Hacker News: kar5pt

New comment by kar5pt in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

kar5pt — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:32:28 +0000

Have you read through their case? It's pretty weak in my opinion. They seem to think that any war with a high number of casualties and insufficient humanitarian aid counts as genocide. By their standard the US committed "genocide" against Japan in WW2, arguably Germany too.

New comment by kar5pt in "Arabic Wikipedia Blackout"

kar5pt — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:36:04 +0000

The irony of this is that it only affects the Arabic speaking population, which for the most part already supports the Palestinian side.

New comment by kar5pt in "Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims"

kar5pt — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:21:16 +0000

Their methodology seems really flawed. They cherry picked a thousand instances of wrongly removed content, but how many posts do you think there are about the conflict on Facebook and Instagram? Tens of millions? They have no way of knowing how representative that sample is.

New comment by kar5pt in "Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims"

kar5pt — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:16:41 +0000

HRW has a reputation for being biased against Israel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Wa... . Regardless of whether that's true, it could explain why pro-Israel folks wouldn't want to engage with them.

New comment by kar5pt in "Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order"

kar5pt — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:33:16 +0000

What bothers me about this isn't that he was committed to a "hospital" (read: jail for mentally ill people).

What bothers me is that the sentence is indefinite. The judge can give him a life sentence for what wouldn't normally justify a life sentence because he's calling it "medicine". The hospital commitment shouldn't be able to last longer than the sentence he would receive if he was neurotypical.

New comment by kar5pt in "It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber"

kar5pt — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:15:54 +0000

It's pretty simple actually. US schools are run at the local level, not the national level. So different school districts (a district is usually the size of a town or county) get different amounts of funding.

New comment by kar5pt in "It's Not Just Ukraine and Gaza: War Is on the Rise Everywhere"

kar5pt — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:38:54 +0000

You could argue they're enabling it, but not that they're pushing for it. Ukraine and Israel both have more will to fight than the US does.

New comment by kar5pt in "No One Wants to Pay Anymore"

kar5pt — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:07:36 +0000

Curious, what sort of things did you do?

New comment by kar5pt in "Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%"

kar5pt — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:13:37 +0000

For Android development SO is pretty useless. I often find answers on there from <=2015. That's when Android 6 came out, its way too old to be relevant. But if you try to re-ask the same question they mark it as a duplicate.

New comment by kar5pt in "Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake"

kar5pt — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:07:33 +0000

To get $8400 on 2% cash back, you'd have to spend $420,000.

New comment by kar5pt in "LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams"

kar5pt — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:02:14 +0000

I would be expect the result to be zero because companies respond to financial incentives, not cultural "movements". Do you really think driving to an office will stop this?

New comment by kar5pt in "Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development"

kar5pt — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 21:49:26 +0000

One of the things I absolutely love about my current job is not having to use agile. I didn't realize what a massive waste of time it was at my last two jobs because I'd never experienced not having to use it. If I switch jobs in the future, I'll definitely try and push management/product to try not using it.

New comment by kar5pt in "It’s not only NY, LA, San Francisco. Retail crime has hit Kansas metropolis"

kar5pt — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 21:42:18 +0000

So a quote from a movie is your counterargument?

New comment by kar5pt in "It’s not only NY, LA, San Francisco. Retail crime has hit Kansas metropolis"

kar5pt — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 21:41:05 +0000

Well that's a stretch. The original quote says it's linked to the _trafficking_ of drugs, not just drug use. If this is the only link, they're being intentionally misleading.

New comment by kar5pt in "Don’t Talk to Police (2012) [video]"

kar5pt — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 18:57:50 +0000

So many non-lawyers giving legal advice in this thread...

New comment by kar5pt in "Don’t Talk to Police (2012) [video]"

kar5pt — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 18:52:57 +0000

Does the average non-lawyer know when they're obligated to answer the police? I don't think I do.

New comment by kar5pt in "People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)"

kar5pt — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 18:25:03 +0000

Is there a typo in here? Your first comment contradicts your second.

New comment by kar5pt in "Bullshit Jobs (2018)"

kar5pt — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:15:08 +0000

How does that description necessarily not meet that definition? The UP said nothing about whether the person in the job is obligated to pretend that the job is important.

Plus everyone is giving slightly different definitions of a bullshit job. It smells of a Motte and bailey fallacy.

New comment by kar5pt in "Dating, education, and sex ratios"

kar5pt — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:14:02 +0000

I think a lot of times it is. Either that or they want a sugar daddy.

New comment by kar5pt in "Eastern philosophy says there is no “self” – science agrees"

kar5pt — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 13:11:50 +0000

Can science even prove such as thing? Saying "there is no self" doesn't seem like a scientific claim to me. It seems more like a philosophical question. The fact that scientists don't agree on a particular center of the brain which corresponds to a "self function" doesn't mean that science "proves" the self doesn't exist.