Hacker News: anm89

New comment by anm89 in "Ask HN: Can qubits be written to crystals as diffraction patterns?"

anm89 — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 21:37:43 +0000

New comment by anm89 in "Retaliation from military claimed after questioning cushy IT contracts"

anm89 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:36:01 +0000

If this surprises you you are not well informed.

Why people aren't outraged by stuff like this I have absolutely no idea.

New comment by anm89 in "Give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade"

anm89 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:58:14 +0000

completely agree. I'm not going to raise a stink if a project uses something other than master but I will continue to use master.

New comment by anm89 in "Give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade"

anm89 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:56:42 +0000

I like this article but this is actually a good point. "The rich" is mostly used in a negative way.

I'd argue this is because most attempts to reduce large groups of people to an idea like "the rich" or "the poor" are done in bad faith.

A support of this would be, within academic sociology or economics these terms will be used in a non slur way and it's because they actually have a reason to be thinking in terms of these groups instead of throwing them out as stawmen for some argument

New comment by anm89 in "Give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade"

anm89 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:51:51 +0000

This article is half a year old, just for reference.

New comment by anm89 in "Give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade"

anm89 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:48:53 +0000

The entire top level point of the article, the part that is literally the focus of the title, is a recommendation not to call groups by names they don't like.

Did you read the article? Or did you read the first two paragaphs and decide it was wrong thought and go to yell to the internet?

New comment by anm89 in "Japan to create ¥1T fund to develop outer space industry"

anm89 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 20:06:46 +0000

There is not "about a hundred yen per usd".

Awesome how almost every time I see almost anything asserted on HN within my areas of expertise it will reliably be dramatically incorrect.

USD/YEN > 150

New comment by anm89 in "Who falls for fake news? Psychological and clinical profiling evidence"

anm89 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 04:21:13 +0000

You are just encouraging fake news. Please don't ask people to substantiate anecdotes. It's better to just accept the narrative if it fits the consensus.

This obsession with "proof" and "data" is anti scientific.

New comment by anm89 in "Who falls for fake news? Psychological and clinical profiling evidence"

anm89 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 04:19:14 +0000

Imagine being simple enough to buy this narrative wholesale.

There's one objectively correct version of understanding the world and the important idea is to camp people into binary groups of "believes correct news" or "believes fake news"

New comment by anm89 in "YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet"

anm89 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:29:03 +0000

The google shills are out in force in this thread

New comment by anm89 in "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA"

anm89 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:13:30 +0000

This shit really pisses me off because my brother did 23 and me which pretty much means my data is in there without consent.

New comment by anm89 in "30% of Americans have faced health data breaches this year"

anm89 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:59:14 +0000

Serious fucking idiocy

New comment by anm89 in "Downtown San Francisco Luxury Apartment Tower Loses Half Its Value"

anm89 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:02:32 +0000

good to see a single person in this thread understanding the problem in a sea of the willfully ignorant

New comment by anm89 in "Downtown San Francisco Luxury Apartment Tower Loses Half Its Value"

anm89 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:01:55 +0000

There is just nothing about this statement that is profound

New comment by anm89 in "Downtown San Francisco Luxury Apartment Tower Loses Half Its Value"

anm89 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:00:18 +0000

"so unsure what makes it ill-conceived"

The headline of the article is that it has lost 50% of it's value. During that same multi year period we have had well over 10% inflation.

So Maybe that part. Yeah I'm gonna go with that part.

Or maybe the investors just hate money and were going for -60% ROI. Who knows.

New comment by anm89 in "Realtors Face an Antitrust Reckoning"

anm89 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:46:16 +0000

Realtors And especially real estate brokers, have ripped apart our society with cartel like tactics so they can grab a few percent on each bit of the destruction.

I hope the book is thrown at them as harshly as possible.

Claw back those earnings and put it into funds to clean up the mess that has been made

New comment by anm89 in "Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk"

anm89 — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:35:21 +0000

Also probably spend more time outdoors/hiking

New comment by anm89 in "Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher"

anm89 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:37:40 +0000

Ironically, believing he is above using available transportation and above listening to bosses is the luxury belief here.

New comment by anm89 in "A suicide crisis among veterinarians"

anm89 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 05:29:57 +0000

You seem to think people are going to cower in fear at giving the socially unacceptable(to a specific kind of person) answer here.

Yes obviously people should not buy things they can't afford. If that means you can't have a pet or a 90k pickup truck, or the shoes you want or whatever then so be it.

Totally bizarre that you see this as some sort of gotcha to phrase it this way

New comment by anm89 in "USA paying more interest on its $33T debt than on defense – who holds the IOUs"

anm89 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:35:35 +0000

Absolutely f**ing rubbish. No. This is dead wrong. You are speaking authoratively but you don't know what you are talking about.

There is nothing inherently superior about debt/gdp. It is one good metric for tracking debt but is in no way the one true metric or intrinsically superior to other debt metrics and importantly it cannot give you a reasonably complete picture of the fiscal situation of a country because it is lacking the key component of incorporating rates and flows.

Japan has more than double our debt to GDP but this is able to not catastrophically blow up in the short term because their interest rates and therefore interest expense is low.

Again, really sad , but not rrally surprising to see low quality drivel stated authoratively as the top answer