<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: memefrog</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=memefrog</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:49:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=memefrog" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have choice, the choice to buy an Android phone, already.</p>
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<p>Note that sway was written by the author of this blogpost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 11:06:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37543734</link><dc:creator>memefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37543734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37543734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "Credit card debt collection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, it's well known to everyone everywhere that trafficking drugs into Singapore will get you a death sentence. Those drugs destroy families, they absolutely destroy families.</p>
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<p>It is not hard to write C.  It is hard to write large safe multi-developer C programs with complex object lifetimes.  But if you are just writing an inner loop in a CPython extension it is easy.</p>
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<p>What the hell?  No warning, nothing.  Never been moderated before then wham I am banned.  Sad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:58:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293249</link><dc:creator>memefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of your bizarre rant has anything to do with what we were discussing.  As always, people like you drag out discussions on minor asides and random disputes about word choices rather than focusing on the actual issue being discussed.<p>If you cannot see that unions are price-fixing conspiracies then you can only be described as wilfully blind.  Where you claim that it is just the same as multiple hiring managers working for the same firm.. It just boggles the mind.<p>Maybe it needs to be spelt out really simply for you: a union is not a firm.  You don't hire a union.  You hire employees.  Unions do not want you to hire non-union employees and would make doing so illegal if they could.  Unions want to "represent" an entire industry.  They do not want competition.<p>So don't go round claiming it is just like a firm with multiple employees.  That is nonsense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282344</link><dc:creator>memefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you on drugs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:49:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282208</link><dc:creator>memefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It isn't one person's experience with the UI.  It is everyone's.  If you don't think Slack is slow then you have forgotten what "slow" means.  It is a chat program.  It is incredibly simple.  It is not doing anything complicated.  We have gigabit internet, CPUs with multi-GHz clocks and high IPC rates, NVMe 4 SSDs that load data from disk almost instantly.  It should open in milliseconds, not several seconds.  That it ever takes a noticeable amount of time to do <i>anything</i> reveals deep flaws in Slack's engineering culture, because it shows they just don't care about performance <i>at all</i>.<p>If they had "good infra people" then their program wouldn't sit and spin for seconds, <i>ever</i>.</p>
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<p>Income tax is by far the largest and most significant tax, and I gave examples of other taxes in which the rich pay far more.<p>Do you really think the poor pay the most company tax?</p>
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<p>What he said is complete and utter nonsense.</p>
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<p>There is no such thing as "capitalism".  That is a smear-word created by socialists to mis-describe the "system" (which isn't a system at all) wherein people are able to freely trade with each other.  Commerce isn't a system, it's a human activity that has existed for all of human history.<p>So yes it is a cornerstone of socialism to falsely claim that (evil, greedy, immoral) "capitalists" exist, who "acquire capital" and in doing so "acquire power" as opposed to the (noble and virtuous) workers who are actually the ones that generate all the value, but who suffer at the hands of the evil greedy capitalists who exploit them and steal all that value.<p>Somehow we're meant to believe that despite these noble and virtuous workers generating all the value and far-outnumbering the evil, greedy capitalists, that the fact they haven't revolted and changed the system is because they're so oppressed and powerless (even though apparently they generate all value? what?).<p>It's just an incoherent mess of ideological nonsense.  It puts people into two categories, even though actually most people are in both categories.  Everyone with retirement savings (vast majority of people) is a "capitalist" and everyone with a job (vast majority of people) is a "worker".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:58:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278386</link><dc:creator>memefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>"High-Income Taxpayers Paid the Majority of Federal Income Taxes. In 2020, the bottom half of taxpayers earned 10.2 percent of total AGI and paid 2.3 percent of all federal individual income taxes. The top 1 percent earned 22.2 percent of total AGI and paid 42.3 percent of all federal income taxes."</i><p><a href="https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2023-update/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/summary-latest-fe...</a><p>In New Zealand, about 12% of individuals pay about 50% of personal income tax, and the top 3% pay about a quarter.  That doesn't take into account the amount they are taxed indirectly through GST or through company tax on companies they own shares in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 22:06:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277337</link><dc:creator>memefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Argument from dictionary definition is cringe.<p>If employers refuse to negotiate with employees individually, and set a fixed maximum price for labour, that is clearly unlawful, collusive, cartel behaviour.  If they enforced this by refusing to honour their contracts and refusing to pay employees or give them work, this would also be unlawful.<p>If employees do the same then the left pretends it is normal.<p>Note that unions had to be made legal by legislative fiat.  At common law, unions were illegal associations in restraint of trade.</p>
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<p>Employers and employees are not opposed to each other, and nothing would ever get done if they were.  They have a symbiotic relationship.<p>Employers are, contrary to what you have implied, not permitted to band together to negotiate as a group.  That is called wage fixing.</p>
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<p>Yes you are.  You are choosing where to put your money to generate the best return.</p>
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<p>What he said is the cornerstone of socialism.<p>There isn't a way that it is incorrect.  It just isn't.  It is like asking "how is it incorrect to say Wubble Bubble Jibble Quibble."  It is a bunch of words placed together to form nonsense.  He didn't give any reasons to support any of what he said.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:51:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277238</link><dc:creator>memefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memefrog in "Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>"For example slack is an incredibly successful product. But it seems like every week I encounter a new bug that makes it completely unusable for me, from taking seconds per character when typing to being completely unable to render messages. (Discord on the other hand has always been reliable and snappy despite, judging by my highly scientific googling, having 1/3rd as many employees. So it's not like chat apps are just intrinsically hard.) And yet slack's technical advice is popular and if I ran across it without having experienced the results myself it would probably seem compelling."</i><p><a href="https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/on-bad-advice/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/on-bad-advice/</a></p>
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<p>>isn't this just the normal enshittification cycle that occurs with all Internet products?<p>No!  Stop diluting this word.</p>
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<p>Socialism will never be correct.  It is and has always been logically incoherent.<p>You are simply wrong.</p>
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<p>When you buy shares in a company you are investing in it and providing the company with capital.</p>
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