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New comment by railsgirls112 in "STFU"

railsgirls112 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:19:54 +0000

I love this, thank you for sharing. I imagine that position gives you an exposure to humanity that many can't handle with that kind of grace and constitution. We surely need more people like him.

New comment by railsgirls112 in "Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?"

railsgirls112 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:03:47 +0000

How do you not unflag this? This is a historic moment with the whole country watching. Not separate from technology intellectual curiosity or the world. What does it say that this discussion is being suppressed?

New comment by railsgirls112 in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

railsgirls112 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:51:11 +0000

mind sharing some of your experience regarding emotional attachments / social groups?

Ask HN: Favorite Podcast of 2023?

railsgirls112 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:43:38 +0000

I'm a fan of Very bad Wizards[0] - A philosopher and a psychologist discussing their fields through pop culture.

[0] - https://verybadwizards.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571003

Points: 3

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New comment by railsgirls112 in "No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation"

railsgirls112 — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:13:13 +0000

>- Flavor

This is obviously not an objective metric of superiority.

>- Fills the stomach (can be a disadvantage too, but is advantageous in some situations, e.g. while waiting for dinner to be served at a party)

Also subjective, as you realize its inconveniences and give one positive use case. In my experience this bloat is largely uncomfortable and inconvenient.

>- Doesn't consume itself (i.e you can set down a drink and come back to it 30 minutes later)

This is only true if you leave something lit that is burning, something I doubt most would do on purpose

>- Easy to consume a small amount without substantially altering your mental state.

Sister comment addresses this well

>- No fire/burn risk

Valid concern, but there are many common ways to consume weed that don't carry that risk

>- Doesn't generate smoke/odor, which is unpleasant for other people and gets in your clothes/furniture

Same as above

Ironically I think the traditions and rituals around alcohol is the best thing it has going for it, on most "objective" measures weed is regarded superior.

New comment by railsgirls112 in "Without parental leave I might be dead"

railsgirls112 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:10:01 +0000

Climate disaster is a fundamentally global issue? I fail to see how this invalidates anything

New comment by railsgirls112 in "Will the rich world’s worker deficit last?"

railsgirls112 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:12:00 +0000

Eh, maybe at a senior dev 10x level. I'd wager that a large segment of the population is totally capable of writing relatively non complex code, given the training/resources that many software devs have (university, internships, online bootcamps, time for side projects). Just like I bet you could write a symphony in 4 years- It probably wouldn't be Mozart, but good enough to meet whatever time bomb requirements.

New comment by railsgirls112 in "38% of remote workers work from bed"

railsgirls112 — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:45:19 +0000

10% gain in productivity =/= 10% gain in compensation, most people already have a chair/desk so replacing their function does not automatically make it cheaper. Seems like you're doing more of a math problem instead of applying this to actual people.

The Myth of Panic

railsgirls112 — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:20:25 +0000

Article URL: https://palladiummag.com/2021/07/15/the-myth-of-panic/https://palladiummag.com/2021/07/15/the-myth-of-panic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27873110

Points: 2

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New comment by railsgirls112 in "Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market"

railsgirls112 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:36:25 +0000

Hasn't that been the case in places like NYC for a bit now? I remember reading about like single digit occupancy rates in massive luxury apts. I'd imagine that would have only increased but would love a check on my understanding.

New comment by railsgirls112 in "Crazy fast build times, or when 10 seconds starts to make you nervous (2012)"

railsgirls112 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:25:05 +0000

https://github.com/localstack/localstack

Is a pretty good testing framework that we use at my workplace for a dockerized microservice setup. Requires some config but has mocks for most of the big services (specifically RDS looks to be in their paid tier, but we get along w/ the free version just fine.)

New comment by railsgirls112 in "America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%"

railsgirls112 — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 04:07:03 +0000

> A few thousand software developers can and did obviate maybe million+ secretaries, travel agents, book sellers, retail middlemen, map makers, camera manufacturers, advertisers etc.

Your point isn't necessarily wrong, but it's worth pointing out how that came to be. Said software developers did not appear out of thin air, they were raised and educated by society and have inherited technology unprecedented in scale and influence. And this is only a development of the last 80 years or so. This probably calls for a reframing of how we think about individual economic value, at least in a distributive sense.

New comment by railsgirls112 in "Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths"

railsgirls112 — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:31:18 +0000

Good thing no younger adults in the western world are overworked and under rested ;)

New comment by railsgirls112 in "A Rocket Built by Students Reaches Space"

railsgirls112 — Thu, 23 May 2019 15:30:06 +0000

Thank you! I don't have exact figures handy but short answer no, not at this scale at least. Manufacturing, design, materials, safety etc. all easily runs in the tens of thousands of dollars. We are on a much tighter budget, but AFAIK USC has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single launch.

New comment by railsgirls112 in "A Rocket Built by Students Reaches Space"

railsgirls112 — Thu, 23 May 2019 13:58:20 +0000

This is similar to a project I've been a part of called Operation Space, the difference being we are students not backed by one single university or organization. We've been monitoring USC's progress for months and they have been a great source of motivation, especially being that they held the previous altitude record at 144,000 ft.

We are actually launching out of the same site in New Mexico in about a week and looking to break the Karman Line and hopefully this new milestone. Link for anyone interested: https://operationspace.org/