Hacker News: feld

New comment by feld in "USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides"

feld — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 19:07:43 +0000

Nothing. Don't listen to this guy. Glyphosate is not a pesticide, it's an herbicide. Anyone using the wrong terminology is a conspiracy theorist you can safely ignore.

New comment by feld in "USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides"

feld — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 19:05:16 +0000

Microplastics do not wash out of your body...

edit: also glyphosate is not a pesticide

New comment by feld in "Why aren’t more companies remote-first?"

feld — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:57:41 +0000

Yes

edit: in some scenarios, of course

New comment by feld in "Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer"

feld — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:36:57 +0000

They were probably exposed to 2,4D, not glyphosate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic_acid

If they're using undocumented workers do you think they're going to prevent them from being exposed to a key ingredient in Agent Orange?

New comment by feld in "Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer"

feld — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:33:55 +0000

If glyphosate is banned we will all starve.

There is no strong evidence of its harm yet. It may be an EDC, but we don't have the data to prove it.

The fearmongering has got to stop. Why wasn't Bayer/Monsanto allowed to provide expert witness testimony? Are we going to continue to throw scientific methods out the window?

New comment by feld in "Why aren’t more companies remote-first?"

feld — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:45:38 +0000

Compensate your employees well, have them be independent contractors. That's what my employer does.

New comment by feld in "mTCP: A high-performance user-level TCP stack for multicore systems"

feld — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:00:19 +0000

The mTCP stack is based on the FreeBSD network stack, not the Linux stack. And it has recent activity on GitHub.

HN Violates the GDPR

feld — Thu, 30 May 2019 15:16:34 +0000

There is no way to delete your account and your comments on HN. This is a violation of the GDPR. Why has this not been addressed yet?

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052076

Points: 29

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New comment by feld in "Why is chicken so cheap? [video]"

feld — Mon, 27 May 2019 19:50:04 +0000

They eat bones. Raw bones are safe, cooked bones are not.

New comment by feld in "Why is chicken so cheap? [video]"

feld — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:12:48 +0000

I feed my dogs almost exclusively chicken leg quarters and can get them for as low as 39 cents per pound (USD).

Chicken is insanely cheap.

New comment by feld in "iOS Safari and Memory Management"

feld — Sat, 25 May 2019 14:11:16 +0000

Yes

New comment by feld in "iOS Safari and Memory Management"

feld — Fri, 24 May 2019 12:52:01 +0000

"VM == swap" is an indicator for me to not hire that candidate

New comment by feld in "Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack"

feld — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:07:56 +0000

legally you can write a check on anything: post-it note, napkin, etc.

New comment by feld in ".IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them"

feld — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:04:39 +0000

my .me domain is my primary domain and won't expire for 10 years.

Also I've never observed an outage for it like this.

New comment by feld in "ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver"

feld — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:06:05 +0000

APFS doesn't checksum the data. You've been deceived.

BTRFS still cannot be trusted for various reasons. It was deprecated as of RHEL 7.4

New comment by feld in "ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver"

feld — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:01:39 +0000

Other filesystems will lose your data or write corrupted data

New comment by feld in "Android getting “DNS over TLS” support"

feld — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:47:16 +0000

Alternatively install OpenDNS Umbrella which will do this with DNSCrypt to the OpenDNS servers

New comment by feld in "Android getting “DNS over TLS” support"

feld — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:24:36 +0000

DNSCrypt finally wins

New comment by feld in "Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail"

feld — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:23:14 +0000

Qubes has a nice fat attack surface known as the hypervisor. I'm skeptical when people point to this as the panacea of computing security.

New comment by feld in "iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security"

feld — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 12:15:45 +0000

Because they are. Step out of your IT bubble.