Hacker News: rationalist

New comment by rationalist in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

rationalist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:59:01 +0000

I only received complaints from people with @proton addresses. Very few people use non-free email addresses.

New comment by rationalist in "30-year Treasury yield tops 5.31%, the highest in 19 years"

rationalist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:56:46 +0000

Please let me know when it's time to max out my credit cards to buy gold.

New comment by rationalist in "People are worried about America's solvency"

rationalist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:50:54 +0000

Probably unfunded liabilities, which are estimated to be somewhere between 80-200 trillion dollars.

New comment by rationalist in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

rationalist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:19:27 +0000

Running a relatively-small opt-in email list, I've had problems with deliverability to Proton.

New comment by rationalist in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

rationalist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:17:55 +0000

Maybe they're betting on new people always signing up and paying, but not using it much. Still a risky endeavor.

New comment by rationalist in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

rationalist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:15:27 +0000

When I made the switch from @Gmail to my own email domains hosted by Fastmail, I never had any problem changing the email on my 100+ accounts with various services.

That was about five years ago, I imagine it might have been more difficult in the past, say 10+ years ago.

New comment by rationalist in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

rationalist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:08:33 +0000

Then you can't use an actual VPN.

New comment by rationalist in "I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program"

rationalist — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:32:06 +0000

That's fine, but it's hard to transfer the knowledge in the store owner's head easily and at scale.

New comment by rationalist in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

rationalist — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:02:58 +0000

> No strings attached.

Except for the "have full network access" permission according to the Google Play Store.

New comment by rationalist in "New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner"

rationalist — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:57:41 +0000

"Does your phone have a passcode? What are you hiding? Can I look through your text messages?"

New comment by rationalist in "They Killed Old Reddit"

rationalist — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:57:17 +0000

Still works for me (not logged in).

New comment by rationalist in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

rationalist — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:06:58 +0000

I'm not a biblical scholar, but I think the "loving creator" thing was invented by people and not necessarily in the Bible. I'm pretty sure Old Testament God is pretty vengeful.

Theistic Evolution is wide-enough belief, especially with Protestants.

New comment by rationalist in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

rationalist — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:23:54 +0000

> I can't even use the cable to charge my phone when attached to a wall wart!

It sounds like maybe you have a defective cable? When I first used the cable, it didn't charge my phone until I made sure it was plugged in all the way.

New comment by rationalist in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

rationalist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:30:20 +0000

By chance, has anyone tested Cable Matters' cables?

I just bought a couple of their Thunderbolt™ 5 cables. They seem like a reputable company that would make their cables true-to-spec. Thanks in advance!

New comment by rationalist in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

rationalist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:07:03 +0000

I don't think parents should overshare pictures of their kids, but FYI, nudity does not automatically mean porn or abuse, even of children (which is legal in the U.S. as long as it is not sexual or focuses on genitals).

New comment by rationalist in "Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop"

rationalist — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:45:31 +0000

One of my plate numbers was reissued. I only found out when I went to renew the registration and they gave me a new plate and told me then. It was a shame because I liked that random combination of letters and numbers.

New comment by rationalist in "Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining…Police Pulled Up to Her School"

rationalist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:05:29 +0000

She should have watched the famous video, "Don't Talk to the Police" https://youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE (in addition to not writing a stupid message in the first place).

New comment by rationalist in "Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons?"

rationalist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:17:13 +0000

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New comment by rationalist in "ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children"

rationalist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:36:07 +0000

Source?

( > Evidence? )

New comment by rationalist in "Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons?"

rationalist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:06:03 +0000

Maybe, but you're probably being downvoted for posting an unhelpful comment. Perhaps you could instead share sources that prove the weapons-induced bubble.