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New comment by quietmonkey in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

quietmonkey — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:06:21 +0000

There is not an unlimited supply of unpatriotic people, no.

New comment by quietmonkey in "US troops are reportedly being targeted using location data, Pentagon says"

quietmonkey — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:03:42 +0000

Nietzsche: "the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself"

New comment by quietmonkey in "Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time"

quietmonkey — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:19:38 +0000

Why do you assume it’s political? Child pornography is, at least ostensibly, not a partisan issue.

New comment by quietmonkey in "Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?"

quietmonkey — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:29:32 +0000

Why would a company that is filtering resumes based on whether there’s a gap be worthy of trust?

New comment by quietmonkey in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

quietmonkey — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:32:27 +0000

Perhaps a good starting point would be whatever the complete opposite of this is: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/nyregion/cuomo-blau-donor...

New comment by quietmonkey in "Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea"

quietmonkey — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:25:31 +0000

What would that look like? It's hard to imagine putting the genie back in the bottle with any technology, let alone the personal computer which has been in circulation for decades.

New comment by quietmonkey in "Life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row"

quietmonkey — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 06:22:34 +0000

Even if you are drug-free now, you could have a procedure in couple years and become addicted to opioids during recovery. Many people who are suffering from the opioid epidemic were prescribed these drugs.

New comment by quietmonkey in "In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”"

quietmonkey — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:42:04 +0000

Isn't Disney pretty much the same thing as SeaWorld these days?

New comment by quietmonkey in "A Silicon Valley Train Gets Stuck"

quietmonkey — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:14:12 +0000

The Bay Area would have its money better spent on electric buses anyway. Has anyone breathed while walking down the road in SF?

New comment by quietmonkey in "'Very, very pink' tap water in Alberta town"

quietmonkey — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 05:56:47 +0000

Or just... education?

New comment by quietmonkey in "Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare"

quietmonkey — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 01:05:54 +0000

Yeah, that's pretty much what taxes are for. Funding the government which is what keeps us in line and keeps us from acting like the apes that we are. Part of not being apes is supporting people who won the life-disaster-lottery (which, if you think about it, could be you in 1 year).