Hacker News: chrismcb

New comment by chrismcb in "Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices"

chrismcb — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:16:19 +0000

It shouldn't be. Of course I think sometimes it has to be. But it is supposed to represent the employees in a collective bargaining agreement. That is it. You could argue they should be involved with some politics around labor laws.

New comment by chrismcb in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

chrismcb — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:44:30 +0000

"begin" you mean they haven't been doing that already? That seems wrong

New comment by chrismcb in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

chrismcb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:53:41 +0000

You could have named the whale "Whalie McWhaleFace" so thank you for not doing that at least.

New comment by chrismcb in "U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers"

chrismcb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:35:55 +0000

Personally I think the American banking system is garbage. The technology is awful. But the government requirements are too onerous and potentially unconstitutional. The government doesn't need to know who I am, the bank doesn't need to know the customer.

New comment by chrismcb in "Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

chrismcb — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:04:37 +0000

19k is a fairly small business. I mean it isn't "small business" but it is small relative to many others. Large companies aren't anytime new. Ford had 100k in the 1920s. Then you have places like new York City government that has 309k people. I would prefer to have many smaller companies than a could of big ones. But 19k isn't really that many people

New comment by chrismcb in "Lunar Flyby"

chrismcb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:09:34 +0000

Ignoring the fact that we aren't using money for rocket fuel (that is people are benefitting from us spending that money) the potential upside is immense. There are a time of resources available in the asteroids and a moon base makes mining those resources easier and cheaper.

New comment by chrismcb in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

chrismcb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:16:45 +0000

Because it isn't a free market in the USA. And those that regulate it don't seem to care. Or maybe it is those that have been granted a monopoly do everything they can to retain said monopoly. Things would be different if we actually had a free market

New comment by chrismcb in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

chrismcb — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:27:58 +0000

Smart phones came out like 20 years ago. Why did it take so long to ban them in schools?

New comment by chrismcb in "The return-to-the-office trend backfires"

chrismcb — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:14:52 +0000

Lockstep? Once the major company did it, it was easy for others to follow. No conspiracy here. You are right, it is about controlling labor, watching the workforce, justifying the office expense. But I think a lot of your questions are just coincidental. As much as I enjoy working from home (been doing it for most of the last two decades) there are some advantageous to new hires working in the office.

New comment by chrismcb in "Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale"

chrismcb — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:56:54 +0000

Them? I think we've seen this movie

New comment by chrismcb in "Banned in California"

chrismcb — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:09:18 +0000

California, by density, is that highly populated. I didn't really like the idea is "hey we need to build something that uses a toxic process, by just don't build it here. Build it somewhere else." Unless that somewhere else is in outer space.

New comment by chrismcb in "San Francisco Graffiti"

chrismcb — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:24:29 +0000

By definition graffiti is non consensual. If there is consent then it is a mural.

New comment by chrismcb in "The world of Japanese snack bars"

chrismcb — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:21:21 +0000

But... It was a third place for you as well.

New comment by chrismcb in "How Markdown took over the world"

chrismcb — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:04:39 +0000

Provided you know the byte format of the text.

New comment by chrismcb in "The Graffiti Question"

chrismcb — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:42:01 +0000

"Their work is, by nature, uncredited." Uhm... Most graffiti is actually just a tag, the artist's tag. So, most graffiti is literally just the artists credit. And, by definition, they are vandals, not heroes.

New comment by chrismcb in "The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year"

chrismcb — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:03:36 +0000

The title clearly states that the average founder doesn't grow old as fast as everyone else. I assume ur actually meant that the age of the average find increases 6 months every year. So, no, not very clear

New comment by chrismcb in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

chrismcb — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:42:46 +0000

Well, no. You can't just revoke a license. As far as owning the software in the device, I works would argue that you do own a copy of it. I'm sure there is some buried tos claiming you just own a license to run it, and I know this is still being litigated. But when the average person purchases someone their expectation is that they've purchased it, not licensed it.

New comment by chrismcb in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

chrismcb — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:15:50 +0000

You won't make 100% of the users happy. In fact if argue you would make the majority of the users unhappy. I don't want to have to realize my browser for every web site. Is rather have a website that is fairly easy to read without me doing anything. I think most people would want that.

New comment by chrismcb in "Seattle, Tech Boomtown, Grapples with a Future of Fewer Tech Jobs"

chrismcb — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:49:05 +0000

I'm curious to know what you consider good weather.

New comment by chrismcb in "I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story"

chrismcb — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:19:16 +0000

Personally I works at least submit a DCMA takedown of the plagiarizing.