<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: batgaijin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=batgaijin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:19:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=batgaijin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by batgaijin in "Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also to be clear I mean the NY times. Nothing wrong with a multi faceted opinion but it's not cool that they don't even point out the evolution of their beliefs. I mean isn't that the point of having an awarded newspaper?<p>P.s. I think I need a book on remedial grammar</p>
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<p>Well the krauts had consistency going for them at least<p>The weak rule the weak the strong conquer the strange</p>
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<p>Jesus I would rather deal with the Reich than these face fucked flip flops<p>Also fuck Greenwald and Snowden; their actions show they have no problem crowning themselves as new Robespierres</p>
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<p>I think Dr. Evil was at the bargaining table</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 06:21:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945974</link><dc:creator>batgaijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by batgaijin in "NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bet he knew more acronyms than anyone</p>
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<p><a href="http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html" rel="nofollow">http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-securit...</a></p>
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<p>What if the real money is in B2B and this is simply going to push the expenditure into a special trade communication zone? Are American companies going to be banned from certain expenditures? Is is it possible that people would create a proxy corporation to leverage the service in different areas?<p>I'm probably acting like an idiot. But I mean I think this just is creating a recipe for crazy lawyers to try some shit on someones dime.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:19:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799871</link><dc:creator>batgaijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by batgaijin in "Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't this just motivate startups to incorporate somewhere where software patents aren't enforced, like New Zealand?<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/business/10-best-places-to-start/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/business/10-best-places-to-sta...</a><p>I mean at the end of the day this lack of timely reform is fundamentally making people look for asymmetric ways to entirely avoid problems. Is that the way society should be driven? I think that is an unstable driver of future events --- a society that cannot reform itself in a timely manner, that cannot properly forecast events and repercussions, is a society that is forgetting it's responsibility for balancing itself.<p>I really do not like this behavior; it is abhorrent of a society that can be a seer. I mean there is the usual belief that we are all equal and deserve equality --- but that cannot happen as long as we inherit citizenship, wealth and networks. It is a nice belief but simply cannot be rendered in any sort of predictable manner.<p>This creates a situation. Their are private discussions on the ongoing nature of patents --- but I feel that more than anything people are forgetting that as the point of a corporation is it's superhuman predictable nature, that the further antagonization of new corporations will balance itself not with a mutated form of socialism but with an asymmetric alliance of corporations - one which favors unpredictability and an increased rate of change.<p>Wealth and the rate of innovation are separate --- and that fiction will reveal itself at a much faster rate if proper steps are not taken in a timely manner.</p>
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<p>Explicit self referential media is an interesting memetic spreading tactic.<p>I used to watch family guy confused as fuck as a kid. What the fuck is up with all these references? If I wanted to be in on the jokes I had to consume more of the same TV media.<p>Same goes for most pop/rap... in credit referential to others within the same medium. But of course not all music relies on explicit memetic references.<p>So the question is, why the tactic? I don't know. All I know is that it made me feel ignorant to not consume more mundane TV to feel superior in my ability to get meaningless footnoYes.</p>
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<p>I completely agree... I think it's ridiculous that it hasn't been switched in an implementation</p>
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<p>I take back most of my shit. I guess that's what happens when you are a neckbeard that can't even code.</p>
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<p>The country could potentially have their own corporations that produce a tax basis for hospitals. Those hospitals could have a much lower cost of setup.<p>You want me to pretend that his short time frame narrative matters? I'd be happy to die today I knew it was part of a meaningful step for others to get beyond the limits they were born into. Sadly socialist demagoguery tend to be run by worse fucks.</p>
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<p>The country these people are living in should have hospitals. They should be able to affordably produce antibiotics, malaria nets and everything else.<p>Antibiotics and most other medical products are unnecesarilly burdened by patents and become prohibitevely expensive unless some rich patron grants them something they could buy at a much cheaper price.<p>Patents can be a tax on those who are unlucky. I think certain things deserve patents. But the company he represents taxes any linux device as a microsoft device.<p>I agree people should be healthy. But you know what? Maybe they should be able to make their own fucking choices in their own fucking hospital on their own fucking dime.<p>He is a cunt for being afraid of competition and supporting autonomy. That is a sign of the weak and those who are unable to deal with truly dynamic problems that come from actual competition.<p>In all honesty I understand his position. But for him to vocalize it as though he doesn't see the poor billions as potential competitors? Too fucking bad. He can have his own beliefs but fuck spreading a narrative.</p>
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<p>Why, so they can't create companies to support their countr's GDP to become independent of your pity aid?<p>What a monopolistic cunt. Make microsoft quit taxing android phones for a windows license before you act like you have a high ground beyond your 22 hidden patents.<p>What a rich shitmark.</p>
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<p>should've called it lazarus</p>
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<p>caaddr! cdaddr! cddadr!<p>those are the first lines from the macbeth witches if my memory serves correctly.</p>
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<p>does typed clojure support dependent types? I would assume like cl it's powerful enough to.</p>
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<p>maybe watson should handle procurment</p>
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<p>a monad is like a taco salad.</p>
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<p>I take issue with that statement, I think this is very representative of HN.</p>
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