Hacker News: maedla

New comment by maedla in "Rebuilding Netflix's video processing pipeline with microservices"

maedla — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:16:50 +0000

just throw it in the TOS >:^)

New comment by maedla in "Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all"

maedla — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:09:33 +0000

Exactly. People want to go back to the thing that got us here

New comment by maedla in "Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all"

maedla — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:06:39 +0000

One could always just call

New comment by maedla in "Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?"

maedla — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:09:57 +0000

Even if there was a point it wouldn't matter

New comment by maedla in "Facebook keeps recommending political groups"

maedla — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:33:13 +0000

Society has benefitted a net zero from social media. Arguably a net negative.

New comment by maedla in "U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, new Gallup report finds"

maedla — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:42:58 +0000

I always wonder how much the explosion of "true crime" media has contributed to American paranoia and fear

New comment by maedla in "Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo"

maedla — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:10:17 +0000

dumb algorithm can't figure out the context of "Tank man"

New comment by maedla in "Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day"

maedla — Wed, 19 May 2021 17:48:04 +0000

That is too optimistic of an opinion for me. It has done very well so far

New comment by maedla in "Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day"

maedla — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:08:42 +0000

It gets harder every day to take seriously the people that say this is a viable currency alternative

New comment by maedla in "[dead]"

maedla — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:05:36 +0000

I have no problem dismissing information from a source called "libertyunyielding" out of pocket

New comment by maedla in "Perfect Motherfucking Website"

maedla — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:47:17 +0000

Totally agree. I think most people stop thinking this vulgarity for the sake of itself type of humor is funny by the time they get to high school

New comment by maedla in "You can't censor away extremism or any other problem"

maedla — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:21:25 +0000

Imagine you are at a dinner party and haven't eaten for a couple days. The guests don't realize this and are delaying dinner to chat, play games, what have you. Then finally someone says "hey morpehos137 is starving" and a large group of the guests dismiss this and say "We are all hungry" and continue to go about their business.

New comment by maedla in "Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)"

maedla — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:26:28 +0000

Isn't this just plagiarism? No one is downloading Photoshop and saying they created it (probably lol).

New comment by maedla in "Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees"

maedla — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:58:46 +0000

They are too worried about the toaster licenses

New comment by maedla in "Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning"

maedla — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:54:09 +0000

Eating meals was also practiced in the Soviet Communist Party

New comment by maedla in "Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative"

maedla — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 09:29:34 +0000

We do base our society on individualism...

New comment by maedla in "Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative"

maedla — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:07:22 +0000

How did we get to the point where the government not being able to punish you for what you say is conflated with posting to a privately owned website? How? It's embarrassing

New comment by maedla in "EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants"

maedla — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:16:40 +0000

Oh heaven help us if a trillion dollar enterprise gets a fine !!!!

New comment by maedla in "EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants"

maedla — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:15:13 +0000

yes

New comment by maedla in "Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility"

maedla — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:58:13 +0000

Yep exactly. For every one outsider that gets it right, how many are wrong? I'd wager, quite a bit