Hacker News: hexis

New comment by hexis in "Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat"

hexis — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:51:50 +0000

Could have just invited Ken Paxton if all he wanted to do was inform voters.

New comment by hexis in "We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years"

hexis — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:34:02 +0000

I wonder why they require it?

New comment by hexis in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

hexis — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:07:24 +0000

It is, many states in the US are abnormal in this way.

New comment by hexis in "Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost"

hexis — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:52:26 +0000

We had the Wayback Machine for years before those two projects. What am I missing?

New comment by hexis in "Facts about throwing good parties"

hexis — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:51:45 +0000

A secret, second, thing.

New comment by hexis in "Regarding the Compact"

hexis — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:18:15 +0000

Yes, the federal government of the United States has always attached conditions to federal funding.

New comment by hexis in "Focus Is Saying No"

hexis — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:03:42 +0000

Seems pretty awful that the manager let him work on software upgrades for two years without telling him that work would not lead to the promotion he was clearly planning on.

New comment by hexis in "No adblocker detected"

hexis — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:44:51 +0000

This is one of the top things pushing me to an EV, so I can charge at home and be done with gas stations. As EVs get more market share, these intrusive ads will only get worse.

New comment by hexis in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

hexis — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:50:45 +0000

Albert Ellis wrote a book, "Is Objectivism a Religion" as far back as 1968. Murray Rothbard wrote "Mozart Was a Red", a play satirizing Rand's circle, in the early 60's. Ayn Rand was calling her own circle of friends, in "jest", "The Collective" in the 50's. The dynamics were there from almost the beginning.

New comment by hexis in "Online Safety Act: What went wrong?"

hexis — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:46:10 +0000

Yes, but my point is what weight would the desired outcome have? Why not just observe the actual outcome and judge it directly?

New comment by hexis in "Online Safety Act: What went wrong?"

hexis — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:11:50 +0000

Why would the desired outcome be a more true test than the actual outcome?

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:14 +0000

I appreciate your political commitments and I understand how that makes this topic unproductive for us to discuss.

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:49:16 +0000

And yet it moves.

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:28:12 +0000

And yet, public disorder is increasing. Sure, it is better than the 90s, but that can hardly be the standard. Those days were awful, we can and should do much better than that.

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:27:24 +0000

Cars are dangerous. When crime began to decline after the early 90s, American cities had a renaissance with huge numbers of people moving to them. Now, with the rampant public disorder, we are back to suburbs dramatically outgrowing the center cities.

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:25:52 +0000

Vibes and observations are very different. I am judging by my direct experience.

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:25:14 +0000

I have never had a car try to run me down, but I have had multiple vagrants chase me and my family through the streets.

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:23:43 +0000

The results have been that much of that housing ends up with the same problems homeless shelters do.

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:23:01 +0000

But, of course, you have a problem with the direction of causation in that case. Streets with many people on it are safe, but did the people make it safe, or did the safety bring the people?

New comment by hexis in "A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places"

hexis — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:52:21 +0000

Unreasonable standard for reaching conclusions, I suspect if you thought about it, you would agree.