Hacker News: bannable

New comment by bannable in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

bannable — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:35:27 +0000

When something has negative outcomes, the thing requires justification.

New comment by bannable in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

bannable — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:32:58 +0000

Why would anyone post this comment?

New comment by bannable in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

bannable — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:06:41 +0000

fta

> In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

New comment by bannable in "We were right about Havana syndrome"

bannable — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:02:10 +0000

I'd think the decline of CTS is better explained by improvements in our material design: our interfaces with the physical world are much less hostile today than in '90 and cause us less harm. For example, consider the NES/N64 controllers versus a modern PS5 controller.

New comment by bannable in "Tesla's Global Vehicle Deliveries Sank 13% in First Quarter"

bannable — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:57:54 +0000

Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556443

New comment by bannable in "Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s"

bannable — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:03:59 +0000

"Since 2024" means from the beginning of 2025, not "during 2024".

New comment by bannable in "The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper"

bannable — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 01:27:59 +0000

What do you mean by "package managers not taking source from the right place"?

New comment by bannable in "Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade"

bannable — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 03:03:19 +0000

Did you reply to the wrong comment? This doesn't answer anything about the average the OP asked about.

New comment by bannable in "NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government"

bannable — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 18:03:09 +0000

Rijndael was selected over Serpent for performance reasons.

New comment by bannable in "Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust"

bannable — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 20:11:38 +0000

Games at that size are not clocking in because of their models and textures. It's from use of lossless, uncompressed audio files, and shipping multiple language files.

The issue is most common on games that release on consoles, but also for ones that want to support older hardware: the audio formats they use are designed to minimize the amount of decompression necessary for play, and so reduce resource requirements in exchange for storage space.

New comment by bannable in "Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware"

bannable — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:23:52 +0000

Case law, not truth. Judges do not decide fact.

New comment by bannable in "Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions (2019)"

bannable — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 21:52:36 +0000

Boomerang attacks on SHA-0 have a complexity on the order of 2^33.

New comment by bannable in "Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why"

bannable — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:39:19 +0000

Except that we do have a massive number of recorded temperatures across a massive number of locations in the last 100 years. Climate models, some dating back to the 1970s, have correctly predicted global temperature changes in the 50 years since based on this data.

The measurements are real, and there is an established history of the models being generally correct (if not in specific details) by now. Climate study is not the new science you seem to think it is.

New comment by bannable in "Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why"

bannable — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:33:31 +0000

Climate models as far back as the 1970s have predicted the temperature changes in the time from then to now -- those are not predictions that are coming from hindsight, but rather predictions where their effects were observed over the last 50 years.

If you are unfamiliar with climate sensitivity, this is a good place to start: https://skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity.htm

New comment by bannable in "Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why"

bannable — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:25:21 +0000

The current consensus on the impact of climate is NOT "something that might not happen".

Climate change is happening right now, with effects that are observable as trends across the globe. Even the most optimistic model is predicting widespread catastrophe.

New comment by bannable in "Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why"

bannable — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:22:47 +0000

Yes, weather is climate. But that isn't what OP said.

New comment by bannable in "Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why"

bannable — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:21:03 +0000

Are you claiming that it is not possible to find a trend in a mean temperature of a great many points across the globe, over a long period of time?

What makes such a measurement an "invalid form"?

New comment by bannable in "Many games are held together by duct tape"

bannable — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:06:13 +0000

Rendering is likely blocked on mouse interrupts.

New comment by bannable in "Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider"

bannable — Fri, 17 May 2019 17:35:56 +0000

I don't think this is correct. The timing attacks here all require extremely high resolution timers, and network + I/O latency would obscure the variance entirely.

New comment by bannable in "55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt"

bannable — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:35:53 +0000

Take another look at the table - the values are denominated in millions of dollars, and that second symbol is a comma, not a period, so it's 19 million million.