Hacker News: malteof

New comment by malteof in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

malteof — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:42:56 +0000

Did you not read the parent? Talking through your problems with another human being alleviates the feeling of loneliness.

New comment by malteof in "The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have been released and we have questions"

malteof — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:36:40 +0000

What. They were so good! What did you not like about them?

New comment by malteof in "Losing my son"

malteof — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:22:27 +0000

Well, the Buddhists are more optimistic than that! They have lots of techniques and ways of thinking to reduce suffering. I recommend reading up on their life philosophy, they’re far from nihilists.

New comment by malteof in "The casino in your pocket"

malteof — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:08:39 +0000

You’re talking about mobile games. I have to kids, 4 and 6, and the only games we’ve introduced them to are 1) board games and 2) Nintendo Switch games. This largely avoids the problem (for now!)

New comment by malteof in "The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021)"

malteof — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 15:27:23 +0000

[Citation needed]

New comment by malteof in "Security audit of account and payment services"

malteof — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:35:37 +0000

The world is controlled by the Illuminati. Prove me wrong.

New comment by malteof in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

malteof — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:36:11 +0000

They need to explain themselves to shareholders (why did they hire so many people in the first place, expensive) and employees (so that people want to keep working there also in the future).

New comment by malteof in "I Lost All Faith in LastPass"

malteof — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:48:40 +0000

I’ve been using Keepass for a while, it’s great.

New comment by malteof in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

malteof — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:53:15 +0000

> Elon is the wealthiest man in the world

Second wealthiest now…

New comment by malteof in "Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza"

malteof — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:45:57 +0000

Same! iPhone 12 on latest iOS.

New comment by malteof in "Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg"

malteof — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 18:17:37 +0000

It sounds like you really want it to be vaccines even though not much seems to be pointing towards that conclusion, be careful to avoid a bias. The article mentions cancer and cardiovascular chronic diseases.

New comment by malteof in "Abletone Learning Synth"

malteof — Fri, 06 May 2022 07:06:51 +0000

> No, I can't be bothered to learn piano scales. I expended my mental capacity for it on guitar already.

It’s a lot easier on the piano. The keys are laid out as sheet music, very convenient if you know a bit of music theory.

New comment by malteof in "A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV"

malteof — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:37:57 +0000

Can confirm - our daughter started walking to Kindergarten about 9 months ago and she just turned 5 a few weeks ago. She’s very proud of her independence, you can see it does something good for the kids.

New comment by malteof in "It takes $420k per year to run Lichess"

malteof — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:57:23 +0000

You can also read the post as “out of all Indian devs (who on average tend to be cheaper than devs from most other countries), hire the bottom of the barrel”. I doubt they meant that all Indian devs are bottom of the barrel.

New comment by malteof in "Switzerland Tried Negative Rates in the 1970s"

malteof — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:48:37 +0000

> Many people and brokerages went broke in a matter of a minute.

I was here then as well, I somehow doubt many people went broke... It only went from being pegged at 1.2 dropping to around 1.0 as far as I remember. How would this cause anyone to to broke?

New comment by malteof in "Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back"

malteof — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:26:04 +0000

> Warren Buffet is wealthy for a reason.

Is it because of luck? Not trying to be silly, but how would you truly know it isn't just luck? E.g. read Fooled by Randomness for more background.

New comment by malteof in "Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads"

malteof — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:16:19 +0000

That's fine as long as you don't try to draw any conclusions from your anecdote :-)

New comment by malteof in "Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Day a company holiday"

malteof — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:37:11 +0000

What's the rationale for 1-3? I don't understand why they would be good ideas.

New comment by malteof in "Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global currency"

malteof — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:58:46 +0000

Not what he said though... He said it has no value for him - presumably since he doesn't have AIDS.

New comment by malteof in "A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet"

malteof — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:36:47 +0000

Scuttlebutt?