Hacker News: rippercushions

Open letter on Reddit API pricing changes and their impact on communities

rippercushions — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:55:43 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36159487

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by rippercushions in "Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespass"

rippercushions — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:34:11 +0000

If corner crossing is not possible, the value of his private property increases by the value of the notionally public land that's effectively exclusively his now. If corner crossing is allowed, then that value is stripped away and he "loses" millions.

Of course, this claim of damages collapses in a puff of logic when you point out that he never should have had exclusive access in the first place. Maybe he can sue the judge next?

New comment by rippercushions in "A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says"

rippercushions — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:56:47 +0000

Where do you see the previous poster bring racist? If anything, he is being anti-racist by calling out the structural inequity of medieval society.

Car Dealers and Electric Vehicles

rippercushions — Wed, 31 May 2023 23:20:41 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans-party-car-dealers-2024-desantis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36145802

Points: 12

# Comments: 4

New comment by rippercushions in "A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store"

rippercushions — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:55:51 +0000

Was quite surprised to visit one recently only to be greeted by a full shelf of Faygo Redpop. Juggalo nostalgia!

New comment by rippercushions in "The metaverse was never alive in the first place"

rippercushions — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:21:11 +0000

Immersion is pretty much the point of VR, and until Elon's Neuralink gets their shit together (not holding my breath) VR headsets are the least bad option we have.

New comment by rippercushions in "Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for"

rippercushions — Mon, 29 May 2023 23:06:48 +0000

The street resale value of a stolen $1000 phone is far less than the value of $1000 in stolen cash.

New comment by rippercushions in "Software bugs that cause real-world harm"

rippercushions — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:30:33 +0000

The Baltic Sea is cold and too low in salt for sea worms, so wooden wrecks survive much longer than anywhere else in the world.

New comment by rippercushions in "Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA"

rippercushions — Mon, 29 May 2023 07:40:36 +0000

For better or worse, the term "GA" is used by all cloud providers.

New comment by rippercushions in "Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System"

rippercushions — Mon, 29 May 2023 00:07:53 +0000

Gotta say the irony is strong with a private equity firm called Ethical Capital Partners acquiring porn company MindGeek. I wonder who's fucking who the hardest?

New comment by rippercushions in "Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System"

rippercushions — Mon, 29 May 2023 00:05:42 +0000

> Americans seem to be kindly, trusting and helpful towards members of their own sub-group, and quite the contrary to those they deem "lesser" in status - the poor, the disabled, people of color.

As a European, I can assure you we share these traits. Try asking one how they feel about local Romani, African or Syrian refugees, foreign beggars, etc.

New comment by rippercushions in "Venetians are pondering raising their entire city"

rippercushions — Sun, 28 May 2023 11:06:46 +0000

They're building a showcase city a thousand kilometers away in a different island as the new capital, but they're not relocating the 20+ million who live in Jakarta.

New comment by rippercushions in "Venetians are pondering raising their entire city"

rippercushions — Sun, 28 May 2023 11:04:45 +0000

Only around 50,000 of them live in the old bit we think of us as Venice, and the number is dropping steadily. The rest live on the mainland (Mestre).

New comment by rippercushions in "Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2014)"

rippercushions — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:23:29 +0000

It was first published by the New Yorker and it's available online:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

New comment by rippercushions in "Couple May Need to Pay $250k to Have Banksy Mural Removed from Their Home"

rippercushions — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:18:35 +0000

250k to rip the entire side of a building off cleanly: https://archive.is/A1IGF

New comment by rippercushions in "No_color"

rippercushions — Sun, 28 May 2023 00:44:10 +0000

Where's the fun in that? Use NO_FOO=enable,disable to maximize ambiguity.

New comment by rippercushions in "Biosphere 2"

rippercushions — Sat, 27 May 2023 01:37:18 +0000

Per the article, the margin was negative, they could only produce 86% of dietary needs.

New comment by rippercushions in "Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953)"

rippercushions — Sat, 27 May 2023 01:27:41 +0000

This applies widely in software engineering: for example, the yawning gulf between the merits of microservices with Kubernetes and Istio on paper and in practice.

New comment by rippercushions in "What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups"

rippercushions — Fri, 26 May 2023 23:01:52 +0000

There is a huge difference between a leadership-endorsed strategy memo like the Nokia/Elop "Burning Platform" memo (1), and a memo by a random engineer like Steve Yegge's Platform rant (2).

Random engineer memos can certainly still be influential, but they do not dictate company direction.

(1) https://www.engadget.com/2011-02-08-nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-r...

(2) https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023

rippercushions — Fri, 26 May 2023 03:08:46 +0000

Article URL: https://thedriven.io/2023/05/26/tesla-model-y-overtakes-corolla-to-be-worlds-best-selling-car-in-2023/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36079317

Points: 382

# Comments: 622