Hacker News: WheatM

New comment by WheatM in "China mortgage boycott data erased by censors as crisis spreads"

WheatM — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:50:29 +0000

30 year mortgage are normal in New Zealand and Australia, as well as the UK and at least some parts of Europe.

New comment by WheatM in "Webcams aren't good enough"

WheatM — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:35:52 +0000

Imagine the mind blowing privilege of not just having a separate home office, but having being able to design it to yoru exact specifications with a window facing north, and telling people to "just add windows". Some people on here are so out of touch.

New comment by WheatM in "We’re winding down Google Talk"

WheatM — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:37:52 +0000

You're overstating the importance of Apple outside of the USA. No one I know uses Apple Messages.

New comment by WheatM in "Crypto Industry Eclipses Defense, Big Pharma in US Political Giving"

WheatM — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 19:18:19 +0000

I really don't understand why there is so much money in American politics. The numbers absolutely floor me, tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. Other countries have campaign financing and spending limits for very good reasons, but Americans seem to be totally fine with elections being financed by special interests??

New comment by WheatM in "World’s largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City"

WheatM — Sat, 21 May 2022 06:06:52 +0000

Good luck with your strawberry tree

New comment by WheatM in "CEO demanded all employees return full-time to the office. Only half showed up"

WheatM — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:50:57 +0000

God this is such an insufferable post from someone who simply refuses to believe that they can be wrong.

New comment by WheatM in "Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4"

WheatM — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 23:00:50 +0000

If anyone books a 5pm meeting with me, home or not, it's getting declined.

New comment by WheatM in "Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage"

WheatM — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:26:52 +0000

Air tools defintely don't have more torque than electric tools, they rely on speed to overcome their shortcomings in torque. The main high torque application in air tools is in impact wrenches, which use very fast hammering action. Modern battery impact wrenches can match the performance of the best air wrenches.

New comment by WheatM in "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories"

WheatM — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:19:28 +0000

So obnoxious. "Hey, I really like this entry level bike!". Typical HN response: "no you don't, it's trash. And if you do it's because you're trash."