Hacker News: alacombe

New comment by alacombe in "Why not to sign the anti-Stallman petition on GitHub"

alacombe — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:39:49 +0000

> There's zero reason to defend Stallman

As much as I hate the man, I do.

New comment by alacombe in "French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights"

alacombe — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 23:40:58 +0000

> ... and has been since the French revolution

Even before.

> ... his directly ties into the idea of the state as an institution in French culture in a lot of subtle ways aswell.

Especially in the parisian elites disdain toward pretty much anybody else in the country.

ps: exiled french/parisian speaking.

New comment by alacombe in "French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights"

alacombe — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 23:35:55 +0000

Calgary/Edmonton seem to get about 2x as much snow as Bergen (~48" vs ~24"). Also, temperature fall much lower in Alberta than in Norway...

New comment by alacombe in "Exercise elicits superior metabolic effects in the afternoon compared to morning [pdf]"

alacombe — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 05:03:35 +0000

> Is this really true and known empirically? Could the body be better at accessing calories in some foods and not others?

Of course, 2000cal worth of HFCS is gonna have a different biological impact than 2000 cal worth of kale. CICO is a gross over-simplification.

New comment by alacombe in "Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site"

alacombe — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:51:32 +0000

> Goes to show that no one really wants "free speech".

Especially not on HN, where the SV/SJW group think prevail.

Argument I often get is "you are free to voice your opinions and we are free to massively downvote you", well, same happened with 9/11, the US elites have been cunts to the whole world (including to "The People" and still are), they are totally free to be, by then 9/11 came as a big slap in Wall Street America face, maybe they deserved it...

New comment by alacombe in "Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site"

alacombe — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:30:04 +0000

> My employer can fire me for severe misconduct that occurs away from the office.

I'm certain it would be considered wrongful dismissal in many jurisdiction.

New comment by alacombe in "Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site"

alacombe — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:28:59 +0000

> They are still subject to regulation

Not according to Section 230.

New comment by alacombe in "Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site"

alacombe — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:26:32 +0000

> Your 2nd source links to Hasan saying "America deserved 9/11".

Maybe it did.

New comment by alacombe in "Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site"

alacombe — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:24:24 +0000

Be careful, it's almost as if Twitch was to qualify as a "common carrier"...

New comment by alacombe in "I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list"

alacombe — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:17:47 +0000

Did you hear of the concept of "due process" ?

New comment by alacombe in "‘Raise my taxes – now ’: the millionaires who want to give it all away"

alacombe — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 18:26:42 +0000

Amen, bro.

I will also state that there isn't much difference between Mafia/Organised crime/Goverments, and Sects/Religions.

New comment by alacombe in "‘Raise my taxes – now ’: the millionaires who want to give it all away"

alacombe — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:59:35 +0000

Taxation is theft, coerced by the threat of violence.

New comment by alacombe in "‘Raise my taxes – now ’: the millionaires who want to give it all away"

alacombe — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:56:36 +0000

Argument can be made she never had to work and never actually made any money, other than inheriting the work of her grandfather Roy O. Disney.

She is as privileged and self-entitled as can be.

New comment by alacombe in "‘Raise my taxes – now ’: the millionaires who want to give it all away"

alacombe — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:54:35 +0000

Budgets can't be planned at all when there is no more "{m,b,t}illionaires" to steal from either.

New comment by alacombe in "‘Raise my taxes – now ’: the millionaires who want to give it all away"

alacombe — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:53:44 +0000

Or this is just virtue signalling.

New comment by alacombe in "‘Raise my taxes – now ’: the millionaires who want to give it all away"

alacombe — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:52:46 +0000

The beauty is that they can give their millions WILLINGLY and LEGALLY to the IRS. No need from coercion... unless this is all virtue signalling.

New comment by alacombe in "Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months"

alacombe — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:27:01 +0000

According to https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu..., there has been pretty much no flu season this year compared to ~any other year (which in itself is highly suspect).

Last week of January reported 55 vs 23,972 on average any other season.

New comment by alacombe in "Ex-Google CEO urges US to ignore calls to ban autonomous weapons"

alacombe — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:15:40 +0000

This is DHS being paranoid and inventing scenario to justify their paycheck.

New comment by alacombe in "Ex-Google CEO urges US to ignore calls to ban autonomous weapons"

alacombe — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:29:13 +0000

If that's so easy, why hasn't been done yet.

New comment by alacombe in "FreeBSD Core Team Statement on FreeBSD Development Processes"

alacombe — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:55:38 +0000

This is standard behavior.

When someone publish a +10kloc patch in an area maybe 1 or 2 other developers are competent in, nobody's gonna read it in details. Heck, I probably couldn't even review my code from 1 year ago without lots of metadata/comments attached to it.