Hacker News: rijoja

New comment by rijoja in "Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?"

rijoja — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:32:19 +0000

yes

New comment by rijoja in "Starmer considers Australian-style ban on social media"

rijoja — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:31:22 +0000

Well they don't cut together clips to make it sound like people say something completely different like the BBC does, so they are way more dependable in that sense. But that's sort of like comparing them to Pravda so the bar isn't set very high.

They really don't claim to be anything else than conservative either, and them being conservative doesn't logically make it wrong either does it?

Twitter is really bad for the Labour party because it allows young people to hear dissenting views and criticism that you won't see in large parts of the media.

Labour politicians has done some shocking and outrageous things recently, and are doing terrible in recent polls, most likely because people can go on Twitter and Tiktok and get hear criticism of them.

New comment by rijoja in "How Money Is Born Out of Public Spending and Dies by Taxes (2023)"

rijoja — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:32:48 +0000

MMT or Magical Money Tree

New comment by rijoja in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

rijoja — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:16:07 +0000

Don't ask them on the internet because they'll be put in prison if they complain online!!!

New comment by rijoja in "[dead]"

rijoja — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:49:01 +0000

Epstein dealt in arms as well didn't he so that's a bit of a let down as well.

New comment by rijoja in "Ask HN: Why Does Ruby Get So Much Hate on HN?"

rijoja — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:46:47 +0000

I don't think it receives very much hate.

New comment by rijoja in "The Leftist Tactic of Labeling Opponents as Nazis or Fascists"

rijoja — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:10:53 +0000

The Nazi doth protest too much?

New comment by rijoja in "The Leftist Tactic of Labeling Opponents as Nazis or Fascists"

rijoja — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:00:17 +0000

Masterful display of someone refuting an argument in a logical in eloquent way, whilst addressing all the points in the article, thank you. The internet is much better after that comment was posted.

edit grammar

New comment by rijoja in "The Leftist Tactic of Labeling Opponents as Nazis or Fascists"

rijoja — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:58:01 +0000

Would you like it if people started calling you fascist? Honestly?

New comment by rijoja in "The Leftist Tactic of Labeling Opponents as Nazis or Fascists"

rijoja — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:56:49 +0000

Well the accusation was that he would have been born in Kenya, which you may want to research a bit further. The birth certificate he presented was reviewed by two independent people, and both came to the same conclusion which was ...

also: ISIS did nothing wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_beheadings

nothing to see here...

New comment by rijoja in "Be Like Clippy"

rijoja — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:31:09 +0000

yes obviously it's clippy because everyone hated clippy that is the point

the idea is that when your CEO goes on slack or teams or whatever and see 100 clippies they'll be "oh wow, nobody likes how we earn our dollar."

or the very least people who are concerned about surveillance will know who is on their team!

so just do it

I'm serious

New comment by rijoja in "Why Hacker News UI still look like 90s?"

rijoja — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:20:00 +0000

leave then

New comment by rijoja in "Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban"

rijoja — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:21:49 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by rijoja in "[dead]"

rijoja — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 05:52:45 +0000

mm Australia isn't one person so it can't say "no thanks" to anything. Could you please refrain from trying to astroturf your political views on Hacker News so that it can remain a good source of information for computer news?

New comment by rijoja in "Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign"

rijoja — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:52:13 +0000

Surely you are still allowed to raise criticism about a CEO even though the Justice Department closed one case?

New comment by rijoja in "I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk's AI girlfriend"

rijoja — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:11:25 +0000

Do we really want to see links like this on HN?

New comment by rijoja in "Musk says his new AI model 'better than PhD level in everything'"

rijoja — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:48:50 +0000

There's a problem with incentives here probably, if universities get paid for the amount of people they crank out, this sounds like a natural consequence, doesn't it?

New comment by rijoja in "Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI?"

rijoja — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:27:26 +0000

that's the joke :D

New comment by rijoja in "Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI?"

rijoja — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:18:43 +0000

> Why is the code like that? How are people likely to use an API? How does code change over time? How can we work effectively on a codebase that's too big for any single person to understand? How can we steer the direction of a codebase over a long timescale when it's constantly changing every day?

At which point you are studying project management theory, or whatever you call it

New comment by rijoja in "Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI?"

rijoja — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:08:56 +0000

Yes that is very true but social science is more of a social practice than computer science

If you run your organization badly, you'll run into problems sooner, than if you are in social science, where you just have to say all the buzzwords and they'll just rubberstamp you true

If you are arguing that my point is that computer science would be 100% falsifiable and social science is 0% falsifiable then you're argument is a bit of a straw man