Hacker News: dunstad

New comment by dunstad in "This Artwork Does Not Exist"

dunstad — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:32:16 +0000

Thanks, this was a good and educational read.

New comment by dunstad in "Zoo Animals and Their Discontents (2014)"

dunstad — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 05:58:19 +0000

Yeah, there are those who argue that conservation programs benefit from the money generated by zoos, but I still don't feel great about them. Ideally it would be nice if we could work out better ways to distribute our resources so that conservation could be funded without them.

New comment by dunstad in "First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts research in prison"

dunstad — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:21:34 +0000

Gonna be honest, it doesn't sound like you have a lot of relevant experience on the effects of incarceration.

I'm no expert either, but prison is a lot more than just making sure people can't commit crimes. I also think reasonable people could disagree about whether the treatment of some of our prisoners constitutes torture or not.

New comment by dunstad in "For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests"

dunstad — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:28:42 +0000

Robin Williams actually had a degenerative brain disease. I know a lot of the news didn't wait long enough for that information about his situation to come out, but it's on Wikipedia.

New comment by dunstad in "How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer"

dunstad — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:58:57 +0000

There's nothing wrong with it, I've been using it for ages.

New comment by dunstad in "Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down"

dunstad — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:09:55 +0000

> quiet, neat, and über-efficient

I wish the same could be said for the Tokyo office I work in!

New comment by dunstad in "GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract"

dunstad — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:17:16 +0000

Hello, I'm a real boy! I happen to support both of these positions, but it is indeed possible to condemn ICE without feeling the same about the GOP in general, and jumping immediately from one to the next is exactly the kind of thing people mean when they talk about moving the goalposts.

New comment by dunstad in "GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract"

dunstad — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:29:44 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_inte...

From the article:

> In 2019, many experts, including Andrea Pitzer, the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, have acknowledged the designation of the detention centers as "concentration camps" [227] [228] particularly given that the centers, previously cited by Texas officials for more than 150 health violations [229] and reported deaths in custody,[230] reflect a record typical of the history of deliberate substandard healthcare and nutrition in concentration camps.[231] Though some organizations have tried to resist the "concentration camp" label for these facilities, [232] [233] hundreds of Holocaust and genocide scholars rejected this resistance via an open letter addressed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [234]

New comment by dunstad in "GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract"

dunstad — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:05:44 +0000

Yeah, I would love that actually. ICE runs concentration camps. Not enough people treat them how they deserve.

New comment by dunstad in "Plants “panic” when it rains"

dunstad — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:04:20 +0000

If you liked this one, you might also enjoy reading about the mycorrhizal networks some plants can use to communicate between each other: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden...

New comment by dunstad in "It’s the End of California as We Know It"

dunstad — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:18:25 +0000

We may not end up underwater, but ecosystem collapse leading to famine, and increased pressure on all sorts of support systems due to the need to direct aid to people from coastal areas, are both going to affect people everywhere.

New comment by dunstad in "State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men"

dunstad — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:12:47 +0000

You mean the 2018 midterm election?

New comment by dunstad in "Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter"

dunstad — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 06:57:13 +0000

Well, if we fail to develop solutions to clean up after ourselves, we won't need to worry about climate stability because we'll all be dead. So that's one way to handle things.

New comment by dunstad in "What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters"

dunstad — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:02:41 +0000

Holy hell, that must have been frightening. What was going through your head at the time?

New comment by dunstad in "Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost"

dunstad — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:01:17 +0000

You need to understand that just because there are upsides and downsides doesn't imply they're in any way equal, and pretending they are causes plenty of harm.

New comment by dunstad in "Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts"

dunstad — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:41:46 +0000

When you vote with your wallet, people with more money get more votes.

New comment by dunstad in "China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears"

dunstad — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:35:01 +0000

How awful. Imagine if the subject of this was a dog instead, it would anger so many people.

New comment by dunstad in "How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work"

dunstad — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:30:51 +0000

Leadership at top companies is disproportionately sociopathic compared to the population at large, as well. How admirable.

New comment by dunstad in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

dunstad — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 01:20:20 +0000

Wow, fuck that guy.

New comment by dunstad in "Working all night is not 'a badge of pride'"

dunstad — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 04:31:18 +0000

If having partners necessitates causing burnout in young people, maaaybe it's not a great way to structure things.