Hacker News: dqybh

New comment by dqybh in "Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 21:48:45 +0000

>Otherwise, the whole point of democracy (one human, one vote) is useless, as the rich can simply buy ads to influence enough people to follow their goals.

As they've always done through the media? The hardest thing to swallow, for some people, is that democracy is deeply flawed, and these things openly show it. Until now they've been free to ignore it.

New comment by dqybh in "Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 20:25:24 +0000

Retraining is hard and will become useless when more and more jobs are destroyed. UBI is an example of "For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong". So what do we do?

New comment by dqybh in "Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 20:15:16 +0000

"endorsed by criminals" is now marketing blurb :')

New comment by dqybh in "What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 19:49:23 +0000

Thankfully, Google has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_mom

New comment by dqybh in "Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 15:39:32 +0000

>Having said that, I think the compromises the "Open Source" community has given to commercial companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Oracle have done much much much more harm to the community and goals than " Stallman acolytes" ever have.

So what? First, when you develop software you get to choose the best licence for you. Open source means that big companies can use your software. If you open the source under a permissive licence then it's because you wanted that to happen and didn't expect anything in exchange.

Second, users have the choice of what software they run, and they aren't going the way of Stallman acolytes. Why? Well, we all have our reasons.

But all in all everybody wins.

New comment by dqybh in "Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 15:17:38 +0000

I wouldn't expect a mid-ranger phone to be fast and completely reliable. That's why it's just a mid-ranger. The price is a compromise; you get shitty radio hardware and shitty software so you get shitty videoconferencing.

New comment by dqybh in "For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 12:40:07 +0000

>His point wasn't about happiness for either party, it was that men simply had more societal control and rights than woman at the time arranged marriages were common - so it wasnt so much a partnership as it was one party having a huge amount of control over the other party's autonomy.

Meh, in my experience (Indians I know) females in both families have the same amount of power when choosing a mate, even more power than males I'd say.

>This is just sexist

Reality is sexist. Both genders are different. That's just the way it is.

>making frankly unwarranted generalizations about how both genders date

You have statistics here, which paint a broader picture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19601600

>reiterating the shirt 80/20 meme spouted by right wing incels

Why is my argument bad? "People I don't like say the same thing" is not an argument.

>proposing a system that takes away both party's freedom of choice with relationships because it's "unfair" to men

I didn't propose that we go back to arranged marriages, and I agree that there's no easy solution. In fact I've got nothing to propose. The fact that there's no solution doesn't mean we should just pretend there's no problem.

New comment by dqybh in "For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 12:32:29 +0000

"Red pillers say X, hence X is false" doesn't sound like an argument. There are also statistics that support this point of view, namely https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19601600 which was discussed a month ago.

I always feel like this is swept under the carpet because 1) victims are male, and who cares about males, and 2) there is no easy solution to it.

New comment by dqybh in "For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 12:10:07 +0000

Men and women have the potential to be equally unhappy when you force a partner on them.

Also, giving women free reign is causing great inequality between men and women in their chances of having a partner and forming a family, which I believe will be problematic in the future. Very well explained by this other user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19891412

New comment by dqybh in "For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 12:06:54 +0000

>No, civilization is not becoming inhospitable to humans, this is literally the best time in history to be alive, civilization has never been more hospitable than it is today.

According to the dictionary "inhospitable" means "Unfavorable to life or growth", and it's much harder for me to have one children than it was for my grandparents to have five.

New comment by dqybh in "‘eyeDisk’ USB drive secured with iris recognition reveals password in plain text"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 11:51:07 +0000

For a project like this to be considered secure, it should have an open, public design to begin with. That's even more important given the fact that they used Kickstarter.

New comment by dqybh in "A Geocode Is Not an Address"

dqybh — Sun, 12 May 2019 10:33:09 +0000

Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System

New comment by dqybh in "Rewards for loyal spenders are 'a honey pot for hackers'"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 20:26:41 +0000

Hmmm, from the title I thought this was going to be about how people exploited the weaknesses of these reward programmes to get more stuff for free.

New comment by dqybh in "Twilio Super SIM"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 19:08:35 +0000

You can always use OTT voice.

New comment by dqybh in "Twilio Super SIM"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 19:07:34 +0000

Depends on the country, no? In Spain you get like 1 to 3 GB (depending on the operator) for 7€. And that's with very cheap operators with poor support.

New comment by dqybh in "Twilio Super SIM"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 19:06:05 +0000

Interesting that they do this because they know infrastructure costs vary between countries but they don't give a shit about the price of electronic goods, services, etc in the single market.

New comment by dqybh in "Frequently Used Linux Commands – A Real World Statistics from 10M Commands"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 11:14:44 +0000

The one in line 26 has a space to the right. What a team of experts has assembled this list, lol

New comment by dqybh in "Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 10:57:12 +0000

This is the most bugman comment I've read here in a long time.

New comment by dqybh in "Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 10:48:36 +0000

It's "literally" in the bio.

New comment by dqybh in "India orders anti-trust probe of Google for alleged Android abuse"

dqybh — Sat, 11 May 2019 09:53:46 +0000

Isn't it election time in India?