Hacker News: homonculus1

New comment by homonculus1 in "If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off"

homonculus1 — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:34:58 +0000

How slow do you read??

New comment by homonculus1 in "The War on General Purpose Computing (2015) [video]"

homonculus1 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 18:25:41 +0000

Expanding the DMCA model to speech in general! Ten years ago I would have been very surprised to see this take on HN.

New comment by homonculus1 in "New York City hiring top rat killer"

homonculus1 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 01:35:55 +0000

Well, your examples are from 50 years ago...

New comment by homonculus1 in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

homonculus1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:29:57 +0000

Hershey bars are made by Hershey, not by Nestle.

New comment by homonculus1 in "South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies"

homonculus1 — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 21:14:13 +0000

There aren't going to be fewer people as a result of this, there are just going to be fewer South Koreans in South Korea. When developed nations pursue non-procreative social policies and lose their demographics, they get internally replaced from undeveloped nations. The global population continues to grow.

New comment by homonculus1 in "The Names of All Manner of Hounds: Inventory in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript"

homonculus1 — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:56:09 +0000

He was surely the leader of a fine category:

  "Pretiboy"
  "Swepestake"
  "Stanchebost"

But, there was also another kind:

  "Plodder"
  "Vagrawnte"
  "Helpeles"

New comment by homonculus1 in "The Names of All Manner of Hounds: Inventory in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript"

homonculus1 — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:42:43 +0000

We call ours "Monty" for short

New comment by homonculus1 in "Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall"

homonculus1 — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:33:23 +0000

It's not going to be for people convicted of multiple DUI's.

New comment by homonculus1 in "Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence"

homonculus1 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:52:04 +0000

Bloody sheep!

New comment by homonculus1 in "The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature"

homonculus1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:36:02 +0000

That's a birth defect, not a sex.

New comment by homonculus1 in "The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature"

homonculus1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:29:50 +0000

"Male" and "man" are an adjective and a noun referring to the same thing.

New comment by homonculus1 in "Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in"

homonculus1 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:41:20 +0000

Because that's where the rhyme is, dummy.

New comment by homonculus1 in "Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in"

homonculus1 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:47:39 +0000

Earth weighs 0.6 yomommagrams

New comment by homonculus1 in "The plague of emoji insertion in French docs"

homonculus1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:58:33 +0000

But I'm not left-handed!

New comment by homonculus1 in "Why are U.S. transit projects so costly? This group is on the case"

homonculus1 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 23:10:22 +0000

Put them in jail. There's no reason the general public should have to deal with them anywhere, rich or poor. The fact that we do is a policy decision.

New comment by homonculus1 in "Why are U.S. transit projects so costly? This group is on the case"

homonculus1 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 23:04:57 +0000

Not that bad? Hate it less? What an exciting pitch for the new nuisance in your neighborhood.

I'm not familiar with that area but I can infer that it must be pretty miserable for people who care about their surroundings, respect public spaces, and work hard to maintain a high standard in the environments they occupy. More power to them.

New comment by homonculus1 in "How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind"

homonculus1 — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:10:33 +0000

Theft isn't a mere nuisance, it's an attack on one of the fundamental buttresses against chaos and violence.

The cost of living in a low-trust environment is orders of magnitude greater than the value of the items stolen. Severe penalties for persistent defection against society are absolutely warranted.

New comment by homonculus1 in "Apparently you cannot have the Kanye interview on Google Drive now"

homonculus1 — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:33:43 +0000

A transparent shakedown. I and those like me will continue to exercise our rights and pursue our own interests in spite of these threats of coordinated harassment.

By the way, your cries of being perpetually marginalized ring hollow, when in the very same sentence you boast of your ability to silence and damage those whom you hate.

New comment by homonculus1 in "Apparently you cannot have the Kanye interview on Google Drive now"

homonculus1 — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 19:54:36 +0000

Seen by who? This angle is disingenuous, because no third party is going to single out this file being on Google Drive and punish Google for not censoring it.

Admit it, this is 100% autonomous action on the part of Google to suppress ideas and opinions they disapprove of. There is zero external pressure or risk. The excuse of some nebulous toxic miasma is nothing but a fig leaf for exercising political power.

New comment by homonculus1 in "Apparently you cannot have the Kanye interview on Google Drive now"

homonculus1 — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 19:00:40 +0000

Why?