Hacker News: meatysnapper

New comment by meatysnapper in "Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way to think about them"

meatysnapper — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 20:49:46 +0000

thank you. people take "rule of law" for granted.

New comment by meatysnapper in "Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way to think about them"

meatysnapper — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:52:34 +0000

Exactly right. The US Military (and Israel, for that matter) get a guaranteed minimum income from the US government. Why not the average person on the street?

New comment by meatysnapper in "Sending a potato to near-space"

meatysnapper — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:49:43 +0000

Gerald Bull would be proud.

New comment by meatysnapper in "How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century"

meatysnapper — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:36:37 +0000

My ancestors for thousands of years have drank everyday, and they managed not only to survive but reproduce. I think the same goes for every person of European descent. We can drink an awful lot and be fine.

New comment by meatysnapper in "Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from"

meatysnapper — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:01:34 +0000

and that sort of technology has been used by the Navy since how long?

New comment by meatysnapper in "CISA passes Senate"

meatysnapper — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:56:25 +0000

both senators from both WA and CA, which are the tech-heavy stastes. No good!

New comment by meatysnapper in "CISA passes Senate"

meatysnapper — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:55:04 +0000

who is our Charleton Heston?

New comment by meatysnapper in "A Superconductor That Works at -70 °C"

meatysnapper — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:07:11 +0000

We software "engineers" would still find ways to write shitty software to totally negate the benefits.

"Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh"

New comment by meatysnapper in "The Okinawa missiles of October 1962"

meatysnapper — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:20:05 +0000

A memorial to people who exercised good judgement and common sense in stressful situations would be great. Maybe we could have a reality show about this, to prove to the rest of the world we aren't just a bunch of slobbering troglodytes.

New comment by meatysnapper in "Why Homejoy Failed"

meatysnapper — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:19:07 +0000

I could swear that was a east-coast version of Grindr. Bad branding?

New comment by meatysnapper in "The what and why of product experimentation at Twitter"

meatysnapper — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:52:51 +0000

hahahaha oh wow. yeah, no.

EDIT: It is the game of thrones version of product development, except no dwarf or sexy people.

New comment by meatysnapper in "We've Spent Billions to Fix Our Medical Records, and They're Still a Mess"

meatysnapper — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:17:02 +0000

I know several doctors who have retired rather than deal with the EMR mess, and these are work 80 hours a week doctors, vs the new, gentler work regular hours kind.

In addition, the doctors I know who continue to practice have had to reduce their patient hours due to the amount of time EMR takes up.

New comment by meatysnapper in "Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit?"

meatysnapper — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:42:23 +0000

Wait for it.... he has an idea... and then we'll package them into lawsuit-backed securities!

New comment by meatysnapper in "JP Morgan to Grant IPO Access to Everyone"

meatysnapper — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:39:39 +0000

This on the heels of unicorns having trouble in getting a bigger next round... scary times. I think the party may be over soon.

New comment by meatysnapper in "Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?"

meatysnapper — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:13:25 +0000

We should make a up a spurious tale about an enormous stargoat eating the sun and send them on ark to colonize another planet.

New comment by meatysnapper in "Google’s growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile"

meatysnapper — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:06:05 +0000

I mourn the loss of my keyboard. The iPhone is a content consumption device and a camera above all else.

New comment by meatysnapper in "OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo"

meatysnapper — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:04:17 +0000

Google maps on the web and on mobile has become such a miserably bad experience that I hope OSM wins big. Google's data is not bad, but the apps are awful.

New comment by meatysnapper in "The Hard Math of the Cinderella Story"

meatysnapper — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:23:56 +0000

Physical durability is an undervalued trait. Lots of very gifted people flame out from accumulated injuries in all sports.

New comment by meatysnapper in "Subprime ‘unicorns’ that do not look a billion dollars"

meatysnapper — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:00:06 +0000

I and several engineers I know had recruiters from Theranos contact us. They would not tell us anything about what we'd be working on, what kind of people we'd work with or how much we'd be paid. Needless to say we were not interested.

New comment by meatysnapper in "The Drone Papers"

meatysnapper — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:29:18 +0000

This cannot be stressed enough. A robotic military allows the government to wage wars with impunity because the average voter just doesn't care. If you have skin in the game, it would be different.

Perhaps a remedy for this would be to force the ranking members of congress to function as consuls, and make them live in Afghanistan for the duration of the conflict?