Hacker News: pandem

New comment by pandem in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

pandem — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:17:29 +0000

I would expect the monopoly referred here to be the government.

New comment by pandem in "Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder"

pandem — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:13:47 +0000

A more relevant meaning is probably a query as in SQL-kysely means an SQL query. Feel bad for Finnish students though trying to google something about SQL queries now in Finnish as most results seem to be about this project.

New comment by pandem in "Cities should not pay for new stadiums"

pandem — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:50:54 +0000

That has more to do with relegation in European football than anything else. A bottom tier NFL team is at least 2 billion because you know they will be in the league in 20 years. A bottom tier EPL team is likely worth a few hundred billion as it will cost money to stay in the Premier League. The fact that there are football teams so high on the list should tell you of the global brand value they have.

New comment by pandem in "What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?"

pandem — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 06:56:27 +0000

The Congress does not decide the New York local tax rate or how west coast cities handle their forest. You can have a local government and Congressional elections that are not tied to your specific location. As far as I know now the only position that both someone in California and someone in New York would vote for is POTUS.

New comment by pandem in "Software Developer Shortage Is Coming"

pandem — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 21:14:31 +0000

That's really only used for old articles to give context and is not considered to be part of the title.

New comment by pandem in "Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life"

pandem — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 06:11:17 +0000

Because the list has 10 countries and 2000 USD a month is enough for a good life in over 150 countries.

New comment by pandem in "Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime"

pandem — Fri, 28 May 2021 14:29:28 +0000

I'm not sure why people keep saying this. The original studies did not study if the vaccine prevents spread, that is true. I'm not certain myself, but I believe that studies done based on COVID spread in countries where vaccination rates are high (at least Israel) point to the direction that it prevents spread as well. Are these not valid data points?

New comment by pandem in "Do countries get the list of every passenger that's transiting their airspace?"

pandem — Tue, 25 May 2021 04:48:43 +0000

Maybe that's how it works in America, but it doesn't mean it's the same everywhere. And given that the post was motivated by recent events in Europe it doesn't seem too relevant.

In Europe when you go through security no one checks your id. In fact most of the time when you fly inside Schengen with hand luggage only no one checks your id at all. But there definitely isn't something comparable to TSA that would have the information.

New comment by pandem in "Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says"

pandem — Sun, 23 May 2021 15:59:28 +0000

What is a neutral country? The flight started from Greece (NATO country) was going to Lithuania (NATO country) and the plane is registered in Poland (NATO country).

New comment by pandem in "“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]"

pandem — Fri, 21 May 2021 17:29:28 +0000

Most people on freenode don't give a shit about these conferences. To me it seems like someone wanted to try to help freenode do something cool and used that as a way to cheat everybody and steal the network. Not cool.

New comment by pandem in "“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]"

pandem — Fri, 21 May 2021 17:26:05 +0000

As the CEO do you happen to know where I can send a GDPR request? I tried policy@freenode.net which was mentioned on the website but it is not working.

Address not found Your message wasn't delivered to policy@freenode.net because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.

New comment by pandem in "“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]"

pandem — Fri, 21 May 2021 16:43:35 +0000

Sent an email to policy@freenode.net to see my personal data as GDPR provides me the opportunity. Curious to see what they have.

New comment by pandem in "Berlin rent cap overturned by Germany's top court"

pandem — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:08:24 +0000

Also good for people who want to move to Berlin as mietendeckel made it much more difficult to get an apartment. Also good for people renting through the gray market of sublets as it makes it easier for them to get a real contract.

New comment by pandem in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

pandem — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:10:51 +0000

I'm 28 and can't wait until I get back to the office. A lot of people like the social aspect of the job and not everybody decides to live a miserable commute away from their office

New comment by pandem in "Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and African Americans"

pandem — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 19:52:28 +0000

I don't think that is obvious at all. I would assume most illegally owned guns have been legally owned in the first place so gun laws can have a big effect.

New comment by pandem in "Google AMP Can Go To Hell (2018)"

pandem — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 06:10:40 +0000

My main annoyance with AMP is reddit because their version is especially shitty if you expect the logged in version. I've found the easiest way to get normal Reddit is to click the upvote button.

New comment by pandem in "Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse"

pandem — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:18:51 +0000

r/Chapotraphouse which is mentioned in the title was left leaning. On the ither hand many other right wing subreddits were not deleted. Hard to see how people make this a partisan issue.

New comment by pandem in "Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP"

pandem — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:32:26 +0000

I think the opposite. It is correct as a trillion dollars is a trillion dollars, but not useful as it is misleading. It is easy to assumr from these headlines that Apple would be similar in size to country x GDP

New comment by pandem in "European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case"

pandem — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:33:11 +0000

https://money.cnn.com/2014/06/30/investing/bnp-paribas-sanct... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/16/deutsche-ba... https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/04/21/volkswag...

As if this doesn't happen on the other side of the pond. Claiming only EU does this is intellectual dishonesty

New comment by pandem in "Bird has officially raised a whopping $300M as the scooter wars heat up"

pandem — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:56:47 +0000

I've seen the same in Berlin and I think they are great. The difference might be that most streets already have a fair amount of bikes, so the dockless bikes are nothing out of the norm.