Hacker News: gaadd33

New comment by gaadd33 in "You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon"

gaadd33 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:33:47 +0000

Assuming you pay via dealership financing that is likely true but many dealerships have a different price for a car if you are paying cash for it.

New comment by gaadd33 in "Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse"

gaadd33 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:22:52 +0000

I think Firefox focus does that on android, I'm sure there's a way to get the same result on a desktop with some flags and pointing to a config file (or a read only profile folder maybe?)

New comment by gaadd33 in "DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing"

gaadd33 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:04:41 +0000

Jair Bolsonaro is still alive at least according to mainstream media, do you have any links to where he was killed in an assassination?

New comment by gaadd33 in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

gaadd33 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:56:38 +0000

Why is southeast Michigan difficult to drive in? I don't know anything about the area but I would guess if GPS navigation works and it's less dense than SF/LA, most of the major issues are solved?

New comment by gaadd33 in "American Airlines flying empty Airbus A321neo across the Atlantic 20 times"

gaadd33 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:48:18 +0000

Jetblue only flies narrow bodies across the Atlantic, I'm sure there are a number of others too.

New comment by gaadd33 in "Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)"

gaadd33 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:56:16 +0000

A lot of them these days are things like Uvinul A Plus (Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate) and Tinosorb S/P. They essentially act as UV filters similar to physical barriers. Many aren't available in the US, I believe due to FDA regulation of sunscreen but not totally sure why.

New comment by gaadd33 in "Show HN: TrendFi – I built AI trading signals that self-optimize"

gaadd33 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:56:34 +0000

If you can reliably generate 200% a year after fees/taxes/etc, you could just get a bunch of credit cards and use broker margin on top of that. It wouldn't surprise me if you could easily start with 200k at that point. Sure the first year would be rough, like grad student living but you would quickly be in the six figures.

New comment by gaadd33 in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

gaadd33 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:17:08 +0000

I think Rsync.net supports zfs send/receive

New comment by gaadd33 in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

gaadd33 — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:09:27 +0000

Empty storefronts in lower Manhattan have become more prevalent especially as Walgreens has been downsizing their Duane Reade locations and banks have reduced branch numbers. Historically I've heard that landlords try to hold out for high rent paying large corporations but in the past few years there are less and less of those tenants. Also I'm sure it's tied to the 10 year lease renewal/rent increase cycle.

Anecdotally, I notice a lot more foot traffic in Fidi than last year and far less traffic when I do need to take a taxi or uber. It seems like greater foot traffic would be a benefit for your friend's store unless it's a destination store that sells large products (furniture/appliances/etc).

New comment by gaadd33 in "21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X"

gaadd33 — Sat, 10 May 2025 03:51:00 +0000

Caught doing what? Can you provide some context or links to search?

New comment by gaadd33 in "America's nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade"

gaadd33 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:02:18 +0000

Before Russia invaded Crimea was there a water crisis?

New comment by gaadd33 in "Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing"

gaadd33 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 04:16:29 +0000

Less than 6 months ago I was able to buy a ticket online and board without showing any ID and have done that for 10+ years with no problem.

New comment by gaadd33 in "The booming, high-stakes arms race of airline safety videos"

gaadd33 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:58:09 +0000

The article seems to imply that it's not a waste of money which is why it's expanded in use, especially with having partners like tourism agencies chip in.

New comment by gaadd33 in "Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)"

gaadd33 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:24:55 +0000

Is any open source software or Linux distribution engineered to the level of the 787?

New comment by gaadd33 in "Liberapay"

gaadd33 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:04:02 +0000

Open Payment Host seems to connect to credit card gateways (Stripe/Square) whereas coindrop seems to link to P2P style payment methods where you are sending funds to an "address".

New comment by gaadd33 in "McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts"

gaadd33 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:57:32 +0000

As far as teams where ITAR could apply, I don't think the Haas team has much worry. There hasn't been a competitive F1 team from America for at least a generation.

New comment by gaadd33 in "Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’"

gaadd33 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:13:45 +0000

Dark pools started in the 1980s once the SEC permitted securities to be traded off the exchange they are listed on. I think that was well before flashboys.

New comment by gaadd33 in "NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable"

gaadd33 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:13:41 +0000

I don't think the US government is the largest employer in the world unless we aren't counting other countries governments. China seems to have around 50M government employees, 10 million civil servants and 30-40 million in other government jobs.

New comment by gaadd33 in "r/Duolingo Will No Longer Be Duolingo’s Unpaid Customer Support or Data Mine"

gaadd33 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:18:01 +0000

What customer support is legally required? Just curious since I've had better experience with Google/etc related support than I have with things like most consumer electronics or appliance manufacturers.

New comment by gaadd33 in "When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass"

gaadd33 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:51:45 +0000

Although under the law that created Amtrak, the track owners are supposed to give priority to passenger trains. I don't think that's been enforced for 30+ years (maybe ever) so freight is prioritized since it makes the owners more money.