Hacker News: elliekelly

New comment by elliekelly in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

elliekelly — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:43:31 +0000

The pagers do give Israel a certain veneer of plausible deniability that they wouldn’t otherwise have if they had used more traditional bombing methods.

New comment by elliekelly in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

elliekelly — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:36:05 +0000

Maybe future iterations of this attack will include facial recognition to determine user age > ~18?

New comment by elliekelly in "Eight months pregnant and arrested after false facial recognition match"

elliekelly — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 21:12:07 +0000

Or she’s one of the few with the resources & social connections to get this on the country’s radar.

New comment by elliekelly in "Eight months pregnant and arrested after false facial recognition match"

elliekelly — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 21:08:47 +0000

There are so many “copaganda” TV shows in the US it’s wild. I bet every American could easily name 10 off the top of their head and that wouldn’t even begin to scratch the surface.

New comment by elliekelly in "Defecting from North Korea is now harder"

elliekelly — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:28:16 +0000

I think monkey pox was mostly contained through contact tracing and then vaccinating those who were potentially exposed.

Video of Large Crack Spotted in Roller Coaster Prompts Its Shutdown

elliekelly — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:16:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/north-carolina-roller-coaster-closed.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36574087

Points: 3

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New comment by elliekelly in "Debris Field Confirmed as Titan"

elliekelly — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:47:55 +0000

I think it’s one thing to build your own insanely dangerous exploration device and try it out yourself but to try to make money by selling people tickets for rides on it is far beyond mere “experimenting”. There’s also the very substantial public cost of rescuing the victims of these short-sighted ”experiments”.

New comment by elliekelly in "Debris Field Confirmed as Titan"

elliekelly — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:39:24 +0000

I think it’s more along the lines of “learn from the experiences of others”. It’s my understanding that there are quite a lot of very smart people who have spent decades figuring out how to build these things relatively safely. This company decided to ignore the existing knowledge base entirely because what the industry had learned was expensive and inconvenient for a fledgling tourist company.

What’s that analogy about taking down a fence without understanding why someone put it up in the first place?

New comment by elliekelly in "Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way"

elliekelly — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:29:57 +0000

I believe he also mentioned they were “lost” for a few hours when they lost communication so perhaps all hope is not lost for the people currently on board.

Livestream of Collapsed I-95 Overpass Cleanup/Rebuild

elliekelly — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.penndot.pa.gov:443/RegionalOffices/district-6/Pages/AlertDetails.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36343749

Points: 4

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New comment by elliekelly in "The Guardian bans all gambling advertising"

elliekelly — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:44:30 +0000

We can’t completely stop people from smoking either. But we can prevent people from starting and we can perhaps prevent those who have already started from increasing their consumption. Slowing down the rate of use by banning advertisements isn’t “hypocritical virtue signaling” it’s a real, measurable improvement. Perfection is the enemy of progress.

New comment by elliekelly in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

elliekelly — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:47:09 +0000

Can someone clarify how they decided to feature these 5279 subreddits? Are these the subreddits whose mods decided to participate? Or are these the largest subreddits? Or is there some other factor?

New comment by elliekelly in "Ted Kaczynski has died"

elliekelly — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 20:50:09 +0000

Why? Different people react differently to things. Especially psychologically. What might be merely uncomfortable for one person could push another person over the edge.

New comment by elliekelly in "I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me"

elliekelly — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:45:24 +0000

But wouldn’t Amazon be in the best position to have the evidence they do or do not engage in this behavior? Surely if anyone knows whether Amazon reduces product search visibility and the product’s prime checkmark it’s Amazon.

New comment by elliekelly in "I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me"

elliekelly — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:52:51 +0000

I don’t think he’s being sued at all. I think his blog post was cited as evidence in a lawsuit and so now Amazon’s lawyers are subjecting him to any and all discovery they can reasonably claim is even remotely related.

New comment by elliekelly in "I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me"

elliekelly — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:51:23 +0000

I’m not sure I follow why this is even a fact at issue? If Amazon policy applies a price floor to all Amazon sellers on all platforms they sell the product on then of course Amazon has caused higher prices for consumers elsewhere. Sure the policy has also probably resulted in lower prices for some products on Amazon but it seems undeniable that the external result would be higher prices on other platforms for some products.

New comment by elliekelly in "UK to crack down on plant-based food and drink labels"

elliekelly — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:12:38 +0000

What would be the motivation for a company to do this though? Trickery is not the way to win over new customers. The people buying these products want “not” milk. They’re specifically seeking out a product that isn’t milk. These companies have every reason to highlight the “not” rather than to hide it.

New comment by elliekelly in "UK to crack down on plant-based food and drink labels"

elliekelly — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:07:43 +0000

So then prohibit misleading product packaging rather than prohibiting a specific phrase.

New comment by elliekelly in "FDA Finalizes Rule to Deregulate Hearing Aids"

elliekelly — Sat, 06 May 2023 22:32:17 +0000

I feel like there are a lot of similar examples they just don’t get a lot of press. Naloxone was recently approved for OTC and they also recently approved allowing Mifepristone prescriptions by mail. They’re considering allowing a new birth control to be sold over the counter. Maybe a decade or so ago Plan B was prescription only but they allow that to be sold over the counter now, too.

And a lot of other drugs have made the jump in my adult memory: allergy drugs like Claritin and Flonase used to be prescription only as did just about every major antacid like Prilosec and Nexium. There’s a new topical NSAID for arthritis that recently made the switch to OTC too, I think.

New comment by elliekelly in "Everything happening on Bluesky"

elliekelly — Fri, 05 May 2023 19:30:54 +0000

Sometimes I’ll revisit code I’ve written and think “wow, so dumb, I could’ve just done xyz” only to implement my obviously far-superior method and recall that I’ve already learned this lesson and there was a good reason I hadn’t done xyz the first time.