Hacker News: mc3

New comment by mc3 in "Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking"

mc3 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:49:26 +0000

"dropbox is just rsync"

New comment by mc3 in "Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?"

mc3 — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:11:22 +0000

It feels a bit like hard work to use. They seem to have support for Dropbox but just as an afterthought and not the main thing. The main thing means running your own server, but it doesn't look easy to set up.

I want to think of an approach that is really easy to use so it becomes popular for that reason.

Smooth Sailing with Kubernetes

mc3 — Wed, 27 May 2020 06:55:19 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/kubernetes-comic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320135

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mc3 in "What Was TON And Why It Is Over"

mc3 — Tue, 12 May 2020 23:35:12 +0000

I think we can ethically sell things that don't exist to "sophisticated" investors - which is hard to define but probably based on net worth. Maybe limit the $ amount you can invest per person from "poor" investors to $1000 or something. But the question is, is it a scheme or an investment?

That said people buying crazy options on sites like /r/wallstreetbets, or just betting on sports are in the same boat, so where to draw the line? I think it is better to err on the side of controlling such investment schemes though rather than let them run loose.

The solution to the US controlling everything is to set up truly decentralised currencies like Bitcoin and keep a brand or controller out of that. Someone in the world can do this anonymously and it would be hard to shut down. Has anyone shut Bitcoin down yet?

New comment by mc3 in "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

mc3 — Tue, 12 May 2020 23:27:35 +0000

Free snacks & beer are an anti-perk if you want to maintain a healthy BMI, and a healthy body. Alcohol is a drug with side effects (even if you don't have a hangover), but most people don't think of it that way.

Ask HN: Programmer-friendly time zone conversion tool?

mc3 — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:22:23 +0000

Hi there. I am looking for a tool that will convert dates/times from logs on other servers to other time zones (predominantly UTC) so I can marry up log entries etc.

The major sites that convert times that I found on Google require you to fill in a form with multiple drop downs etc. which seems silly when I have the time string on my clipboard, and I am going to want to repeat the operation many times quickly.

Is there a nice tool online or chrome extension etc. that does a good job of this?

If not I might have to scratch my own itch here and build something.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22919642

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by mc3 in "Ask HN: Have you been laid off?"

mc3 — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 03:34:41 +0000

Everyone will be minimizing expenses, so cash velocity is going to dramatically decrease. A recession to affect all sectors unless a miracle cure comes out this week. On that basis I expect real estate values to fall and stocks to continue to fall. Companies that are not profitable and rely on investor money to keep going will fail.

New comment by mc3 in "Time to Ban Wet Markets"

mc3 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:30:24 +0000

> Chinese folks with rural roots still associate freshness with how recently the meat was slaughtered. This is why sellers keep their animals alive and only butcher them before their customers’ eyes.

Anecdotally: I ate the best tasting salmon I've had for a long while. It was frozen salmon from ALDI.

New comment by mc3 in "Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars"

mc3 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:27:02 +0000

Yes it's like the "cancel all debts" idea. Great idea, but emm.. by the way you do realise that "money in your bank account" is technically a debt that the bank owes you, so that gets cancelled too!

Ah "cancel all debts to people not banks". Great idea, but emm. OK so the bank now doesn't have the assets on it's books, goes bankrupt can't pay you that money in your savings account.

"cancel all debts to people not banks, and let the government bail out those banks". Great Idea, but.... something something hyperinflation.

etc.

New comment by mc3 in "Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars"

mc3 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:23:33 +0000

"No such thing as a free lunch" - some 80's unpopular lady, but she might have a point!

New comment by mc3 in "How I Teach Classes Remotely"

mc3 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:12:14 +0000

Who has used the mentioned Amazon Workspaces? It looks cool I'd like to try it. Any good for this sort of thing?

New comment by mc3 in "Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction"

mc3 — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 05:16:03 +0000

Let 'em play!

New comment by mc3 in "Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars"

mc3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 04:17:50 +0000

New problem: debt secured on property investments to businesses.

New comment by mc3 in "Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars"

mc3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 03:54:36 +0000

What about solvency, and the knock on effect to creditors. They can't pay the booze supplier and they go out of business etc. This could go on for months. Most businesses don't make those sweet SaaS margins. Same for airlines.

New comment by mc3 in "The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy"

mc3 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:59:29 +0000

Thanks that is what I meant. Sorry to confuse people.

By the way HN by the way seems to be the nicest site in terms of privacy, simplicity and page load times.

Firefly III – A free and open source personal finance manager

mc3 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 06:32:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.firefly-iii.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22533267

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by mc3 in "The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy"

mc3 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 05:10:49 +0000

Ironically this page sent a payload to a domain call permuative.com, without my permission.

This payload contains user events e.g. how long I read the article, a user identity guid (presumably a fingerprint of my browser), my isp name

New comment by mc3 in "Stock Futures Were Halted Sunday Night After 5% Drop"

mc3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 04:58:31 +0000

That's a real stones in glasshouses argument.

New comment by mc3 in "Stock Futures Were Halted Sunday Night After 5% Drop"

mc3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:53:28 +0000

More like crashing you car and getting it fixed under insurance sorts out that rust spot!

New comment by mc3 in "Oil plummets 30% as OPEC deal failure sparks price war fears"

mc3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:31:36 +0000

My hands got a bit bloody trying to catch this falling knife