Hacker News: kahrkunne

New comment by kahrkunne in "India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste"

kahrkunne — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 23:44:39 +0000

A few thousand loonies on the Internet believing something weird but harmless doesn't weigh up to millions of Indians pooping on the street

New comment by kahrkunne in "Backdoor in the firmware of Antminer Bitcoin mining hardware"

kahrkunne — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:51:33 +0000

It's interesting who made /r/btc and why.

It's interest who made this comment and why.

New comment by kahrkunne in "The Lowly Folding Chair, Reimagined with Algorithms"

kahrkunne — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:02:24 +0000

Looks really heavy. Also, no back rest. And no pillow, so hard on your butt.

Not a great design if you ask me.

New comment by kahrkunne in "The FCC Wants to Eliminate Net Neutrality Protections. We Can't Let That Happen"

kahrkunne — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:46:00 +0000

Yes, are you sure you understand what the legal situation for the Internet is under the current US system? I'm all for net neutrality, but NOT the way it'd being done now.

New comment by kahrkunne in "Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be"

kahrkunne — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:17:23 +0000

More power to desert people! What a great idea!

New comment by kahrkunne in "The FCC Wants to Eliminate Net Neutrality Protections. We Can't Let That Happen"

kahrkunne — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:53:38 +0000

The US net neutrality system is a fast track to government regulation of the Internet. If you want to keep the Internet free, oppose it.

New comment by kahrkunne in "The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940"

kahrkunne — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:40:52 +0000

Ah yes, the good old "let's steal from others", because that has worked so well in the past (but it's okay because it wasn't real communism so you try again and your retarded system fails but it's okay because it wasn't real communism so...)

New comment by kahrkunne in "Japanese Education: Amae, Stress, and Perseverence"

kahrkunne — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:35:21 +0000

The stoics said similar things

New comment by kahrkunne in "Ask HN: What project can I start in my free time to make some side-cash?"

kahrkunne — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:49:31 +0000

'The average salary for a Software Engineer is €41,227 per year.'

Not everybody is American, you know

New comment by kahrkunne in "LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how"

kahrkunne — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:59:14 +0000

I don't know about other countries but at least here in the Netherlands, yes you can.

New comment by kahrkunne in "LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how"

kahrkunne — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:53:11 +0000

>Every stimulator drug always backfires

I'm gonna need you to back up that claim, because as far as I can see the positive contribution of coffee to society is pretty well-understood

New comment by kahrkunne in "Ask HN: How has volunteering helped you grow?"

kahrkunne — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:23:56 +0000

I think people tend not to think of editing Wikipedia as a long term time investment. YouTube videos don't feel like volunteering to me because more often than not it's a job. And open source development probably just wouldn't occur to most people because most people aren't developers.

New comment by kahrkunne in "Websites people say have changed their lives"

kahrkunne — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:07:29 +0000

I'd say 4chan probably changed my life the most. Not only did it have a big influence on my tastes to this day, it also (indirectly) introduced me to some of my best friends and taught me a lot of social skills

New comment by kahrkunne in "South Korea’s deployment of THAAD upsets China, seen as espionage tool"

kahrkunne — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:31:44 +0000

Good, let them fight each other instead of us and our allies.

New comment by kahrkunne in "The first woman to finish the Boston Marathon in 1967 has run it again at age 70"

kahrkunne — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:39:15 +0000

I disagree with most of these, but I'll pick on one in particular: the death penalty.

I think, or at least hope, the usage of the death penalty will increase. Some people definitely can't be rehabilitated, and life imprisonment is an inhumane and cruel punishment.

New comment by kahrkunne in "Minecraft Set to Launch Its Own Currency"

kahrkunne — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:30:07 +0000

A friend of mine used to develop for minecraft servers essentially professionally. Getting paid $100 for an hour's worth of work was not too uncommon. Back then they typically paid on a project basis, though.

New comment by kahrkunne in "Microdosing: People taking LSD with breakfast"

kahrkunne — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:08:12 +0000

I'm pretty sure that a nomadic lifestyle, massive technological disadvantage and vulnerability to pathogens played a bigger role in that than psychedelics, but feel free to prove me wrong if you have a credible source on what you are implying.

New comment by kahrkunne in "Ask HN: What are the 3 websites you visit every single day?"

kahrkunne — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:57:08 +0000

4chan.org

reddit.com

youtube.com

Not the most interesting reply, I know

New comment by kahrkunne in "Microdosing: People taking LSD with breakfast"

kahrkunne — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:30:42 +0000

I'm gonna need a source on your claim that psychedelics attract foreign invaders with smallpox

New comment by kahrkunne in "A world without retirement?"

kahrkunne — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:34:19 +0000

It's the opposite, rather. People retiring to those countries go there with lots of cash, spend it, then die. It's like tourism for the rest of your life.