Hacker News: imapeopleperson

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Congressional hearing on the influence of corporate profit on inflation"

imapeopleperson — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:48:36 +0000

Surly a reduction of government command over the economy s/

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Congressional hearing on the influence of corporate profit on inflation"

imapeopleperson — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:34:25 +0000

I think the main issue is a loss of common sense with the general public.

For a lot of people it is glaringly obvious that natural market forces have little to do with inflation (excluding monopolies, duopolies, cartels).

Knowing this to be fact, then seeing Congress pretend it isn’t, elicits a terse but well deserved response: sham

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Has the CIA Done More Harm Than Good?"

imapeopleperson — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:39:42 +0000

CIA should rebrand as META

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?"

imapeopleperson — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:16:59 +0000

Hybrid is the best solution. Best of both worlds: and having to do both makes you appreciate both more.

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Covid causes significant neuron damage in Rhesus Macaques"

imapeopleperson — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:21:13 +0000

Loathe to think China’s zero covid policy will prove to be best after all

New comment by imapeopleperson in "White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight"

imapeopleperson — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 03:09:35 +0000

Agree. And I’d first float it permanently over the Atlantic where hurricanes seem to grow over warm water.

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable Forms"

imapeopleperson — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:50:31 +0000

What good is more housing without more schools, new parks, wider roads, more public infrastructure, etc? Net net it becomes a step-backwards for the group when just adding more housing alone

Startups like this are extremely guilty of offloading massive externals costs on the communities they sell to

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable Forms"

imapeopleperson — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:47:49 +0000

If a nice place is becoming cheaper, it’s also probably becoming less nice.

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Jack Dorsey plans to build 'Web5' based on Bitcoin"

imapeopleperson — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:51:37 +0000

Bitcoin doesn’t proactively disrupt centralization as much as it does so passively, by just existing. And arguably it has come a very far way by doing absolutely nothing other than that.

Its functioning exactly as it’s supposed to while central banks and governments around the world try desperately to change things every which way. And Bitcoin will stay that way even things continue to change further (in likely a bad direction)

Building something steady seems like a different and good bet to me

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Who cares about diversity?"

imapeopleperson — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:22:35 +0000

This seems prescient:

“The most “woke” people are the ones who aggressively try to silence all dissent (https://fakenous.net/?p=2932) and to exclude conservatives, libertarians, etc., from the Academy. So they not only fail to value intellectual diversity; they are just about the most stridently anti-diversity people in the entire country.”

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices"

imapeopleperson — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 01:20:54 +0000

This is a topic that’s always going to have wildly different numbers. Who cares? It doesn’t change what we all know to be true. Nothing has been undermined whatsoever

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices"

imapeopleperson — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:21:16 +0000

Don’t get so hung up on precise numbers. We all know Americans are obese and that greatly adds to healthcare costs.

I can’t imagine any downside of trying to prioritize lowering obesity.

New comment by imapeopleperson in "FDA Authorizes Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccines Booster Dose"

imapeopleperson — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 21:38:44 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-covid-boosters-are-set-t...

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle"

imapeopleperson — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:10:22 +0000

Please consider a word application on kindle as your next project.

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Marc Andreessen slams new multi-family affordable housing"

imapeopleperson — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 23:18:16 +0000

> AB 686 requires all public agencies to “administer programs and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing, and take no action inconsistent with this obligation”

AB 686 also makes changes to Housing Element Law to incorporate requirements to AFFH as part of the housing element and general plan to include an analysis of fair housing outreach and capacity, integration and segregation, access to opportunity, disparate housing needs, and current fair housing practices.

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Marc Andreessen slams new multi-family affordable housing"

imapeopleperson — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:29:24 +0000

How so? Ruining a nice town hurts more people than it helps

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Marc Andreessen slams new multi-family affordable housing"

imapeopleperson — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:21:35 +0000

I don’t understand why NIMBY hate is in vogue.

What’s wrong with letting a nice town stay nice? We don’t need to turn everything to shit just to satiate socialist schadenfreude.

Build it somewhere else

New comment by imapeopleperson in "School demands search of text messaging, outside of school"

imapeopleperson — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:38:26 +0000

Bullying is harassment

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Indian villagers are tricking Google to have their own fake knowledge panels"

imapeopleperson — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 07:32:33 +0000

Knowledge panel could be the next Facebook IMO

New comment by imapeopleperson in "Is your phone ruining your memory? A report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’"

imapeopleperson — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:35:35 +0000

Not surprised to see the FAANG crowd defend the castle. But would be more interesting to see a new castle built