Hacker News: reagency

New comment by reagency in "The Advertising Bubble"

reagency — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 04:04:45 +0000

Who buys Coke only twice per year?

New comment by reagency in "The Advertising Bubble"

reagency — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:55:43 +0000

Do you really need a lov sac? More than any other beanbag chair or alternate seating?

Or did the ad nudge you toward the conclusion that it is right for you, before you got over it and forgot?

Are you sure?

New comment by reagency in "The Advertising Bubble"

reagency — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:46:44 +0000

There is literally billions of dollars begging someone to figure out how, and plenty of contenders trying.

New comment by reagency in "The Advertising Bubble"

reagency — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:28:03 +0000

Maybe there is a whole human culture of consumption and it isn't the advertisers fault that humans are greedy. No need to play the victim card all the time.

New comment by reagency in "Anne Frank’s Diary Gains ‘Co-Author’ in Copyright Move"

reagency — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:25:46 +0000

Did MLK say he wanted it freely redistributed? He delivered the speech publicly. Where does the MLK estate's money go to? Does it go to his heirs, or to the foundation activities?

New comment by reagency in "What does it feel like to be fired from Google?"

reagency — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:02:28 +0000

That statement means nothing, without defining what "resources" means and without saying whatever you are trying to insinuate.

New comment by reagency in "Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty"

reagency — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:52:24 +0000

How very not Black of you.

New comment by reagency in "Researchers determine how many years of life you lose to a stressful job"

reagency — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:27:36 +0000

WaPo has descended deep into clickbait headlines. I can't remember the last time HN hosted a legitimate headline from WaPo.

New comment by reagency in "Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]"

reagency — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:25:54 +0000

Title is false. This is not autopilot.

New comment by reagency in "Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]"

reagency — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:24:45 +0000

The stopped driver was obeying the law by not blocking an intersection. The turning driver ignored the second lane of traffic when making its turn.

New comment by reagency in "Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]"

reagency — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:21:51 +0000

My uncle died from this. Walked past a stopped car, got hit in the next lane.

New comment by reagency in "Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]"

reagency — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 01:17:09 +0000

Jaywalking law, including its ridiculous name , was pushed through by the auto lobby in a power grab for auto manufacturers.

New comment by reagency in "Teen Who Hacked CIA Director’s Email Tells How He Did It"

reagency — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 20:09:22 +0000

I prefer an incompetent adversary over a competent one.

New comment by reagency in "OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English"

reagency — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:42:25 +0000

I think the MPEG-LA $ license is about distributing encoded videos that the viewer decodes. If YouTube transcodes, you aren't distributing encoded videos to anyone , except maybe YouTube itself, for one play.

But I could be mistaken, I haven't checked carefully.

New comment by reagency in "The road from atheism"

reagency — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:39:04 +0000

The article takes a different tenor when you consider that is not a story about how the author came to logically prove that theism is more likely than atheism, but it is about how the author come to feel that being a theist is a better life than being atheist. Religion is a powerful idea, not because it is true (that cannot be proven) but because in its best form it is psychologically extremely useful.

New comment by reagency in "You Can Now Use Federal Money to Pay for Unaccredited Coding Boot Camps"

reagency — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:30:41 +0000

The question isn't bootcamp vs STEM Bachelors. It is STEM bootcsmp vs English Bachelors or No Bachelors.

Boot camp is essentially equivalent to one good semester of college. The most calale first-year college students are ready for a internship, not professional programming job.

New comment by reagency in "Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (1996) [pdf]"

reagency — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:27:08 +0000

Spinning up more VMs costs more. That was a bigger issue in 1996 than now, but still an issue for large deployments.

New comment by reagency in "Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (1996) [pdf]"

reagency — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:24:36 +0000

Kernel hacking was always arcane, the original greybeard wizard stereotype. With the modern Internet community it became more accessible. At the same time, a million JS webdevs ALSO appeared to work on the big was.

New comment by reagency in "OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English"

reagency — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:12:39 +0000

There is no single source of truth. Every court case creates a new version of kaw, called case law.

New comment by reagency in "OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English"

reagency — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:09:36 +0000

Does YouTube pay the license fee for YouTube viewer? I would expect so.