Hacker News: jon_elbrook

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Olympus quits camera business after 84 years"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:47:14 +0000

m43 is a strategic mistake. There's not enough differentiation from smartphones.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Olympus quits camera business after 84 years"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:37:30 +0000

Sony is the new king for enthusiasts who spend their time watching youtube videos of pixel peepers trying to see which lens has the highest resolution or which sensor works best at ISO 12800.

for pros, the ruggedness, battery life, support, autofocus of dslrs are still important.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:05:00 +0000

or any standard at all?

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages"

jon_elbrook — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:28:13 +0000

If that is the case, then why are people in the same culture not equally fat?

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages"

jon_elbrook — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:27:36 +0000

>I don't agree with Most of our behaviour is based on instinct. We allow perfect strangers into our homes to fix the plumbing.

And we stay in the house to keep watch on them.

>A baby can learn to enjoy the company of a Malamute. Even our instinct to avoid being eaten by wolves,

You have to first establish that we have an instinct to avoid being eaten by wolves. And how that would work in humans that don't live where there are wolves for thousands of years.....

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Frustration project: Automate data entry into PeopleSoft with Selenium"

jon_elbrook — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:18:34 +0000

> Selenium came out as a side-project for another internal system we needed.

What kind of system? I had thought that selenium was created to TDD web development front-end.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "What adolescents think of mindfulness in schools"

jon_elbrook — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:12:44 +0000

Except in this analogy doesn't account for the fact that a mindful person can simply wait for the tiger to disappear.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "$1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn"

jon_elbrook — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:30:09 +0000

>In a society truth is less important than relationships

Then he should have create a relationship of honesty. it's good to know that somebody wont lie to you, even to make you happy.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee"

jon_elbrook — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 07:30:30 +0000

So why shouldn't grubhub get the fee for making it easier for restaurants to sell food?

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Circle Packing"

jon_elbrook — Sat, 30 May 2020 13:41:16 +0000

He was 82.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "1989 California Medfly Attack"

jon_elbrook — Sat, 30 May 2020 08:46:12 +0000

I don't see how that could work. Clearly some mosquitoes are going to be resistant to the modification and will survive.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "1989 California Medfly Attack"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 29 May 2020 13:17:31 +0000

Releasing sterile mosquitoes wouldn't eliminate the ones that carry disease. that's basically the opposite of natural selection.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Most-streamed track of the day by country"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 29 May 2020 13:16:35 +0000

I cant click singapore.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 29 May 2020 10:25:43 +0000

>You could say that none of it was "wasted", people earned their salary there (I assume) and learned something,

ah, the good ole broken windows fallacy strikes again.

Not like if we had spent that 2.4B on something else, those people who worked on that something else wouldnt learn anything, or earned any salary.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "1989 California Medfly Attack"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 29 May 2020 10:11:26 +0000

>we could drive the mosquitoes that cause malaria/yellow fever/dengue/etc to extinction.

How?

New comment by jon_elbrook in "1989 California Medfly Attack"

jon_elbrook — Fri, 29 May 2020 10:01:52 +0000

>Furthermore, while accidents are rare, they have enduring impact in the locations where they occur.

And coal emission, gas spill, oil spill, dam burst, dam construction dont?

>but it is a fact that our society has great difficulty dealing with nuclear waste.

France has no problem.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court"

jon_elbrook — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:53:53 +0000

there would be if some people had their way

New comment by jon_elbrook in "500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court"

jon_elbrook — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:53:08 +0000

>and the victor could have forgiven the debt.

That would be equivalent to burning $500,000.

>I wouldn’t even make my friend pay me back for lunch if they forgot their wallet — let alone put them through financial hardship for such a trivial, low-effort event as a game of RPS.

What is the minimum amount of effort required to make a bet of $500,000 valid?

New comment by jon_elbrook in "500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court"

jon_elbrook — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:50:21 +0000

unfortunately, humans cannot play one million hands simulataneously and must experience each hand individually.

New comment by jon_elbrook in "Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going"

jon_elbrook — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:21:34 +0000

>We shouldn't treat those born in poverty differently than those born into wealth - and it seems like a tiny step to require cruise ships to treat their workers well.

And neither do they. Their offer of employment is valid for rich people too.