Hacker News: ekc

New comment by ekc in "How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure"

ekc — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:02:12 +0000

You might find this paper interesting for a counter perspective. http://joelvelasco.net/teaching/3334/block99-how_heritabilit...

The person is biased and dismissing is a good option.

New comment by ekc in "Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?"

ekc — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 09:29:22 +0000

Both.

New comment by ekc in "Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?"

ekc — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 20:30:30 +0000

You're forgetting that developers exist.

New comment by ekc in "All Magic Leap Patents Have Been Assigned to J.P. Chase Morgan as Collateral"

ekc — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 03:34:53 +0000

They released their product months ago.

New comment by ekc in "U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly"

ekc — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 02:38:59 +0000

> Most people probably realize it. What we need is for the American CEOs, financial elite, members of government that have investments in China...

The person you were originally replying to's comment.

New comment by ekc in "Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event"

ekc — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:23:53 +0000

This isn't relevant to the article.

New comment by ekc in "White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China"

ekc — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:26:39 +0000

They are running rival concentration camps, I can't imagine the competition is welcome.

New comment by ekc in "Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”"

ekc — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 06:32:43 +0000

KISS is great. Been using it for two months. No complaints.

New comment by ekc in "Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour"

ekc — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:38:45 +0000

The goal is to force every other company to do it as well, protecting the long-term prospects of Uber. A smart thing, and possibly a good one in the short term.

New comment by ekc in "Introducing nushell"

ekc — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:27:03 +0000

UNIX philosophy. You mean the UNIX philosophy.

New comment by ekc in "Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code"

ekc — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:06:03 +0000

The GPL is no less commercially friendly than the MIT, given it allows commercial usage, and explicitly protects commercial usage.

New comment by ekc in "Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code"

ekc — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:32:28 +0000

The GPL is a commercial-friendly license, and in fact, that's one of the freedoms it explicitly protects.

New comment by ekc in "A Walk in Hong Kong"

ekc — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:55:49 +0000

No. You're either misinformed or intentionally lying.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/an-eye-for-an-...

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/medic-shot-in-eye-durin...

New comment by ekc in "A Walk in Hong Kong"

ekc — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:36:50 +0000

Ignoring that police shot a medical volunteer's eye out.

New comment by ekc in "Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation"

ekc — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:10:30 +0000

That is what freedom of speech implies, yes.

New comment by ekc in "I feel like im talking to the borg"

ekc — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:51:57 +0000

You can read Twitter.com in a browser.

New comment by ekc in "CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet"

ekc — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:03:24 +0000

If you had read the thread before commenting, you'd find that the developer of this used to work at Canonical, which lends them at least some credit.

New comment by ekc in "Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic"

ekc — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:38:18 +0000

No, not for an online company, and especially not the exceptions it has.

New comment by ekc in "Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic"

ekc — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:35:10 +0000

This is interesting, given Automattic has one of the...weirdest views on free speech there is today.

Near-absolute free speech, within the means of the law, with really odd exceptions.

New comment by ekc in "Technical Vision for Qt 6"

ekc — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 01:46:29 +0000

I don't believe so, unless it's changed recently.