Hacker News: dwoozle

New comment by dwoozle in "Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life"

dwoozle — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:32:18 +0000

No one says that deep fakes are production ready today... but given the speed of progress, they’re going to be in FAR less time than takes for our social and political systems to mount a response, so there’s going to be some fucked up consequences of them.

New comment by dwoozle in "Tesla Cybertruck"

dwoozle — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:05:04 +0000

It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.

New comment by dwoozle in "The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change"

dwoozle — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 04:51:57 +0000

If carbon capture is good then why do they encourage composting? Shouldn’t we be taking that organic material and burying it somewhere?

New comment by dwoozle in "Phoebus Cartel"

dwoozle — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 01:30:25 +0000

Well it’s possible for the unintended consequences of an action to more than cancel out the intended consequences.

New comment by dwoozle in "This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among economists"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:55:40 +0000

Because of a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

New comment by dwoozle in "This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among economists"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:54:23 +0000

Esther Duflo is so good that she got her husband the Nobel Prize. If Banerjee hadn’t married her and started coauthoring so much with her, Sendhil Mullainathan definitely would have been the third winner.

New comment by dwoozle in "Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:45:35 +0000

A one-bay NAS... didn’t even know those existed

New comment by dwoozle in "Study of “moral grandstanding” helps explain why social media is so toxic"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:22:14 +0000

The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the Olympic gold medalists smile so much. Now, vanquishing someone with no risk to oneself, with no work required, and in the safety of a huge mob? It’s like getting to be a war hero with the risk and effort of playing Call of Duty.

New comment by dwoozle in "Her Amazon Purchases Are Real, the Reviews Are Fake"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:30:30 +0000

Why is it fake if it has photos? I’ve included photos in my reviews.

New comment by dwoozle in "Uber plans to start audio-recording rides in the U.S. for safety"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:24:48 +0000

Why would this data be so valuable? In an Uber people are with a stranger in their car so they will probably not have super confidential conversations.

New comment by dwoozle in "The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:44:05 +0000

Why is that? Does Kindle limit the number of words?

New comment by dwoozle in "The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 04:45:30 +0000

Huh, I kind of like that sentence and that kind of florid prose.

New comment by dwoozle in "PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B"

dwoozle — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:22:29 +0000

That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on the purchase. Then I remembered to Google for coupon codes and I found one and put it in and at the new price I checked out.

New comment by dwoozle in "What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age?"

dwoozle — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:08:07 +0000

In the US “antebellum” refers to the Civil War and “prewar” to World War II.

New comment by dwoozle in "Ride-hailing apps have allowed more binging and increased demand for bartenders"

dwoozle — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:58:52 +0000

Can confirm, definitely see many more drunk assholes loitering outside the bars on my street.

New comment by dwoozle in "Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?"

dwoozle — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:48:20 +0000

Cooking is great but you cannot learn it in an hour.

New comment by dwoozle in "Talent May Be Shifting Away from Superstar Cities: Study"

dwoozle — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:59:24 +0000

Today, but large scale efforts like city development happen over multiple decades, over which the number of remote workers will almost certainly increase due to new technology.

New comment by dwoozle in "Talent May Be Shifting Away from Superstar Cities: Study"

dwoozle — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:55:59 +0000

Not to mention that the quality of life outside big cities is far healthier and more human scale and human paced. People are more focused on things like children than on Kubernetes — the world needs progress but boy does it take a toll. In the Bay Area I worked with people making $400K who said they decided they could only afford two kids. Meanwhile where I live now it’s very feasible for a schoolteacher couple to afford five kids, and not in privation. I like that Elon Musk exists but holy hell I do not want his life.

New comment by dwoozle in "Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation"

dwoozle — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:10:42 +0000

It’s obvious that the rape charges were a highly selective enforcement action. It would be great if Sweden pursued every rapist as though they were Osama Bin Laden but the fact is they only pursued one.

New comment by dwoozle in "Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation"

dwoozle — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:55:57 +0000

You mean it was just a pretext to exfiltrate him to the US, and that Sweden does not in fact have a long national track record of pursuing rapists across international boundaries without prejudice, using the full arsenal of state power?