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New comment by ccn0p in "Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)"

ccn0p — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:51:39 +0000

Reminds me of the people who dehydrate to survive the chaotic eras in Three-Body Problem.

New comment by ccn0p in "Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity"

ccn0p — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:58:04 +0000

Agreed but this wouldn't be the Internet if it wasn't critical about something, so that's just how it goes.

New comment by ccn0p in "Changes at YC"

ccn0p — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:16:36 +0000

not reddit!

Dollar drops as Fed rate hike expectations trimmed on SVB collapse

ccn0p — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:27:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/dollar-slides-us-intervenes-svb-collapse-2023-03-13/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35136142

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New comment by ccn0p in "Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC"

ccn0p — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 03:57:03 +0000

What losses are being socialized? This is a liquidity issue that is being reconciled with short term loans, not a solvency issue being bailed out with tax dollars.

New comment by ccn0p in "FDIC – SVB FAQ"

ccn0p — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 04:48:45 +0000

Yes if there's a material chance that the last third of folks at the concert get torched in a fire.

New comment by ccn0p in "DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist"

ccn0p — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:23:25 +0000

Yes but certainly a good chunk of the companies finite resources will be shifted towards this effort vs improving upon search. No judgement whether this is good or bad, just... the way the world is headed.

New comment by ccn0p in "Does hand-washing or wearing masks slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?"

ccn0p — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:07:23 +0000

If N95 masks have worked so well for you, why walk around angry at everyone else for choosing not to wear them? You're in for a long life of anger and resentment.

New comment by ccn0p in "Does hand-washing or wearing masks slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?"

ccn0p — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:04:36 +0000

there's theory, and there's reality. As mostly engineers here we'd love to live in theory, but that's not how the world works.

New comment by ccn0p in "Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years"

ccn0p — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:15:25 +0000

what's crazy to me is how terrible of a track record big pharma has in being even moderately uncorrupted, and yet when it comes to vaccines, sprinkle in a bit of fear and suddenly we're supposed to trust their studies and superbowl commercials.

New comment by ccn0p in "Arkansas Proposes Requiring ID to Watch Porn Online"

ccn0p — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:27:33 +0000

i hate being the source person but that's a pretty grand hyperbolic statement lacking details... mind expanding beyond just an opinion?

New comment by ccn0p in "High-Energy Lasers"

ccn0p — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 01:14:18 +0000

anybody else feel like that marketing video was a let down?

New comment by ccn0p in "Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day"

ccn0p — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 04:13:26 +0000

Ya that could be, I'm in tech so I see it all day, but I tend to be [sometimes] pleasantly surprised at the libertarian ethos that still floats around Hn.. moreso than other platforms that just devolve into flame wars.

Obviously Musk has done some controversial stuff and it's going to piss people off, but do we believe that he has a vision for free speech (not anything goes but free speech as in classic ACLU values free speech) or not? How often does he not say exactly what he thinks?

New comment by ccn0p in "Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day"

ccn0p — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 04:08:28 +0000

No it's not straightforward. This isn't a literal physical town square, obviously. This is a platform in which a major type of online discourse takes place that has carved a pretty significant and influential place in history, no matter what happens to it. "escorting people off of it" needs to be taken extremely seriously, with transparency, and with a clear separation from those that set our federal and state policy. This wasn't happening as now proven by the trove of Twitter files.

New comment by ccn0p in "Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day"

ccn0p — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 04:03:19 +0000

Well one of the best predictors of the future is the past and he has a pretty incredible track record of both success and vision and staying true to that despite huge market/social/technological headwinds. That was great when he was in energy and space travel, but suddenly not so great.

New comment by ccn0p in "Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day"

ccn0p — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:32:32 +0000

Does anybody downvoting want to add a reasoning? I guess most people didn't see how censorial the previous regime of Twitter became over time.

New comment by ccn0p in "AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes"

ccn0p — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:32:15 +0000

But does controlling what everyone says on the Internet help or ultimately hurt? This seems to be the crux of so many problems.

New comment by ccn0p in "As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena"

ccn0p — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 04:35:51 +0000

Yep, because fear is the key to control and compliance. It's the oldest trick in the book. There has to be a kernel of truth in order to be effective.

New comment by ccn0p in "Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work"

ccn0p — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:33:23 +0000

It seems to me that many tech workers are experiencing, for the first time, the hard reality that:

a) Companies may be formed, operated, and controlled by people, but they are complex systems that do not have feelings and do not care about individuals no matter how much the culture warriors say otherwise. They are systems designed to survive, with or without you.

b) We are not defined by our jobs

I'm not making a case one way or another for capitalism, or layoffs, or the meaning of life, rather pointing out that this is the reality in which we live and once you realize these two points, things will make more sense.

New comment by ccn0p in "PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever"

ccn0p — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:35:10 +0000

tldr;

You’re fired, we’re doing great thanks to cutting your cost, but stay strong in your job search during this recession like those who have been persecuted for the color of their skin!