Hacker News: alphawhisky

New comment by alphawhisky in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

alphawhisky — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:05:54 +0000

Rare and needed reminder in the big '26

New comment by alphawhisky in "Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it"

alphawhisky — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:33:20 +0000

You misspelled "self-corruption"

New comment by alphawhisky in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

alphawhisky — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:31:18 +0000

This was my thought on the issue as well. How does moving it to private companies benefit anyone except the companies (who can now legally price gouge)? This is a centralized service, and just like healthcare, the numbers show that integrity goes out the window once financialized.

New comment by alphawhisky in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

alphawhisky — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:30:54 +0000

Don't forget that beyond exposing your right to privacy from the government, this info is basically a sitting duck for bad actors outside of government, too. I wonder if these companies would be held accountable if the privacy stealing was from the other end. Probably not.

New comment by alphawhisky in "Van Halen test"

alphawhisky — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:04:15 +0000

He was a savant, It's not suprising that he was hyper-intelligent.

New comment by alphawhisky in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

alphawhisky — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:53:26 +0000

$1,550 a month for what? A three bedroom, 1.5 bath duplex with a garage maybe. For a flat though? Shoot me.

New comment by alphawhisky in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

alphawhisky — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:32:51 +0000

Speak with your money as much as you can.

New comment by alphawhisky in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

alphawhisky — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:29:31 +0000

Well, it is an El Nino year...

New comment by alphawhisky in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

alphawhisky — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:35:38 +0000

They're probably not looking on the first page of Google, for a start. We're at the sunset of the Information Age, that means that companies have bought all the info and are now manipulating it.

New comment by alphawhisky in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

alphawhisky — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:22:13 +0000

Nah I just wanna ragebait you. You have to respect someone to debate them.

New comment by alphawhisky in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

alphawhisky — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:15:12 +0000

Bernard, this may not be the best time. This market is gonna go nuclear...

New comment by alphawhisky in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

alphawhisky — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:29:02 +0000

Forgot the holy spirit, doofus. The God in you and me. The reason Jesus told us to love one another. You will never be righteous with such a shallow and disconnected interpretation of God's will.

New comment by alphawhisky in "Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?"

alphawhisky — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:25:24 +0000

Autoinvest diversely and don't sell. Minimize transactions. Never invest based on the news.

New comment by alphawhisky in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

alphawhisky — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:44:35 +0000

I think most people would argue that's just being a moral person. Jesus was a humanist, after all. I find that these days, the folks looking for community won't really build for others, and the folks looking to build for others are extremely hesitant to join a community. You tell me why and which group are better Christians.

New comment by alphawhisky in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

alphawhisky — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:26:35 +0000

Yeah, but what about Dr. Doofenschmirtz? He has a teenage daughter and manages to push the envelope in multiple fields of science.

New comment by alphawhisky in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

alphawhisky — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:57:28 +0000

Well, who else would you hire for the circus?

New comment by alphawhisky in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

alphawhisky — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:49:16 +0000

> Unrest will just harden the people who see your cause as unjust against it. That will be a strong majority of people, so will go no where.

I think you're wrong here. Most people are pretty fed up right now.

New comment by alphawhisky in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

alphawhisky — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:02:51 +0000

This article touches on the fact that old folks have much more money accumulated than younger people, and this causes a large social disconnect. Maybe if we put a cap on the age for voting (i.e. no voting once you retire) then older people would be incentivized to spend their wealth, time, and energy on young people in the hopes that they would carry the torch politically. Regardless, it's obvious by current inflation of assets that these folks don't mind pulling the ladder up if it benefits them, and something should be done about that.

New comment by alphawhisky in "Knitting bullshit"

alphawhisky — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:50:58 +0000

One of the real costs of the end game attention economy is that when your "car" crashes, noone is going to stop to help. When the market you engage in gets swallowed up, everyone will buy the swill that outcompetes you on perceived surface level value. Communities get fractured. Organizations that used to be community pillars (church) become self serving. All these things create a positive feedback loop of intellectual degradation.

New comment by alphawhisky in "Knitting bullshit"

alphawhisky — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:43:22 +0000

Their dialogue on "substituting truth and validity with a register of emotional validation" is pretty prevalent across the entirety of US culture right now. The first thing that comes to mind for me are Christian groups that do a lot of celebrating during services or events with absolutely no goodwill, volunteering, or donating at all. They're real good at making you feel righteous, but awful at actualizing it. Hate the hollowing out of traditions that used to make communities and people great.