<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: burnte</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=burnte</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:07:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=burnte" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burnte in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I learned at a young age the best way for me to be a good out-loud reader was to think about something else while I'm reading aloud. If I concentrate on the words and the reading aloud I screw up but if I think about other things, even HOW I'm doing while reading or thinking about what I'm reading and going to say NEXT, then I can read aloud flawlessly.</p>
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<p>If I recall, yes. I don't think clientside maps hit till HTML 3.2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:44:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934484</link><dc:creator>burnte</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burnte in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note: We never had an issue with Paypal and did not sell any pharmaceuticals. Just wanted to be clear on that.</p>
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<p>Wow, I remember when server side image maps were the only kind of image map!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:23:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927919</link><dc:creator>burnte</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burnte in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stripe can be ridiculously restrictive. A few years ago at a psychiatric company that (among other things) offered therapy, TMS, and also esketamine/IV ketamine that was only offered in office, prescribed by a psychiatrist that has determined it is a medically prudent treatment, and closely monitored. They also offered some seminars during the year that other doctors could pay to attend that counts towards their CE credits per year.<p>We wanted to use Stripe to process credit card payments from doctors who would attend our conferences. Stripe flagged our account for review because they saw "ketamine" on the website. After an investigation, they closed our account because they said they can't allow us to sell ketamine online. I tried, multiple times, to explain that we don't do that and that it would be massively illegal for us to do that. For a month I tried to talk to them, but they wouldn't budge. They would not move away from the idea we were trying to sell ketamine online. They were convinced a 20 year old psychiatry business in 4 states and tens of thousands of patients a year with doctors who were recognized as leaders in their fields wanted to sell illegal drugs online.<p>We signed up for Paypal and never had an issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:20:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927880</link><dc:creator>burnte</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burnte in "Aluminum foil (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, it's the third most abundant element on the planet. If that's a contaminant, then so is iron and oxygen and nitrogen. Did you know Dihydrogen Monoxide is found in 100% of cancers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:08:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824636</link><dc:creator>burnte</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burnte in "Aluminum foil (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The EU is known to be far more conservative with health and safety than other areas. I focused on the risk of aluminum, not leeching because leeching doesn't matter of the aluminum doesn't cause any issues. And from what I'ce seen in the past decade, it doesn't. I was wrong.</p>
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<p>There's no risk to leeching, there's no data proving any link at all between Aluminum and Alzheimer's. I was a huge advocate for staying away from Aluminum cooking stuff for a long time and my mother even wound up with Alzheimer's. Simply put, I was wrong, there's no link.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:12:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810581</link><dc:creator>burnte</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burnte in "Resetting Xbox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> - Then they did not have to give away popular games day one on Game Pass
> - And finally, they did not have to raise Game Pass prices to improve the profit margins. Of course, consumers pulled out.<p>I saw this coming from day one. The instant they did Netflix for Games, it was going to gut their margins. And then the inevitable pullback, either holding new games for months or raising the price, was going to kill the value proposition.<p>They said "This will make us a mint" and celebrated the victory years too early.</p>
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<p>>  and it's the same math our neocortex runs on.<p>The math is based upon theories of how the brain work, but even if those theories are right, this math is a great simplification and subset of what organic brains do.</p>
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<p>Tidal basins and ocean bottoms are very different from the open ocean surface. Much like tree tops and 3 miles in the air are different. Both are up in the air, but still quite different, just like "ocean" but still different.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:57:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808181</link><dc:creator>burnte</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burnte in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. If youtube crashed then presumably NO video would be available.<p>2. If you upload sensitive footage to a public video sharing website, I don't really have any concern for that footage being leaked.</p>
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<p>How about testing the output? Seems like the ultimate test. If the output's still good, I guess the rewrite didn't hurt.</p>
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<p>I have yet to hear any evidence that the Rust rewrite was harmful. I have no emotional investment in Bun (which I'd never heard of before the rewrite), or Zig (which I also didn't know about), or Rust (which I think is neat and that's about it), so I'm about as unbiased as you can get and from what I saw the conversion was done well, and I haven't heard of massive bugs resulting from the rewrite.</p>
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<p>If a train crashes, people die. If Youtube crashes, no one dies.</p>
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<p>AFAIK she was saying we were years not decades away which is what made her nervous. We were very close and the risks hadn't been fully explored.</p>
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<p>Interesting that this is led by the same Dr. Kate Adamala who ended the right-handed-proteins experiment a couple of years ago. Given how close she was I'm not surprised she's made this work.</p>
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<p>Billionaries are willing to have us make that sacrifice!</p>
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<p>> you put it right here:
> > I feel the nation should be supported and deserves to exist
> this is to say, you believe that Israel should be supported in what it does, and that the inhumane stuff deserves to happen.<p>Except you purposefully cut off where I said they're doing inhumane things that are not defense. I DO support their right to exist, but not their tactics. They're slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent people for every terrorist they get.<p>> you arent in conflict with the conservative party.<p>I assure you, I am. In most ways.<p>> if you said the same about nazi germany - that the nation should be supported and deserves to exist, that would be a very explicit support for the genocide.<p>Does Germany have a right to exist? Yes. Did Germany have a right to exist in 1918 and in 1939? Yes. Did it have the right to start two major wars and slaughter tens of millions? No.<p>You CAN support someone's right to exist without also supporting EVERYTHING they might ever do. That's a ridiculously extreme statement.<p>> the government is doing the things you want it to<p>Again, no, it's not. You ignored half of what I said and then decided supporting existence equals supporting genocide.<p>I regret this reply already, this was not a serious attempt at a conversation on your part.</p>
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<p>I can understand most of what our conservative party does but I do not understand their obsession with Israel. I feel the nation should be supported and deserves to exist, but that they're doing a lot of inhumane things right now and saying that in the USA right now gets you called an antisemite incredibly fast.</p>
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