Hacker News: buerkle

New comment by buerkle in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"

buerkle — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:48:02 +0000

I froze my credit with the 3 big credit agencies in the US years ago when someone attempted to open multiple Dell and other company accounts in my name. Easy enough to unfreeze for a temporary period of time when I need it.

New comment by buerkle in "FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement"

buerkle — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:40:49 +0000

Technically late 19th century with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission

New comment by buerkle in "Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis"

buerkle — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:01:14 +0000

I'm in the Austin area and lost power for 2 days. Some friends of mine lost power for almost a week.

New comment by buerkle in "Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election"

buerkle — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:46:46 +0000

Showing ID to vote wouldn't be controversial in the US if states made it easy to obtain a valid ID for the purpose. But states routinely use it as a backdoor mechanism to prevent people from voting.

New comment by buerkle in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

buerkle — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:36:32 +0000

Just this week Trump posted on his social media that Obama should be indicted for treason, aka, executed and not a blip from the supposed left-wing media

New comment by buerkle in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

buerkle — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:34:27 +0000

Not every side deserves to be covered for each story. This is the problem with major media today, they give equal opportunity to people that have no idea what they are talking about. It's like one side says 2+2=4, the other 2+2=5, and media gives them equal air time.

New comment by buerkle in "Use Your Type System"

buerkle — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:15:50 +0000

No I want to block both. I don't want to give devs the option of creating a function doSomething(String) that happens to accept MyType. If I need to call trim then I'll do

  StringUtils.trim(MyType.toString());

New comment by buerkle in "Use Your Type System"

buerkle — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:31:44 +0000

foo(UUID, UUID); foo(AccountId, UserId);

I'd much rather deal with the 2nd version than the first. It's self-documenting and prevents errors like calling "foo(userId, accountId)" letting the compiler test for those cases. It also helps with more complex data structures without needing to create another type.

  Map>
  Map>

New comment by buerkle in "Use Your Type System"

buerkle — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:24:10 +0000

But then you are representing two distinct types as the same underlying type, String.

  MyType extends String;
  void foo(String s);
  foo(new MyType()); // is valid

Leading to the original problem. I don't want to represent MyType as a String because it's not.

New comment by buerkle in "Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

buerkle — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:09:42 +0000

I love my bolt, but I wish it allowed you to choose a less aggressive setting when using the steering wheel paddle. My old leaf had that option.

New comment by buerkle in "Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide"

buerkle — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 02:24:35 +0000

I disagree with term limits. I'd prefer to see the number of representatives vastly increased (no increase since 1929) and gerrymandering removed. I do agree they should not trade on the market.

I think you misunderstand the risk that non-CEO employees are exposed as cycomanic pointed out. CEOs that make this much money are more capable of defending themselves than a regular employee, not only from their wealth but from their network. It's rare that a CEO has to testify to Congress, or deal with FTC/FCC, etc. And dealing with BOD, hostile takeovers, or activist investors pales in comparison to what many people deal with day to day. A CEO is not going to go homeless from a hostile takeover.

New comment by buerkle in "Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide"

buerkle — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:59:18 +0000

Sorry but the risk:reward narrative is tiring. Many of these CEOs walk away with millions whether they succeed or fail, there's little to no risk for them. In fact, even they fail in cases they end finding another well paying executive position. Meanwhile, many of their employees are living paycheck to paycheck.

New comment by buerkle in "A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention"

buerkle — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:08:17 +0000

I bought an electric early last year and never considered Tesla because of Elon. I'm sure I'm not the only one.I disagree with "have to go out of their way", many companies now build electrics and it's easy to find them.

New comment by buerkle in "U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation"

buerkle — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:55:11 +0000

The bill that was recently passed has massive cuts to medicare and medicaid

New comment by buerkle in "Texas electricity maximum renewables record"

buerkle — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:37:26 +0000

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-disconnect-power-p... a great podcast on the blackout from 2021, it wasn't from renewables.

New comment by buerkle in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

buerkle — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:10:26 +0000

I find this hard to believe unless some major event was occurring while you were staying in Boulder and you purchased at the last minute.

New comment by buerkle in "After 120 years, Yellowstone bison are a single breeding population"

buerkle — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:42:35 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust is an interesting example of eradicating an organism. From massive swarms of locusts to none in under 30 years.

New comment by buerkle in "Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon"

buerkle — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:16:47 +0000

And they do all their manufacturing in Briggs, TX about 30 minutes north of their HQ.

New comment by buerkle in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"

buerkle — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:33:53 +0000

"It provides a lot of jobs to people who are otherwise unemployable.", what a ridiculous and condescending statement. If that was true, the number of federal employees would be much higher but in fact the number has stayed relatively flat for over 50 years at 2.8 million federal employees. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001

New comment by buerkle in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

buerkle — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:56:15 +0000

Where has he shone that other than saying something inane on twitter?