Hacker News: joenathanone

New comment by joenathanone in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

joenathanone — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:56:57 +0000

From my research ‘Salt’ meant fool, ‘salt of the earth’ is like a ‘bless your heart sort’ of matter. The implications for Salary would mean that the soldiers were being fooled by accepting what they were given as payment. They also say the Lord works in mysterious ways.

New comment by joenathanone in "New PFAS discovered with novel testing method"

joenathanone — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:20:53 +0000

Good video on the topic here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qGtEVh7oQ

New comment by joenathanone in "3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public"

joenathanone — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:12:34 +0000

This can lead to bio-death of the planet.

New comment by joenathanone in "Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon"

joenathanone — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:16:22 +0000

Things that sustain life (intentionally) should take priority in my opinion.

New comment by joenathanone in "Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon"

joenathanone — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:14:31 +0000

Why did this study take so long? So much spent on war in the meantime

New comment by joenathanone in "YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster"

joenathanone — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:52:38 +0000

If the USPS was never a public service America would literally look differently. Maybe social media(including YouTube) is the modern day USPS, the primary way Americans interact/communicate with each other.

New comment by joenathanone in "Downfall fallout lawsuit: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing"

joenathanone — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:12:41 +0000

> Are we going to prosecute all long-tail problems in any product?

Hopefully yes, if it’s proven the vendor knew but released anyway or didn’t disclose.

New comment by joenathanone in "Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015"

joenathanone — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:06:37 +0000

This person made thousands of other legitimate changes, it seems a stretch to say someone would do all that just as a marketing tactic, that is a whole lot of effort for questionable results. I mean, how many people go to Wikipedia for college recommendations? How many people are going to attend a school they otherwise wouldn’t because they looked it up on Wikipedia? I’m sure it’s not zero, but we can’t be talking about many.

New comment by joenathanone in "Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015"

joenathanone — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:11:12 +0000

It seems like you are reading into it too much, the account only ever shilled for one company, not that it makes it okay, but that makes it more likely a personal affiliation rather than an admin for hire.

New comment by joenathanone in "Tesla breaks down mid-turn and causes more than nine hours of travel chaos"

joenathanone — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:40:45 +0000

"The Tesla Model 3 Performance is a four-wheel-drive electric car with a starting cost of £57,000 and a battery life of 41 hours."

From the article, I had no idea battery life was measured in hours, I don't even know how that would work for a car.

New comment by joenathanone in "Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy"

joenathanone — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:48:57 +0000

Theory, the simulation is a poor reflection of reality; Accurately simulating what it would be like to care for a baby is beyond our current technology.

New comment by joenathanone in "Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Patrick in lecture"

joenathanone — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:03:52 +0000

>Without knowing what was allegedly said, this is difficult to judge.

You have the opposite reaction than what should be called for, if no one could even remember what was said then there is zero chance what was said was inappropriate.

New comment by joenathanone in "Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record"

joenathanone — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:52:14 +0000

Death Valley is considered to be the hottest place on earth by many sources.

New comment by joenathanone in "The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat"

joenathanone — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:25:15 +0000

Not stop in this instance but rather not contribute to.

New comment by joenathanone in "Tupac Shakur: Police search house over 1996 killing"

joenathanone — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:56:45 +0000

Sure, but they told their story and maybe no one believed them until someone did.

New comment by joenathanone in "Tupac Shakur: Police search house over 1996 killing"

joenathanone — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:50:14 +0000

I would imagine the person who did it might have kept the gun, and probably couldn't keep their mouth shut about either killing or being involved in one of the most known unsolved murders of our time. Pure speculation but they may have told the wrong person who then went and told the right people.

Tupac Shakur: Police search house over 1996 killing

joenathanone — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66240750

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36780008

Points: 5

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New comment by joenathanone in "The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat"

joenathanone — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:55:57 +0000

CO2 isn't the only thing that can and does contribute to climate, just one of the possible gasses that can, and currently is contributing.

New comment by joenathanone in "The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat"

joenathanone — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:53:17 +0000

>Can anyone tell me why debate at any level is still happening

Because there are people who are in denial, it's too much for them to acknowledge mentally/emotionally. There are also people with a vested interest in the status quo, and believe they can overcome/mitigate the consequences of climate change with all of the resources they are currently gathering. Just a couple of reasons, I'm sure there are more...

New comment by joenathanone in "1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year"

joenathanone — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:06:25 +0000

Tech debt, a bunch of fundamental code that is hardcoded to process dates in the one format and would completely break everything if you passed it a date formatted otherwise. Dates are hard.