Hacker News: lavamantis

New comment by lavamantis in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

lavamantis — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:54:36 +0000

Yep, great book. Also dispels the Lord of the Lies myth that people have taken as gospel.

New comment by lavamantis in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

lavamantis — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:52:43 +0000

And some people really WANT to believe it's true. They've built their entire worldview around it and the idea they've been duped would cause a massive narcissistic injury.

New comment by lavamantis in "Trust: The Need for Public Understanding of How Science Works"

lavamantis — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:17:59 +0000

It a way science is very similar to free speech. Its can be very harmful when misused, but generally the answer to bad science is not LESS science, but BETTER science.

The proper role of the education system of any given country, and a good predictor of its success, is how well it teaches us to evaluate the difference.

New comment by lavamantis in "Show HN: List of games that let you write programs and/or design hardware"

lavamantis — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 19:48:29 +0000

HUMAN RESOURCE MACHINE is pretty good, though about 1/2 through, the challenges started to seem like my actual day job. Definitely would recommend for kids interested in picking up programming.

Show HN: ClashHoles – Clash Royale clan management made simple

lavamantis — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:32:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clashholes.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19476879

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lavamantis in "Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable"

lavamantis — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:49:57 +0000

Somewhere, in a corner office on the higher floors, an "Americans for Prosperity" PR manager reads this comment and smiles.

New comment by lavamantis in "Ask HN: What do you do when you suddenly feel like not working anymore?"

lavamantis — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 18:21:19 +0000

Wow, what a great and unexpected talk by John Cleese. Thanks for that.

New comment by lavamantis in "An Argument Against Quantum Computers"

lavamantis — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:11:53 +0000

Is there a distinction being made between the quantum computer being impossible, and it being impossible without a future breakthrough in engineering or physics?

New comment by lavamantis in "US Senate Bill S.1241 to Criminalize Concealed Ownership of Bitcoin"

lavamantis — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 00:17:52 +0000

But the top tax rate has been steadily declining since the Eisenhower administration. This tax bill furthers that decline. Over that period we've seen an increase in inequality. Are they correlated?

I'm not sure the bit about what share of income tax is paid by the wealthy is meaningful here, outside of right wing think tank PR releases (your linked site is funded by the Koch Brothers btw. Just a heads up).

New comment by lavamantis in "Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers?"

lavamantis — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 22:38:05 +0000

And in California we still have Prop 13, which effectively locks long-term owners into their existing houses.

New comment by lavamantis in "The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the Rich to Avoid Taxes"

lavamantis — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:13:02 +0000

Hacking is exploiting flaws in systems. Is not lobbying itself exploiting a flaw in the system?

New comment by lavamantis in "Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology"

lavamantis — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:29:28 +0000

But your experience is just anecdotal yes? You (and frankly me as well) have a resistance to the FB addiction, but the numbers of people on the platform are staggering and cannot be ignored.

And China has their own version of FB, what will that be used for in the hands of a totalitarian government?

New comment by lavamantis in "Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology"

lavamantis — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:22:10 +0000

With all the resources at their disposal, they could perhaps bring in a professional editorial staff to rank each news source based on some unbiased (ahem) and transparent criteria like # of sources for a story, past accuracy, level of bias, etc. Still let people click and post whatever but apply an easily visible and understandable "news" score.

New comment by lavamantis in "Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology"

lavamantis — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:13:06 +0000

"Just because you do not take an interest in Facebook news, doesn't mean Facebook news won't take an interest in you" - Perecles

New comment by lavamantis in "The iPhone is officially getting wireless charging"

lavamantis — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:44:33 +0000

The best thing about this is, Google will have to bring back wireless charging now for future Pixels.

New comment by lavamantis in "Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)"

lavamantis — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:58:42 +0000

Specific issues causing Ayo's creation: https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-ha...

New comment by lavamantis in "Finding the Energy to Work on Your Side Hustle"

lavamantis — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:47:39 +0000

Who among us have called in sick to the day job just to put in a solid block of daytime hours on a side project? It's happened to me a few times over the years, and I've been 97% guilt-free about it.

New comment by lavamantis in "Given Choice, Patients Will Choose Cannabis Over Prescribed Opioids"

lavamantis — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:24:52 +0000

> flabbergasted

Not really surprising at all.

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/opioid-lobbying-ph...

New comment by lavamantis in "Peter Thiel will speak at GOP convention"

lavamantis — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:41:45 +0000

Is it weird that there's no Sarah Palin speech scheduled?

New comment by lavamantis in "Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed"

lavamantis — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:38:54 +0000

Both (all?) countries could benefit from doing one thing: legalize everything.