Hacker News: esharte

New comment by esharte in "An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence"

esharte — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:32:13 +0000

Not everyone lives in America

New comment by esharte in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

esharte — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:22:38 +0000

Buy some empathy

New comment by esharte in "Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky"

esharte — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:49:49 +0000

Did you miss the whole part where these "policial opponents" attempted a coup against the democratically elected president?

New comment by esharte in "Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web"

esharte — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:52:11 +0000

"Coaching works best for those who are ready for forward movement"

Meaning "if our product doesn't work, it's really your fault"

New comment by esharte in "Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)"

esharte — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:07:26 +0000

Another thread where all the libertarians that US tech culture attracts come out and have a go at the EU

New comment by esharte in "Dublin Airport airbrige collapsed, damaging American Airlines Boeing 787"

esharte — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:45:37 +0000

You likely just went through the newer terminal 2 that time but it's been open 13 years already.

New comment by esharte in "Wizards of the Coast Raids YouTuber’s House to Take Back Magic Cards"

esharte — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:16:24 +0000

>"Weren't they pretty beloved by fans before some of these more recent actions?"

No definitely not

New comment by esharte in "Google Bard blocks all European Union countries"

esharte — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:04:13 +0000

"Hacker News is full of libertarians"

New comment by esharte in "We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates"

esharte — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:47:40 +0000

If you lived in the UK, supported Tottenham and wanted to watch all their games in the 2021/22 season you had to:

Subscribe to Sky Sports (around £50-60 a month) for the Premier League games.

Subscribe to BT Sports (30 a month) for the Saturday early kick off Premier League games and the Europa Conference League games.

Subscribe to Amazon Prime for the 3 random weeks when they are showing the Premier League games instead of Sky.

Subscribe to Premier Sports (£12 a month) to see a Europa Conference League 2 legged qualifier.

And even then you couldn't see all the games legally in the UK because of the 3pm Saturday black out. You are forced to find a stream from another country where they are broadcasting the game.

Then when you are subscriped you get wall to wall gambling adverts during half time. For every other product you subscribe to, it is to avoid ads, but not television.

New comment by esharte in "Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition"

esharte — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 23:54:30 +0000

This was preceded by WOTC bringing in new top brass from Microsoft.

They intend to promote DnD primarily as a digital product.

New comment by esharte in "Association between Vitamin D supplementation and Covid infection and mortality"

esharte — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:53:53 +0000

The guy that promoted Ivermectin. He is a proven crank at this stage

New comment by esharte in "Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?"

esharte — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:19:51 +0000

I had an ethics module in my Engineering degree. I'm guessing you didn't.

New comment by esharte in "Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?"

esharte — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 23:35:12 +0000

Why don't cinemas have them then?

It's because people are listening to shows through terrible audio setups by default

New comment by esharte in "Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows"

esharte — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:04:28 +0000

The issue is the "Mourning period" is being used as cover to crown a new monarch with no opposition. People are being told "not now", and how disrespectful they are.

This is by design.

Meanwhile it's somehow not disrespectful to replace the Queen within hours.

New comment by esharte in "I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome"

esharte — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:12:23 +0000

Firefox is worth it alone for its 'reader view'. Especially on Android. And it's the easiest way to get around the likes of the NYT weak paywalls.

New comment by esharte in "A newly updated index ranks English proficiency around the world"

esharte — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 02:35:27 +0000

Look how Europe corresponds with this map of which countries dub foreign language TV shows and Movies versus which ones use subtitles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/59zyal/map_of_europ...

New comment by esharte in "After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning"

esharte — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:06:26 +0000

If I was Techcrunch writer I'd be more concerned about what is going on at Oath than Nvidia having a few bumper years.

New comment by esharte in "Who Were the Mamluks?"

esharte — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:40:45 +0000

I really enjoyed the wonderful In our Time podcast about the Mamluks https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfmlh

New comment by esharte in "Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All"

esharte — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:47:41 +0000

Housing is used as an investment asset and a source of income rather than a home.

If you took all the investors out of the housing market, housing should cost just the price of construction.

New comment by esharte in "Why I’m Using a Flip Phone"

esharte — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:28:49 +0000

Welcome to the new "I don't own a Television"