Hacker News: jhowell

New comment by jhowell in "Rise in Attacks on Elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area"

jhowell — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:08:29 +0000

> And I am still waiting for "celebrities" cry about this bad behavior.

They are. Google Colin Kaepernick.

New comment by jhowell in "Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself"

jhowell — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:19:39 +0000

> this poor adult chose suicide... if he had just waited a few days or talked to his parents.

Independent dependent?

New comment by jhowell in "Rise in Attacks on Elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area"

jhowell — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:54:57 +0000

> "HeY xxx group we have a problem, a long standing problem. We need to change our culture and start shaming people who does X or Z. We can't Protect anyone just because they are "our" tribe. Neither we can blame it for things done by other tribes centuries ago."

If you have any interest in being accurate in your view of American history, may I recommend one of my favorites, What Hath God Wraught - The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 by Howe published by Oxford Press, really a great series to be honest.

Also quick math tells me 1868 was 153 years ago versus a couple of centuries. My dad was born in 1930's. His father, my grandfather was born in the 1880's. Do you know your grandparents or great grandparents. If they lived in the US they saw some violent, normalized behavior on a level and duration unprecedented in human history.

Your identification of the longstanding problem and your proposed solution seems, racist, because you blame people and policies for shortcomings.

New comment by jhowell in "Rise in Attacks on Elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area"

jhowell — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:29:33 +0000

Lenient policies around supporting people or incarcerating people?

New comment by jhowell in "Amazon's Kuiper responds to SpaceX on FCC request"

jhowell — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 21:46:23 +0000

Anyone know how obsolescence won't create space debris in this emerging competition.

New comment by jhowell in "Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning"

jhowell — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 15:15:16 +0000

Maybe the GP threw the wrong buzzword and meant AI instead of ML.

New comment by jhowell in "Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning"

jhowell — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 15:12:35 +0000

Earlier detection. Is this new tech, or just a sharper hammer?

New comment by jhowell in "The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)"

jhowell — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:51:10 +0000

> There is already a lot of real value in ubiquitous computing, automated warehouses, supply chain optimizations, digital entertainment, digital government services in many countries, I could go on for couple of pages now.

Is technology about, or only about optimizing value in supply chains?

New comment by jhowell in "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early'"

jhowell — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:16:34 +0000

Perhaps using satellite imagery to count the number of 737 MAX airplanes sitting on the runways of major airports, in addition to traditionally available data.

New comment by jhowell in "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early'"

jhowell — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:12:27 +0000

> Not saying we should do that though, because if Boeing goes out of business, we would be left with just one major manufacturer of passenger jets, and that's never a good thing.

This is a strong argument to work with Boeing to correct both the engineering and company cultural issues that produced an aircraft that kills their customers' customers. What's happening now seems like the time elapsed in the penalty box for bad behavior and now they are back on the ice. As you've stated, Boeing is too important to go out of business. Should a crash happen in the western world they'll long for the difficulties and corrective opportunities they face now.

New comment by jhowell in "How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?"

jhowell — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 01:21:30 +0000

I do, often, unfortunately. It gets poured down the drain.

New comment by jhowell in "Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds"

jhowell — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 01:19:15 +0000

If I recall correctly the same is not true for professional cyclists [1], a sport with a rich doping history. They seem to live longer than the general population. I believe this is related to the impact on the body versus steroids.

1. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/cyclists-live-longer-a...

New comment by jhowell in "Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support"

jhowell — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:56:32 +0000

Seems a false equivalent to compare the events that caused these recent terminations to the past, or "magic." What about that should be protected?

New comment by jhowell in "Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support"

jhowell — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:46:36 +0000

> I have now watched two Twitter clones and one Patreon clone be shutdown by magical sudden decisions made in lockstep.

Magical?

New comment by jhowell in "Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support"

jhowell — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:44:35 +0000

> If you are unwilling to do that, then you need to make sure you diversify your cloud. It's much less likely that two competing cloud vendors would shut you off at exactly the same time.

Isn't that what happened, they lost all of their cloud providers because the providers could not justify being part guaranteeing reliable service delivery of under moderated content?

New comment by jhowell in "Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support"

jhowell — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:34:19 +0000

> My wife took no position on the issue but politely replied saying the post felt off-topic and she didn't want to hear about politics in her favorite gardening group.

> Several people attacked her on the post, calling her white privileged, racist, etc... all for suggesting the post was off-topic (even though the group's own rules prohibited political content).

Isn't the ability to decide what issue your bring to a space and then deciding which issues you'll "take no position" a privilege?

New comment by jhowell in "70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers"

jhowell — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:10:55 +0000

> It’s not that what you said is untrue, but those posts are just screenshots of moderation and reward tools, not necessarily ideological conformity tools.

What do ideological conformity tools look like to you?

New comment by jhowell in "Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?"

jhowell — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:55:02 +0000

> The fact that they're now trying to control how people think is just an extra reason.

I thought they were controlling what people could post on the platforms whose terms require consent, not controlling the thinking of those people. Controlling how people think, now that *would* be impressive tech.

New comment by jhowell in "Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations"

jhowell — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:41:48 +0000

It was probably a good idea to rebrand from Riot to Element after this week's deadly violence at the US Capitol. It's difficult for me to imagine endeavoring to protect tribal, potential violent rhetoric given recent historical events. It seems short-sighted to sell a water poisoning solution to people who don't mind destroying themselves to attack their perceived opponents.

New comment by jhowell in "Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them"

jhowell — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:54:46 +0000

No, but they do take cellphones.