Hacker News: anonymouswacker

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk"

anonymouswacker — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:20:23 +0000

Tracking for thee but not for me

New comment by anonymouswacker in "X becomes No. 1 app on US App Store"

anonymouswacker — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:35:53 +0000

Yes, it’s either their lies or US government’s lies, or the industries and other billionaires that own the governments.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Wayfair CEO tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email"

anonymouswacker — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:00:54 +0000

I was head-hunted a while back from Wayfair, and I felt that it was too good to be true: 1. high pay for remote work, 2. small teams, and 3. working on interesting tech (I think it was an AI furniture preview, like Amazon has). I ultimately decided against Wayfair because I had the feeling that helping a company sell predominately low-quality Chinese furniture to unassuming Americans would further enlarge the void in my soul, and I would be working far too much. Perhaps for a year or two, it would have been a dream come true, if I didn't want to have a life outside of work...

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products"

anonymouswacker — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:58:48 +0000

Clickbait.

I have taken a lot of these in the past, and the label "pseudoscientific" is unwarranted. The "writer" cherrypicks and generalizes data to discount it, but if you want to understand the mechanism of, say, Ashwagandha, you probably should spend a few hours reading research and meta-analyses and not spending 10 minutes on Google to decide if it's "good" or "pseudoscience".

Should these companies not be allowed to advertise and distribute products that might help some and might hurt others? Should tech writers write health articles when they don't know what they're talking about?

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Is This How Amazon Ends?"

anonymouswacker — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 04:22:12 +0000

Amazon has a 30 day return policy.

Temu has a 90 day return policy.

And Temu is generally cheaper.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database"

anonymouswacker — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:37:16 +0000

Government lies, aka statistics, conveniently ignore the cost of high quality items when doing averages. If you are buying eggs as a health conscious person, you know not to buy $1/dozen eggs any more because industry producers have made them low cost by reducing quality, feeding chickens soy and the cheapest excuse for food. The pastured ones are 5-10x the cost and the quality is night and day. US government conveniently views these things as staples, but they are not.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds"

anonymouswacker — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:42:13 +0000

But you will be happy once you're sufficiently medicated via the patented delivery mechanism of antidepressant pharmaceuticals in industrial agriculture... :)

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on"

anonymouswacker — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:35:32 +0000

Sadly, he'll lower risk of one thing and increase risks of another thing -- most likely, cancer.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Major government tech contractors use vendor-lock to drive revenue: study"

anonymouswacker — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:14:04 +0000

The US Department of Veterans Affairs is spending a lot more than that to switch from their in-house healthcare system to Cerner. It is not going well.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office"

anonymouswacker — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:23:09 +0000

How dare they breathe the air and spread their highly transmissible virus, like has happened for eons! Then again, why would you choose to breathe in their sickness? Were you not wearing 3 masks and keeping 3 meters distance? Did they make you come to work? Call the tribunal, we must get to the bottom of this, as soon as we've uncovered what causes rectal itch from the office chairs!

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers"

anonymouswacker — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:45:40 +0000

Make that 199,999,999 paid subscribers, as I am leaving Spotify, and completely ditching the eternal subscription models. Who's with me? Can we get a post now about setting up Lidarr and making your own Plexamp server for family and friends?

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

anonymouswacker — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:00:24 +0000

It's a shame that Google is so good at hiring top talent, and even better at under utilizing them. The company had a hypomanic vision of greatness by throwing everything to see what stuck, and still can't get a new idea that is profitable besides marketing & advertising due to their virtual monopoly. I'm very curious what the breakdown of positions will be. This is a failure of leadership and Sundar should resign.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do"

anonymouswacker — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 02:41:04 +0000

Reminds me of the Blood Flow Restriction / Kaatsu method [0], which I've added in my own routine and had great results with lower weights and less pain. I regularly do BFR negatives and see great results, given I spend very little time in the gym.

0 - https://bengreenfieldlife.com/article/fitness-articles/worko...

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Facebook owner Meta expected to announce major job losses"

anonymouswacker — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:21:54 +0000

Lucky. I am the same way, stable job, high pay, and very rewarding, although I think if I were to be honest, and know my own worth, I'd know I was being short-changed both in my pay and fulfillment, versus working for myself. But to each their own...

New comment by anonymouswacker in "NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD"

anonymouswacker — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:35:21 +0000

Have you tried seeing a psychoanalyst, or otherwise delving into the meaning of dreams/nightmares? "What you resist persists."

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Facebook owner Meta expected to announce major job losses"

anonymouswacker — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:17:53 +0000

These are the constraints in employment: high compensation, fulfillment, or stability. You can pick one, maybe two. If you want a meaningful and stable job, choose to work in a stable industry (such as Federal Government), and forego the high compensation.

Follow your passion and discover your personal Ikigai. Save money for the rainy days and times of uncertainty.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "A message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: 11% workforce cut"

anonymouswacker — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:12:45 +0000

Good point. Tapping into our strategic oil reserves is helping a little bit. Of course that, in a way, is a long-term price hike (when/if we ever replenish them). It's like taking out a loan.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "A message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: 11% workforce cut"

anonymouswacker — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:59:38 +0000

It's comical if you're the court jester, but to most of us peasants, this is horrible. Our worst fears are coming true. The system is failing, but it's too big to fail.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure"

anonymouswacker — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:38:18 +0000

The "space" for a cryptocurrency is a Venn Diagram solely occupied by one circle: Bitcoin. We're seeing a culling of these shitcoin also-rans, which took the money from the late-coming naive while enriching the early wave of speculators, like any other common pyramid scheme.

New comment by anonymouswacker in "Leaked TikTok docs show effort to downplay CCP association"

anonymouswacker — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:23:12 +0000

TikTok is a national security threat. It’s more than just hubris.