Hacker News: cheetos

New comment by cheetos in "Interview with Mr. Money Mustache"

cheetos — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:31:13 +0000

> In 2016, I spent $32k ($24k was rent!) Assuming a $50k income, that'd be a ~36% savings rate, which requires a 23 year career.

Assuming a $50k income post-tax

New comment by cheetos in "Developer UX at Google"

cheetos — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:03:39 +0000

The way to fix comments is clear: human moderators. Since this can't br automated (yet), Google doesn't do it.

New comment by cheetos in "Three areas where self-driving cars will bring new opportunities"

cheetos — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 06:34:41 +0000

When I read this, I can't help but think of the enormous promises that came with the computerization of medical records versus the reality that we have today.

New comment by cheetos in "Baltimore State Attorney Drops Dozens of Cases: Body Cam Shows Drug-Planting"

cheetos — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 09:39:44 +0000

America, since its founding, has been an experiment in extreme individualism over collectivism. We worship capitalism over all else. Even a whisper of government programs that help the poor are vilified as communist. Selfishness and immorality is a natural consequence of that. Things won't change until our culture completely changes.

New comment by cheetos in "SoundCloud's Collapse"

cheetos — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:17:45 +0000

In my experience, it's likely that the founders' problematic behavior has existed from the beginning, but employees feared retaliation and thus didn't speak up until now, when they are safe from being fired.

New comment by cheetos in "Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’"

cheetos — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:43:25 +0000

This is one of most unbelievably naive, immature, and truly ignorant comments I've read on HN. I sincerely hope you're trolling.
Put down the Ayn Rand fantasy novels and go meet some people outside of your economic bubble. Not everyone can be a software engineer in Western society. I'd wager you're about as responsible for your lot in life as these people.
Read about the history of the industrial revolution. Tenement life in NYC. Try to empathize. Develop some humanity and real perspective for Pete's sake.
By the way, no one is stopping you from living like that if you're so jealous. But it's clear you wouldn't last a day like that, you're all talk anyway.

New comment by cheetos in "SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities"

cheetos — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:58:08 +0000

I truly hope that human drivers' "right" to drive at whatever speed they want is forever trampled by regulatory burden.

New comment by cheetos in "SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities"

cheetos — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:51:22 +0000

There is simply a massive difference between the theory of democracy and its actual implementation. Your personal autonomy is restricted by the government, massively, period, generally for everyone's own good. They decide what and how much medicine you can put in your body. Whether you can gamble, and where, and on what, and how much. What drugs you can take. What speed you can drive. Whether you must go to school or not based on your age. Which food you can buy at the supermarket. What you are allowed to see on television. Where and when you may protest. What behavior is allowed in public and what is not. What speech is considered 'free' and what isn't. What machines you may operate and under what circumstances. Which financial transactions you may or may not participate in and the terms of those transactions. The type of home you build and it's specifications. Which countries you may or may not enter and under which circumstances. Whether you are allowed to work or not. It's just the way things are.

New comment by cheetos in "Ways a VC says no without saying no"

cheetos — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:13:11 +0000

Got it. Thanks :)

New comment by cheetos in "Ways a VC says no without saying no"

cheetos — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:32:41 +0000

Thanks for the detail. To me, that sounds like the cost of doing business as a VC, more than risk. Forgive me if I have a little less empathy for the other side :)

New comment by cheetos in "Ways a VC says no without saying no"

cheetos — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:32:52 +0000

> 10 of those will enter due diligence (at substantial risk to the VC in case the deal does not go through)
What exactly is the "substantial risk" that VCs take on by doing due diligence on ten companies a year?

New comment by cheetos in "US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows"

cheetos — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:51:19 +0000

This is the type of logic that leads to mandatory military parades, the banning of religion as a distraction and "Dear Leader"-style propaganda and mythology. If the military would like to do something in my benefit I request they stop destabilizing the world and causing death for profit instead of glorifying and normalizing it through state-sponsored propaganda.

New comment by cheetos in "Selling t-shirts beats selling mobile apps"

cheetos — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:37:48 +0000

I expected to read about how OP built a successful e-commerce business after transitioning from full-time software development. Instead this is about how he earned $275 over three days on a one-time shirt idea. Click-bait.

New comment by cheetos in "If companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders"

cheetos — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 15:22:55 +0000

> I don't, in general, trust direct feedback from someone I turned down (or hired, for that matter).
Would you please share where you're working so we can avoid applying?

New comment by cheetos in "Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?"

cheetos — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:37:47 +0000

Did your service offer a paid API? Scraping happens because of a lack of better options. Surely you can understand why the scrapers didn't want to contact you beforehand.

New comment by cheetos in "An alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society"

cheetos — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 21:46:36 +0000

I knew a classmate who openly admitted to putting made up volunteer activities on her college applications, arguing there was no chance the school would fact check her. She was right!

New comment by cheetos in "How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation"

cheetos — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 07:20:15 +0000

The phenomenon you're describing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics

New comment by cheetos in "How to Achieve Polished UI"

cheetos — Sun, 28 May 2017 16:58:01 +0000

I didn't find out about the address bar thing for years. That said, I am not a fan of reproducing natively available functionality in the browser.

New comment by cheetos in "Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually"

cheetos — Thu, 25 May 2017 05:11:01 +0000

Well, did she do the cooking or not?

New comment by cheetos in "A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system"

cheetos — Thu, 11 May 2017 03:06:42 +0000

Is this unethical if everything is done locally and no data is stored or resold?