Hacker News: patrioticaction

New comment by patrioticaction in "U.S. tech companies are building a Chinese-style social credit system"

patrioticaction — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:11:49 +0000

Churches are scrambling for membership like they are gay bars, you might be surprised what you find!

New comment by patrioticaction in "China’s assault on Cathay Pacific"

patrioticaction — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:27:21 +0000

He’s probably just mad he couldn’t sell surveillance tools to China like Google does.

New comment by patrioticaction in "An oral history of the AIM away message"

patrioticaction — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:50:12 +0000

Punting was my first exposure to cyber warfare, miss those days

New comment by patrioticaction in "An oral history of the AIM away message"

patrioticaction — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:49:00 +0000

“Busy”

New comment by patrioticaction in "Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?"

patrioticaction — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:02:35 +0000

You probably think the comment sucks because it’s inconvenient that your popular host doesn’t curate his guests well or have strong debate skills to stop the most egregious shit from being said on his show because at the end of the day he’s still muscle headed Joe Rogan.

People are fawning over him because he doesn’t interject... but he doesn’t interject because he can’t formulate convincing and moral arguments on the fly.

New comment by patrioticaction in "Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing"

patrioticaction — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:53:46 +0000

Fair enough. I mean to say that YouTubers have followings that are very strong and they have never had a coalition to test a mass strike or exodus. They have a unique product that can’t just be supplanted with an analog as if they are simply interchangeable.

Like, “oh we don’t have John Oliver anymore but here’s Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp! Everyone’s happy, right?”

New comment by patrioticaction in "Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing"

patrioticaction — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:48:03 +0000

The reason top YouTube content is so good is because creators have spent many years honing their skill and building relationships. That can’t be easily replaced and I also must say that the revenue of College Humors’s Dropout service is an indication of a lost opportunity for YouTube. If done in larger amounts, it could be death by a thousand cuts. Plenty of reason to come to the negotiating table.

New comment by patrioticaction in "Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing"

patrioticaction — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:46:55 +0000

You are arguing that there is anything resembling a perfect market for YouTube video content. Talk about a departure from reality.

New comment by patrioticaction in "Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing"

patrioticaction — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:13:24 +0000

By that logic who needs YouTube when we can stare at the endless content of clouds moving in the sky.

New comment by patrioticaction in "Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing"

patrioticaction — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:40:06 +0000

What is also both gross and sad is your contemptuous description of YouTube videos as being “Repackage scenes from movies, previews, upload documentaries, sport clips”

Setting aside derivative works, which it sounds like you are attacking the value of, there is shit tons of purely original content on YouTube that carries a lot of negotiating power.

New comment by patrioticaction in "FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights"

patrioticaction — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:40:50 +0000

Ppl here aren’t so good with sarcasm

New comment by patrioticaction in "NULL license plate not such a bright idea"

patrioticaction — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:04:33 +0000

So this guy doesn't have to pay parking tickets anymore right?

New comment by patrioticaction in "Do older people have a different smell?"

patrioticaction — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:58:20 +0000

Sucks to be you

New comment by patrioticaction in "My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory"

patrioticaction — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:46:25 +0000

No worries, I am sure the Gen8 server makes for a good doorstop when it dies, have tested before.

New comment by patrioticaction in "Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click"

patrioticaction — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:41:30 +0000

And also because they've slowly made sponsored results look like organic results to align better with their becoming evil OKRs: https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-goog...

New comment by patrioticaction in "The Cloud"

patrioticaction — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:24:51 +0000

I guarantee you they don’t have the capacity to scale an internet business on demand. Not the way AWS or GCP can.

New comment by patrioticaction in "White House drafting order on tech industry 'censorship'"

patrioticaction — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:22:03 +0000

Let’s start by banning hateful people like Donald Trump from Twitter. Let them find and fund their own platforms for that willful ignorance. They know it’s hard to survive alone — look at 8chan — so maybe they are willing to play by the rules if we enforce them.

New comment by patrioticaction in "The Cloud"

patrioticaction — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:11:32 +0000

Lead times on server orders are non trivial once you are buying a large quantity with specific configurations.

Want to scale up? 5 weeks minimum. Your opportunity may have been lost by then.

New comment by patrioticaction in "Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company"

patrioticaction — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:46:56 +0000

If the economy was hyper-inflating large institutions and corporations would be the first to trade their cash for other securities and assets like real estate.

New comment by patrioticaction in "IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders"

patrioticaction — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:38:23 +0000

The ICO market crashed and trading volume on crypto exchanges keeps dipping lower and lower and lower. Its main use-case has shifted back to currency after a failed bid as a security.