Hacker News: drharby

New comment by drharby in "Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email"

drharby — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:50:22 +0000

shut up and ship it

I love the simple sourcing of requirements. Good job!

New comment by drharby in "The deepest hole we have ever dug"

drharby — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:39:01 +0000

I want to tag on the remainder of my profile for you, since you conveniently skipped it in your hate speech.

>Live long and prosper.

I hold a genuine desire for strangers to live a fruitful life.

Please, consider revisiting the source of your anger and hate to a stranger and ask yourself "what is the effect I aim to have?" If you are aiming to hate as a cathartic release, I suggest writing a journal. If you are aiming to hate as a means of cruelty to a stranger online, do it anonymously without your real name attached to it.

New comment by drharby in "Napoleon’s Vision for a New Imperial Rome"

drharby — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:35:51 +0000

I feel like that's a broad and general comparison. It would be equal to ask that of the UK during the height of their reach.

To do any real comparison you need to isolate something quantifiable. For example, languages. Latin influence is real and measurable. English is derivative from Germanic languages and was borrowed, and we didn't really export English...the UK did that. Why is Spanish one of the more commonly spoken Latin languages? The spanish crown was real good at that whole conquest thing, with the germs and the horses and the etc.

America? We influence geopolitics thats for sure.

New comment by drharby in "The deepest hole we have ever dug"

drharby — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:05:12 +0000

This is a real example of what I was alluding to. Environmental impact isn't all polar ice caps and methane gas. An unprofessionally dug hole is a LIABILITY.

But personally attacking strangers on the internet is acceptable too.

New comment by drharby in "The deepest hole we have ever dug"

drharby — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:55:10 +0000

Everything about this comment is a personal attack and sidesteps my real concern--the flagrant disregard for the environment just because someone can do it.

And Don I have to tell you, I am not a troll and I have to ask what crime did I commit expressing myself?

Was the post script necessary?

Maybe I get heated because this forum claims a standard is being held while I see bias persist

Maybe i believe it is important in a healthy democracy that the right conversations happen.

Maybe I hate bullies. You def. Are being a bully.

You disregard a real talking point on how little liability we hold people to disrupting land, and just attack me, AND YOU CLAIM YOU CAN BC YOU PERCEIVE ME AS A TROLL.

I stand by my profile description bc this is a diverse community.

I have a question for you, what is your purpose of your rant? To make me feel bad and you feel superior?

New comment by drharby in "The deepest hole we have ever dug"

drharby — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:53:31 +0000

I am not trolling.

this is the same forum where people minimize their consumer garbage output to one bag a year and reduce aviation usage to reduce carbon footprint. I find it EXTREMELY condescending that you ridicule my opinion. Whats the scope for scales of environmental impact that matters?

Every single construction project in an area where an endangered species lives, the USAF must conduct an environmental impact study for said species from the project, even if its a toilet.

I am very much extremely reactionary, this is a news forum. People post news and react to it.

New comment by drharby in "The deepest hole we have ever dug"

drharby — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:19:34 +0000

I want to know what the environmental impact on that hole...i mean where is the humor in destroying the planet just because we can?

That hole makes me unnervingly angry. And I can't be the only one.

New comment by drharby in "The End of the Bonus Culture Is Coming to Wall Street?"

drharby — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:13:30 +0000

Probably buy side

New comment by drharby in "Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets"

drharby — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:51:31 +0000

Sounds like anticompetitive muscling out with a trivial and nondata supported claim for justification. If diets were a real concern of governments, there exists more appropriate policy measures, but passing laws that apply pressure on the free market with no effect on the bottomline of a city's budget is just easy so I can see why they are doing it.

New comment by drharby in "War Is a Racket (1933)"

drharby — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:11:31 +0000

Government doesn't measure ROI. It measure impact on policy goals. A government is not a business.

New comment by drharby in "The gene drive dilemma: we can alter entire species, but should we?"

drharby — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:13:42 +0000

I want a thunder-cougar-falconbird

New comment by drharby in "A harassment campaign on Goodreads"

drharby — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:18:45 +0000

Huh - TIL

New comment by drharby in "A harassment campaign on Goodreads"

drharby — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:32:53 +0000

Circumstantial.

Go watch Zodiac to get an idea of how circumstantial evidence is insufficient

New comment by drharby in "Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?"

drharby — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:30:14 +0000

Context helps. It isn't a trivial datam. S/Google/Army/g the responses would vary wildly regarding the military industrial complex, impact of contributing to it, etc.

New comment by drharby in "EU beckons Indian tech talent"

drharby — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 15:28:21 +0000

I get the impression from your rant that you're dismissing the parents comments core complaint about the adverse impact of increased labor supply on the middle class and then follow on to namecalling. This style of commentary seems beneath HN's aspirational high signal low noise.

New comment by drharby in "Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback"

drharby — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:45:09 +0000

I've never given a cover letter in my 10 year career thus far.

New comment by drharby in "Big tech companies have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance"

drharby — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:16:35 +0000

Reminds me of that episode of futurama where they almost become rich from being acquired by Mom. "I suddently have an opinion about the capital gains tax!"

The tax bill paid by new grads for their rsus is usually their first experience with non-income tax flavored taxes, and I think we have an incentive to ask for cash in leiu of rsus for that exact reason. Of course, not going to complain too mich.

New comment by drharby in "The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games"

drharby — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 06:32:56 +0000

Ok, tell that to the wow classic servers all operating a medium to high capacity.

EDIT: oh I see, this is an ad, not news, got it.

New comment by drharby in "Ask HN: Burning Out"

drharby — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:50:30 +0000

I disagree, i find it to be a point pf clarification but not rude. Perhaps I have a different cultural expectation than you do

New comment by drharby in "Indiana manipulated report on Amazon worker’s death, investigation says"

drharby — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:43:57 +0000

I don't understand, are you mocking me or do we have a bonafide and well respected PhD of Philosophy with a track record in this comment thread?

If the former, I'm super disappointed but not surprised. It is no secret that anyone who remotely questions the criticism of Amazon is downvoted on this forum.

And I say that as someone who avoids spending a dollar out of protest against that company. I really find their practices terrible.