Hacker News: jackfrodo

New comment by jackfrodo in "Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum"

jackfrodo — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:54:02 +0000

All power to that engineer. From an HR standpoint, Google might be right, in the same way that VW would have been right to fire an employee who disrupted meetings when they built cars for the Nazi regime.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Google Israel managing director Regev ends MindTech remarks early after protests"

jackfrodo — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:38:45 +0000

Good for him. The reality of the genocide is getting harder and harder to keep out of our ostensibly "politics-free" tech bubble.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

jackfrodo — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:35:38 +0000

Trees themselves are useful because they support biodiversity such as small mammals, insects, all the useful things along a forest floor. can't do that with asphalt.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

jackfrodo — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:32:02 +0000

Removing parking lots will increase public support for all of the other things you mentioned. It's easier to start with tearing out parking lots and if necessary, cap parking prices, in addition to the other decades long projects

New comment by jackfrodo in "Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video]"

jackfrodo — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:43:23 +0000

Good point. I would imagine/hope there's some kind of compressed air device that would inflate upon impact with water.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Robinhood Says It Will Reopen GameStop Trading"

jackfrodo — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:30:22 +0000

What a joke. May as well add "Only if the traders promise not to do it again" to the headline.

> Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities,” Robinhood, a popular trading app, said. “We’ll continue to monitor the situation and may make adjustments as needed.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Keeping Customers Informed Through Market Volatility"

jackfrodo — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:24:01 +0000

Right right, I mean the face-value marketing "major principle", the one I was foolish enough to trust for a while.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Keeping Customers Informed Through Market Volatility"

jackfrodo — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:16:34 +0000

Sure with broad strokes, it generally sucks when a tech company makes unilateral decisions for its customers, whether that's restricting which stocks you can buy or whether you can put unauthorized apps on your iPhone.

But I find it particularly egregious because the major principle of RH was that it was on the side of the everyman rather than institutions.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Keeping Customers Informed Through Market Volatility"

jackfrodo — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:04:38 +0000

What a betrayal of their customers. Really going mask-off with what it means for a startup to "democratize" an industry: allowing the little guy to chip in, but never actually compete with the big boys.

New comment by jackfrodo in "House prices rise as Covid sparks rural relocation"

jackfrodo — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:57:48 +0000

I'm quite excited about this. I think it will lead to a reduction in "brain drain" here in the American South. Always bummed me out that the top college graduates tend to end up moving away to CA or NYC. Now they can still have those great jobs and contribute to their home or chosen states' economies.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Apple Exec Indicted for Allegedly Trying to Bribe Officers with iPads"

jackfrodo — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:49:59 +0000

I'm pleasantly surprised that California's firearm law is so strong, that issuing a few concealed carry permits would be even on the radar of the executive team. Contrast that to the stress I felt knowing a Best Buy coworker (several years ago) carried a gun on him during Black Friday sales!

New comment by jackfrodo in "M1 MacBook as Tesla car key"

jackfrodo — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:37:10 +0000

Oh that's pretty sweet!

New comment by jackfrodo in "Ask HN: What do you wish you knew more about?"

jackfrodo — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:32:26 +0000

I wish I knew which life milestones were important and which ones I don't have to worry about. Or at least a more structured guide to life from someone I admire or trust. I'm a single 25 year old software dev, and am doing fine in most aspects of life, but feel like I'm missing some feelings of accomplishment and fulfillment. I guess what I'm looking for is a way to calibrate my feelings and emotions and general state of life.

New comment by jackfrodo in "M1 MacBook as Tesla car key"

jackfrodo — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:29:56 +0000

What is it about the M1 MacBook that would allow this functionality that a regular bluetooth-enabled computer couldn't?

New comment by jackfrodo in "Wish S-1"

jackfrodo — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:57:58 +0000

Ha, the other day I was looking into how to report the page, and decided it wasn't worth the effort and probably would never be seen by a human. The power of HN!

New comment by jackfrodo in "Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December"

jackfrodo — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:11:18 +0000

Exactly. And going by vaccine timelines, we're still at the very beginning, so I don't blame people for being hesitant to get injected with it.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December"

jackfrodo — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:51:13 +0000

I know you're being facetious but unironically yes.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December"

jackfrodo — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:24:14 +0000

Uhh, points at 2020 The CDC advising people to not buy masks in February because "they don't work" comes to mind. The US Gov in general completely letting businesses and individuals plunge into bankruptcy. I think a lot of people have been awakened to the fact that "the system" is pretty ambivalent to their personal well-being.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Wish S-1"

jackfrodo — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:11:15 +0000

Check out the third image. Clearly calls them Airpod Pro.

New comment by jackfrodo in "Wish S-1"

jackfrodo — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:39:46 +0000

The tolerance of counterfeits is really such a bummer. And it's not just Wish. Amazon has their fair share of counterfeits as well. These "Airpods"[0] are cheap knockoffs, but the images say that they're Airpod Pros. This listing is on the first page of results when you search for Airpods on Amazon.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Headphones-Bluetooth-Earbuds...