<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: aphextim</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aphextim</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:55:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=aphextim" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like you had a bad experience with a church. Every church I've ever gone to even without me being very religious has been very accepting and nice.<p>Making blanket statements after one or even a handful of experiences doesn't help anyone and can be said about things also not relating to churches as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443649</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "GOG asks you to please not abuse its expansive new 30-day refund policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if a type of 'restocking' fee can be applied to games.<p>It happens where you get a game try it and it doesn't work on your hardware or it just wasn't what you expected.<p>I'd gladly pay a 10-20% restocking fee for whatever process they need to do to recycle that key and issue a refund rather than be stuck with a game that will never be played again in my library.<p>After playing a game more than 2 hours good luck getting a refund on steam, and good luck finding out how much you really enjoy a game in 2 hours.<p>30 days seems a bit extreme and I do see it ripe for abuse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:36:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425194</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "If you drive an expensive car you're probably a jerk, scientists say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have expected the rate at which drivers are less likely to stop be parabolic rather than linear.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:46:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424658</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://thepreppingguide.com/resources/" rel="nofollow">https://thepreppingguide.com/resources/</a><p>Specifically this one
<a href="http://ready4itall.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/General_-_Social_Distancing_and_Pandemic_Readiness.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ready4itall.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/General_-_...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:31:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416449</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A good overview food storage guide.<p><a href="http://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/ec446.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/ec446.pdf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:17:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416288</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Ask HN: How to entice HS/College students to try app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Find a few 'influencer' types who are popular at the school. Get them to sell your app by either paying them as an advertiser or tell them for each student they get on the app you will give them x amount of money.<p>Let them work for you!</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://lbry.tv/@DigitalCashNetwork:c/LBRYJKauff:a">https://lbry.tv/@DigitalCashNetwork:c/LBRYJKauff:a</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414674">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414674</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://lbry.tv/@DigitalCashNetwork:c/LBRYJKauff:a</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "California Bill Would Require Licenses for Porn Actors, Strippers, Cam Girls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What happens when AI takes over this job?<p>I recall recently some animated thing was on a top of a Cam site and the girls were up in arms upset that people were watching a cartoon over them.<p>Would it fall on the creator of the cartoon? What is the creator of the cartoon is literally an advanced A.I.? Would it then fall on the creators of the AI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:03:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386220</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anecdata storytime:<p>I used to smoke a pack a day, and when I switched to vaping I personally felt much better. I was able to do things a bit better than when I was smoking cancer sticks.<p>Looking back I was lying to myself thinking it was just as good as quitting. I didn't feel the heavy tar on my lungs like cigarettes. I still noticed when pushing myself on work outs or hiking or biking or anything requiring aerobic activity that I would get sick to my stomach and almost puke like when you run long distance and are not used to it. I could go further than when I smoked but I would always hit this "wall" where I would get sick.<p>Quit 100% 3 months ago and took up XC Skiing. I could only do 2 miles when I first started. Just last week I did 10 miles and I have been going once on the weekend every week so in 12 sessions I was able to 5x my aerobic ability.<p>Starting at 0%, switching to vaping I would say made me feel/perform overall 15-20% better compared to cigarettes.<p>Quitting vaping filled in that other 80% and the difference is like night and day and so obvious I was lying to myself to keep the habit alive longer than I  needed to.<p>Smoking timeline:<p>Smoked 18-30, transitioned to vaping.<p>30-31 vaped 12mg juice.<p>31-32 vaped 6mg juice.<p>32-33 vaped 3mg juice.<p>33-34 vaped 0 mg juice.<p>Quit Vaping 100% last Thanksgiving cold turkey (really was just mental habit at this point smoking 0 mg juice) 3 months vape free!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:16:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385869</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://keybase.io/" rel="nofollow">https://keybase.io/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:58:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385162</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Barclays scraps 'Big Brother' staff tracking system within one week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked there for 3 years.<p>First year we received close to $1200 and in 2004 being a poor college kid this was an amazing bonus.<p>The 2nd year there was a series of high value thefts so we only ended up getting like $250 or so.<p>Our Lost Prevention employee who was just some guy who looked at security cameras all day, went out of his way on his own time to research all the same stolen items looking for them in local craigslist/pawn shops and finally e-bay.<p>He found one account on e-bay that coincidentally was selling all the same items our store kept missing! (Some of these were brand new laptops)<p>The account name of the seller was firstinitial+lastname+numbers<p>He took that account name, and cross referenced it with our employees and found a match. He then forwarded all this information to the police.<p>I remember one day going to our monthly manager's meeting (once a month had a store wide meeting where managers went over everything with all employees)<p>We did the entire meeting, free pizza and donuts, talked numbers shrink etc, and the best part was that on the last page of the presentation they had the guy running the Lost Prevention department come up to talk shrink. He explained everything above and then flipped the presentation paper to the last page which had the e-bay account giant sized on the paper. He said this is the person who has been caught selling everything and they will be taken care of.<p>We all turned around from our meeting and there were police offers waiting to arrest the perpetrator on the spot.<p>Said person was a 20 year old who had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He drove a $40,000 car his parents paid for type of thing where most of us had rusted beaters to drive around.<p>He was doing it only for the thrill, worked in the electronics department so he was able to steal things from the cages when trucks came in and you are supposed to unload all the pallets.<p>I just remember that meeting so vividly because they let the kid go through everything, thinking everything is normal and I wish I was able to see his face when his username was shown right away.<p>I won't forget his face and cries as he was being arrested saying, "You cannot prove that is me!" even though it was his first initial + last name and year he was born in.....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:30:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384909</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Barclays scraps 'Big Brother' staff tracking system within one week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked at a company during college who at the end of the year would give every employee a "Shrink" check depending how well/poor their store performed over the course of the year.<p>If you came in mid year they just pro rated the amount you would have gotten if you stayed the whole year.<p>I remember this helped employees keep an eye on each other as you were essentially stealing from everyone else's shrink check.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:42:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377905</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Facebook's “like”-button: using it can be a crime when used on forbidden posts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just wait until they make this retroactive, flag every post  you may have "liked" as a teen and now jail you as an adult.<p>Can't wait for thought crime to be a thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377850</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Ask HN: How do you ensure your documentation stays up to date?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.itglue.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.itglue.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:08:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22349779</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22349779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22349779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "A pediatrician's mission to keep sugar out of kids' diets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Biggest thing I notice is on USA labels there is no % next to the grams of sugar in foods.<p>I heard the sugar industry lobbied very hard to remove this because a typical adult only needs 30 grams of sugar or so and if soda companies had to put 150-200% per serving next to the sugar it may hinder sales.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:12:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292741</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "WHO alarm re: new coronavirus cases in France&UK without travel history to China"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>World Health Organization officials are concerned about new coronavirus cases confirmed in France and the U.K. that were transmitted without any travel history to China.<p>>Five British citizens contracted the virus in the French Alpine town of Contamines-Montjoie, health authorities said Sunday. On Monday, the U.K. said it confirmed new cases linked to a British man who went a conference in Singapore.<p>Literally the next paragraph they say that they were linked to a British man who traveled to Singapore, such poor reporting from cnbc to make it seem otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:23:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291727</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Platform capitalism devalued the music industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Music Industry failed to adapt. NoFx had a song about this called Dinosaurs will die.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKQSQSVVos" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKQSQSVVos</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:38:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269936</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Antarctica just registered its hottest temperature ever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>During the creation of this planet I'm sure Antarctica saw temperatures higher than today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:29:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269805</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "What model might help for people at the quarantined cruise ship?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would think that keeping the 3700 people confined to a cruise ship is just asking for the nCoV to spread more.<p>Best would be to take everyone off cruise ship, assume everyone is infected and keep them in quarantine on land for observation before being released.<p>I think it is more known now about how long it takes to show symptoms so I would say if someone exceeds that period by 35-50%  they should be free to go from quarantine.<p>I have no experience at all in the medical field or know anything other than what is being regurgitated in the media so take my opinion less than a grain of salt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:03:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22268804</link><dc:creator>aphextim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22268804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22268804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aphextim in "Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recall a documentary where they had a bunch of Electric vehicles out on lease. The company wanted to take all the vehicles back off the market so they went to all the owners to take the cars away.<p>The owners liked the vehicles so much they offered to buy them outright from the company so they could at least keep the cars they liked.<p>They raised the few million needed to pay off everyone's lease.<p>Company refused and took all the cars away anyway.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F</a></p>
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