Hacker News: drt5b7j

New comment by drt5b7j in "Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors"

drt5b7j — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:57:08 +0000

If you and I bought a house together, no capital gains would be "paid". We would own an asset, which could go up in value and we could sell. Exactly the same with REITs.

New comment by drt5b7j in "John Carmack on AI"

drt5b7j — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:12:48 +0000

Why are you asking that? In fact, it's unclear what you're asking.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Ukraine war: Western allies say they are running out of ammunition"

drt5b7j — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 06:58:23 +0000

Thanks for this. The West has been such an embarrasingly flaky ally :-(

New comment by drt5b7j in "Cool Japan"

drt5b7j — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 06:44:07 +0000

I knew it. With the presence of anima avatars and curries everyone, this was too successful to not have been a conscious effort. TIL it has a name, thank you.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors"

drt5b7j — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:15:59 +0000

Why do you keep saying "fractional share"? All shares are fractions. You sound like a moron.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier"

drt5b7j — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:01:17 +0000

> The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"

New comment by drt5b7j in "Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors"

drt5b7j — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:50:54 +0000

Your comment doesn't really answer my question... you just typed the same observation from the other side. You've added nothing. Zero value.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors"

drt5b7j — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:26:19 +0000

> Pacaso is a property broker that buys single-family homes and sells them to consortiums of buyers.

Why not just buy a REIT?

New comment by drt5b7j in "Mobile phones are to be banned in UK schools"

drt5b7j — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:17:19 +0000

While I agree with the sentiment, I think chaos is coming.

Many parents/most parents WANT their kids to always have their addictive devices at hand. I'm afraid the conflict will cause commotion and distraction for the kids who just want to go in a learn.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Ask HN: Is GenAI heading for a crypto-esque bubble pop?"

drt5b7j — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:37:23 +0000

The fact that you can't type this post without using so many acronyms that only insiders can read it suggests yes.

New comment by drt5b7j in "The presumption that computers are working correctly"

drt5b7j — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 09:37:08 +0000

It's appears to you this way because you're an insider in software. If you were in hardware, you would believe the opposite.

New comment by drt5b7j in "How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)"

drt5b7j — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:20:48 +0000

Bingo

New comment by drt5b7j in "Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories"

drt5b7j — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:48:28 +0000

What did I miss? People hate drums now?

New comment by drt5b7j in "Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist"

drt5b7j — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:52:47 +0000

I didn't know this. I'm in shock right now. I already knew that "America bad" was a blind spot for him, but this is another level.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

drt5b7j — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:28:30 +0000

> Besides, it was in Europe. Us Europeans do not have the same epidermic reaction to communism that Americans have.

You're just making it worse and worse. I'm also European. I'm guessing you're Western European though? I'm also guessing your country wasn't under soviet occupation for 50 years? Eastern Europeans very much do have a bad allergic reaction to communism, just like Americans, and just like everyone else who came in contact with it. Che was at best a useful idiot.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

drt5b7j — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:18:01 +0000

Of course the person with T-shirt is sympathetic to communism and RMS, but their sympathy to RMS is very superficial. Otherwise they would know that RMS wouldn't approve. So it's option 2 I guess.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

drt5b7j — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:10:09 +0000

A) A picture of che Guevara is always an association with communism

B) RMS is very well known as someone who is, amongst other things, not a communist.

Frankly I fail to see how this could be taken as anything other than a provocation. Why would you have a picture of RMS as Che and then ask him to sign it? The only other explanation I can think of is you're too stupid to not see A or B.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

drt5b7j — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:00:49 +0000

I mean I would've been a lot more rude. It's hard to not take that as an intentional provocation.

New comment by drt5b7j in "Terminal Race Condition: The only thing that scares me anymore"

drt5b7j — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:32:43 +0000

How would you categorize this person? Philosopher? Opinion journalist?

New comment by drt5b7j in "X scraps tool to report electoral fake news"

drt5b7j — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:58:04 +0000

Twitter scraps tool to report electoral fake news.

FTFY