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New comment by cylinder in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

cylinder — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:06:44 +0000

There’s lots of shit there, but it’s not in a hole, unfortunately. It just sits there right on the pavement.

New comment by cylinder in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

cylinder — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:01:48 +0000

Why do Americans keep comparing crime rates to 30-50 years ago?

Compare to other societies now.

There’s supposed to be progress, and in other places, there has been.

New comment by cylinder in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

cylinder — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:56:08 +0000

How does it feel to post outright incorrect information? Do you delete now or leave it up?

Mark Andreessen allegedly 'immensely objects' to multifamily zoning in Atherton

cylinder — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/wdiamond_econ/status/1555396437235576832

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32352114

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by cylinder in "US wants direct access to the police biometrics databases of EU states"

cylinder — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:07:29 +0000

Not an expert on GDPR but can't imagine privacy strict EU agreeing to this.

US shutting down visa waiver for EU would be dumb as the Consulates are already swamped and absolutely cannot handle that level of B1/B2 visa applications (the wait times are already 1 year+ around the world).

This would hurt US travel and tourism.

Europeans aren't going to riot if they lose visa waiver to US.

So American business suffers, EU looks strong standing up for privacy against the bully, and EU can still offer visa waiver to inbound Americans. Call their bluff.

New comment by cylinder in "The Coronavirus Is Here Forever"

cylinder — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:25:42 +0000

are you kidding? this is basically a blog for a group of politial scientists

New comment by cylinder in "The Coronavirus Is Here Forever"

cylinder — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:19:35 +0000

so you don't get desperately ill for several days / weeks? why is this so hard for you types to understand?

New comment by cylinder in "As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds"

cylinder — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:22:23 +0000

you're an ass. my child is a toddler. they need to be exploring and interacting with other children, in person, playing, learning and receiving stimuli, not locked at home staring at screens.

New comment by cylinder in "As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds"

cylinder — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:09:31 +0000

Sounds to me they likely don't have children. Even one week at home for my kid is damaging let alone a year. The kids weren't spreading covid to teachers. Teachers could have worn respirators and been fine.

Governments should have kept covid out but harming children in this way to make up for disastrous decisions and behaviours of adults is unacceptable.

New comment by cylinder in "How to send an 'e mail' (1984) [video]"

cylinder — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 12:21:18 +0000

It's easy to romanticise the early days of the internet but seeing this brought a tinge of depression.

New comment by cylinder in "Manhattan Landlords Take Apartments Off Market During Rental Slump"

cylinder — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 12:16:34 +0000

We are back in offices in Sydney for a while now. I think Singapore too. Most flexibly and tech the slowest to return.

Trust me things get back to normal quickly, it's just about momentum

New comment by cylinder in "I Miss My Bar"

cylinder — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 02:53:11 +0000

We check in with a govt app and QR codes in NSW and all of Australia does this and venues confirm before letting you in. It's integrated into the Service NSW app so I don't need a separate one. Same app where my digital drivers licence is. No paper. In fact I don't carry a wallet here anymore because public transport is with NFC - Apple pay.

New comment by cylinder in "The Cruise Ship Suicides"

cylinder — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 05:39:51 +0000

We had a 5% decline in suicide this year in Sydney. Although it wasn’t a very hard or long lockdown. The hypothesis is that increased welfare payments may be the reason but personally I believe the slow down/pause to what was a hectic pace of life, and being at home with family more contributed.

New comment by cylinder in "The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system"

cylinder — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 06:02:01 +0000

I keep saying this about the silly island argument. It's not like the virus is coming into the US via Mexico and Canada. And domestic travel was halted with state border closures. The key is slowing movement. It's been perplexing watching Americans proudly travel and holiday, even internationally, during all this.

New comment by cylinder in "Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects"

cylinder — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 06:55:06 +0000

It's probably not the office people dislike, it's the commute. If your office was next door to your house and all your colleagues were there you wouldn't go? You could come back for lunch and go back and forth as needed.

New comment by cylinder in "Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them"

cylinder — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:09:14 +0000

i've stopped thinking about it because I can't deal with the fact that it was nineteen years ago. Nineteen!

New comment by cylinder in "Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo"

cylinder — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 02:42:51 +0000

it's normal in the US media where there's a general desensitization to violence

New comment by cylinder in "The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility"

cylinder — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 02:27:36 +0000

Americans are just race obsessed. There's basically no argument in the national discourse about race being a human construct with no basis in science.

New comment by cylinder in "[dead]"

cylinder — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:30:14 +0000

WTF is going on here? This man was followed into his condo by a man dressed in a black suit and a mask carrying an electric saw. That man killed him and was in the process of cutting his body into parts. Is this a random serial killer or some sort of hit organized against him? Disgruntled investor? I think his Nigeria motorcycle sharing startup was not doing well during COVID, but what is the motive behind someone hiring a professional to have him killed?

edit - looks like his startup Picap in Colombia was just closed down by regulators in May. Maybe the wrong person wanted his money back and wasn't getting it.

New comment by cylinder in "Grant Imahara Has Died"

cylinder — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:15:11 +0000

probably means "someone I would be unlikely to meet via my personal circles, but likely someone I'd encounter at work, and then develop a friendship with, both within and outside the workplace."