Hacker News: cbron

New comment by cbron in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

cbron — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:26:46 +0000

Spokane is Eastern Washington, the college in Cheney is literally called Eastern, its just not a desert.

New comment by cbron in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

cbron — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:10:12 +0000

Spokane is not desert. Even surrounding territory is more plains. Some desert military training happens at Yakima much further west.

New comment by cbron in "Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions""

cbron — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:15:51 +0000

Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and eventually the tax revenue will go down. Plenty of ghost towns around me that prove that point, you have to stay modern or you go under. As far as the suburb part, if those high income areas spend all their money downtown, then tax revenue downtown goes up but the source of money is still the suburbs. You have two sources of tax revenue in downtown (business + residents), but only one in the suburbs. So naturally tax revenue is lower in suburbs, but without them the downtown businesses wouldn't survive at all. It's a relationship, and it's odd they don't address this point. Also in the southwest there are plenty of suburb-only cities that grow rapidly without a downtown district playing major part.

New comment by cbron in "WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week"

cbron — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:45:00 +0000

Reuters has some info, no apparent buyer: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/wework-plans-file-bank...

New comment by cbron in "17.1 Salesforce Towers worth of empty office space spread across SF"

cbron — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:42:55 +0000

"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happening for a while in many (most ?) metro areas, but the pandemic will certainly expedite things.

New comment by cbron in "Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability"

cbron — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:01:10 +0000

Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.

New comment by cbron in "Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit that you’ll pay for later"

cbron — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:05:55 +0000

Rest would give you energy regardless, both physically and mentally. Nearly every sport has built in sitting breaks.

New comment by cbron in "The Problem with Go"

cbron — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:02:47 +0000

It's not about ignoring editors, it's about taking constructive feedback, and the ratio of constructive feedback to noise is very low in complex projects. In those projects, people that aren't heavily invested typically don't know enough about the wider project to make valuable contributions.

New comment by cbron in "Alaska Ranked Choice Voting Cast Vote Record [JSON at the Bottom]"

cbron — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:14:11 +0000

> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote...

Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work out that way. Overall people don't think FPTP is consensus because you have to vote pragmatically for people you don't necessarily like. Therefore the winner is not the consensus "favorite" choice of everyone who voted.

New comment by cbron in "I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message"

cbron — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:40:36 +0000

Has anyone tried this with real estate solicitors ? I get a message per day about selling my house.

New comment by cbron in "Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate"

cbron — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:35:50 +0000

> Importantly, Facebook helped people to get accurate, authoritative health information.

Surely the author experienced some form of cognitive dissonance while typing this out.

New comment by cbron in "Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021"

cbron — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:59:05 +0000

Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...

New comment by cbron in "Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life"

cbron — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:18:40 +0000

ditto

New comment by cbron in "A harassment campaign on Goodreads"

cbron — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:38:21 +0000

No improvements on old features or adding new features, basically no updates at all for the past few years. Recommendations and rating system are crap. Usability around core features like bookshelves are terrible. The awards are just a popularity contest.

New comment by cbron in "White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit"

cbron — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:06:43 +0000

+1, that was a great episode. The iOS hack story is especially crazy.

New comment by cbron in "Alan Moore on superhero culture"

cbron — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:40:08 +0000

religion != entertainment

New comment by cbron in "Alan Moore on superhero culture"

cbron — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:06:52 +0000

Mythology has served various purposes over the course of human history. This is referring specifically to modern superhero culture which may be derived from mythology but isn't comparable to it.

New comment by cbron in "700k Choice Hotels records leaked in data breach, ransom demanded"

cbron — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:40:24 +0000

> The message claimed that 700,000 records had been stolen and backed up elsewhere and demanded 0.4 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $4,000 at the time of writing, from the owners.

Not even a full bitcoin.

New comment by cbron in "Death of the Country Club"

cbron — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 04:29:45 +0000

Well, then go get a job with work/life balance that pays less.

New comment by cbron in "Wave to be acquired by H&R Block for $537M"

cbron — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 04:21:39 +0000

Wave is for small businesses or consultants. The government doesn’t know about most of the things that happen at low levels until the business reports it. End of the year bookkeeping can be a nightmare.