Hacker News: haram_masala

New comment by haram_masala in "Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia"

haram_masala — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:19:55 +0000

Saudi money in the startup world isn’t new. SoftBank is bundles quite a bit of it under a less-noxious brand.

New comment by haram_masala in "Researchers are trying to mitigate the spread of wild pigs in Canada"

haram_masala — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 14:23:04 +0000

Most of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor.

Texas is contending with a similar problem, and if Texans can’t find a way to eat them, you know that meat is worthless.

New comment by haram_masala in "Crypto Is Mostly Over. Its Carbon Emissions Are Not"

haram_masala — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:43:26 +0000

The NSA does exactly that.

New comment by haram_masala in "Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR"

haram_masala — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:38:08 +0000

The time plot of CO2 in the bedroom is sobering - it seems that they’re reaching levels where CO2 causes cognitive impairment.

New comment by haram_masala in "Apple delays bonuses for some divisions as it scrutinizes costs"

haram_masala — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:47:53 +0000

Reminder, with Facebook’s restructuring, it’s no longer FAANG, it’s G-MAAN.

New comment by haram_masala in "When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?"

haram_masala — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 05:42:44 +0000

LinkedIn is a career and promotional tool. Some people use it to discuss their work, some people discuss their work environment.

New comment by haram_masala in "Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid SUV now selling for 48% over MSRP"

haram_masala — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:09:09 +0000

If you want to call people out for passive aggression, well, that’s your choice, I guess. Not what I’d do, but hey, whatever makes you happy.

New comment by haram_masala in "DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales"

haram_masala — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:12:06 +0000

Seems like a lawsuit magnet.

New comment by haram_masala in "Cohere: The world’s most powerful NLP toolkit"

haram_masala — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 06:14:01 +0000

This is probably an API gateway fronting Spark NLP and a mini GPT. They have 25 engineers, what do they all do?

New comment by haram_masala in "Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen"

haram_masala — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:24:27 +0000

That all sounds great, but you’d better be sure about the “causes of criminal behavior.” Not everyone agrees on that, and as such, you might be unpleasantly surprised at what ultimately gets “attacked.”

New comment by haram_masala in "Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen"

haram_masala — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:11:51 +0000

Target has started closing their San Francisco stores at 6pm as a response to the increase in theft. Do you really think that this wasn't a data-driven decision, and that Target as a whole just got swept up in some kind of racist moral panic?

New comment by haram_masala in "Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen"

haram_masala — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:08:43 +0000

Why would the police arrest a suspect if they already know the suspect won't be prosecuted That's what's really happening here.

New comment by haram_masala in "Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning"

haram_masala — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:22:43 +0000

This is the first time I have ever heard the claim that the CCP's hold on power is anything but rock solid. Unless you mean that specific leaders within the party have a tenuous hold against their party rivals.

New comment by haram_masala in "Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud"

haram_masala — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:14:24 +0000

Sorry - what’s a CRUD startup? CRUD as in create, read, update, delete?

New comment by haram_masala in "Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Crystal and Lucky [video]"

haram_masala — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:06:14 +0000

My strategy is to ignore the license and do whatever the hell I want. So far I’ve been 100% successful with it.

New comment by haram_masala in "The SaaS Org Chart"

haram_masala — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:30:19 +0000

For those of us who want to start an indie one-person SaaS, this is sobering - because it means that for a while, you’ll be doing all 50 of these jobs. And, paid far less than any of them.

New comment by haram_masala in "Empty storefronts are killing neighbourhoods"

haram_masala — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:58:02 +0000

As much as I hate _Kelo vs. City of New London_, I can see the temptation in this case to invoke eminent domain and hand over those vacant properties to another private owner who will put them to good use.

New comment by haram_masala in "Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)"

haram_masala — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 03:27:08 +0000

Same here. Weeding and trimming my small yard now fills my weekly compost bin, that never used to happen in the past couple of decades.

New comment by haram_masala in "Google Fires VP over Bizarre Anti-Anti-Semitic Rant"

haram_masala — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 13:24:28 +0000

The quotations excepted from his videos are unsettling but ultimately positive - apparently he’s talking about his journey to overcome anti-Semitism. But in a way, the central message is irrelevant. If you’re a VP of Developer Relations, you talk about one thing and one thing only, and you do that with measured, pleasant enthusiasm.

New comment by haram_masala in ""Star Trek: The Motion Picture" Gets a 4K Remaster for Paramount+"

haram_masala — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:18:30 +0000

The score is a masterpiece though.