Hacker News: perspective1

New comment by perspective1 in "Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine"

perspective1 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:58:23 +0000

The US government has no authority to break up a monopoly just because users don't like its ads. Google continues to provide a valuable service, and your cost is the ads you're served that you don't want. Google's not a charity. I'm tired of opinions about "user hostility" and so on from tech people about valuable services as they ramp up user revenues. If you don't like Google's ads, use DuckDuckGo or Bing.

New comment by perspective1 in "Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore"

perspective1 — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 23:07:35 +0000

Kind of predictable. Google's a business. Surprise, surprise, you can't rely on its free services long-term.

New comment by perspective1 in "Which Areas Will Be Flooded with Homes Once Boomers Start Leaving Them?"

perspective1 — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:27:26 +0000

LOL. The article completely ignores that today's 40-somethings will be 60-something 20 years from now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

edit: Seeing the flood of downvotes I'll give some data. Home ownership increases with age. 60+ers leaving their homes from death, poor health or inconvenience will be supplemented by today's 40+ers over the next 20 years. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/08/homeownership... . We were in the same situation 20 years ago, 21 years ago, 22 years ago, and so on.

New comment by perspective1 in "Samoa arrests vaccination critic amid deadly measles crisis"

perspective1 — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:09:25 +0000

If I yell "he's got a gun" as a prank intending people to stampeded out of a movie theater, trampeling and killing a someone in the panic, I'm responsible for the very predictable consequences. If I promote tea leaves as an effective innoculation to measels preventing people to get a life-saving vaccination, I'm responsible for the predictable consequences. There's a fine line somewhere and probably has something to do with opinion vs fact, but it's not crossed here.

New comment by perspective1 in "Breast Cancer Linked to Permanent Hair Dye and Chemical Hair Straighteners"

perspective1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 23:16:32 +0000

It's a plausible mechanism but a bogus study. With most of their confidence intervals including hazard ratios of 1.0 (or very close to it), they need to rule out even slight correlations like smoking and (low) income. Recall bias of the survey participants is another major factor in cancer cases. Overall this reads like they collected data of a bunch of chemical exposures setting their p to < 0.05 and found this one that they could publish on.

New comment by perspective1 in "Sinkholed"

perspective1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 20:06:54 +0000

In theory, sure. But according to most of my domain WHOIS records, the technical contact is somebody named asdflkj_34890f@privacyprotection.com.

New comment by perspective1 in "Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage"

perspective1 — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 20:31:19 +0000

Exactly this. It's mostly just the ivory-tower kind of docs that say "acetaminophen" over "Tylenol." If you use the generic of something like Zosyn "Pipercillin/Tazobactam" you'll firmly go in the weird category. Same with most (but not all) antibiotics. The normal parlance changes from generic to trade with each drug and even region of the country.

The actual medical shibboleth is knowing your dose and dosing interval, total doses over time period X, dose adjustments, that gives doctors the information they need about your drug. Basically just know your history down cold. You'll be forgiven for mispronouncing med names, using the trade or generic name when the other one is more common, etc. Nobody cares. All (yes, all) doctors have a specific framework when it comes to history taking, and it's easy to get. And it's easy to tell when people don't get it. It goes something like, "I (or pt Y) have med problem x, y, z. Recently, I noticed u happening. I tried a, and then b but neither worked." Boom. You're now miles ahead of everyone else seeking care, you're not wasting time while the doc tries to organize and digest everything you're saying, it's that simple.

New comment by perspective1 in "Show HN: We used 890M chess games to make an interactive opening graph"

perspective1 — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 19:48:03 +0000

How is this different than a standard opening database? Chessgames.com has had this for probably at least 10 years-- https://www.chessgames.com/perl/explorer as do a bunch of other sites and software packages.

New comment by perspective1 in "Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers"

perspective1 — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:26:32 +0000

> I can assure you that the general population has no idea what half the nouns in that sentence mean, let alone how to do any of that.

Keep in mind you're on HN-- we tend to be a more technical population :). If you're interested I found this on StackOverflow via Google: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144482/iptables-to-...

You'll have to Google how to set up iptables/telnet or ssh on your router yourself, assuming it supports it.

New comment by perspective1 in "Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers"

perspective1 — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:16:31 +0000

Just use iptables on your firewall/router to reroute all traffic on port 53 to your DNS server.

New comment by perspective1 in "Predicting Next Recession"

perspective1 — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:15:40 +0000

There's so much effort put into timing the next recession. It's not just that they can't even do that with meaningful certainty-- it's that they also can't tell you how significant the recession will be. I mean, with full employment right now, of course a recession is on the horizon (who knows when). But, going from full employment to 1% less doesn't mean the economy or its people is even worse off than they were 2 years ago. Same thing with virtually any thing else that plugs into GDP.

New comment by perspective1 in "Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman"

perspective1 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 19:09:32 +0000

IANAL but the basic sniff test is could "Postwoman" be confused with "Postman?" I think the answer is yes. With the author calling it an alternative to "Postman," you have the author acknowledging Postman is a strong trademark. And it's not like it's the only one available fitting the "{HTTP-METHOD}{MAN|WOMAN}" construct-- you could rename it "HeadWoman" and probably be okay.

New comment by perspective1 in "Tesla Cybertruck"

perspective1 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:06:31 +0000

Why do you say that? With the slope and adjustable suspension I'd think it'd be easier-- you just lower the truck and brush the snow down in a few swoops.

New comment by perspective1 in "SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident"

perspective1 — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 01:15:01 +0000

I don't think SpaceX ever made that accusation. At the time (2016) Musk said the cause of failure was unknown. He was asked directly about sabotage on Twitter and replied that they didn't rule that out. As far as I can tell, the first time anyone at SpaceX talked about the rifle hypothesis was Musk simply saying SpaceX looked into it (the implication being it wasn't sabotage).

WaPro: http://archive.is/j8zjc

New comment by perspective1 in "SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident"

perspective1 — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:56:50 +0000

During prototype tests you don't have to target 6-sigma, obviously, but I hope we get a post-mortem without spin.

Why the electric-car revolution may take a lot longer than expected

perspective1 — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:58:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614728/why-the-electric-car-revolution-may-take-a-lot-longer-than-expected/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577542

Points: 2

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New comment by perspective1 in "Seclusion and Isolation Rooms Misused in Illinois Schools"

perspective1 — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:38:06 +0000

Okay but the one time you might expect "teachers" to get the documentation right is when they're throwing their kids into solitary confinement.

New comment by perspective1 in "Seclusion and Isolation Rooms Misused in Illinois Schools"

perspective1 — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:30:06 +0000

Sounds like you only know teachers in Illinois.

New comment by perspective1 in "Seclusion and Isolation Rooms Misused in Illinois Schools"

perspective1 — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:26:44 +0000

> Eli, 7, was secluded more than a dozen times in kindergarten and nearly 50 times in first grade while attending The Center in East Moline, records show

What. the. fuck?

New comment by perspective1 in "Why is everyone a bank?"

perspective1 — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:39:04 +0000

I'm with you. You're contributing a thought piece and unobtrusively include a link to your bank at the bottom. It's not overtly biased, and it's neat you're getting attention for your banking app by, instead of describing it, simply saying you're doing something "interesting."

I think, by focusing on the $5000 emergency cash proposition, your customer segment will generate more costs and hassles than their debit card fees and whatever interest spread you eek out in today's world. You'need a way for your customers to generate more value-- what have you thought of? Ads?