Hacker News: mrkrabo

New comment by mrkrabo in "Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars to Drivers"

mrkrabo — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:49:49 +0000

Of course. Anything or anybody else you want us to get rid of, Mr. Chris?

New comment by mrkrabo in "Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture"

mrkrabo — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:58:59 +0000

I'm not a fan of the alt-right but the fact is that it's here to stay.

New comment by mrkrabo in "To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software"

mrkrabo — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:24:33 +0000

Who trusts digital money?

New comment by mrkrabo in "Ask HN: Added someone on Facebook/got suggestion on Linkedin"

mrkrabo — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:35:24 +0000

Maybe that person looked you up on LinkedIn.

Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors

mrkrabo — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:34:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/08/toilet-defecate-outdoors-stunting-sanitation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918960

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkrabo in "Larry Page Deposition in Uber vs. Waymo"

mrkrabo — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 07:52:00 +0000

>If you read page 24, he said it's not unusual for people to be paid $100M. Do you expect him to remember all the people and amounts paid?

That's a lie. Do you really think Google would be paying someone $100M or something close to that and the CEO wouldn't hear of it?

New comment by mrkrabo in "Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service"

mrkrabo — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:43:50 +0000

$9/month for what essentially is a preinstalled pi-hole is a rip-off.

New comment by mrkrabo in "Malicious crossenv package on npm"

mrkrabo — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:55:39 +0000

Don't understand the downvotes. Cloudflare doesn't seem to have a problem hosting stuff like this, or even carders, and then ignoring abuse emails :')

New comment by mrkrabo in "Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary"

mrkrabo — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:37:58 +0000

They can't but if they catch you they can throw you in jail regardless of whether they can decrypt what you've transmitted or not.

So you have the choice of either getting thrown in jail or to give up the keys.

New comment by mrkrabo in "Krita Foundation in Trouble"

mrkrabo — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:13:24 +0000

Do you think it is acceptable to not pay VAT just because you know you'll get the money back? It is not legal, at least. Who are you to judge that? The government must know, because they are the ones to judge.

New comment by mrkrabo in "Krita Foundation in Trouble"

mrkrabo — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:54:21 +0000

Of course I know what VAT is. I am a freelancer based in Europe. And I know if I'm paying SOMEONE for his services I also have to pay VAT, regardless of whether I'll get it back later or not. Why? Because I have to prove that VAT was spent in something related to my business (I can't have the VAT from my food returned, for example). It does not only apply to goods, it also applies to services.

New comment by mrkrabo in "Krita Foundation in Trouble"

mrkrabo — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:39:11 +0000

That's exactly what I'm saying. They have busted them cold so they're going to be more careful about their fraud in the future by splitting the company in half.

New comment by mrkrabo in "Krita Foundation in Trouble"

mrkrabo — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:45:08 +0000

Splitting a company in two so you can avoid paying taxes is not an attempt to deceive? Is it horrible when Apple uses Ireland to avoid taxes, but OK if KDE does it?

New comment by mrkrabo in "Krita Foundation in Trouble"

mrkrabo — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:34:36 +0000

Say what you will but this is simply fraud. If they were selling stuff, they should've collected and paid the VAT for Dmitry. You are NOT a non-profit if you sell stuff.

There is absolutely no complexity about this. Didn't they see anything wrong with selling stuff without collecting the VAT from every transaction?

And the best part: they are now separating the sales from the foundation so they can avoid paying taxes. This is the kind of stuff HN abhors... ooops it's not Amazon, it's Krita! Then let's allow it!!!

New comment by mrkrabo in "Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation"

mrkrabo — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 06:20:26 +0000

But that was a rewrite of the backend which was very needed. The design didn't change.

Although I agree, Reddit desperately needs a rewrite of its backend.

New comment by mrkrabo in "Can QML become the next standard for web UI?"

mrkrabo — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:46:14 +0000

Nobody remembers Wt. :(

New comment by mrkrabo in "Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation"

mrkrabo — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:29:37 +0000

If you click here (no need to be logged in) you get the HTML layout of the rewrite.

https://www.reddit.com/profile-beta-confirmation

https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing

Seems to be JS-heavy.

New comment by mrkrabo in "The R. Kelly ‘cult’ story and the ‘Gawker Effect’"

mrkrabo — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:31:34 +0000

Where do we draw the line? If homosexuality, why not zoophilia? If marijuana, why not cocaine?

New comment by mrkrabo in "With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs"

mrkrabo — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:29:36 +0000

Imgur profitable since day 1? Give me a break.

I mean now that they've created a social network and are redirecting all image links to their shitty webpage with the cat paw, ok, I believe it, but since day 1 when they were just hosting images? There's no way they were making money off that

New comment by mrkrabo in "AMD unveils Radeon RX Vega GPUs for high-end gaming PCs"

mrkrabo — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:28:16 +0000

>and way under performance targets.

Well... It's AMD. Did you really believe what they promised? How many times have they lied and played the hype game just to deliver garbage?

>AMD is keeping nvidia on their toes, and for nothing other than that, we should support them.

It's cheaper. Yep. But worse. Worse than Intel, worse than nVidia. And what's even worse is that, for example in GPUs, you can see they sell not-so-bad hardware coupled with horrible, abhorrent drivers. It's really pathetic. AMD never again, at least for me.