Hacker News: acct1771

New comment by acct1771 in "Zero Rupee Note"

acct1771 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 23:32:24 +0000

Or scrape/API, at most.

New comment by acct1771 in "Zero Rupee Note"

acct1771 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 23:30:44 +0000

Interesting choice of adjective, haha

New comment by acct1771 in "TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces"

acct1771 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:21:57 +0000

Could it be that people there are simply more responsible/comfortable in life in many ways that US etc citizens are not?

New comment by acct1771 in "TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces"

acct1771 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:19:59 +0000

The people who have toddlers and don't use high shelves with no crawl-up access, or something to shove toward the shelf to crawl up to it, should be shot and killed by toddlers.

Say hello to Darwin for me.

New comment by acct1771 in "TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces"

acct1771 — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:30:33 +0000

I agree with this, and will add:

Not everyone will see every thread on a topic. Some may only see a TSA thread on HN once a month or quarter, if they're a light user.

The repetition is indicative of the community's feeling a topic is important. And that's what people come here for. To see what this community thinks is important.

New comment by acct1771 in "Photos of the Tiananmen Square Protests Through the Lens of a Student Witness"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 17:06:18 +0000

Nope.

But they'd disappear the dwindling people that still have the courage (in the face of almost certain death) who shared the story on WeChat etc shortly afterward.

New comment by acct1771 in "Household radar can sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even emotions"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:37:52 +0000

https://atap.google.com/soli/

New comment by acct1771 in "UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:45:00 +0000

I think if you post a reminder such as you did here, to be civil and in pursuit of understanding (instead of flames) on this topic, and perhaps of the intricacies that I mentioned, you'll end up trending the comments towards your desired range.

Thanks for caring, and discussing, sir.

New comment by acct1771 in "Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:41:14 +0000

We need to care about governance beforehand.

Tax laws are what you're looking to change.

New comment by acct1771 in "Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:38:50 +0000

See USA's FTC etc - we take our fair share of drive by fines, and change nothing afterwards.

Doubt it'll happen in this case...people want blood from Google or FB, and they're going to get it.

Other commenters had it right, though - ISPs, and lobbyists should be hanging next to them.

New comment by acct1771 in "U.S. DoD bought phony military gear made in China"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:30:39 +0000

I don't.

We don't, from what I've seen.

We've (the "community"?) have been trying to build/have built phones without baseband backdoors/hardware killswitches, chips without Intel Management Engine, etc.

Feel free to check out those threads if you've missed them.

This isn't about a specific case, by the way. This is the reality of the state of chip production.

New comment by acct1771 in "U.S. DoD bought phony military gear made in China"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 09:04:18 +0000

98%+ of us have no authority to speak on what microcode is doing on 98%+ of chips out there.

Please do not speak generally and authoritively.

New comment by acct1771 in "U.S. DoD bought phony military gear made in China"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 09:01:44 +0000

Happy to see this discussed on HN.

Please, please read this to get a better understanding for yourself: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp

New comment by acct1771 in "Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:48:01 +0000

Yeah, you are/were missing a lot, then.

See: Utah.

New comment by acct1771 in "Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:46:06 +0000

...just not by you.

New comment by acct1771 in "Google's PageRank patent has expired"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:44:34 +0000

They'd only care if money gained - PR lost == profit.

New comment by acct1771 in "Google's PageRank patent has expired"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:43:00 +0000

And Google had connections to which large organizations from their start that gave them competitive advantage in multiple areas?

New comment by acct1771 in "Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:39:43 +0000

Can you be more clear about the specifics?

I don't like the general tone, but agree with the sentiment, and it seems tough to share without addressing the user personally, but was that it?

New comment by acct1771 in "Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google"

acct1771 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:32:33 +0000

Source is probably controversial, but I'm interested in refutations: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

New comment by acct1771 in "UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end"

acct1771 — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:02:13 +0000

This is a direct result of the disinformation regarding this story by both supporters and detractors of Assange.

Details are repeatedly argued because low-info headlines kept being released by media conglomerates, and, even the readers here have relied on those.