Hacker News: jumbopapa

New comment by jumbopapa in "To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets"

jumbopapa — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:58:56 +0000

I agree that there is fat to be cut, as with a lot of the government. That said, hasn't it been pretty well documented that these areas that experience the riots have a drop in police presence after the fact and typically have worse conditions? I just think this will have insidious externalities that wouldn't help the way people intend it to.

New comment by jumbopapa in "San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn"

jumbopapa — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:16:15 +0000

Interesting news. I've heard that real estate prices haven't budged much and with the stock market remaining relatively strong, I wonder if we will see a corresponding rebound in rent sometime soon.

New comment by jumbopapa in "If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany"

jumbopapa — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:51:33 +0000

> “Here you are free to criticize the government as well as to fight fake news. We have a great startup and tech ecosystem, your company would be a perfect fit and I will open any doors for you!”

As if that's not the case in the US? Trump's threats don't hold any water and, if we're being honest, our legal restrictions on speech are less stringent than Germany's.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Amazon.com was down"

jumbopapa — Thu, 28 May 2020 19:33:19 +0000

Yeah, but how many people come back to make a purchase after the site is back up? I don't think you can just extrapolate that 1 minute down equals $500k lost revenue.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Stop Watching the News (2019)"

jumbopapa — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:47:58 +0000

The economist comes out weekly.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Walmart says it will discontinue Jet"

jumbopapa — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:40:32 +0000

You mean like Walmart?

New comment by jumbopapa in "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

jumbopapa — Wed, 13 May 2020 12:18:10 +0000

I think I overall enjoy WFH, that said, my quality of life would be greatly improved if I lived in a larger home rather than my one bedroom apartment.

I've seen some people predict that a surge in home buying may follow the pandemic because people will realize how much better off they would have been in a larger space.

I will go ahead and move into a 2 bedroom in the next few months to allow me to have a more private office space.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Ask HN: What special offers do you see on the stock market right now?"

jumbopapa — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:01:41 +0000

just buy VTI. No use in speculating when VTI alone will go buy 50% to reach the previous highs.

New comment by jumbopapa in "S&P 500 drops 9%, extending losses after 15-minute trading halt"

jumbopapa — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:59:22 +0000

I think handing out checks during a crisis is vastly different than doing it all the time.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Barnes and Noble’s new plan is to act like an indie bookseller"

jumbopapa — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:45:50 +0000

> In today’s world, the physical store can no longer compete with the web’s infinite selection, but can still offer value in curation and presentation.

Could not agree more. I always feel like I'm taking a risk when ordering an item from Amazon, but never feel that way when shopping at say, Costco. I trust Costco's buyers to curate and vet the quality of a product for me.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Interview with Paul Graham"

jumbopapa — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:48:51 +0000

I'm pretty sure you've fallen trap to the pie fallacy mentioned in the interview.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Reddit has become a guide to personal finance"

jumbopapa — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:36:12 +0000

The Bogleheads wiki should really be the first stop for financial questions. It's a fanatic resource and I found the answers/content to be higher quality than Reddit.

Amazon Cancels On-Site Job Interviews over Covid-19, Ask Workers to Avoid Travel

jumbopapa — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 03:07:03 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/as-coronavirus-spreads-amazon-tells-u-s-workers-not-t-1841977632

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22454857

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by jumbopapa in "Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom"

jumbopapa — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:41:03 +0000

It is my understand that it is highly unlikely an uninsured person would ever pay anything close to the billed "price." Same is true for insurance companies.

Edit: Some are telling me this isn't true, but what does a hospital have to gain from someone filing bankruptcy? Why would they charge such high prices that no one can afford? I would think that some money is better than no money.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server"

jumbopapa — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:42:08 +0000

Why not just setup a cron job to run a reboot command daily?

Email – Donald Knuth

jumbopapa — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299103

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jumbopapa in "Redneck Bank"

jumbopapa — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:03:44 +0000

Sure. Basically all these new checking and savings accounts that are coming out, Robinhood, Google, Credit Karma, etc., are actually being serviced by a real bank.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Warren Buffett throws in the towel on newspaper empire"

jumbopapa — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:07:09 +0000

I recently read The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life and a lot of that book focused on newspapers. Buffet delivered papers as a boy, had a big legal battle to buy a local Buffalo, NY paper, won a Pulitzer at the Omaha Sun for coverage of a scandal at Boys Town, and he was very close to Kay Graham of The Washington Post. I'm sure this was an emotional decision for him.

New comment by jumbopapa in "Warren Buffett throws in the towel on newspaper empire"

jumbopapa — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:02:56 +0000

Block Javascript.

New comment by jumbopapa in "My Year in Review: 2019"

jumbopapa — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:12:57 +0000

Unfortunately, much of what we read isn't retained. However, the small amount that is retained compounds, so it's not a lost cause.