networks to spy on cops"

ThrowawayIP — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:21:46 +0000

One wonders about the future when Gangs could be leveraging big data and machine learning to track police and predict where they will raid. "Predictive policing" indeed.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts"

ThrowawayIP — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:37:14 +0000

Non-Competes are absolutely sprung on employees and I am an example of that. The company I worked for was acquired and the 2 year non-competes were high-pressure "Sign it or you're fired" conversations. So I sit at the same desk, doing the same work, for the same compensation and can now not take another job with anyone doing work in my field.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022"

ThrowawayIP — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:00:07 +0000

I am too. My last energy bill was $39 for 174kWh for a house built in 1926. Considering that I pay ~$12 in grid connection fees, the payback period is functionally never.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "American EVs reduced gasoline consumption by just 0.54% in 2021"

ThrowawayIP — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:23:30 +0000

You are shifting the reduced amount of energy that your car consumes. So even with a coal-based grid, it is a net-positive. The MPGe rating is a great indication of this.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "That snapper might be 80 years old"

ThrowawayIP — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:38:23 +0000

And the vast vast majority of this farmland that could be used to raise human-edible crops is used to feed domesticated animals. While humans die of starvation.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "CPSC warns consumers to stop using male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon"

ThrowawayIP — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:24:11 +0000

Whoever green lit the decision to use a female NEMA plug plus a specific converter box should be banned from product design. It would have probably been fractional cents more expensive to use a male plug on the snow blower.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool"

ThrowawayIP — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:17:12 +0000

The Pool concept of horizon is very interesting. Libraries & Library Management are absolutely the worst part of EDA/E-CAD. I wonder where the Return on Invested time happens for this concept.

New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)"

ThrowawayIP — Mon, 02 May 2022 15:49:49 +0000

Umlaut Inc. | Multiple Positions | Detroit, Mi or Various or Remote | Full-time | https://www.umlaut.com

Umlaut is an engineering services and product development company. Primarily Automotive, Telecom, and Aerospace. Detroit location is primarily Automotive. Degrees are not required for several of these positions and we put a high priority on Portfolios/Github. We have heavily embraced a work from home policy to the point of shutting down an office in the Detroit area.

Associate Data Analyst | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Data Analyst | 5 Locations

Data Analytic Engineer | 2 Locations

Data Scientist | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Electrical Engineer - PCB Design | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Embedded Software Engineer | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Embedded Software Engineer - BLE | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Hardware QA Engineer | San Jose, California

Infotainment Test Engineer | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Product Manager - Automotive Connected Services Expert | 6 Locations

Senior C++ Developer Engineer | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Senior Consultant - Cybersecurity, eMobility | Remote

Senior Software Engineer - UX/HMI | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

Software Engineer | Greater Detroit Area, Michigan

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New comment by ThrowawayIP in "Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people"

ThrowawayIP — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:25:02 +0000

I'm sure your CEO got their bonus though, if not a premium on the bonus because they lead the company through such hard times.