Hacker News: johnny99k

New comment by johnny99k in "Alex Jones agrees to liquidate assets to pay Sandy Hook families"

johnny99k — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:15:15 +0000

They don't want his money, the want him destroyed. By allowing him to continue with his business, he could continually pay the families. Now, they won't be getting much of anything.

New comment by johnny99k in "Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content"

johnny99k — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:14:02 +0000

As many on this community have stated: Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

New comment by johnny99k in "Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras"

johnny99k — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:51:13 +0000

tons? There are some examples. Much less than what activists would like us to believe.

New comment by johnny99k in "Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras"

johnny99k — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:44:29 +0000

This is a great idea. In the US, it pretty much stopped the idea overnight that cops were beating people for no reason. Many activist groups now want to get rid of body cameras.

New comment by johnny99k in "I created an LLC to do Software Development, now what?"

johnny99k — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:41:35 +0000

Finding clients is the single hardest thing you will do as a contractor. I've been contracting for 10 years and even now, I deal with clients ghosting me, projects falling through at the last minute, etc.

I just had a client that wanted to talk about a new project today. They never sent me a meeting link and ghosted me.

Applying to 1099 jobs is a good idea. it's a numbers game.

New comment by johnny99k in "Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news"

johnny99k — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:42:15 +0000

Why does this article only show right-wing news as if the left is always truthful?

New comment by johnny99k in "IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states"

johnny99k — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:11:43 +0000

This is great, for the government. The average person that uses this will just let it fill in the boxes, without even trying to look for anything that might save them money.

New comment by johnny99k in "Ask HN: Do you use LinkedIn and are active on it?"

johnny99k — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:54:49 +0000

I'm on it, but my resume hasn't been updated for at least 5 or 6 years. It hasn't really hurt my career.

New comment by johnny99k in "Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance"

johnny99k — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:33:46 +0000

Have we forgotten Covid so quickly? People involved in a legal protest had their bank accounts seized.

New comment by johnny99k in "Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers"

johnny99k — Wed, 29 May 2024 11:37:53 +0000

After my first few jobs out of college (15 years ago), I realized I hate working from someone else's office. It feels so constrained and like I'm in school again. Remote work was very rare then with salaried jobs, but not as a contractor.

The company I'm working for now had an office pre-pandemic (I would meet with the director once/month), sold the one here locally during the pandemic, and got acquired by a large, international, company where the majority of the employees work remotely and the HQ is in Europe (I'm in the US).

The last time I had to go to an office was for a local contract a few years ago (80 miles away from me) that required me to drive-in once/week for a few hours. The project ended after a few months and I found something 100% remote.

I used to work from coworking spaces and sometimes the library, but now I have my own home office. Everyone talks about mixing life and work when working from home. It's pretty easy for me to just turn everything off and walk away at 5.

New comment by johnny99k in "[dead]"

johnny99k — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:52:04 +0000

"A second term for him might look a lot like a dictator being born."

I hear this a lot. His first term looked nothing like this.

New comment by johnny99k in "Caffeine shown to affect dopamine function in patients with Parkinson's disease"

johnny99k — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:42:24 +0000

I will use caffeine when I need it for a few days and then cut all consumption. I find that it helps me focus and causes a slight euphoric effect when taken in moderation. If I take it for long periods of time, I end up getting major anxiety.

I didn't realize until I was much older. In high school, I would drink 2-liters of Mountain Dew/day and had major anxiety issues.

New comment by johnny99k in "Colleges Where You're Most Likely to Have a Positive Return on Your Investment"

johnny99k — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:39:03 +0000

I think it's less about colleges and more about the major.

New comment by johnny99k in "Identifying/characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter"

johnny99k — Mon, 27 May 2024 23:48:52 +0000

I see 'anti-vaccine superspreaders' being one of the main topics of discussion. How about the misinformation about the vaccine stopping the spread? This was pushed by prominent politicians and actors and was completely false. with no science to back it up.

MRNA-based vaccines have had lots of injuries (some were taken off the market for causing blood clots, which was also lumped into 'misinformation campaigns' for a long time).

It's impact has been hidden and many people have lost their jobs by even questioning it. If this weren't the case, misinformation against these kinds of vaccines wouldn't have flourished. Not to mention the fact that you can't even sue the vaccine companies for any harm it causes you.

The vaccines didn't do much to help stop the spread. Herd immunity did.

New comment by johnny99k in "Ask HN: Would you be worried joining a startup where the founders are dating?"

johnny99k — Mon, 27 May 2024 23:16:36 +0000

This will only increase the risk of startup failure. It really just depends on how much risk you want to take.

New comment by johnny99k in "If you cant afford it, dont do it"

johnny99k — Mon, 27 May 2024 21:48:37 +0000

You underestimate the laziness of the average employee. I've worked at a company that removed 2FA because upper-level management didn't want to have to re-login once/week.

New comment by johnny99k in "If you cant afford it, dont do it"

johnny99k — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:59:57 +0000

Most companies don't implement good security practices because of the inconvenience, not the cost.

New comment by johnny99k in "Ontario's 'Crypto King' Arrested"

johnny99k — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:36:39 +0000

Why, as an investor, would you trust someone that said there was a 'guarantee of no loss'?

New comment by johnny99k in "Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript"

johnny99k — Mon, 13 May 2024 15:37:51 +0000

This has been known in the security community for quite some time.

New comment by johnny99k in "Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments due to low demand"

johnny99k — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:14:50 +0000

There really is no killer app for the vision pro. Meta has many years of lead time with lots of great apps and games. I'm not surprised by this at all.