Hacker News: diryawish

New comment by diryawish in "Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri"

diryawish — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:29:23 +0000

Not for the bureaucrats at the state department.

New comment by diryawish in "Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants"

diryawish — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:35:25 +0000

I've noticed a correlation between heavy herb smokers and not getting the virus or having mild symptoms. People that primarily do hash haven't had the same benefit, which is kind of weird. This is all anecdotal.

New comment by diryawish in "Winamp source code leak"

diryawish — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:36:21 +0000

Snipped it.

New comment by diryawish in "Texas Electric Bills Were $28B Higher Under Deregulation"

diryawish — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:44:13 +0000

Is there a way to read past the paywall?

New comment by diryawish in "Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers"

diryawish — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:29:12 +0000

The right sees post-BLM riots which have led to numerous deaths and millions in damage and Antifa running amok in the Pacific Northwest and think the same thing.

We are too divided and it’s because of the media, both social and mainstream.

New comment by diryawish in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

diryawish — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 06:49:40 +0000

Exactly and it’s unacceptable that it wasn’t. Who is to blame?

New comment by diryawish in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

diryawish — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 06:48:55 +0000

I ask because it makes you think and hopefully prevent overreaction. Banning apps because of extremists and poor police presence is stupid. I think these people should have been treated the same as the second day of protest where Capitol police were stationed outside after the church was set on fire. There was a lot more time to plan for these event as it was less spontaneous and had many hundreds of thousands planning attendance. I think not having a bigger police presence was pathetic and it was likely political.

New comment by diryawish in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

diryawish — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 06:19:37 +0000

What was your opinion on the BLM protests outside of the White House ?

New comment by diryawish in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

diryawish — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 06:18:50 +0000

“Coward and a traitor.” Is that an actual quote or are you editorializing?

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

diryawish — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:11:28 +0000

Very well put - efficient and diligent deregulation would be a great thing to see.

New comment by diryawish in "Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok"

diryawish — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:38:13 +0000

The US absolutely has the moral high ground compared to any communist country and it’s not even fucking close.

New comment by diryawish in "Stockholm Won't Reach Herd Immunity in May, Sweden's Chief Epidemiologist Says"

diryawish — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:20:03 +0000

Mistakes in elderly care appear to be the main driver of high death rates.

New comment by diryawish in "Universa tail fund returned 3,600% in March"

diryawish — Fri, 01 May 2020 15:01:42 +0000

“ Spitznagel included a chart in his letter showing that a portfolio invested 96.7% in the S&P 500 and 3.3% in Universa’s fund would have been unscathed in March, a month in which the U.S. equity benchmark fell 12.4%. The same portfolio would have produced a compounded return of 11.5% a year since March of 2008 versus 7.9% for the index.”

New comment by diryawish in "Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021"

diryawish — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:00:21 +0000

A MacBook Air with a touchscreen would be a nice introduction to these chips.

New comment by diryawish in "Coronavirus and Credibility"

diryawish — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:19:11 +0000

Isn’t all flu growth exponential over the season then dies down? Apparently Australia had a bad flu season last year: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7148553/Horror-grap...

New comment by diryawish in "Coronavirus and Credibility"

diryawish — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:06:14 +0000

Italy’s death rates are up 20% when comparing this year’s average to a typical year’s whole average. This way of comparing averages may skew the information. In America, we have more average daily deaths in the beginning of the year than in the middle and end until December. The average of January through March will always be higher than the yearly average.

New comment by diryawish in "Who Was Sun Tzu’s Napoleon?"

diryawish — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:16:15 +0000

Calling reasonable inference pseudoscience while assuming to read the minds of men 2000 years ago and claim misogynic inspiration for their actions is such a fucking joke.

New comment by diryawish in "Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps"

diryawish — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 21:17:29 +0000

Since you're implying otherwise, this article doesn't talk about getting rid of anything. It just describes part of the horrible slave market that has extended into modern technology.

New comment by diryawish in "Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps"

diryawish — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 21:15:33 +0000

This article doesn't blame the tech companies for these problems much like no one blames hammers for murders committed with them.

New comment by diryawish in "Cabin releases 2nd-gen fleet of sleeper bus from SF to LA and back"

diryawish — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:51:08 +0000

Check out Amtrak's Coast Starlight https://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train