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New comment by barneygale in "Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus"

barneygale — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:02:34 +0000

> $100k buy in at the hedgefund I know. Its a big figure for most but starting salaries, friends & family, and personal loans will get you there.

Surely this is a HN culture bubble? Very few people can borrow tens of thousands of dollars from family and friends to lend to a hedge fund. Not only would I be refused, I'd damage friendships by exposing the moral vacuum at my core.

New comment by barneygale in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

barneygale — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:33:15 +0000

Thanks - I'd previously read the rules but totally misremembered them, I thought you were /supposed/ to reply when flagging!

New comment by barneygale in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

barneygale — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:54:47 +0000

I didn't flag that one I don't think, but I suspect the use of "cope" set some folks off.

New comment by barneygale in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

barneygale — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:10:35 +0000

Sorry, I'll just flag their comments in future and explain why I'm doing so.

New comment by barneygale in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

barneygale — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:04:01 +0000

Please don't accuse people of lying on HN without evidence, it lowers the quality of the discussion.

I've flagged your comment for this reason.

New comment by barneygale in "OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role"

barneygale — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:37:19 +0000

Really well - they make the best web browser around!

New comment by barneygale in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

barneygale — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 02:36:35 +0000

I don't care whether you believe me or not.

New comment by barneygale in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

barneygale — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 02:06:06 +0000

I pay them via Patreon. Google will never see any of my money.

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

barneygale — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 07:00:32 +0000

> So if I pushed back on the notion that my identity is a "malignant, parasitic-like condition to which 'white' people have a particular susceptibility" [1], by e.g. stating it is merely "okay", that would be racist?

If you push back on it /using far right slogans/ of course it's racist.

> When they see we're not resisting, they'll tone down the rhetoric until we all get along. Because that's what has been happening so far - as we get closer to equality, the rhetoric is becoming milder and milder, right?

The problems that you think you have - that you're not allowed to express yourself in terms of far right slogans - are fucking pathetic and you should be ashamed of yourself for pursuing them. You have been clearly been given a life of privilege, because people who experience poverty or racism don't pick such cringeworthy fights, divorced from the suffering and problems of the real world.

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

barneygale — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:45:59 +0000

> So the phrases are not themselves racist,

They /are/ racist. You can read about any of them on wikipedia, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

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

barneygale — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:18:22 +0000

You're leaning 100% into prescriptivism, taking the literal meaning of "It's Okay To be White". The vast majority of far-right slogans are innocuous on a surface reading. The most famous of all - the 14 words - are completely inoffensive if you ignore how they're used.

This is quite basic knowledge for how the far right operates, and so you're either deliberately concern trolling, or you're genuinely ignorant (in which case why are you so sure of your opinions?)

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

barneygale — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:58:00 +0000

You're spot on - it's the idle thoughts of a privileged white man trying to justify racism, but he presents no new arguments, and dresses the whole thing up in academicese.

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

barneygale — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:34:10 +0000

> There's nothing at all dehumanising about the phrase "The Poor" (if you think there is, compare to eg “the rich”. Are we dehumanizing the rich every time we call them that?)

Yes. That's why anti-capitalist protests will criticise "the rich" and not "rich people".

New comment by barneygale in "Ask HN: Genuine confusion over AI generated fake Disney Pixar movie posters"

barneygale — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:08:45 +0000

> Is there even any interpretation that would allow this to be seen as anything different than industrial style IP infringement?

Parody is protected by copyright law

New comment by barneygale in "Firefox for Android will soon support extensions"

barneygale — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:16:59 +0000

I avoid it where I can, but some folks only post videos on youtube. It's much harder for a video-sharing alternative to get off the ground because google (and others in big tech) completely distort the playing field.

New comment by barneygale in "Ask HN: Where and how can I get a citizenship if I'm stateless?"

barneygale — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:49:25 +0000

I suggest you try to get in contact with charities specialising in human trafficking. They may be able to help you find your original identity and country of birth. If your parents were European it's likely your birth was registered

New comment by barneygale in "Ask HN: Where and how can I get a citizenship if I'm stateless?"

barneygale — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:23:49 +0000

Can your country of birth not provide consular assistance? Presumably you're still a citizen there, whether or not you have access to your passport.

New comment by barneygale in "Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?"

barneygale — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:21:27 +0000

Parasocial technology fetishism. Gross.

New comment by barneygale in "Every file in TAR ends with 1KiB of zeros as “end of file marker”"

barneygale — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:58:18 +0000

Most of the alternatives you suggest are implemented in PAX, which is an extension of the tar format. The EoF block is useful if the archive is written directly to physical media without a filesystem: it lets you determine where the archive ends.

New comment by barneygale in "Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs"

barneygale — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 12:41:57 +0000

Good riddance - it is unethical to work for these companies unless you attempt to sabotage their operations from the inside.