Hacker News: hamter

New comment by hamter in "Second-Order Thinking"

hamter — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:34:20 +0000

What are the inputs to this framework? Are we going "What happens if we defund the police?" in isolation or are we asking what happens if we take the money from the police and put it into housing, into medicare, into other social programs? The answers you arrive at might be different.

In fact if we extrapolate that line of reasoning out to the capitalist substrate of our economy we might find some surprising second, third+ order effects.

New comment by hamter in "Undersea eruption filled atmosphere with water – Science – AAAS"

hamter — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:24:03 +0000

Why even make this joke?

New comment by hamter in "Show HN: Marple – Interactive time series visualization for engineers"

hamter — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:49:04 +0000

I haven't used influxdb before but if the data resides on hosts I own I think that would be acceptable. Thanks for your answers!

New comment by hamter in "Show HN: Marple – Interactive time series visualization for engineers"

hamter — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:07:33 +0000

This looks pretty useful and I will definitely be trying it out. I see you can upload CSV files for visualizing. Is there a way to send data as it's generated?

Another question would it be possible for Marple to use the data locally (or from say my own s3 bucket or database) instead of having to upload it to your servers?

New comment by hamter in "Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens"

hamter — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 11:56:21 +0000

For those like me who need some kind of reference for the distances mentioned (548-900 AU), Voyager 1 is 156.5 AU from earth today.

New comment by hamter in "Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?"

hamter — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:58:55 +0000

When it comes to working holiday visas this is one of those times non-Americans[1] actually have _more_ options than Americans.

1: Western non-Americans, more specifically, unfortunately..

New comment by hamter in "Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than dominants narratives imply"

hamter — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:47:21 +0000

A lot of people haven't developed the muscle to look at anything discussing "demographics" extremely critically.

New comment by hamter in "Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than dominants narratives imply"

hamter — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:41:54 +0000

Sure you can have this "discussion" but it comes off as needless (and probably racist) concern trolling. The Sweden thing is a favorite among reactionaries trying to mask their racism. The homicide rate in Sweden is lower than Canada. It's lower than Finland.

New comment by hamter in "Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme"

hamter — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:10:58 +0000

yeah but it was private and presumably a pretty limited number of people knew about it at the time which narrows down the number of potential candidates pretty considerably.

New comment by hamter in "EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved"

hamter — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:05:52 +0000

> But the problem here is, that the EU concepts are often adapted elsewhere

oh no anything but that

New comment by hamter in "The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money"

hamter — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:36:47 +0000

you still need to do kyc to convert to real money, which is essentially the same as transferwise for example

New comment by hamter in "The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money"

hamter — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:35:02 +0000

which ones

New comment by hamter in "Why are there no bridges in East London?"

hamter — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 08:30:57 +0000

Jay Foreman's videos are great. Love the old BBC documentary aesthetic he (mockingly) goes for.

New comment by hamter in "The Singular 'They'"

hamter — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 08:27:45 +0000

If you listen to someone whose first language is something like Spanish or French but isn't totally fluent in English you'll hear them use "he" instead of singular "they". It's not an egregious error but it definitely sounds a little strange (at least to my ear).

New comment by hamter in "Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else"

hamter — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:08:11 +0000

weird conclusion

New comment by hamter in "Cheat sheet for if I'm gone"

hamter — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:42:14 +0000

Dashlane actually has a deadman's switch feature. You can give it a list of accounts who can request access and if/when they request access you have 24 hours to decline them. After that they get access.

Too bad they got rid of their native apps....what a pain. I wish 1password had a feature like that.

New comment by hamter in "Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds"

hamter — Thu, 12 May 2022 21:38:08 +0000

it's location services, not apple maps.

New comment by hamter in "Neoliberalism has resulted in preference for greater income inequality"

hamter — Wed, 11 May 2022 12:14:02 +0000

> The predominantly rich are who get into those ivy league schools and rack up giant student loans. You're planning to pay off rich kids loans?

that one's gonna need a citation lol.

> Also how's that money printing going? 8.5% inflation and still rising... You want more of that?

ask the corporations that are posting record profits in spite of this inflation

> The poor will burn that million so fast. It's the mentality of the psyche, no different than a dog who eats their food as fast as possible fearing they might lose it.

break out the calipers boys

> The rich take the million and buy as much investments as possible right away.

wait i thought we were getting inflation that makes the million meaningless

> In a couple years we go check on how things are doing... the rich are rich. the poor are poor. Nothing changes. People need to understand that money doesn't work this way. Want to eliminate inequality? Teach people to not be poor, teach them to bust their butt doing something useful to society.

real rich dad / poor dad hours here

New comment by hamter in "Neoliberalism has resulted in preference for greater income inequality"

hamter — Wed, 11 May 2022 12:08:07 +0000

> as long as it does not infringe the rights/freedoms of anyone else

that seems like the hairy part

New comment by hamter in "How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax"

hamter — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:55:29 +0000

someone who has a billion dollar exit is in a somewhat better position to pay those taxes than a person scraping by on minimum wage. What you seem to be advocating for here is not less taxes but pushing the taxes downward to people who can less afford them.

Maybe instead the federal government could do inventive things like substantially cut the military budget.