Hacker News: okusername

New comment by okusername in "An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion"

okusername — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 09:35:57 +0000

Yeah and communist society is about who has the best connections to the people in the party who decide who gets what. And socialist societies are about not making too much money because you'll lose the subsidies.

New comment by okusername in "Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal (2013)"

okusername — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 09:48:17 +0000

Which is more than enough to put it out of balance, depending on where it is.

New comment by okusername in "Suspicious Discontinuities"

okusername — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:29:28 +0000

Do you have a link to the study? I'd love to check the study design

New comment by okusername in "State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization"

okusername — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:14:27 +0000

For private insurance in Europe you have to sign disclosure documents for all your doctors and medical history, at least in all 5 countries I have insight in. It's perfectly legal and standard.

New comment by okusername in "Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft"

okusername — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:35:59 +0000

Same happens in brick and mortar stores. Im germany a drug store chain had a decade lomg partnership with an organic products / plant milk producer who did a lot to buold the market, and when the market actually got more mainstream and profitbale, they kicked them out and replaced them their new house line of organic products.

New comment by okusername in "Medications that change who we are"

okusername — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:44:22 +0000

That's not Western, but American. In Europe much weaker painkillers are prescribed due to risk of addiction, and in places like germany a lot of placebo (= overpriced homeopatic bullshit)

New comment by okusername in "Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems"

okusername — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:50:09 +0000

That's a bold assumption. Such algorithms are developed wwith training sets, not just by employees randomly clicking around. They wrote that 189 algorithms were submitted, there were surely a few developed by non-racist, diverse people.

New comment by okusername in "US Spaceforce.mil Goes Live"

okusername — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 07:04:09 +0000

Several countries have shown the capability of destroying satellites, not to speak of spy satellites and gps, and the fact that the spaceshuttle and its military sibling was designed to scoop up satellites and bring them back to earth.

Space was never not militarized.

New comment by okusername in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

okusername — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 08:47:10 +0000

Thats exactly wHat GUIs are good for. Make infrequenlty used features and options accessible.

New comment by okusername in "Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks"

okusername — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:36:30 +0000

There is research showing male rhesus monkeys to have preference for wheeled toys

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

We shouldn't discount possible genetic influences on preferences.

New comment by okusername in "Screen Use Tied to Children’s Brain Development"

okusername — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 09:04:54 +0000

That's probabaly the wrong causation. Instead, parents of higher intelligence, education and cultures that values education make more money - and not only pass on their genes, but also are more vigillent or capabale to educate their kids.

New comment by okusername in "Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity?"

okusername — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:36:56 +0000

Just that you know - it's ok no to post, if you have nothing substantial to say. Spreading hateful slander adds nothing to the board.

New comment by okusername in "Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions"

okusername — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:17:12 +0000

No, you're completely wrong. Graph databases, document databases, K/V stores and so on have completely different models, guarantees and performance characteristics than relational databases.

New comment by okusername in "Sweden's 100 explosions this year: what's going on?"

okusername — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:03:51 +0000

Isn't it completely off topic for this board though? On reddit I'd agree with you.

New comment by okusername in "Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions"

okusername — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 01:01:53 +0000

Obviously, if you put all data into one table, it's not a complex query. (But then you also just reinvented document databases with its own set of problems.)

Even having them in several tables is not rocket science, OP was just trying to give an easy example of types of queries that are easier with datomic than with sql.

New comment by okusername in "Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions"

okusername — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 23:56:00 +0000

Both of you are missing the point. Once you normalize, car color would be an attribute on the car table, and to map those you need many-to-many lookup tables. It can be done obviously, but it's more effort to do, maintain and update. Depending on your requirements, graph db like features can provide an easier abstraction.

New comment by okusername in "Toddler Password – Get a secure password generated by a toddler"

okusername — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:36:49 +0000

When I let my 5 months old investigate my keyboard, he changed my code, started the compiler and locked the device within 30 seconds. The secret? They use both hands. The give away? They re-press the same keys often, so the result would be a lot more repetitive.

New comment by okusername in "The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes"

okusername — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:32:23 +0000

random networking issues

New comment by okusername in "The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control"

okusername — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:04:27 +0000

Reddit is definitely being gamed, started 1-2 years ago. And it's a lot harder / impossible to identify fake recommendations, so I'm very suspicious of it.

New comment by okusername in "Why Enterprise Software Sucks"

okusername — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:16:32 +0000

>Totally agree, but it takes a really strong product manager to stand up to a sales person with $10K in revenue from an enterprise buyer "if we just add this one feature they want".

Lol, let's be realistic. If a PM is in the situation to decide that and does so, in a few days he'll find himself in a meeting with some higher ups to discuss how to find a way. (Unless of course 10k is insignificant for the company and there's already a hard roadmap for higher value projects.)