Hacker News: beamatronic

New comment by beamatronic in "Reddit is being funded by a fake company?"

beamatronic — Sat, 14 May 2022 21:37:30 +0000

Which country? Which America? There are two.

New comment by beamatronic in "Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?"

beamatronic — Sat, 14 May 2022 21:35:40 +0000

“Showing an ad” is a bad paradigm. Instead, get to know me. Find out my values and needs. Then, sell to me. Make me feel like you understand my problem and then show me several good options. That’s how you get the users with money to spend.

New comment by beamatronic in "Former employee blows whistle on baby formula production plant tied to outbreak"

beamatronic — Sat, 14 May 2022 15:16:07 +0000

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/heavy-metals-in-...

New comment by beamatronic in "Ask HN: What are examples of startups that died by the hands of Big Tech?"

beamatronic — Sat, 14 May 2022 14:52:55 +0000

Palm, Dropcam, Nest

New comment by beamatronic in "Reddit is being funded by a fake company?"

beamatronic — Sat, 14 May 2022 14:39:46 +0000

It depends on your definition of “America”. Do you mean “white Christians” or do you mean “all men are created equal”, separation of church and state, etc.

New comment by beamatronic in "Reddit is being funded by a fake company?"

beamatronic — Sat, 14 May 2022 14:34:34 +0000

Do you prefer Newsmax, OANN, or Fox News?

New comment by beamatronic in "The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States"

beamatronic — Fri, 13 May 2022 16:36:36 +0000

Under a different US administration, it would have been completely different. What we just had was the worst possible administration in place, and they dealt with the disaster in the worst possible way.

New comment by beamatronic in "The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States"

beamatronic — Fri, 13 May 2022 16:29:27 +0000

Buying up the properties with senior water rights seems a lot cheaper than building new reservoirs, dams, etc. What's the value of these types of properties? How much cash flow can the owners possibly be making? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

New comment by beamatronic in "Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techies Feel Underpaid"

beamatronic — Wed, 11 May 2022 17:12:54 +0000

It also doesn't help when the previous administration specifically targets you with punitive tax policies.

New comment by beamatronic in "“It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving”"

beamatronic — Mon, 09 May 2022 16:19:29 +0000

Perhaps there are different definitions of “derailed”.

After all one of the communication problems in this pandemic was that even technical, medical professionals could not agree on the definition of “airborne” as it relates to the public’s best interest.

New comment by beamatronic in "No Fixed Address Bank Account"

beamatronic — Sun, 08 May 2022 15:06:55 +0000

Voting out all elected government officials over age 30 would be a good start to a better tomorrow.

New comment by beamatronic in "Ask HN: Chrome says I have 83 compromised passwords. How do I fix this?"

beamatronic — Sun, 08 May 2022 14:56:18 +0000

Do a few each day.

New comment by beamatronic in "Meta freezes hiring for rest of 2022"

beamatronic — Sat, 07 May 2022 16:06:45 +0000

When you try to actually apply, you get an error message about your start date having to be in the past.

New comment by beamatronic in "RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects"

beamatronic — Fri, 06 May 2022 14:52:46 +0000

This, but on Linux, would change the world.

New comment by beamatronic in "Meta freezes hiring for rest of 2022"

beamatronic — Wed, 04 May 2022 23:32:14 +0000

They have many postings on LinkedIn - should they just be ignored?

New comment by beamatronic in "Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?"

beamatronic — Wed, 04 May 2022 13:34:53 +0000

100% agree with all your points.

New comment by beamatronic in "Hertz to face 100 new false arrest claims from customers"

beamatronic — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:31:29 +0000

No, that's still the wrong solution. A computer telling an officer that a car has been stolen - that mechanism is too easy to abuse - it ends up hurting totally innocent people. In most of these cases the driver even showed the officer their paperwork - a rental agreement showing they have the right to use the car.

Don't let a computer tell the officer to pull out their gun.

New comment by beamatronic in "The confounding politics of camping in America"

beamatronic — Sun, 01 May 2022 14:14:25 +0000

I haven’t tried this, but I am curious if they would allow you to build a garage or storage unit on the property. Is there anything they cannot legally block?

New comment by beamatronic in "The confounding politics of camping in America"

beamatronic — Sun, 01 May 2022 14:12:29 +0000

I suppose that depends on how you evaluate the success or failure of capitalism. The richest person in the world would probably say that capitalism is a great success. As far as the coasts, all life choices involve trade offs.

New comment by beamatronic in "The confounding politics of camping in America"

beamatronic — Sun, 01 May 2022 14:01:02 +0000

There are still plenty of ways to “hack” it, but they are all unpleasant. Is your goal to accumulate cash/build your net worth?