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New comment by ebbv in "Beware Rich People Who Say They Want to Change the World"

ebbv — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 02:56:34 +0000

Your lack of understanding of even recent American history is breathtaking. Do a little more reading on the gilded age.

New comment by ebbv in "Magic Leap One Teardown"

ebbv — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:14:36 +0000

There was never a "Blackberry Razor" product. There was the Motorola RAZR phone that was just a flip phone that was very popular for a few years before the iPhone, and then there were Blackberry phones of the time which had small screens and small keyboards. Some people loved them but they were a fairly niche product mostly used by professionals who valued email access at all times.

When the iPhone came out it was a true revolution and the plans for Android phones at the time were entirely redone.

New comment by ebbv in "Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series"

ebbv — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:43:15 +0000

You’re showing a lot of faith that they will interpret the results fairly and act on them. The auto play video while browsing is pretty universally reviled and they haven’t turned that off.

New comment by ebbv in "Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA"

ebbv — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 02:39:30 +0000

A restaurant near me started serving impossible burgers a couple weeks ago. Since I have gout I am always trying beef and pork replacements.

Impossible burger’s patty is on par with a McDonald’s quarter pounder. Which is a reasonable accomplishment. It’s acceptable and enjoyable as a cheap burger. But it is not gonna fool anyone who really enjoys a good burger.

Which would be fine if people would stop overhyping it.

New comment by ebbv in "African palm oil expansion is bad news for the continent’s primates"

ebbv — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:34:59 +0000

Nearly wiping out the bison was not a prerequisite to the US becoming self sufficient. Nor is destroying their natural areas a prerequisite for developing nations.

Additionally you’re presenting a false dichotomy of either we hold back developing nations or we say goodbye to nature. That’s ridiculous. We can help them to grow and become modern and raise their quality of life while preserving their precious natural areas.

New comment by ebbv in "Katie's New Face"

ebbv — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:27:36 +0000

What the hell do you mean "surveys"? You don't need "surveys" to tell you how many violent crimes there are in a year. We have actual statistics. And the numbers are not in the millions. Stop pushing lies.

New comment by ebbv in "Katie's New Face"

ebbv — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:19:01 +0000

Hahaha uhh no. Not even remotely. This is completely pulled out of your ass. First of all the CDC has been banned from studying guns since GW Bush administration. Secondly deaths by homicide in the US aren’t even close to that. California had the most murders of any state in 2016 and it wasn’t even 2000, then it drops off quickly from there. Total murders in the US is less than 20k per year. For your number to be right guns would have to be stopping 93.7% of murders.

Where did you even get that ridiculous number from? Insanity.

New comment by ebbv in "Twitter Suspends Alex Jones for Seven Days Over Tweet"

ebbv — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:25:38 +0000

Freedom of speech is about censorship from the government. As much as Silicon Valley companies love to self aggrandize they are not the government and are under no obligation to allow their platforms to be used for furthering hate speech (or anything else.)

In fact I firmly believe sites like Reddit, Twitter and Facebook allowing racism and other horrible crap on their sites in the mid 2000s until recently is what helped make it more mainstream. In the web of the 1990s these idiots would have had to go to their own sites that nobody else goes to. Mainstream sites like Slashdot or whatnot didn’t tolerate it. For some reason after the dot com crash the new round of sites afterward have had some kind of delusion that they need to uphold free speech. And it’s nonsense.

New comment by ebbv in "YC China and Qi Lu"

ebbv — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:53:22 +0000

Not gonna happen. This site would be banned or censored.

New comment by ebbv in "Empty shipyard and suicides as 'Hyundai Town' grapples with grim future"

ebbv — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:41:38 +0000

So what's the solution? If a big company opens a factory in an area, then the hire a bunch of people at that factory, people obviously want to move closer to where work is. It's not like those people can then say "Hey we need another company to open a factory here just in case." Even if there are other jobs created in the town, the loss of hundreds (or thousands) of jobs is always going to be devastating anywhere outside of a big city.

It's easy to say "Oh well those people shouldn't have bet everything on that factory." but that's not realistic or providing any kind of solution.

New comment by ebbv in "Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study"

ebbv — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:18:05 +0000

This is some ass backwards reasoning. And life’s too short to eat bad tasting food on purpose.

New comment by ebbv in "Thank you HN"

ebbv — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:47:42 +0000

In the US a lot of companies just don’t have the bandwidth to hire someone straight out of university. A degree is great but 10 out of 10 times I would rather have someone with four years of experience doing the work we are doing than someone with a four year degree and no work experience. It’s sad but it’s the truth. We aren’t a big enough team to spare the time and effort it takes to teach a recent graduate everything they are gonna have to learn in their first couple years. A lot of which is just about what being a developer is day to day.

New comment by ebbv in "The world is losing the war against climate change"

ebbv — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:27:22 +0000

Not exactly the same because at some point climate change will make the planet uninhabitable.

New comment by ebbv in "Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?"

ebbv — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:40:32 +0000

Craigslist isn’t the place to go for jobs. Lots of people are looking for PHP developers. There’s job counseling services out there, go talk to a professional who specializes in cases like yours. Don’t listen to a bunch of HNers who have zero experience in your situation.

New comment by ebbv in "Peloton raises $550M at a valuation of $4B"

ebbv — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 17:10:32 +0000

$4B? That's insanity. I know it's a dead horse but valuations are totally detached from reality.

New comment by ebbv in "Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban"

ebbv — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:06:27 +0000

Kroger bought out a local chain here in Michigan (Hiller’s) that was way better than Kroger and then laid off the Hiller’s employees and killed the chain. I’m never gonna feel any sympathy for Kroger.

New comment by ebbv in "iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2"

ebbv — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:15:38 +0000

Nobody bothers to decouple them because usually rendering a terminal is trivial and the output rate isn’t as fast for most use cases. But it sounds like if you’ve done it before it might be a cool thing to contribute to your preferred open source terminal program (if you want to.)

New comment by ebbv in "Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars"

ebbv — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:50:37 +0000

Have a little more faith in the people running these missions than that. The landing spots for any missions we send over are chosn very carefully and with a lot of thought. There are specific goals for any mission and the landing sites are chosen based on those in mind.

New comment by ebbv in "How SSH port became 22"

ebbv — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:37:07 +0000

I’m not talking about your home computer. Obviously your home computer shouldn’t have ssh exposed to the world on any port. I’m talking about a server that needs to have ssh available.

And I would argue while all the options you bring up are good suggestions; 1) they aren’t alternatives to having ssh on a non standard port, they are additional methods and 2) they will do nothing against system level exploits.

If you leave ssh on a standard port, when (not if) an exploit is released you are in a race to patch your system and at a disadvantage. And for what?

Other services are on standard ports for good reasons. There’s not a lot of good reasons to leave ssh on 22. Mostly just laziness.

New comment by ebbv in "How SSH port became 22"

ebbv — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:19:06 +0000

Yes there are, but moving your SSH port is a low cost, very easy and effective way of doing it.