Hacker News: oh_sigh

New comment by oh_sigh in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

oh_sigh — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:54:20 +0000

Those children who were at the ice skating rink were also attacking Ukraine? Quite precocious!

New comment by oh_sigh in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

oh_sigh — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:48:04 +0000

Is there a judiciary that determines whether the mob was within their rights to light your restaurant on fire, and can stop the mob from lighting the restaurant on fire?

Even if you think the FCC is just an extension of trump(fair) at this moment, their rulings aren't the final word. They still need to follow the law. If the FCC improperly attempts to withhold a license from the affiliate, the affiliate can sue and let federal judges, who are not an extension of trump, decide on the matter.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover"

oh_sigh — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:06:20 +0000

Sheesh, good thing G-d decided to take a chill pill somewhere between the Old and New Testaments.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

oh_sigh — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:17:48 +0000

The 1990s famine, if you want to call if that, is also sometimes described as a series of famines.

Here's more details about the aid I'm referring to.

700,000 tonnes in 1999 alone, from one country.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R40095.pdf

New comment by oh_sigh in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

oh_sigh — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:07:43 +0000

If you look at the graph, life expectancy didn't really diverge until the 90s, 40 years after the bombing campaign.

And, any way, the North Koreans started it.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'"

oh_sigh — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:13:23 +0000

I'm glad you're getting healthier, but what are the odds that all of your theories have any basis in reality, after spending , I'm guessing, years or decades living an unhealthy lifestyle.

Like, do you really think your tongue position is affecting your facial and jaw structure? I'm guessing you believe in "mewing", and every before/after image I have seen has just been a joke.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

oh_sigh — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:04:26 +0000

By "a period in the nineties", you mean "since the nineties", right? So basically for the past 35 years North Korea has been heavily lagging in life expectancy.

Another way to put that is it's been 75 years since Korea split, and half that time North Korea has been much worse than south Korea.

Let's not even get into what that chart would look like if humanitarian aid wasn't shipped during those famines.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Exercise, metabolism, and weight: New research from The Biggest Loser (2022)"

oh_sigh — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:02:02 +0000

Activity might not be a directly efficient way to lose weight, but (imo) increased activity leads to increased willpower to make healthy eating choices.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Taggers have sprayed graffiti on 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper"

oh_sigh — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:06:15 +0000

Waste of space: Not really? The plot of land the building is on is ~ 1/3rd of an acre. Immediately adjacent to it are multiple street level-only parking lots that have a larger footprint. I guess providing parking to 60 cars is more useful than an empty building, but not by much, especially considering the building will probably be rehabbed eventually. For reference the LACC 1 block away has parking for 6000 cars, and done in a reasonable, space-efficient manner (multilevel underground parking).

Waste of money: Whose money? The developers? Sure. But it isn't like random tax paying citizens of LA had any kind of stake in it.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Taggers have sprayed graffiti on 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper"

oh_sigh — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:56:42 +0000

What exactly is the story? "These people suck at building buildings"? Surely, the incompetent managers wish they didn't screw it up and turn their idea into a money pit.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Taggers have sprayed graffiti on 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper"

oh_sigh — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:55:45 +0000

"Under the broken windows theory, an ordered and clean environment, one that is maintained, sends the signal that the area is monitored and that criminal behavior is not tolerated. Conversely, a disordered environment, one that is not maintained (broken windows, graffiti, excessive litter), sends the signal that the area is not monitored and that criminal behavior has little risk of detection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

It is 'just' a criminology theory, with many people who disagree with it.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Taggers have sprayed graffiti on 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper"

oh_sigh — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:51:17 +0000

Sure, and that's because you(or some previous owner of your property) gave away certain rights relating to the property to the HOA.

New comment by oh_sigh in "I [Cory Doctorow] Got Scammed"

oh_sigh — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:45:09 +0000

I thought with the rollout of STIR/SHAKEN it wouldn't be possible to spoof called ID anymore?

New comment by oh_sigh in "41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective"

oh_sigh — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:58:27 +0000

Shouldn't it be up for grabs then?

According to the logic of "you don't call retarded people retarded. You call your friends retarded when they're acting retarded."

New comment by oh_sigh in "IPTV Anti-Piracy Threats May Increase Male Motivation to Pirate by 30%"

oh_sigh — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:15:27 +0000

I don't accept that premise. I've certainly downloaded things that I also considered buying, but just didn't because of some small hurdle.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Car insurance in America is too cheap"

oh_sigh — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 05:34:15 +0000

My guess by family of 4 you mean two young adult children, which will significantly increase your rates, especially if they are male.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry"

oh_sigh — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 04:15:20 +0000

You don't kill the tree when you harvest cork. You come back later and harvest more cork from the same tree.

New comment by oh_sigh in "The Rise of the American Oligarchy"

oh_sigh — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:44:59 +0000

He would still be rich, but not as crazy rich. And if he did want to return money to the share holders, it would come at the cost of reducing reinvestment into the company, probably lessening their moat.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Temu's ad spend soars as it embarks on a marketing blitz"

oh_sigh — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:41:07 +0000

It might just be me, but every Temu ad I see is a normalish product, but the image is designed to look like something sexy or illicit when viewed as a small thumbnail.

New comment by oh_sigh in "Print off a QR code for guests to join your WiFi network"

oh_sigh — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:32:54 +0000

Well, if you connected to my service I can probably geolocate you. Or I can use a SSID=>lat/lon database to find where your wifi is assuming you have a unique name for your Wi-Fi network. Then I can go there and connect a laptop it and do nefarious stuff from there, and attribute it to you. Threaten the president, torrent Linux ISOs, etc.