Hacker News: necessity

New comment by necessity in "Clocks for Software Engineers"

necessity — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:41:10 +0000

A very good idea.

New comment by necessity in "NASA's plan to save Earth from a supervolcano"

necessity — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 01:04:55 +0000

BBC.com as of late has been turning into Clickbait.com

New comment by necessity in "He created a Wikipedia article per day for a year, including on his wedding day"

necessity — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 04:33:33 +0000

It's not the English Wikipedia.

New comment by necessity in "The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key"

necessity — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:28:01 +0000

it was just a prank bro!

New comment by necessity in "Uber, Mired in Corporate Scandals, Sees Uptick in Bookings"

necessity — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:15:47 +0000

Except Uber didn't do anything deserving of a boycott.

New comment by necessity in "Let Consumers Sue Companies"

necessity — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:27:17 +0000

>This makes zero sense. It's on par with saying "dude just turn off javascript".

That's what you actually should do, I use NoScript and it's perfectly fine. Stop bitching and demanding people force others into the things YOU want.

New comment by necessity in "Uber, Mired in Corporate Scandals, Sees Uptick in Bookings"

necessity — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:04:46 +0000

Are you comparing child label to a a shitty corporate environment? And where did you get "hotbed for discrimination" from?

New comment by necessity in "Let Consumers Sue Companies"

necessity — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:46:15 +0000

Don't do business with companies that have such contracts? If there is no choice in a given sector then the issue is a monopoly not the contracts.

My Favorite Wikipedia Vandalism: A Tale of Nine Cheese Curds

necessity — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:16:22 +0000

Article URL: https://vc.gg/blog/my-favorite-wikipedia-vandalism.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15062336

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by necessity in "Defending Internet Freedom through Decentralization: Back to the Future? [pdf]"

necessity — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 03:55:21 +0000

The risk of a centralized web is censorship by government.

It's that simple. Other things may be a risk also, but not because of a centralized web.

Why Some U.S. Ex-Spies Don't Buy the Russia Story

necessity — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:13:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-u-s-ex-spies-don-t-buy-the-russia-story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15014253

Points: 157

# Comments: 147

New comment by necessity in "1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’"

necessity — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:40:03 +0000

That's fair, I will be more civil. But I don't think I am able to edit my comments.

New comment by necessity in "Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE"

necessity — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 02:16:20 +0000

IIRC Delphi compilers are usually single pass and thus really fast

New comment by necessity in "1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’"

necessity — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:29:49 +0000

I don't want to post about politics either, but people post ideological stuff, ideological replies should be expected, no? When I started using the website it was more focused on what it was meant to be, and I don't think I ever discussed politics then. Then the American elections happened and people started posting politics all the time. Well, political replies ensue. I flag posts that are purely political, I don't just reply to them.

New comment by necessity in "1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’"

necessity — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 17:25:46 +0000

>anti-communist red scare

McCarthism was as much anti-fascist as it was anti-communist, but of course commies would rewrite history to play the victims. Read the actual laws, it never mentions communism without mentioning fascism in the same sentence.

New comment by necessity in "Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?"

necessity — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 20:10:58 +0000

Given no context I would have guessed that this comment was made on a Star Trek fan forum.

New comment by necessity in "App sizes are out of control"

necessity — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:01:42 +0000

Don't download them? Out of those apps the only one you actually need is Uber, everything else can be replaced with a web browser. I don't download anything larger than 5MB unless I absolutely need it.

New comment by necessity in "Why the feds took down one of Bitcoin’s largest exchanges"

necessity — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 23:22:14 +0000

Aside from theft - of which the only evidence is money passing through the wallet of people associated with him - it seems that no crime was committed. Another attack on Bitcoin, and the war on drugs continues to kill more than the drugs themselves.

New comment by necessity in "Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs"

necessity — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:18:19 +0000

Still lame, just cropping and increasing saturation/contrast. Some of the pictures in the blog post look worse than the originals, they are artificial.

New comment by necessity in "Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says"

necessity — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 11:40:37 +0000

Facebook is a company, a superfluous one even, no need is forcing you to use it and there is no need for it. Don't like the don't use it. Don't like tracking configure your browser accordingly and get a blocker. It's easy and free.