Hacker News: prolikewh0a

New comment by prolikewh0a in "The Sounds That Haunted US Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say"

prolikewh0a — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 14:59:58 +0000

It is. It's nothing but anti-Cuba propaganda. Business as usual for US & Cuba relations.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire"

prolikewh0a — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 18:21:27 +0000

>Is this society’s fault that employees don’t contribute to their 401(k)s until they are in their thirties?

I didn't have the opportunity or even know what a 401k was except at a high level until I was 26 in my first 'big job'. I'm 28 and still haven't put any money into it because I cannot afford to in a corporate IT position. I'm still trying to pay down my health insurance deductible so I can get my medications. How can I ever retire? At this point, I'm going to work until I die.

Not sure how this is my fault when I'm educated and work 45 hours per week and am away from home for 60 when adding in my commute.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"

prolikewh0a — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:49:37 +0000

This honestly seems to be an issue with what my personal opinions are about certain topics. I do not "flame bait", I am serious in my positions and don't seek any type of nefarious response. I don't see how pointing out that nobody bats an eye when Google does what China does is "flamebait", it's just an observation. Other links were benign in nature or then sourced as factual right below 'mod' comments.

Thanks.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate"

prolikewh0a — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:35:16 +0000

This is mainly due to the drug epidemics isn't it?

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"

prolikewh0a — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:32:51 +0000

Can you point me to the requests to stop? I've seen exactly one, a long time ago. I'm not personally attacking people, and I do contribute here with a positive upvote score. I don't see the issue.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project"

prolikewh0a — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:39:42 +0000

Maybe if the workers had a say instead of only unlimited desire for large sums of capital and power having a say, Google would be in a more trustworthy, ethical, & moral place.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"

prolikewh0a — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:17:10 +0000

bUt bUt...ChInA dOeS iP tHeFt

New comment by prolikewh0a in "There Is Gas Under the Tundra"

prolikewh0a — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:11:42 +0000

Nearly impossible to change the global capitalism & imperialism we're currently in. We're going to die.

Edit: people flagging valid & non-harmful opinions just because you don't like them needs to stop.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Amazon Starts Selling Software to Mine Patient Health Records"

prolikewh0a — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:30:29 +0000

Amazon will soon. HIPAA will be ignored, broken, spit on. There will be no opt out or privacy. I guarantee it.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Huawei: NZ bars Chinese firm on national security fears"

prolikewh0a — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:20:23 +0000

>Filling our landfills full of disposable products?

This is rampant capitalistic consumerism, nothing to do with China.

>Copying our IP?

Doesn't really matter. Who do IP's benefit? Not the consumer, only the already super wealthy. Hint: the very large majority of the world is not wealthy.

Taxes went up on products from Aliexpress. Shipping from China to USA is much more efficient than the other way around.

When I'm subsidizing health insurance, food stamps, and medicare on Walmart, Amazon, Starbucks, etc, to put billions more in Bezos pocket, I could care less about something that actually benefits lower income people with affordable products that would be well out of reach in USA. Raise wages and people who were using Aliexpress will start buying domestic.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Huawei: NZ bars Chinese firm on national security fears"

prolikewh0a — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:13:59 +0000

There's one example, the Nortel IP theft. I'm surprised it wasn't the first comment like every story on Huawei. The world trusts devices that come out of USA even though there is hard evidence of the NSA physically rooting devices with their own malware, but wont trust Huawei.

This is entirely trade propaganda at the behest of large cellular RF equipment manufacturers, and device manufacturers.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly"

prolikewh0a — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:42:26 +0000

I also feel like they've changed search so much for profit purposes that it's impossible to find certain things without receiving pages of irrelevance. I've been using Google since the early 2000's and it's so easy to tell Search has dropped in quality. Certain words & phrases I know would produce legitimate useful search results in 2008 will now just pull pages of unrelated ads.

It's still the best, but the profit motive is harming the amazing work that Google once did.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Farm bankruptcies on the rise according to new Fed report"

prolikewh0a — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:38:09 +0000

>I'm worried the future will be a small handful of oligopolist mega-corps.

I think we're already here, or closer than a lot of people realize.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "US asks allies to avoid Huawei"

prolikewh0a — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:17:36 +0000

Exactly.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Have Tech Perks Gone Too Far?"

prolikewh0a — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:18:23 +0000

Employee perks can never go too far. Anything that helps an employee feel more comfortable in their working environment is a plus and will contribute to creativity & productivity.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy"

prolikewh0a — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:26:11 +0000

As a transgender person I mostly agree with this article. Since starting Hormone Replacement Therapy I did have major improvements in life. I started dating, I started making friends, I felt emotions, I cried, my skin was soft and my face was with cute pink cheeks, my body hair almost entirely stopped growing; I felt like I was heading in the right direction, felt a sense of some comfort, and it relieved a lot of symptoms for me. I was being called 'she', 'miss', 'ma'am' and it made me happy and greatly improved my quality of life. I'm not sure how this couldn't be considered treatment, or even compared to a therapist handing a suicidal patient a razor to just end it now. While it may not work for everyone, it does work for some. We give anti-depressants to people which have the side effect of possibly creating more suicidal thoughts and not working on most people, but that's perfectly fine? Hormones are not a death causing drug.

I'm now off of them due to not being able to afford my health insurance deductible and I feel like an absolute mess of a human being again. I feel the dysphoria. The only emotions I feel now are anger and crippling depression. I criticize everything about me and feel like I'm falling down a hole again. I feel like my life is over again.

Edit: Why the downvotes? D:

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?"

prolikewh0a — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:59:48 +0000

I somehow managed to get my _entire_ friend circle and family on Signal. I feel like I should get some kind of bronze life achievement unlock :D.

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?"

prolikewh0a — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:54:57 +0000

Do you have any sources for the VIP claim?

New comment by prolikewh0a in "Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?"

prolikewh0a — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:53:20 +0000

Are you really leaving Facebook at that point though? They're still collecting every bit of text you send to serve you ads and sell your data. If your friends will only message you on FB messenger, are they really that great of friends?

New comment by prolikewh0a in "The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?"

prolikewh0a — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 16:02:05 +0000

This could've been a tweet: It makes profit and requires no change to the current system.