Hacker News: remote_phone

New comment by remote_phone in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf"

remote_phone — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 15:40:22 +0000

People create new content because they expect revenue from ads. Without ads, the entire content creation industry would die.

If you watch and enjoy YouTube in any capacity you should be ensuring that the creators get paid otherwise you’re robbing yourself of content.

New comment by remote_phone in "Winner’s Curse: Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid"

remote_phone — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:40:45 +0000

I have extensive experience bidding on eBay auctions, I probably engaged in 10 auctions a month for several years in a row.

The first few times I definitely encountered winners curse. But the real/only solution is having accurate price discovery and having a game plan. I will do research to find the current market value and bid in the bottom end of the range. If I miss it, the market is liquid enough such that I can try again and if i hit it, then I am happy because I got it for a low price.

On items with lower liquidity and availability I still need to be patient and disciplined with my bidding. This is the only way to do online auction bidding.

Oh and also sniping in the last 30 seconds.

New comment by remote_phone in "NYC Lost 100K Homes in Apartment-to-House Conversions"

remote_phone — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:47:31 +0000

The solution isn’t to celebrate how families need to live in tiny apartments. The solution is to expand new housing outside of the main areas into new developments, and create new business centers or allow for remote work.

New comment by remote_phone in "Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services"

remote_phone — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:22:40 +0000

I freaking love new ideas like this! This is the beauty of computer science, anything is possible if you’re smart enough and willing to work hard!

Better.com stock gets clobbered as it begins trading publicly down more than 93%

remote_phone — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:52:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90944558/better-stock-down-public-betr-nasdaq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253026

Points: 27

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New comment by remote_phone in "AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users"

remote_phone — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:09:35 +0000

The whole online ad industry is based on users honestly clicking on ads so that advertisers get some sort of feedback as to its effectiveness. If extensions are silently clicking on ads, it renders ad metrics and tracking completely irrelevant.

I love it.

New comment by remote_phone in "Study: Inflammation drives social media use"

remote_phone — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:43:17 +0000

I’m 100% sure this is one of those “joke” papers that show how bad pest-reviewed papers and journals are these days.

New comment by remote_phone in "So you want to learn physics (2021)"

remote_phone — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:42:54 +0000

In college, I was always the first one out of my friends to “get” a concept, like fast Fourier transforms, anything with signal processing or even coding or any labs we had to do etc so I would spend time teaching them in the library. However I never did any of the exercises, mostly due to laziness and not arrogance. They would get A’s and I would get C’s and D’s.

I emphasize this story to my kids because knowing isn’t important because everyone eventually figure it out. It’s the ones who can do the problems and get good marks that succeed in the end.

New comment by remote_phone in "X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014"

remote_phone — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:38:58 +0000

Does anyone honestly care? I can’t think of anything less important than any tweet that is more than a few days old. Literally trillions of tweets could be deleted and no one would care

New comment by remote_phone in "Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models"

remote_phone — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:59:21 +0000

What is zoom’s definition of End-to-end?

New comment by remote_phone in "Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom"

remote_phone — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:46:31 +0000

Who has authority to investigate the police department for this obvious corruption? Can anyone be held accountable?

New comment by remote_phone in "Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92"

remote_phone — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:42:00 +0000

Please provide sources for all of your claims.

New comment by remote_phone in "Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92"

remote_phone — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:41:17 +0000

A more recent and substantial study disproves that idea.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243788/

Workers with heavy exposure to asbestos have a similar risk of lung cancer as persons with low or no exposure 20 years after the exposure has ended.

New comment by remote_phone in "Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92"

remote_phone — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:54:01 +0000

> mesothelioma is very bad and does not require heavy, prolonged exposure — brief or low-level exposures have been linked to mesothelioma.

Link?

New comment by remote_phone in "Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92"

remote_phone — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:24:04 +0000

People with heavy, prolonged exposure to asbestos have up to 13% chance is getting cancer.

People with prolonged exposure to sawdust have a 16% chance of getting cancer.

Asbestos is dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as most people think.

New comment by remote_phone in "Harvard University encourages grad students to go on food stamps"

remote_phone — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:49:43 +0000

One of my friends told me at one of the FAANGs, some of the employees were openly asking on financial-planning internal mailing list in how to qualify their kids for financial aid or grants because they made too much.

New comment by remote_phone in "People who work from home spend their time ‘napping, doing DIY and having sex’"

remote_phone — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:53:58 +0000

Here comes the coordinated media campaign trying to tell us that WFH is not good for businesses…

I wonder how much corporations paid to get this article planted so that CEOs can point to it as the reason they want RTO?

New comment by remote_phone in "Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest"

remote_phone — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:02:00 +0000

It seems like signing up for globalization means having to accept consequences like this. You can’t bemoan when invasive species affects local ecosystems when you also allow unabated global transport with absolutely no security or inspection for diseases or insects etc.

You can’t be lazy with inspection and then be shocked when an extremely global eceonomy introduces Bark Beetles and decimate your trees. Either accept this outcome or spend more money at entry points or stop globalization with countries that don’t inspect their exports to avoid the situation completely.

New comment by remote_phone in "Uber posts first quarterly net profit"

remote_phone — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:44:39 +0000

Every Uber driver I’ve had in US and Canada are happy with driving for Uber. One guy I had the other day drives under as his second job and He says it pays his rent, his car payment and gas and his primary job goes straight to savings. The idea that these Uber drivers are slaves is a lie.

New comment by remote_phone in "Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis"

remote_phone — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 20:06:38 +0000

That doesn’t make sense, they can’t assume the lock is freed after the timeout. They have to retry to get the lock again, because another process might have taken the lock. Also, redis is single threaded so access to redis is by definition serialized.