Hacker News: drm237

New comment by drm237 in "My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar"

drm237 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:19:18 +0000

It's a very cool app. It would be great to tap on a plane and see its source and destination airports. My kids always ask where I think a plane is going and it would be great to have a way to easily tell them!

New comment by drm237 in "NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers"

drm237 — Mon, 09 May 2022 21:22:52 +0000

I don't think they're saying that at all. I think the point was, a payroll tax won't necessarily increase costs for a company because it would be offset by eliminating the current healthcare costs.

New comment by drm237 in "Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer"

drm237 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:58:01 +0000

It depends on if your company capped how much you could accrue. However much you accrued should be paid out.

Nothing.

New comment by drm237 in "Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing"

drm237 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:30:58 +0000

"and thats not ok; but forget that"

Why do we need to forget the trademark infringement?

If Amazon is engaging in trademark infringement, lying about their connection\collaboration with the trademark holder, and including commercially licensed technology in an open source fork of a project, they are acting very poorly. Your argument of Amazon just being able to execute better falls flat if these facts are true and it means they're cheating, and that deserves some recognition.

New comment by drm237 in "Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”"

drm237 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:46:28 +0000

"And after this, we're going to walk down there, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down ... to the Capitol and we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," Trump told the crowd. "And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong."

He told people to go to the capital, "take back our country", and you can't do it with weakness, you need to do it with strength. That seems pretty straightforward to me. And he did it all while fanning the flames by repeating discredited conspiracy theories that he knows plays to the people in attendance.

New comment by drm237 in "My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf"

drm237 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:29:14 +0000

You could say that about any lightning source used anywhere. In general, a piece of wood is going to outlast and electrical device.

New comment by drm237 in "Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?"

drm237 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 03:26:49 +0000

Because COVID-19 has a higher infection/transmission rate than the seasonal flu and a higher mortality rate. The economy isn't shutting down because 68 people have died, it's shutting down because 61,000 people died from the flu and COVID-19 has a distinct potential of being significantly worse.

New comment by drm237 in "Tesla Cybertruck"

drm237 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:41:17 +0000

I'm guessing the crumple zone on this is going to be better than a vehicle with an internal combustion engine! That and the fact that semis are everywhere. This being on the road doesn't worry me in the slightest given the other vehicles already out there.

New comment by drm237 in "I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected"

drm237 — Fri, 31 May 2019 17:58:48 +0000

I suggest reading the book "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success". The author's TED talk is interesting: https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing...

New comment by drm237 in "Tesla Model 3 vs. BMW M3 [video]"

drm237 — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:13:55 +0000

With EVs that you can charge at home, that means that for your normal driving that you probably do 80 to 90 % of the time, you NEVER need to stop to "fill up" because you charge every night at home. The tradeoff is that when you do decide to drive more than 250 to 350 miles in one trip, you'll need to take at least one break where you charge.

If you optimize only for the long journeys, you miss out on the benefits from normal driving which you probably do a lot more often.

New comment by drm237 in "Tesla Model 3 vs. BMW M3 [video]"

drm237 — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:11:00 +0000

This seems unlikely given that the Volt has been canceled and much of the momentum is moving towards electric only platforms, even from the major manufacturers.

New comment by drm237 in "Online activists are silencing us, scientists say"

drm237 — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:35:10 +0000

When people call your place of business and complain to your boss about your methods and mental state, when they lobby the government to open investigations into your research under the accusation of child abuse, and when they use every available method to discredit your life's work, I don't think that simply opting-out of Twitter is likely to make a meaningful difference unfortunately.

New comment by drm237 in "Airbnb and security camera disclosure"

drm237 — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:56:38 +0000

Why would anyone want a security camera that only worked when a property was empty? Wouldn't that defeat the point of having a security camera?

New comment by drm237 in "Affordable Care"

drm237 — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 21:51:49 +0000

You don't know that. You have no idea what kind of health issues their families face. And yes, sometimes you are just paying for other people's care, right up until the time that you need it. That is, after all, the point of insurance.

New comment by drm237 in "Affordable Care"

drm237 — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 21:50:06 +0000

Your total income that you would report on your personal income tax return should be your personal salary plus your business profit for a single member LLC.

New comment by drm237 in "Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]"

drm237 — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:16:22 +0000

Autopilot isn't even necessary. Any car with Forward-Collision Warning With Braking would likely have not gotten in an accident, or at least one not nearly as severe. Fortunately, many major manufacturers have committed to eventually making this technology standard.

New comment by drm237 in "Investing Returns on the S&P500"

drm237 — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:00:27 +0000

A 1.1% savings account would have lost money due to inflation over 20 years. The author's methodology seems to subtract each year for inflation, so if he's comparing a post-inflation number year to year, and it's the same 20 years later, you've actually done much better than a 1.1% savings account.

The Coddling of the American Mind

drm237 — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:54:56 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/?single_page=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136132

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by drm237 in "A Complete Guide to Rails Caching"

drm237 — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:02:27 +0000

In the example where you cache the todo list and use an array of the todo item ids plus the max updated time, why is that approach better than just updating the list updated_at time whenever a child record is changed? With your approach, each todo item needs to be pulled from the db which should be slower than just checking the parent's updated at time for a cache hit.

New comment by drm237 in "Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape?"

drm237 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:24:00 +0000

Why did it get so cold inside of Apollo 13 then?