<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: reddytowns</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reddytowns</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:49:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=reddytowns" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As thee declared so, it must be...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2017 05:17:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225167</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 97% claim is bullshit: <a href="https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/amp/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexeps...</a><p>I do believe that there is man made climate change, however, but this meme has to end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:38:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14223727</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14223727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14223727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While Gentoo supports systemd, by default it will still use init scripts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:16:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175430</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Show HN: GitMonKey – monitor your repos and commits for exposed private keys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was thinking of another strategy could be a git plugin that had a config file of salted hashed secrets. If someone tried to commit something with a secret, it could then stop it <i>before</i> it was leaked.<p>Of course, you'd need to collect all the secrets beforehand, but if you are willing to do that, it would seem to be a better solution.<p>I was thinking this and later I fell asleep and had this dream, where my girlfriend kept saying, "Hey... Hey... Hey..." over and over again. I woke up and it turns out there was a bird chirping every few seconds at the same interval.<p>Time is strange, though. I saw a star trek episode recently where there was time dilation on this particular planet. They were trying to beam out the occupants. It got me thinking, if I could beam out to a spaceship where, say every second on the spaceship was a year on planet earth, would I do it? I have this vague feeling of regret, like I'm missing all those moments on between on Earth while I'm there. I suppose I'd experience the same number of moments, spread out as they were, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:23:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156875</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no jury in family court, and as the article shows, child support wasn't waived. It's always justified by whatever is "in the best interest of the chilllldrrreeeenn"</p>
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<p>If most people ends up investing in strictly index funds, it would end up badly foe them but I don't see it by itself causing a destabilization. Just a lot of people making sub market profits. It would take a large amount of people doing fad based investing and switching all at once cause destabilization, such as what happened during the dot com bubble and the housing bubble.<p>If investing decisions get slower in general, then I think it would be a good thing. The number of company decisions made only for only the next quarter rather than long term profitability would be much less if it took time for people to switch the companies they invest in rather than doing so instantly, which would in turn make a more efficient and stable market.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:31:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147938</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The people shorting Twitter got together to buy a new yacht? Cool!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:43:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14137284</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14137284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14137284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Mary Anderson, a Founder of the Outdoor Cooperative REI, Dies at 107"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't follow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 07:07:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14113075</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14113075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14113075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Mary Anderson, a Founder of the Outdoor Cooperative REI, Dies at 107"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You've heard the song, "Dude looks like a lady", right? It would make the title a lot less impactful if this was generally accepted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:25:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14112854</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14112854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14112854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In other words, religion trumps modern medicine for mental illness. I agree, but I don't see this tribe's beliefs having a special status or better probability of success above any other religion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:48:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105472</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "The brain “doubles up” by simultaneously making two memories of events"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So? Human beings have the ability to make a huge impact on the environment, and therefore the value assigned by people to various outcomes and tradeoffs does matter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:16:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077834</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "The brain “doubles up” by simultaneously making two memories of events"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In both cases, the planet would carry on. It depends on your perspective as to which matters more, human intelligence and knowledge, or nature. I personally believe the former is more important than the latter, although that doesn't mean I don't value the latter as well.</p>
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<p>You shouldn't care about magic internet points. I wish I would have been able to read your comment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 12:52:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14059200</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14059200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14059200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How about open a wormhole in space time to travel back in time and fix things in the past? Both have about the same probability of happening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 12:48:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14059171</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14059171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14059171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "How I legally got scammed for $250 by an upscale apartment complex"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This isn't a scam. The author admits they had an actual reason for denying him. It was a mistake in his record and they charged an exorbitant processing fee, but there is nothing that shows they acted in bad faith.</p>
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<p>> Were you forced into having that child in the first place?<p>The victim of a rape had to play child support. So, he was forced into having a child.<p>In general, some men are forced into having children by women who lie about taking birth control, or even by collecting semen by used condoms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 11:21:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011596</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By complaining about WaPo, et al, you are guilty of "whataboutism" yourself.<p>Is the standard so low that we can't even mention that a non profit(?) organization devoted to releasing leaks of wrongdoing shouldn't be blatantly partisan?<p>Edit: I misread the last part of your comment about "whataboutism". Yet my question still applies, isn't it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:56:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14008106</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14008106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14008106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/02/statutory-rape-victim-child-support/14953965/" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/02/statuto...</a></p>
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<p>For people paying alimony and child support, you must work or go to jail. And buying cheap stuff goes along with that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:33:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13991608</link><dc:creator>reddytowns</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13991608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13991608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reddytowns in "Frogpocalypse Now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like taking a single step into the jungle would now be very dangerous.</p>
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