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New comment by hanoz in "Experiences won’t make you happier than possessions"

hanoz — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:02:33 +0000

The buy experiences meme has always had a slight air of having been engineered in travel industry laboratory somewhere and released into the wild.

New comment by hanoz in "Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting in 2025"

hanoz — Sun, 21 May 2023 22:36:51 +0000

That quip doesn't really work like it does for its more usual target, the Eiffel Tower, because unlike the tower you also can't see the Pompidou Centre from pretty much everywhere in Paris, except right next to the Pompidou Centre

New comment by hanoz in "No Screens Cafe"

hanoz — Sun, 21 May 2023 19:33:12 +0000

Wouldn't it do just to hook it up to an online processor, as if a web page?

New comment by hanoz in "Dandelion Root Recipes"

hanoz — Fri, 19 May 2023 12:52:09 +0000

That would never have flown in our (UK) class, where we grew up drinking Dandelion and Burdock pop

It was however playground lore that touching them and licking your fingers would make you wet the bed. Indeed the French name for them is literally that, pissenlit, which they must have had good reason to choose over the perfectly fine English name for them, dent de lion.

New comment by hanoz in "Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years"

hanoz — Fri, 12 May 2023 22:50:42 +0000

Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information? That would be information that someone can personally identify surely? Shouldn't it be personally identifying information?

New comment by hanoz in "What if we tolerated diseases?"

hanoz — Fri, 12 May 2023 22:39:03 +0000

How would it be less likely to induce confusion? What is it even supposed to mean in that form? I had no idea what you were talking about until someone explained your error.

Mike Lynch: Autonomy founder extradited to US in criminal case

hanoz — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65568967

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914971

Points: 2

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New comment by hanoz in "The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”"

hanoz — Fri, 12 May 2023 01:03:45 +0000

Isn't that exactly how the the greatest acts of stealing are performed?

New comment by hanoz in "Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake"

hanoz — Tue, 09 May 2023 17:11:16 +0000

Your high latitude health service must be better than mine. I can hardly imagine my GP's receptionist's reaction if I tried to book an appointment to check my baseline vitamin D levels!

New comment by hanoz in "UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill"

hanoz — Tue, 09 May 2023 15:38:41 +0000

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/pdfs/uksi_20200...

Restrictions on movement

6.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.

New comment by hanoz in "UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill"

hanoz — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:55:37 +0000

No, it was law. Immoral law which deserved to be broken, but that is no consolation to the millions who suffered greatly by going along with it.

To hear one of the most shameful periods in our legal history being brushed off as couple of months of half hearted barely observed lockdown is pretty disturbing.

New comment by hanoz in "UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill"

hanoz — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:45:50 +0000

You broke the law and got away with it. That doesn't mean millions of people weren't having a thoroughly miserable time of it observing the law, and for a lot longer than "a couple of months in 2020".

New comment by hanoz in "It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out"

hanoz — Sun, 07 May 2023 18:43:38 +0000

> questions which you could've easily included in your first e-mail

That's not really how conversation/chat works is it?

New comment by hanoz in "It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out"

hanoz — Sat, 06 May 2023 20:01:10 +0000

If I wanted to have a conversation about it, and you wanted to charge me a flat fee per utterance on the basis that you had to reread the text anew every time, I wouldn't be paying you at all.

New comment by hanoz in "It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out"

hanoz — Sat, 06 May 2023 14:47:02 +0000

The more token capacity that's added the more wasteful it seems to have to use this statelessly. Is there any avoiding this?

Wonderous as this new tech is, it seems a bit much to be paying $2 a question in a conversation about a 32k token text.

New comment by hanoz in "66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’"

hanoz — Fri, 05 May 2023 00:04:33 +0000

"Just build more houses", yet alone when framed as "it's up to you to convince your neighbors to let you to build more houses" just doesn't cut the mustard any more.

We need serious changes that are actually going to make a difference, along the lines of (for residential property):

* Outlawing mortgages for non occupiers.

* Sharing of capital gains with tenants.

* A complete end to no fault evictions.

* Universal right to buy for tenants.

* Putative tax for rental income.

New comment by hanoz in "66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’"

hanoz — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:56:08 +0000

I seriously doubt there's a $120k countryside house within 500 miles of me.

New comment by hanoz in "66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’"

hanoz — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:53:08 +0000

Western leaders had better start coming up with radical solutions to housing market driven inequity or there'll be ructions.

New comment by hanoz in "America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?"

hanoz — Tue, 02 May 2023 23:59:08 +0000

Fair point. It's a sorry state of afairs when you have to speculatively reverse engineer the algorithms run by a state-sanctioned oligopoly of private firms holding your own data gathered with, at best, coerced consent, and artificially structure your affairs in an attempt to present yourself as a dependable and unadventurous cash cow

New comment by hanoz in "America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?"

hanoz — Tue, 02 May 2023 23:40:51 +0000

That doesn't make sense. A credit card provider may profit more from a customer who carries a balance and maybe makes the odd late payment, but a mortgage provider inherently has a customer who carries a balance, and the ideal is a customer who makes payments on time every time, for the life of the mortgage.