Hacker News: duckhelmet

New comment by duckhelmet in "Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth"

duckhelmet — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 05:04:49 +0000

Takes the prize for stating the blindingly obvious.

New comment by duckhelmet in "'Reddit can survive without search' company reportedly threatens to block Google"

duckhelmet — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 04:55:55 +0000

Interesting watching Reddit self-destruct.

Misleading claims about sex education found on leaflets about SPHE curriculum

duckhelmet — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:42:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thejournal.ie/sex-ed-sphe-curriculum-flyer-stop-world-control-pamphlet-2-6186564-Oct2023/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37908189

Points: 2

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New comment by duckhelmet in "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)"

duckhelmet — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:00 +0000

> d. None of the above

e. Ok, what personal stuff would you want to talk about?

New comment by duckhelmet in "‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders"

duckhelmet — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:43:52 +0000

> how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

And water is wet .. same with so-called social media with their endless likes and friends. Addiction machines by any other name.

Could I have another down-vote please /s

New comment by duckhelmet in "Web Environment Integrity Explainer"

duckhelmet — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:03:38 +0000

> This topic was posted earlier today but was seemingly killed..

I don't like you cause you contradicted me the last time, therefore I'm going to mod you into oblivion :]

New comment by duckhelmet in "Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud"

duckhelmet — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:39:42 +0000

It's understandable why these were modded into invisibility ;) --

@nancyhn: “The banking industry is a fraudster's paradise. The difference is they don't get arrested, they get bailed out with bonuses. It seems there are a lot of short memories here who don't remember 2008.” --

icepat: “If you rolled back every bitcoin transaction ever made you would end up with people in debt because the transaction fees were paid. This makes bitcoin into a scam. The miners in total are guaranteed to win, everyone else in total is guaranteed to lose. Some people haven't realized their loss but it's there. It is an ingenious scam because it's not the scammers who hype it up, no, it's the marks because the only way they can get ahead if they hype it up. The miners get their cut no matter what.”

“This is not the same for say, gold, because gold can be made into, say, electronics which now can be sold for more than the sum of the cost of the components. Stocks pay dividends etc.”

“Since so fundamentally it's a scam, is it a wonder other scams are built on top?”

New comment by duckhelmet in "Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer [video]"

duckhelmet — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:02:06 +0000

> Interesting: he says that the famous 1202 error may sometimes crash the spacecraft and sometimes land successful in some other cases .. The Apollo 11 landing was not a tragedy be sheer luck.

I recall reading somewhere that the 1202 error was caused by someone switching on the rendezvous radar, in the event of a quick take-off. This caused the computer to continuously seek for a radar lock on the orbiting craft that was not going to occur. Nothing like this happened in the simulator.

New comment by duckhelmet in "US Intel exec ‘actively responsible’ for driving anti-LGBTQ+ agenda in Africa"

duckhelmet — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:23:07 +0000

> That has nothing to do with this article, though.

"Is there any lgbtq agenda in Africa to begin with?"

New comment by duckhelmet in "US Intel exec ‘actively responsible’ for driving anti-LGBTQ+ agenda in Africa"

duckhelmet — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:16:37 +0000

“Planned Parenthood Federation of America honored the Pearl of Africa, a unique documentary from the inside of the Ugandan LGBT movement.”

https://archive.is/BNBWP

New comment by duckhelmet in "New Proposals Would Allow UK Spy Agency to Monitor Internet Logs in Real-Time"

duckhelmet — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:59:15 +0000

“New law could allow GCHQ to monitor UK internet logs in real-time to tackle fraud”

;)

New comment by duckhelmet in "Why there are so many cybersecurity vendors and where do we go from here"

duckhelmet — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:56:30 +0000

> Why there are so many cybersecurity vendors ..

Because the innovators still cannot deign a “computer” that can't be compromised by opening a malicious email attachment or clicking on a malicious URL.

New comment by duckhelmet in "The US will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid"

duckhelmet — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:33:27 +0000

> I'm pretty sure every last bit of what we hear about it is propaganda. Empire doesn't happen by chance.

We're going to fight to the last Ukrainian /s

New comment by duckhelmet in "U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory"

duckhelmet — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:31:36 +0000

> Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.

The bat virus they were doing gain-of-function research on at the Wuhan Lab came from miles away.

"Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...

New comment by duckhelmet in "U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory"

duckhelmet — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:24:41 +0000

> The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to

“Wuhan lab workers were sick in November 2019, intelligence suggests”

https://www.livescience.com/covid-lab-leak-wuhan.html

New comment by duckhelmet in "Why is there no government-built social media?"

duckhelmet — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:28:42 +0000

> Why is there no government-built social media?

There is, it's called Facebook, Youtube etc. Twitter was part of that until Musk bought it and published the Twitter Files.

New comment by duckhelmet in "“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress"

duckhelmet — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:48:38 +0000

I saw another report where asking the students to keep a journal monitoring their mental health caused stress.

New comment by duckhelmet in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

duckhelmet — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:47:43 +0000

@LorenD: "For the record, I've never had a WLAN issue in 3 years of Linux (Ubuntu and then openSUSE). I can't attest to GPU as I don't have a dedicated GPU though.

GRUB has also been quite the happy camper in my experience (at least if you don't go mucking about with config files)."

How dare you not have a problem in a discussion on Linux. (Not just there yet :)

New comment by duckhelmet in "Germany to nationalise gas giant Uniper in an effort to secure energy supplies"

duckhelmet — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:34:03 +0000

Have they tried invading Russia /s

New comment by duckhelmet in "Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?"

duckhelmet — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:08:17 +0000

Most of the tech infrastructure is held together with twine and chewing gum. One great solar storm could knock it out. A.I bla-bla .. blockchain bla-bla .. cloud bla-bla-bla