Hacker News: chance_state

New comment by chance_state in "California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state"

chance_state — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:13:28 +0000

But "Democrat supporters" sounds worse, which is why they use that word instead.

New comment by chance_state in "New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’"

chance_state — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:03:35 +0000

Here's another classic: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...

New comment by chance_state in "Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report"

chance_state — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:42:45 +0000

I used to be a huge Greenwald fan. I think he handled the Snowden era like a total pro.

But lately the guy just sounds crazy. His takes are all incredibly predictable: Biden bad, Trump actually good for this one weird reason, libs hypocrites, Obama is a murderer, etc. All the same, boring, tired takes.

New comment by chance_state in "Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report"

chance_state — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:38:54 +0000

> If people refuse to fly the 737 MAX, hopefully they go bankrupt and the existing management can be replaced.

Lol.

As if Boeing would ever be allowed to go out of business.

New comment by chance_state in "U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise"

chance_state — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:19:01 +0000

Hugo Chavez hacked our election from the grave. Oh and he also manufactured millions of paper ballots that match the electionic tabulation almost perfectly.

The deep state is deeper than we thought!

New comment by chance_state in "U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise"

chance_state — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:13:39 +0000

Did you read the book?

They work extensively with industry to patch vulnerabilities. There's a whole committee and process for it.

New comment by chance_state in "FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization"

chance_state — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:47:14 +0000

No.

Dang, please do not change the UI.

New comment by chance_state in "No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)"

chance_state — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 03:17:23 +0000

> Do you have plans to address the criticisms you've had on Youtube and Reddit comments?

Isn't this just an advertising platform? Why would we address criticisms here?

New comment by chance_state in "Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz"

chance_state — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:30:13 +0000

It's a joke.

New comment by chance_state in "‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase"

chance_state — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:46:52 +0000

> Do you regularly record interactions with your coworkers, on the chance they may say something incriminating?

If I'm so upset at work that I'm about to publicly call someone a racist? Yeah, I usually gather some evidence rather than just smear them.

Just throwing accusations works in 2020, however.

New comment by chance_state in "‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase"

chance_state — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:43:27 +0000

Would the NYT just go off and... write an ideological hit piece?

Impossible!

New comment by chance_state in "Nearly 28M licensed Texas drivers hit by data breach"

chance_state — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 04:52:35 +0000

Yes.

New comment by chance_state in "EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]"

chance_state — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:09:41 +0000

So stop letting "that kind of people" into your country rather than take away everyone else's rights.

New comment by chance_state in "EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]"

chance_state — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 20:58:55 +0000

Lol, what?

New comment by chance_state in "Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’"

chance_state — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 02:40:05 +0000

> At some point you are no longer asking what topics are offensive, but rather what topics are safe.

Isn't that the point of the thought and speech policing we're seeing lately?

New comment by chance_state in "Electoral College Decision Tree"

chance_state — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:51:57 +0000

> Do you also only think that crimes happen only if it gets reported? Meaning if 50 burglaries happen to 100 people but only 2 people reported it, does that mean the burglary rate is 2% or 50%? This is why I don't bother with these worthless metrics as I'll explain in the next paragraph regarding trump.

Based on this middle school level of understanding of polling and crime statistics, I'll skip the rest of the comment, but thanks.

New comment by chance_state in "Chess’s Cheating Crisis"

chance_state — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:03:17 +0000

Are they trying to hit 50% female participation?

New comment by chance_state in "Eric Yuan's Visa Application Was Rejected 8 Times"

chance_state — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:47:14 +0000

Maybe since the foundation of nation states, humans have been pondering immigration, and everyone in modern history has it wrong except you?

New comment by chance_state in "Eric Yuan's Visa Application Was Rejected 8 Times"

chance_state — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:46:13 +0000

> You don’t know who the best and brightest are when they’re crossing the border

Not sure how anyone can say stuff like this with a straight face. Of course you know. In fact, we already have programs to get these people into the US on a faster track. There are problems with these programs, like any, that we should improve. Opening the borders to all comers is not a viable option.

New comment by chance_state in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

chance_state — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:40:20 +0000

Not an excuse and never has been.