Hacker News: danek

New comment by danek in "Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: 1918 Flu"

danek — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 06:58:16 +0000

Sometimes. Depends. Did it already have a name that everyone was already using and then you went out of your way to call it “China virus”, when your personal brand also just happens to be based on racist dog whistles and stoking xenophobia? Is so, it’s probably racist!

New comment by danek in "Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: 1918 Flu"

danek — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:50:17 +0000

I wouldn’t blame trump’s blatant racism on some people in the media

New comment by danek in "iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers"

danek — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:02:27 +0000

Pretty sure you need an Apple device for the two-factor to work.

New comment by danek in "Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)"

danek — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 22:44:13 +0000

Lots of pooping happens at night too, though...

New comment by danek in "Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America"

danek — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 03:23:50 +0000

I wonder if their pricing change earlier this year had anything to do with it. They made the pricing model very antagonistic (eg the 1 hour package doesn't roll over, so driving for 2 hours on it costs way more than driving one hour, ending the rental, than immediately starting another 1 hour package!)

Before that I used the service a lot, I’d just hop in a car and go do stuff, changing my plans on the go, and know I’d get the best deal. After I had to plan things very precisely and hope for no randomness (heavy traffic, no parking, friend taking too long to come outside) and often it was less hassle and as expensive to take an Uber. I used to use them maybe once a week, then after all that I dropped to once every few months. But that’s just me..

New comment by danek in "WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire"

danek — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 03:08:36 +0000

They mean for a privately held company

New comment by danek in "Ken Thompson's Unix Password"

danek — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 02:44:07 +0000

Lol I‘m familiar with chess notation but was so confused by this that I was googling to see what chess move uses a “Z” :(

New comment by danek in "Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News"

danek — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 03:39:51 +0000

I rarely wish to click on the username or time links (“3 hours ago”), but that’s what I click on the most due to size and placement issues (when trying to vote or collapse a thread). I agree one should not blindly vote, but at the same time if you have decided to vote, it shouldn’t be maddeningly difficult and error prone to execute.

New comment by danek in "Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection"

danek — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:43:18 +0000

This happens to me all the time. A few weeks ago I registered for a half marathon and I’m still seeing targeted ads for it. As if I would somehow be able to run it twice lol..

New comment by danek in "15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete"

danek — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 04:34:23 +0000

Illegal voting is extremely rare. A bigger problem is election fraud.

New comment by danek in "15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete"

danek — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:40:58 +0000

Maybe you could explain how your position improves upon this...

New comment by danek in "15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete"

danek — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 01:59:42 +0000

I’m not following your example. You clarified in another comment that Louisiana is environmentally decimated due to the actions or votes of the blue states. However Louisiana typically goes hard red, and the GOP is very much opposed to environmental protections.

Also I’m not sure what you mean by them pushing all the bad stuff to Louisiana and what that has to do with presidential elections (aside from that the president sets EPA policy, but again, Louisiana voted for trump so I don’t get it)

New comment by danek in "15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete"

danek — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:46:44 +0000

This would give even more power to special interests, as they only need to influence a governor (or a small number of state reps) to get their senate choice, rather than all the voters in the state. I can’t see why that’s better, since at least now senators have to pretend to represent constituents.

New comment by danek in "The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random"

danek — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 03:53:34 +0000

We must have gotten different versions. I’m on mobile and my paywall didn't have an X to close it. I have seen the thing you’re talking about on desktop though..

New comment by danek in "The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random"

danek — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 03:34:06 +0000

Not really on topic but can we discourage the use of medium? It’s annoying to have to open these links in incognito and on top of that they do some other things that make reading more difficult.

New comment by danek in "Georgia Southern QB: roadside drug test wrongly showed bird droppings as cocaine"

danek — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:27:08 +0000

I think they’ll need a lot more than a day

New comment by danek in "NULL license plate not such a bright idea"

danek — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:59:05 +0000

I am one of those developers.

Afterwards I just try to avoid yaml if I can. While it looks cleaner than json, I don’t find it especially easy to read and there is unnecessary ambiguity due to unquoted strings. And it seems to have a thing against Norway ;)

New comment by danek in "A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts"

danek — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:24:07 +0000

Boeing: “We investigated ourselves and determined there is no issue”

New comment by danek in "Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine"

danek — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:29:34 +0000

I’m sure mold grows in there because of the constant dampness. You can’t avoid touching the sides because the airflow is so strong and kind of forces it.

New comment by danek in "Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text"

danek — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:07:19 +0000

It’s a good start at least. You still have to worry about the password being in the middle of a base64 encoded string and weird cases like that but at least you could grep for some known things.