Hacker News: lebean

New comment by lebean in "Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'"

lebean — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:47:13 +0000

The most exciting phrase that heralds a new discovery is not "eureka!" but "holy shit!"

New comment by lebean in "GameStop stock influencer Roaring Kitty may lose access to E-Trade, report says"

lebean — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:48:12 +0000

Is that why?! (It's not.)

New comment by lebean in "FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal"

lebean — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:59:55 +0000

Jeff Bezos can't use signal because Amazon uses... a pricing algorithm? Call me a bootlicker but that's insane.

New comment by lebean in "The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe"

lebean — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:29:31 +0000

Ok Hegel

New comment by lebean in "Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel"

lebean — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 05:28:45 +0000

I hope so, these protestors are accepting blood money every time a direct deposit from Google hits their bank account or their stocks vest! Surely they'd want to keep their moral integrity intact and quit if their demands are not met.

New comment by lebean in "Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation"

lebean — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:58:09 +0000

It's totally legit. They made the participants sign an honesty pledge before answering the questionnaire!

New comment by lebean in "WindCon2024: A Joke Too Far for Many"

lebean — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:56:13 +0000

I think this is what's caused "try-hard".

New comment by lebean in "Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"

lebean — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 02:42:28 +0000

I can point you to a sustainability internship in Kenya if you're interested.

New comment by lebean in "A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing"

lebean — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:23:50 +0000

Wow, articles about emerging technologies are pushed by people who invest in them? On their blog!? You don't say!

New comment by lebean in "Tesla engineers don't have engineering degrees or even common sense apparently"

lebean — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:28:40 +0000

I winced at this. I once got my finger caught in a zipper.

New comment by lebean in "You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it"

lebean — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:51:16 +0000

No you see, at any moment this company can get acquired and can start pushing malware as updates. It's quite an elementary mistake to not account for this possibility, and the author of this post should hang their head in shame for even pretending to have a solution. /s

New comment by lebean in "FTX to Sell $884M of Anthropic Shares to Two Dozen Institutional Investors"

lebean — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 02:43:06 +0000

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

New comment by lebean in "As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate"

lebean — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:20:22 +0000

A person with this kind of mindset will tell less-developed nations to stop developing fossil fuel infrastructure because any more impact on the planet is unjustified.

New comment by lebean in "What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)"

lebean — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:46:35 +0000

The difference is merely the essential part of meme stocks that make them meme stocks and not just a pump-and-dump scheme executed by some guy. Other than that, though, totally the same thing.

New comment by lebean in "Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)"

lebean — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:08:43 +0000

GOOD point!

New comment by lebean in "Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)"

lebean — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:04 +0000

They must be the 7% of the population not covered by BLS stats when working out the CPI, assuming they're from US, or living in a remote area. Agree that overall, the population has been growing richer for several decades. But what about us folks who subsisted off of GPUs and used cars in 2021-2022? The reality for us is way different.

New comment by lebean in "Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)"

lebean — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:44:04 +0000

I mean, how much we talking here? We're not in Atlantis with flying cars, but there's immense efficiency gains in logistics.

New comment by lebean in "Pure CSS Website"

lebean — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:34:06 +0000

I had a similar thought. I thought "wow, believable!" but not to be flippant, the initial wow was genuine.

New comment by lebean in "Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent"

lebean — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:25:05 +0000

Think of it as a performance review, but with reversed roles.

New comment by lebean in "UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $2B to providers following cyberattack"

lebean — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:18:33 +0000

Wow they must be making millions on this lucrative market, defending DDoS providers from each other. An infinite money glitch!