Hacker News: briholt

New comment by briholt in "James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google"

briholt — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:42:42 +0000

The misrepresentation is a feature, not a bug. They need to create dragons in order to justify their dragon-slaying crusade. This has been going on for years, BTW.

New comment by briholt in "Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game"

briholt — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:33:11 +0000

Awesome game. My only request would be make the planes less maneuverable and move more like real planes. This would make it less chaotic and allow more dog-fight and strategic play.

New comment by briholt in "The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries"

briholt — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:12:24 +0000

Let psychologists prescribe common, low-risk psych drugs (instead of scarcer psychiatrists), let optometrist prescribe glasses, etc.

New comment by briholt in "Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO"

briholt — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:32:00 +0000

The smart move would be to say she's switching parties because of Trump, run as a conservative Democrat left of Trump but right of the progressive wing.

New comment by briholt in "Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers"

briholt — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:08:08 +0000

This is cute, but I now see comments endorsing this brand of hate and hysteria (albeit with a less violent flair) on HN everyday. If you're going to suggest that you haven't noticed this trend over the past year or two then frankly your request for reporting is disingenuous.

In line with the original top comment, why don't you publicly declare that you you'll treat discrimination/slander of whites/men/conservatives/scientists/free-speech-advocates on this platform just as harshly as you would any other group instead of asking me to send you a dozen emails per day.

New comment by briholt in "Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers"

briholt — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:53:09 +0000

Any HN mods want to jump in here and suggest maybe HN is a tech forum and not the appropriate place to promote political violence? Or perhaps this brand of hate and hysteria has completely infected this community as well.

New comment by briholt in "Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Google"

briholt — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:44:48 +0000

This is a highly politicized and subjective use of the word "democracy." It would be more forthright to just say, "I like Soros's politics."

New comment by briholt in "Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Google"

briholt — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:12:20 +0000

Theil is becoming the liberal media's George Soros - the enigmatic billionaire pulling the strings of his evil conservative conspiracy.

New comment by briholt in "America is facing an epistemic crisis"

briholt — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 15:39:03 +0000

"This study shows my tribe is better than yours because my tribe doesn't think tribally."

New comment by briholt in "Venezuela’s Behind on Its Debt and Facing Two Huge Bond Payments"

briholt — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:35:26 +0000

I've only seen a few pieces by Martin, but everyone was a gross distortion of the situation covered. She's a propagandist pushing anti-Western narratives, not a journalist summarizing the facts. I suspect her coverage here may be influenced by her anti-Western feelings.

New comment by briholt in "Venezuela’s Behind on Its Debt and Facing Two Huge Bond Payments"

briholt — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:06:56 +0000

They need to keep the capital flowing in order to fund the police/military that prop up the authoritarian regime.

New comment by briholt in "Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500M"

briholt — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:25:37 +0000

You've put an interesting perspective on the safety/cost balance. I find it ironic that the replier is effectively demonstrating your point: people have an emotional attachment to safety, but not opportunity cost, regardless of the math. This is perhaps a form of "one death is a tragedy, ten thousand deaths are a statistic."

New comment by briholt in "Iceland's attempts to replant its forests"

briholt — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:34:28 +0000

Then the farmers started shooting the wolves. Circle of life.

New comment by briholt in "Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office"

briholt — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:09:02 +0000

> Whether or not people ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE.

Yeah, for me the feeling of being implicitly watched and judged all day causes low-level anxiety.

New comment by briholt in "My Google job was tedious and pointless"

briholt — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:05:56 +0000

Agreed. This is "feelings over professionalism." If you're so uncontrollably emotional that you can't help but waste company time, take a sick day. But I think the problem is that they're not uncontrollable, rather they're very in control and are enacting a performance for their audience. Thus they need an audience.

New comment by briholt in "Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs"

briholt — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:39:33 +0000

Find one successful programmer at Google/Apple/Facebook/Cisco/etc. with an IQ of 90. Remembering basic equations, keeping long sequences of functions sorted in your head, even understanding FTP/Git/CL instructions require this level cognitive ability. When you deal with people who can't hang shirts you'll start to understand this. There are just under 200 million Americans with IQs between "can't hang shirts" and "productive programmer."

New comment by briholt in "Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs"

briholt — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:56:09 +0000

You've clearly never met a person who is unable to place a hanger inside of a shirt and hang it on a rack, or a person who can't sort 5 single-digit numbers mentally. What you are describing are 120+ IQ problems.

New comment by briholt in "Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs"

briholt — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:54:10 +0000

Another major glaring problem that no one wants to admit is that lots of tech work requires (at the very least) college-level-IQ, which excludes the majority of the population. And the lower-IQ jobs are quickly being automated away.

New comment by briholt in "How Science Makes “Rick and Morty” Great"

briholt — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:26:39 +0000

Most nihilists don't spend countless hours inventing complex devices and embarking on adventures.

New comment by briholt in "Royalties from Writing a Hit Song with Justin Bieber"

briholt — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 22:52:31 +0000

I meant we markup the computing power of the server (not exactly the purchase price). My host rents me a server that can perform X calculations for $Y/hour. I divide and resell that computation power, plus my software, to customers at Z markup.