Hacker News: iron0013

New comment by iron0013 in "Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules"

iron0013 — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:53:30 +0000

>Remember when people said "it's only extremists like Alex Jones" and "white nationalists", yeah well now Twitter has banned the president of the United States.

The president of the United States is in fact an extremist like Alex Jones and a white nationalist.

New comment by iron0013 in "Baltimore police lied about almost every aspect of its spy plane program"

iron0013 — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:09:57 +0000

If you make it excuses for any and every instance of police brutality—which you’ve demonstrated you’re willing to do—you are effectively supporting police brutality. That is obvious, and for you play naïf when someone points it out is an act of bad faith. Please stop doing that.

New comment by iron0013 in "How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing Off Trump Supporters"

iron0013 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:51:15 +0000

Title is “ How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters”

The part that was left out explains why the oddsmakers were able to make a killing and is therefore necessary.

New comment by iron0013 in "Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO"

iron0013 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:47:09 +0000

This entire thread is just “are my opinions unethical? No, no it must be the entire team of professional ethicists who are wrong.” Only without the even momentary modicum of self-reflection that implies.

New comment by iron0013 in "Ask HN: What can a technologist do about climate change?"

iron0013 — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 02:41:27 +0000

Work to elect politicians who will mobilize the apparatus of the state to fight climate change. It’s as simple as that.

We Live in a Society

iron0013 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:04:00 +0000

Article URL: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-live-in-a-society/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25403662

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Facebook Kowtowed to Conservatives and Got Nothing in Return

iron0013 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:41:33 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/business/2020/12/facebook-conservatives-antitrust-trump-joel-kaplan.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25403220

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by iron0013 in "The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire"

iron0013 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 03:21:06 +0000

Oh for God’s sake—-attempting to execute a coup to end democracy in America is pretty darn unamerican too, don’t ya think?

New comment by iron0013 in "Endangered Firefox: The State of Mozilla"

iron0013 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:16:46 +0000

I’ve been using some form of Firefox or its ancestors for 20 years, and I just cannot understand its decreasing popularity. In terms of performance, feature-richness, customizability, etc it seems to be superior to the more popular browsers. Can it really all be explained by the fact that it isn’t “pushed” by being an OS default (Edge, Safari) or by being suggested by the world’s most popular search engine (Chrome)? I don’t know what I’d do without Tree Style Tabs and the ability to irresponsibly open hundreds of tabs without worrying that the RAM usage is going to crash the browser!

New comment by iron0013 in "More Americans are shoplifting food"

iron0013 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:08:01 +0000

Food banks and shelters might be in good shape wherever it is that you live, but in many parts of the country they’re stretched to and beyond their capacities. Food banks are simply not a scalable solution to poverty. No form of charity is. Government aid programs are a proven solution to getting resources (like food) into the hands of folks in need.

As to your argument that poor people are morally corrupt, it’s laughable, below contempt, and not worth responding to. Someone is morally bankrupt, but it ain’t the poor.

New comment by iron0013 in "YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud"

iron0013 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 01:04:14 +0000

It literally begins “Congress shall make no law...”

New comment by iron0013 in "Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google"

iron0013 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:36:32 +0000

You gonna change this one to say she “resigned” too?

New comment by iron0013 in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

iron0013 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:16:46 +0000

Timnit Gebru is very clear that she didn’t resign. The actual headline at the link doesn’t say that she resigned. The moderator editorialization of headlines (and occasionally outright substitution of completely different urls than the ones that were submitted) on HN has gone way beyond disappointing, it’s outrageous. Shame on you dang.

New comment by iron0013 in "U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come"

iron0013 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:19:39 +0000

Truth isn’t really a “narrative”

New comment by iron0013 in "A group of recent Princeton graduates has won more than $6M in 66 lottery wins"

iron0013 — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:50:42 +0000

Because events other than crime can be newsworthy? Pro athletes make the news for winning games every week.

New comment by iron0013 in "Manifesto of the Silent Minority"

iron0013 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:21:23 +0000

But the survey wasn’t conducted among “we humans”, it was conducted among lesswrong readers. Lesswrong is normally pretty worthless, but this gentle lampoon if its own readership’s dumb opinions is actually pretty funny

New comment by iron0013 in "Millennials, the Dying Children"

iron0013 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:23:01 +0000

Speak for yourself “Captain Barf”, plenty of us millennials have been adults in every sense of the word for almost 20 years. Nothing’s keeping you from growing up if that’s what you want. In fact, if you’re from a poor family in America you don’t have a choice—it’s sink or swim.

New comment by iron0013 in "As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever"

iron0013 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:33:03 +0000

Dude, do you really want more HN posters on SA?

New comment by iron0013 in "I should have loved biology"

iron0013 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:37:10 +0000

The whiz-pow fun explanations for phenomena are great for the first 101 class in a subject, but any subject—especially biology—is so huge that at some point you must buckle down and learn quickly and efficiently, without so many fun little anecdotes.

New comment by iron0013 in "Student loan forgiveness would be a bailout for elites"

iron0013 — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:53:50 +0000

There are a lot of poor and lower middle class people struggling under massive student loans.