<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: oldjim69</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=oldjim69</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:53:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=oldjim69" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Touche! They have gotten so innovative with it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201947</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>the true purpose of crypt<p>Fraud?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:20:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201195</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Decentralization Hidden in the Dark Ages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because of their behavior? Violence was one of the main ways actors resolved conflicts in this period. Didn't like a new tax or that the King appointed his cousin or not your cousin Bishop? Revolt! Have a battle, whoever wins the fight gets his way.<p>Clovis I the would have absolutely used centralizing tools like railways and the telegraph to enforce his rule more uniformly and ensure his dynasty's success. He only reason why he didn't was because he couldn't.<p>Dark ages monarchs spent all their time trying to stabilize their regime and enforce their will on the society. We know this because we know how much time they spent marching around their areas putting down revolts and fighting off invasions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181855</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Decentralization Hidden in the Dark Ages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tough to know where to start. Pretty much every fact asserted in this piece is without any real evidence.<p>Starting at the end
>This change occurred as a result of William the Conqueror’s defeat of Harold Godwinsson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.  As a result of this, William claimed that he had won the whole country by right of conquest.  Every inch of land was to be his, and he would dispose of it as he thought fit.<p>>All land was thereafter owned by the crown.  Perhaps in this can be found the seeds of the desire by the lords for the Magna Carta<p>This is simply not true that William claiming this was somehow new or novel. Lots of kings did this at the time. The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris illustrates this well.<p>Further, yes the dark ages were decentralized, but not at all because of the reasons in the piece. They were decentralized because the was an era of incredibly high friction. It took forever to get anywhere, to tell anything to anyone, to trade, to make deals, collaborate, to organize people. A bad harvest could wipe out a decade of hard labour building up a community. In that context there were just very few centriphical forces pulling things to the center.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:17:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180432</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because no one wants to pay anyone for work</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836998</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would I ever search on a ChatGPT - thats not what they are for. They are for helping summarize things, writing copy, designing excel. Making silly images.<p>Search is for finding specific websites and products. Totally different things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:33:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625049</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>America's ability to fail its citizens is truly limitless</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:30:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43481477</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43481477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43481477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "The Burnout Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Union now. Union tomorrow. Union Forever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:19:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429114</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alexa should be banned, and Amazon should be broken up into a dozen or so entities</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:42:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388544</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But does anyone use them? Everyone org I've worked for and with - large government departments, publicly traded entities, small PE owned entities use excel.<p>As others say in this thread, the world runs on Excel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43333715</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43333715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43333715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unionize. Collective action is the only way to stand up to Uber and co.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780238</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ban crypto. Wrap the whole thing up globally. It was a bad idea allowed to run on for too long. Time to stop the music.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:20:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395060</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The post office offers amazing service and its workers have been a key part of the labour movement.<p>Also next day delivery is almost never an option where I live so I don't bother with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:22:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052497</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing shows the power of unions more than the lengths companies go to fight them.<p>In a Union there is Strength.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:06:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37049155</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37049155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37049155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "Why has no one published a computer version of Squad Leader?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the main reason is that VASSAL-VASL (<a href="https://vasl.info/" rel="nofollow">https://vasl.info/</a>) has 90% of the features of a video game and is free. It has all the counters, maps, charts and guides -all that is missing is the rules and the scenario cards. MMP sells a searchable pdf version of the rules for cheap online and the vast majority of players are happy to share scenario cards if their opponent doesn't have it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34326059</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34326059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34326059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oldjim69 in "“The entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That you can't see the value in having such a team - that having such a team is essential for a company like twitter to operate - is completely baffling to me. Not having one will make advertisers pull out and make the company much less profitable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:25:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473288</link><dc:creator>oldjim69</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473288</guid></item></channel></rss>