Hacker News: bassman9000

New comment by bassman9000 in "Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground"

bassman9000 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:15:35 +0000

assuming there's a statistically significant increase in these kind of accidents: what's your theory on why this is happening? what has change since e.g. 5-10 years ago?

New comment by bassman9000 in "VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development"

bassman9000 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:22:28 +0000

it's not about being unable to be productive in windows

is about people forced to work on win vs their preferred linux/osx finding out productivity is, indeed, worse, but not as bad as expected

New comment by bassman9000 in "Gemini and Google's Culture"

bassman9000 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:39:21 +0000

this goes beyond getting some things wrong. It's conscious effort to be biased in a very specific way. When it struggles to put a white person in the generated images, or has trouble deciding whether Musk or Hitler were worse for humanity, you know it's been trained and guardrailed hard the wrong way

New comment by bassman9000 in "Long Covid treatment: randomized, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial"

bassman9000 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 04:26:08 +0000

Is it 41% or 4.1%

Is 4•1% some kind of notation?

New comment by bassman9000 in "Show HN: Throw – A space for asking and answering questions anonymously"

bassman9000 — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 01:30:11 +0000

> Intend

For now.

A truly anonymous service would start by not needing apps, which are notoriously leaky, on purpose.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18"

bassman9000 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:40:54 +0000

> Díaz graduated with a licentiate degree in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC),[5][6] and later earned three post-graduate degrees. Upon concluding her studies, she commenced working as a paralegal for a law firm. Later, she registered as an attorney at law and opened her own law firm, which specialised in labour law.[5]

New comment by bassman9000 in "Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18"

bassman9000 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:38:43 +0000

No.

This is middle class taxing. There's never enough rich people to fund these kind of initiatives, and specially not in Spain.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18"

bassman9000 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:34:00 +0000

Fun fact: the process will be made artificially slow to last til you are 23 years old, which means voters making 18 this year would have to vote for them, again, in 4.

Total corruption.

New comment by bassman9000 in "43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)"

bassman9000 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:34:35 +0000

Assuming all those different groups thrown in together by nbc where white people, they would still be underrepresented, given the 2020 US Census data.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode"

bassman9000 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:00:35 +0000

it was never profitable

New comment by bassman9000 in "Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode"

bassman9000 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:33:27 +0000

Not an engineering issue. Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost. You weren't aware of it because, as someone mentioned, it was subsidized before. Now you are aware. You're free to contribute by paying, if content is worth to you, or walk away. There are alternatives, but you can't escape the fact that moving all those bits is not free.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Senators Draft Bill to Ban Use of Digital Yuan in US-Based Mobile Apps"

bassman9000 — Fri, 27 May 2022 22:28:27 +0000

If you go to China, get a burner, or buy a Chinese cell phone, the same you're buying a plane ticket, or paying for a hotel. If it's for work, ask your company to pay for it.

New comment by bassman9000 in "US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer's Share: $951k"

bassman9000 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:22:12 +0000

feel that the Federal government is being irresponsible.

It is.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...

New comment by bassman9000 in "Mariana Trench: Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java"

bassman9000 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:12:53 +0000

_Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java Applications_

But it seems it's not for the JVM, only for Android APKs.

Edit: https://mariana-tren.ch/docs/configuration#command-line-opti...

Indeed, only APK.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns"

bassman9000 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:47:15 +0000

If you don't use it for anything interesting, you're sticking out even more. A void can be as revealing.

If you're using it for something interesting, well, you're not sticking out in the "not having gmail" camp, but what's the point.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns"

bassman9000 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:43:02 +0000

Still not addressing the critique. We banalize authoritarianism by putting things at the same level, when they should not be.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns"

bassman9000 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:00:53 +0000

You could always link some news article on the FBI abuses.

But you also have a gmail address, so I don't understand the reaction.

New comment by bassman9000 in "Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns"

bassman9000 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:47:48 +0000

What can you send from your phone that will get you arrested by the FBI, vs what can get you arrested by Chinese forces? Is this a valid comparison?

New comment by bassman9000 in "Pieces of Shit"

bassman9000 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 22:34:54 +0000

Wokeism shows all the hallmarks of a cult or organized religion, and it's being spearheaded by academia:

- Strict adherence to dogmas (_eg all whites are racist, not dating trans is transphobic_), under penalty of excommunication (_banished from academia and/or society_).

- Dissent is not permitted (_if you deny it, you must be racist/bigot/transphobic_).

- Cult of the leader as individual (_eg BLM founders, the Squad_), while at the same time arguing the group is paramount.

- Sacraments (eg _struggle sessions, street performances_).

- Colleges as main places of cult. Pilgrimages to holy places (_eg police brutality incidents_).

- Saints (eg _George Floyd_).

Academia is funded by the state via:

- Grants to projects not necessarily resulting in any benefit, apparent or not, to society. Projects lead by professors not teaching.

- Loans to students, knowing well many won't be able to pay in years, if at all, which end in the pockets of colleges.

New comment by bassman9000 in "The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]"

bassman9000 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 18:25:34 +0000

It's been studied over and over. Lower taxes mean more economic activity, and less tax evasion.

An article in Spanish

https://www.elindependiente.com/economia/2021/04/25/madrid-d...

Another one

https://www.libremercado.com/2021-08-03/el-efecto-laffer-de-...

En concreto, la región de Díaz Ayuso recibió de la caja común apenas el 23% de lo que ingresó en 2019.

Meaning that Madrid out of the 100% taxes it collects for the State, only 23% end up in Madrid. But that's still fine, because of the higher economic activity.

Madrid has been accused of "tax dumping", by having way lower taxes than other regions, and still:

Tanto es así, que Madrid aporta en torno al 68% del sistema de solidaridad interterritorial (más de 4.000 millones) frente al 25,5% de Cataluña o el 6,6% de Baleares.

Meaning that, even with low taxes, Madrid funds 68% (+4 billion Euro) of the inter-region fund system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve