<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: bena</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bena</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:31:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bena" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bena in "Code is run more than read (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, you were saying that accessibility is subservient to efficiency.<p><i>And</i> you were explicitly told several times that your hypothetical efficiency just does not exist. So constantly saying, "Yeah, but what <i>if</i>" looks like you're being obstinate for its own sake.<p>If the majority of people "didn't get your point", consider that maybe you aren't great at getting your point across.</p>
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<p>That's a bit conceited.<p>Animals have inner lives as well. They have their own thoughts and feelings. And sometimes those feelings are anger and their thought is to kick the shit out of those assholes over there.<p>Fuck man, my cats occasionally scrap with each other. I know it's not anything they've learned from the people in my house because we don't go full Wrestlemania on each other.</p>
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<p>And he's using his hypothetical to illustrate the point that: even while some benefits may exist, there are other considerations besides one measure of efficiency.<p>That's the point <i>you're</i> not getting. People get your point. They're just pointing out that sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze. And for something that needs to be regularly accessed, it's better for it to be accessible than strictly optimal.<p>And during the whole debacle, you've demonstrated that you don't have much insight to the trade space at all. And you're so dead set on "not being wrong" here that now you're accusing everyone around you of being riled up. We're chill, dude. We're starting to worry about you.</p>
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<p>To be fair, you are constructing an entirely hypothetical car scenario where oil filter placement leads to a 5-10% increase in fuel efficiency.<p>We're already in the land of the fucking ridiculous. Let's have fun with it.</p>
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<p>Define "modern". I have a 2017 Civic and I've had to replace the battery a couple of times. There's a holding bar that needs to be removed before the battery can be taken out, but other than that the only real problem is the weight of the thing.</p>
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<p>Obviously the title is cheeky as a lot of attributes ascribed to Autistic people are also stereotypes about Germans.<p>The site is exposing the reality that you can come to the same place from different directions. For example, if you are more "German", your sense of fairness, adherence to rules, regard for punctuality comes from a place of moral obligation. You act in ways you hope others will also act because you believe that if everyone acts that way, we'd all get along better.<p>However, if you do these things because those are the arbitrary rules set forth and they must be followed because that's the definition of a rule, something you follow, then you're likely Autistic because that kind of rigid thinking that is a hallmark of the condition.</p>
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<p>They explain it on the site, the two percentages are independent.<p>You are 60% non-German and 60% non-Autistic.</p>
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<p>I always looked at the Costco law degree as more of a commentary on Costco/price clubs than of degree mills.<p>Like Costco sells <i>everything</i> and eventually that includes education.</p>
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<p>To be fair, the range of results were from 112 to 136. Just over one standard deviation. Like if you gave those tests again, you'd likely get a slightly different order. Basically, 131 - 136 is kind of a tie.<p>Now, 5 and 6 are basically locked in. You <i>might</i> see 5 and 6 swap <i>or</i> 5 swap with one of the top 4 to put him in fourth and that person in fifth.<p>But basically assume they've hit around the middle of their ability.<p>And yes, the black haired woman did harp on their credentials a lot. But a lot of them did and then there was the casual racism in putting the clean-cut Asian guy first and classism by putting the military guy last.<p>All-in-all, Jubilee is trash, as always.</p>
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<p>The thing about IQ and EQ being on different ends of a spectrum is kind of wrong. Turns out, those people whose minds work more efficiently, do so across the board.<p>In other words, smarter people are better able to gauge people's emotions as well.</p>
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<p>You realize that your anecdote here is itself virtue signaling, right?<p>Because, I’m sure multiple people here could tell similar stories with the political leanings of the groups involved reversed.</p>
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<p>Why not make your rate 15% higher than your desired rate?<p>That way your “discounted” rate is the rate they should have paid and they feel like they got a deal.</p>
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<p>She’s attempting to use the public to bludgeon Meta.<p>This is a fight among shitty people. I will not lionize either side. They both contributed to the shitty state of affairs today.<p>Meta can burn and she can go broke. I’m fine with both</p>
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<p>Because it doesn’t really target the issue.<p>Would she go do the same job at Alphabet? X? Probably, if they’d have her.<p>And the only real thing that’d happened is the government has been used to remove other companies’ competition.<p>Hooray I guess</p>
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<p>She didn’t set herself apart. She was fired. She was forced apart.<p>That’s the issue here. Is this someone who found their morals or someone who found a stick with which to strike back at those who hurt her?<p>One of those doesn’t require her to change at all.</p>
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<p>She didn’t leave, she was fired. A significant difference.</p>
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<p>I think the point is that up until she was fired, she <i>was</i> Meta. She wasn’t a random employee, she was their global public policy director. She wasn’t just implementing policy, she was responsible for creating it.<p>The question remains whether or not she would have written this book had she not been fired.<p>It’s not like she quit due to her ethical objections</p>
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<p>I mean, yeah. I need to buy the album once. I can buy multiple shirts, posters, etc.</p>
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<p>Same here. I thought it was completely fictional.<p>So, I immediately looked it up. There was a real d'Artagnan, he was kind of a big deal, so Dumas wrote some stories based on a fictionalized version of the real d'Artagnan.</p>
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<p>Talking about how you are bored about talking about the thing is still talking about the thing.</p>
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