Hacker News: cowfartshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cowfartsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:53:06 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by cowfarts in "Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal"]]>"Cell towers have backup generators?"

All essential infrastructure has to. Heck, if you have a landline you can probably siphon off some power from the DC component.

]]>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:26:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820044cowfartshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820044https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820044<![CDATA[New comment by cowfarts in "I bought a Mac"]]>It's funny I'm about to go back the other direction - abandoning Mac at home to return to the Penguin.

After over 15 years I find myself using Windows and I hate it. What did they do to it? I used to love windows. The UX is nauseating. Little unseen action items that scramble your screen.

Slowly, Apple is doing the same thing to MacOS.

I never really left Linux, kept it on the desktop, but I got comfortable with the nice Mac hardware and Office suite. But now? Vomit.

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:39:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677318cowfartshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677318https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677318<![CDATA[New comment by cowfarts in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"]]>"Why does having a trade deficit make your currency more valuable?"

Its the other way around, having the reserve currency drives demand for it and therefore imports are cheap and budgetary deficits are free (since interest rates are low).

You get free stuff and free debt, but over time your industry collapses

]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:03:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639943cowfartshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639943https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639943<![CDATA[New comment by cowfarts in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"]]>If you can make the mold.

]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 01:59:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639919cowfartshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639919<![CDATA[New comment by cowfarts in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"]]>Fishing employs tens of thousands of people and feeds an entire nation.

Warhammer employs hundreds, enriches a half dozen and addicts a millions.

I'd rather keep the fishermen

]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 01:58:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639910cowfartshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639910<![CDATA[New comment by cowfarts in "Feral pig meat transmits rare bacteria"]]>If old - medicare

If veteran [1] - VA

If indigent - medicaid

[1] not unlikely for a Florida man born in 1945

]]>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:27:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452455cowfartshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452455https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452455