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New comment by goodrubyist in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

goodrubyist — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:33:45 +0000

it's basically the American mindset vs the European one (or anyone not in the US?).

New comment by goodrubyist in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

goodrubyist — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:34:47 +0000

He's very likely being defensive.

New comment by goodrubyist in "Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac"

goodrubyist — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:57:17 +0000

I approve every command myself, and no, it's still much faster than doing it myself.

New comment by goodrubyist in "Claude Code 2.0"

goodrubyist — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:26:03 +0000

But I like the general fallacy behind this that people fall for all the time: taking the past value of a variable as a complete predictor of its future value (applies to other stuff like investment returns e.g.)

New comment by goodrubyist in "Layoffs Don't Work"

goodrubyist — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:31:06 +0000

yes, it's the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy

New comment by goodrubyist in "I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)"

goodrubyist — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:29:20 +0000

If you're using a heuristic, it can be fine, but only if you also know that it's only a heuristic, instead of thinking that it's truth and lambasting anyone who suggests otherwise.

New comment by goodrubyist in "Good news against dengue"

goodrubyist — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:44:48 +0000

They really don't have any money.

New comment by goodrubyist in "Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility"

goodrubyist — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:52:35 +0000

Yes, and he is not a president.

New comment by goodrubyist in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

goodrubyist — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:41:22 +0000

*typo, I meant SSRN.

New comment by goodrubyist in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

goodrubyist — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:08:07 +0000

That's not the argument for textualism. You can read law review articles and papers on SSRI to find more.

New comment by goodrubyist in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

goodrubyist — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:43:13 +0000

You should really look into how judges interpret laws (rules, basically). There are two schools I know of: purposivism and textualism (I agree with the latter and it doesn't take into account intentions. That's the basis of how the recent case Van Buren v US was decided, I would recommend reading it: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-783_k53l.pdf). But in both, you have things like canons of interpretation and background principles and so on. It's always awesome to see how people who have to deal with the problem have thought about it, because they have usually invested a lot of time into it and come up with insights. See also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_interpretation

New comment by goodrubyist in "Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG"

goodrubyist — Wed, 10 May 2023 23:17:58 +0000

so many butts!

New comment by goodrubyist in "The Prime Video microservices to monolith story"

goodrubyist — Sun, 07 May 2023 19:56:41 +0000

Were those startups that went out of business did so because of their stacks/architecture, or are you confusing correlation with causation? And, there is a good reason people shy away from PHP, and it has nothing to do with trying to be "flashy." There should be a name for this kind of fallacy.

New comment by goodrubyist in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

goodrubyist — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:35:28 +0000

Do you have any evidence that "Most people who word things that way don't use the term "males" in a similar way". I think it's highly likely that you do not have enough (anecdotal) data to legitimately make a claim like that. At most you could make such a claim about "most people in my experience" but then, you wouldn't have monitored them for quite long either, just for an internet convo or so.

What Layoffs? Many Employers Are Eager to Hang on to Workers

goodrubyist — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/business/economy/staffing-layoffs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34948854

Points: 4

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New comment by goodrubyist in "US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in university admissions"

goodrubyist — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 22:43:56 +0000

Trying to influence the racial make-up of a class is, let's admit it, loathsome racial engineering.

New comment by goodrubyist in "Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top court says"

goodrubyist — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:40:26 +0000

That's not how it works at least in the US, but I don't know about Germany. SCOTUS claims that the judicial system is not for reviewing all the acts passed for constitutionality, but (as per Article III) only addressing specific harms brought up by individuals (the requirement for standing). This is from a 1992 precedent:

1. The plaintiff must have suffered an "injury in fact," meaning that the injury is of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent 2. There must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct brought before the court 3. It must be likely, rather than speculative, that a favorable decision by the court will redress the injury

Talking in advance about what law is constitutional would be perverse under such system (I love the standing doctrine, btw and so does the Chief Justice).

New comment by goodrubyist in "Killed by Google"

goodrubyist — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 11:29:43 +0000

It’s AngularJS being killed, not Angular, which is the framework that’s current.

New comment by goodrubyist in "ProctorU is dystopian spyware"

goodrubyist — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:56:21 +0000

I, for one, love the people who would be proudly installing this because they have "nothing to hide" while chiding those who are (appropriately) concerned.

New comment by goodrubyist in "Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”"

goodrubyist — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:28:34 +0000

Yes it has been around, but it's quite jarring to see anyone actually use it.