Hacker News: beervirus

New comment by beervirus in "New York City bans natural gas in new buildings"

beervirus — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 22:10:07 +0000

Power plants are more efficient at generating electricity, mechanical work, etc. than small generators. They are certainly not more efficient at generating heat than just burning the gas is.

New comment by beervirus in "New York City bans natural gas in new buildings"

beervirus — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 22:08:26 +0000

Shhhhhh. Something must be done, and this is something. Therefore it must be done.

New comment by beervirus in "Shrooms: What You Need to Know"

beervirus — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 18:41:57 +0000

Ask your shadiest friend who his shadiest friend is.

New comment by beervirus in "Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]"

beervirus — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 18:36:35 +0000

I mean yeah. But for a few years there, they were at least not as obviously horrible as they used to be, or as some other companies were.

New comment by beervirus in "Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]"

beervirus — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 16:44:51 +0000

Y’all are not entitled to the benefit of the doubt any more than obviously-evil companies like Facebook are.

New comment by beervirus in "Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week"

beervirus — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 03:35:24 +0000

Nobody’s impugning their honesty. Just pointing out that this is a model, not data.

New comment by beervirus in "Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent"

beervirus — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:45:09 +0000

“Deserve” is maybe a little too normative. Certainly they shouldn’t act all surprised pikachu when it happens though.

New comment by beervirus in "Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 22:00:36 +0000

>showstopper

That’s a funny word for “extremely minor visual artifact.”

New comment by beervirus in "Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:54:11 +0000

Sure, but people understand negative numbers. The pony is that if my profit margins are slim, then a smallish loss in theft can be a big deal. Comparing theft loss to gross sales just obscures the reality.

New comment by beervirus in "Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:44:20 +0000

Article: thisisfine.jpg

But if the retailers are closing up shop, it is not fine. They wouldn’t forego the profits this article assumes exist just to make a political point.

New comment by beervirus in "Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:42:36 +0000

Loss as a percentage of sales is an odd way of quantifying it. Loss as a percentage of net profit seems like a better figure of merit.

New comment by beervirus in "Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:10:22 +0000

Not at all. But getting run over is certainly the reasonably foreseeable consequence of your actions. It’s not victim-blaming to suggest that people are ultimately responsible for their own safety, and they ought to take precautions.

New comment by beervirus in "Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:53:45 +0000

I mean I already bring my phone with me on those errands. My location isn’t exactly a secret.

It sucks, and I hate it. But the car isn’t any additional problem.

New comment by beervirus in "Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels against Omicron ~37-fold"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:42:31 +0000

Why? We get a flu booster every year, and that’s fine. I’m happy to get a shot every so often if it means I can go about my life like normal.

New comment by beervirus in "Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels against Omicron ~37-fold"

beervirus — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:40:44 +0000

> When asked to grade the severity of symptoms on a scale from 1 (no symptoms) to 5 (significant symptoms), 42% (33/79) reported level 3 symptoms, whereas 11% (9/79) reported level 4 symptoms. None of the cases required hospitalisation up to 13 December 2021.

I am extremely optimistic.

New comment by beervirus in "I was part of a human subject research study without my consent"

beervirus — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 19:46:59 +0000

It’s a survey question.

New comment by beervirus in "I was part of a human subject research study without my consent"

beervirus — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 05:43:55 +0000

A human research study? Give me a fucking break.

>someone asked me a question and it scared me

New comment by beervirus in "Defrag Like It's 1993"

beervirus — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:09:33 +0000

DOS defrag goes back a lot farther than that. It even predates FAT32, let alone NTFS.

New comment by beervirus in "President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment"

beervirus — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:07:46 +0000

> We can already see having consequentialist ethics that don't care about your freedom do a lot better at fighting pandemics

Can we? I have no idea how many people in China have died from covid, and neither do you. All we have to go on is what the state-run media says.

New comment by beervirus in "Ask HN: What's the easiest way to make a living with $600k in cash?"

beervirus — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:41:43 +0000

>I mean, it can.

>Not minutes

So… it can’t?