Hacker News: acali

New comment by acali in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

acali — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 15:30:07 +0000

Keffals openly admits and is proud of their connection to providing children with hormones-blockers outside the supervision of parents. The police need to be involved in all of this

New comment by acali in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

acali — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 15:03:33 +0000

That post was deleted within minutes. The user was banned. Do we also need word filters to prevent the post from even appearing client side?

New comment by acali in "Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots"

acali — Fri, 22 May 2020 05:28:13 +0000

From Bot Sentinel's About Section:

"Instead of creating a model based on our interpretation of a troll or bot, we used Twitter rules as a guide when selecting Twitter accounts to train our model. We searched for accounts that were repeatedly violating Twitter rules and we trained our model to identify accounts similar to the accounts we identified as “trollbots.”"

That's not a bot.

New comment by acali in "US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)"

acali — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:55:52 +0000

Who earns $1B as income? I seriously don't think that is a thing. The big earning usually happens when companies or stock gets sold. And yes, it would hurt incentive and takes away funding from capital investment.

New comment by acali in "US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)"

acali — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:50:58 +0000

Same with campaign funding laws. I'd rather there be almost no laws but full transparency. How do you measure the funding impact of constant press coverage?

New comment by acali in "US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)"

acali — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:46:36 +0000

Just because a property is unoccupied or unused doesn't mean it isn't owned by someone. You are still suggesting theft of private property. Just because a majority of people vote for something doesn't mean it is morally good. I think taxes are theft and immoral but I accept them because of what I believe about human nature.

New comment by acali in "US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)"

acali — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:41:12 +0000

So remove the incentive to earn above a certain threshold?

New comment by acali in "US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)"

acali — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:34:52 +0000

Who decides from where, to whom, and how much, "redistribution" will take place? When does the marginalized group get enough support that the balance shifts and they are no longer marginalized?

New comment by acali in "US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)"

acali — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:31:34 +0000

I think it has much more to do with population. Sweden, Norway, Denmark all have populations less than 10M. Size of government, including tax rates, I would argue, factor more into a country's overall cultural profile which taken as a whole likely correlates with inequality.

New comment by acali in "New documents link Huawei to suspected front companies in Iran, Syria"

acali — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:50:36 +0000

The quotes are by individuals associated with the organizations, it doesn't appear to be the official position of the think-tanks. I think it is unfair to call the Brookings Institute a "right-wing pay-to-play lobbying group" but you are just sourcing from a left-leaning activist group.

New comment by acali in "Firing Frankness"

acali — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:03:07 +0000

Always keep in mind that HR is there to manage the company's "human resources"; they are not looking out for your best interest. They are acting on behalf of the company.

New comment by acali in "Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborns until agreeing to sterilization"

acali — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:58:32 +0000

Just FYI, this figure that gets used comes from the high end of a range that is estimated from 20 million to 100 million for a population of North America around 1500. The estimate for Europe is around 50 million to 60 million. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-claim-that-100-000-000-native-A...

New comment by acali in "Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborns until agreeing to sterilization"

acali — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:50:58 +0000

This might be putting the cart before the horse but is it easier to implement these kinds of policies when they are mandated by a central authority? I'm thinking about nationalized healthcare here. This is the type of banal evil that the free market can stand against. The moment the word gets out about the practice that isn't forcing sterilization, I'd imagine they'd go there if the option was available.

New comment by acali in "Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem"

acali — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:40:50 +0000

change "wiki" to "message-board" and "mainly" to "originally" and it becomes accurate. It came from the /sci/ board on 4chan.

New comment by acali in "Terry Davis has died"

acali — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:16:25 +0000

Terry Davis' legacy will be remembered by a lot of different communities. I found him through a YT video that focused on his controversial side but was pretty inspired by his projects. All I can say is he touched a lot of different people and his legacy/infamy is vast.

New comment by acali in "Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely"

acali — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:41:26 +0000

Does anyone else get the sense while some people will claim they desire more social interactions, the're also very quick to judge each action, looking for indications of in-authenticity or hints that they're dealing with someone nefarious.

New comment by acali in "CS50, Harvard’s Largest Class Expands Its Line Up of Courses"

acali — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 20:00:57 +0000

EDx

New comment by acali in "CS50, Harvard’s Largest Class Expands Its Line Up of Courses"

acali — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:33:59 +0000

I'm five years out of graduating university with a B.S. in Sociology. At some point in that time I realized my love for CS and design-thinking. I decided to try and make a career change. Last month I completed CS50 and should be receiving my certificate soon. I'm also now looking at degree/cert programs to continue my education.

The amount that one can learn from this course is incredible and it really sets you up to continue learning. I also just started the intro to game development today.

New comment by acali in "Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person"

acali — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:02:44 +0000

In the last paragraph:

> It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops. They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes. They will shoot you in the back for walking away.

It appears his main point is to say because these Baltimore cops have been accused, all cops are guilty.

New comment by acali in "Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes"

acali — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:10:16 +0000

What about Walmart also increasing their hourly pay? [0]

[0] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/walmart-to-boost-starting-wa...