Hacker News: mscarborough

A Case Study in Hype, Power, and the Illusion of Genius

mscarborough — Thu, 08 May 2025 03:46:30 +0000

Article URL: https://theamericanrefugee.substack.com/p/elon-musk-a-case-study-in-hype-power

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43922907

Points: 2

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New comment by mscarborough in "Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?"

mscarborough — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:56:59 +0000

If leadership cannot take advantage of, let alone adjust to remote work in 2024, they're not good leaders.

New comment by mscarborough in "FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall"

mscarborough — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:03:08 +0000

That's the biggest thing!

New comment by mscarborough in "We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX"

mscarborough — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:23:46 +0000

Making the subprime loans in the first place doesn't necessitate packing them into opaque financial instruments and going bananas with the wildly over-leveraged profit-seeking.

Financial firms has been making tons of money during decades of increasing wealth inequality. Sure, let's talk about these congressional acts, but not going to put a lot of blame on relatively small programs that required these firms to throw back some scraps.

New comment by mscarborough in "Twitter Blue for $8/Month"

mscarborough — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:20:12 +0000

Reposting your comment doesn't make it any more true.

New comment by mscarborough in "Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?"

mscarborough — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 19:28:29 +0000

Interested to hear what the paying business customers who migrated away from Heroku think about their new home and the process to move to Fly/Render/Digital Ocean/whatever?

New comment by mscarborough in "Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths"

mscarborough — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 16:51:09 +0000

Not surprising coming from South Carolina law enforcement, but these are THC gummies with clear packaging (that have a warning label and state "Cannabis Product").

Are we really to believe criminal is going to unpackage and give out to unsuspecting children, just to get them hooked on the marijuanas? Instead of selling them?

New comment by mscarborough in "Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?"

mscarborough — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:11:48 +0000

Let the guilt go. Coming from a person in recovery who's lucky to have gotten out of that hole, just know there's not really anything you could have done if your father wasn't interested in seeking help. No amount of being there or showing understanding or talking sense to him matters. Good on you for not losing your 20s and beyond to that endless pit.

New comment by mscarborough in "Issues with upstream DNS provider"

mscarborough — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:47:18 +0000

And no update after 2 hours. How/why did Salesforce run this platform into the ground?

New comment by mscarborough in "Solend seized $170M of user funds"

mscarborough — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 03:03:18 +0000

> and is no different to the DAO hack for Ethereum.

yikes!

the system has had material downtime 7 times in the last year. how is that OK?

New comment by mscarborough in "Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)"

mscarborough — Fri, 07 May 2021 03:33:20 +0000

If animal and insect death from cropping is a big concern, then what does it mean to feed other animals many more crops, then kill them as well?

More Americans Are Leaving Cities, but Don’t Call It an Urban Exodus

mscarborough — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-citylab-how-americans-moved/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26980595

Points: 2

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New comment by mscarborough in "Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site"

mscarborough — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:25:00 +0000

Your cert is triggering SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN.

New comment by mscarborough in "How often should I rotate my SSH keys?"

mscarborough — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:19:08 +0000

It's definitely a balancing act, calculating the ROI for improving security vs implementing more immediate customer-focused work.

This common problem is what led to rise of the MSSPs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_security_service

New comment by mscarborough in "Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition"

mscarborough — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:20:10 +0000

Directly below the supposedly juicy "I don't think this is worth it" comment is a merged PR linked to this issue.

In that PR they changed the render loop rather than implement the "not worth it" suggested solution. At no point was it marked as WONTFIX.

New comment by mscarborough in "Facebook bans Trump for 24 hours"

mscarborough — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:13:22 +0000

All the horses left the ranch some years back, but if I close one of the stable doors maybe everyone will see what a great job I've been doing.

New comment by mscarborough in "Galaxy Quest"

mscarborough — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:18:45 +0000

That is a very long article over-dramatizing a fantasy scenario that will 100% not happen in their lifetime. These folks sure glommed onto something that allows them to talk about themselves a lot.

If Mars One wasn't just a short-term money grab, they wouldn't be too concerned with collecting 75% of interview fees. That is so bush league that to imagine your whole life is going to be shaped by this organization is pretty delusional.

New comment by mscarborough in "The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada"

mscarborough — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:55:08 +0000

You're right, no smuggling. I'm not sure that suing the guy isn't a bad idea...if you're a brand that doesn't franchise and controls experience, why let international stories out about how some peeps are just "gray-area-ing" your products and name, and getting away with it? In the article it even said the guy was looking for places to open up a new store.

Trader Joe's not wanting to open up in Canada doesn't validate anything about what he's doing. Perhaps TD has a longer-term strategy, that doesn't involve anyone who can live near the Canadian border selling their stuff at a marked-up price.

We're not talking about importing fruits and vegetables to save money for people at "the Safeway across the street," which the author didn't bother to justify. How anyone would go to this length to sell chocolate-covered almonds, or peppermint cookies, and pretend that selling more snacks is just doing everyone a political/ethical justice is beyond me.

New comment by mscarborough in "The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada"

mscarborough — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:24:56 +0000

FTA: Hallatt says he still has a lot of respect for Trader Joe’s, and “what they’re trying to do with food.” He still says he’s running the store out of love for the label, and, he says, finding Coulombe’s quote is one of the things that made him persevere through the lawsuit.

Dude, you're doing it for the money. And if a lawyer's quote got you to keep going in a lawsuit, you're definitely doing it for the money.

Sorry, this entire article is parroting a very well-constructed (but seemingly BS) storyline. "he still goes to the border", "waits in a white unmarked van", "he envies cabbies salaries", etc.

His ultimate goal is to bring Trader Joe's to Canada? Just doing it to advertise for the Trader Joe's label?

Sorry man, you found the grey area you wanted to (self-admittedly within a few minutes) and then kept going.

New comment by mscarborough in "Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)"

mscarborough — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:48:15 +0000

What is the relation between homosexuals and pedophiles?