Hacker News: rhexs

New comment by rhexs in "‘Return to the office’ rhetoric needs to end"

rhexs — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:40:57 +0000

No one is owed a remote job. Unfortunately, if you work for the state, it is highly likely you don't have the skills and leverage to force the issue as most of the positions are just supporting some sort of bureaucracy and fundamentally have to exist because a lobbyist at one point got a law passed. State jobs, like it or not, are often effectively just political appointments.

Also keep in mind that you can't fire or terminate anyone, ever, in the state, so there's also a chance leadership feels this is the first time they can turnover roles that aren't doing much or meeting their goals. That's a very rare opportunity. If you think "rest-and-vest" is bad in tech, you ain't seen anything when it comes to government. Imagine jobs where no one has accomplished anything in a decade or more.

Of course you immediately jump to some sort of conspiracy though.

New comment by rhexs in "Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)"

rhexs — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:48:01 +0000

How many immigrants do you think grew up the same way? Hint: almost none, as the United States is the only country that enshrines true freedom of speech as an unalienable and fundamental right.

This is probably considered "hate-speech" in this day and age, but immigration, shockingly, has cons as well.

New comment by rhexs in "Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)"

rhexs — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:42:55 +0000

Protect them from what? I assume you're presupposing that "free speech is dangerous" here?

New comment by rhexs in "Bouncer – Private SMS Blocker"

rhexs — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:40:20 +0000

If the actor deployed a 0-day through the update, yes, absolutely, but that goes for any app.

New comment by rhexs in "Should you delete your Patreon account after they laid off their security team?"

rhexs — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:59:21 +0000

It really depends on what the security team was doing. Saying they fired the security team sounds like bad PR, but who knows. Maybe they were just running scanners and couldn't prove value to a VP.

New comment by rhexs in "AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)"

rhexs — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:19:09 +0000

See an audiologist and ask what they think about the volume limit.

New comment by rhexs in "We need to move water from Midwest west. Let's get on with it."

rhexs — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 02:52:16 +0000

Jesus, California and Nevada draining the "flyover" states? Can't get much more dystopian than that.

How about this -- build some desalination plants on the vast Californian coast. Nevada and Arizona can pitch in and share.

New comment by rhexs in "US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia"

rhexs — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:05:31 +0000

That would lower a stock that’s the backbone of every pension and retirement plan in the US.

Not going to happen.

New comment by rhexs in "Denver Startup Week Is Coming Up in September"

rhexs — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:04:22 +0000

The whole front range area was pretty incredible pre-marijuana legalization. Definitely changed since then. Your friends are right, Californians have been flooding in for a decade plus in greater and greater numbers, and unsurprisingly they bring the same issues they tried to leave behind. Before, that was mostly contained to the Boulder bubble. (homeless issues, loud yet empty activism, blue-no-matter-who, nimby policies, you know the drill).

Sure, Denver has more of a night life now and fancier restaurants I guess?

So it goes.

New comment by rhexs in "Smartphones are disrupting the crucial connections between parents and babies"

rhexs — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:27:48 +0000

You missed the key part about women joining the workforce in the 70s.

New comment by rhexs in "Some Authy 2FA accounts were compromised in Twilio data breach"

rhexs — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 23:18:34 +0000

I use Microsoft because they tend to have a good security development lifecycle.

New comment by rhexs in "When private equity takes over a nursing home"

rhexs — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:05:38 +0000

Damn, with nepotism like this I need to convert and start going to temple. Holy smokes.

New comment by rhexs in "Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies"

rhexs — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:59:29 +0000

From Wikipedia: “He was the most prominent member of the high-profile hacker think tank the L0pht.”

That’s quite a generous take. There were plenty of excellent hackers in the 90s, but “L0pht” just seemed like the PR friendly one that could go on good morning America.

Can’t tell if this is real or just a 90s security person trying to stay relevant after being fired.

New comment by rhexs in "Nobody wants to teach anymore"

rhexs — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 21:54:50 +0000

Or perhaps if we had the demographics of Norway our schools would be vastly better in every single category except “diversity”.

Like it or not students are not born genetically equal. Throw in poverty and lack of effective parenting and there’s no hope that endless funding will somehow fix that situation.

New comment by rhexs in "FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available"

rhexs — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 05:17:07 +0000

1-800-Contacts will auto-renew your existing prescription in some states via a eye exam you can do on your phone. I think optometrists consistently sue them over that sort of tech to try to keep their useless glasses monopoly in an era where they really don't need to exist anymore.

Else order from Canada or the UK. Still cheaper to get a new exam at Costco in most cases.

New comment by rhexs in "Gen Z have 86% less purchasing power compared to baby boomers in their twenties"

rhexs — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:05:02 +0000

Is the eye chart in kanji? That’d be tough to translate.

New comment by rhexs in "Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination"

rhexs — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:43:08 +0000

A Native American group? I mean damn, that’s gotta be so rare I’d almost support it.

Or did you mean an American company hiring Americans? That’d be pretty rare too.

New comment by rhexs in "Gen Z have 86% less purchasing power compared to baby boomers in their twenties"

rhexs — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:48:12 +0000

Might be tricky if you don’t speak Japanese though. Do they have multilingual optometrists that cater to tourists? I suppose Tokyo is big enough you can probably find one of anything.

New comment by rhexs in "Is sending Mississippi water to West feasible?"

rhexs — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 14:42:31 +0000

Let’s genocide thousands of species so California can grow almonds.

New comment by rhexs in "[dead]"

rhexs — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:50:00 +0000

This reminds me of the time I went to the Penzys Spice blog, found pages and pages of insane ramblings, thought they were hacked and was about to reach out to them, then realized the CEO was just crazy.