Hacker News: ryanx435

New comment by ryanx435 in "Scorching Summer in Europe Signals Long-Term Climate Changes"

ryanx435 — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:32:13 +0000

Too bad. the environmentalists know better than you and lettuce is killing the planet.

New comment by ryanx435 in "You don’t need standups"

ryanx435 — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 21:05:01 +0000

Sometimes the goal is to slow down work. For example, if your budget is for a year but the project only takes 6 months, sometimes people add extra hurdles that look good to outsiders but slow down work enough so they get paid for the full time.

If a project ends 6 months early it's entirely possible to not get paid as much.

New comment by ryanx435 in "How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind"

ryanx435 — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:41:24 +0000

so if I'm an engaged and interested parent, and I want my child to succeed, looks like charter schools are the correct answer about where to send my kids.

New comment by ryanx435 in "How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind"

ryanx435 — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:32:17 +0000

> Charter schools have inflated performance metrics. Often charter schools don't serve special needs students. More than that, charter schools bias towards engaged and interested parents. Because of policies like No Child Left Behind, it is really bad for local neighborhood schools to have all of their high performing students leave for charter schools.

Thats an interesting way of saying that charter schools get better results.

New comment by ryanx435 in "Apple Reports Third Quarter Results"

ryanx435 — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:50:32 +0000

there have been about a dozen new hires at my work, each of them getting a new mac book and accessories to develop on.

multiply that by all of the new hires across the country and some of the lowest unemployment numbers in years and you've got a good set up for apple's hardware division to make a ton of sales last quarter.

...

but unfortunately, looking at their data, it looks like I was wrong: unit sales for macs fell by 13% compared to last year, and 9% compared to last quarter.

interesting.

Edit: downvotes because I made a prediction before looking at the reports then acknowledged I was wrong and didn't delete my post. Cool.

New comment by ryanx435 in "Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship? (2017)"

ryanx435 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:46:57 +0000

From an outsiders perspective, this seems like a false distinction that you are using to rationalize your failure to get government contracts.

New comment by ryanx435 in "Can They Make Government Jobs as Cool as Google and Goldman?"

ryanx435 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:12:13 +0000

I have a standard 9-5. The trick to leaving at 230 is to start at 6.

New comment by ryanx435 in "A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"

ryanx435 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:01:28 +0000

Funny how literature suddenly needs to be "rigorous, objective, scientific" when it criticizes communism, even though it's a first hand account written by a political prisoner.

Keep believing that propaganda.

New comment by ryanx435 in "Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion"

ryanx435 — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:45:59 +0000

Would you rather we have wars were America doesn't have a significant advantage?

Maybe like the civil war, where both sides were equal and 750,000 Americans died?

Or WW2, fighting against an arguably better Nazi and Japanese military killed 400,000 Americans?

Or WW1, where the stalemate between both sides led to 120,000 american deaths?

You must be right because all those american deaths are preferable to only 2,000 americans who died in the wars in Afghanistan.

/s obviously

New comment by ryanx435 in "A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"

ryanx435 — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 22:25:56 +0000

his best and most important work is the Gulag Archipelago[0] and everyone should read it. Its an eye opener that shows how life under communism really is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

New comment by ryanx435 in "Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion"

ryanx435 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:36:01 +0000

military deaths are historically low because of how much better the american military is than our opponents.

the american military is better because of the technology we have.

The technology we have is because of DARPA spending over the last 80 years.

do you see the flaw in your logic?

New comment by ryanx435 in "Tariffs China imposes on every country"

ryanx435 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:52:34 +0000

Trump's not "picking fights", he's getting multiple bids. The American economy is open for business to those willing to give a better deal.

It is literally the same concept as attempting to get as many offers when you sell a house so you can sell to the highest bidder.

New comment by ryanx435 in "Imagining Sex Redistribution"

ryanx435 — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:42:20 +0000

We don't live in a monogamous society any longer. Divorce and cheating is absolutely rampant.

New comment by ryanx435 in "Imagining Sex Redistribution"

ryanx435 — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:39:46 +0000

No. If someone isn't good enough to find a mate, I don't want their genetics in the next generation.

Evolution made us the best species in the history of the galaxy. Let's not fuck it up now because some loser can't get laid.

New comment by ryanx435 in "The Power of Positive People"

ryanx435 — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:06:48 +0000

why do i even bother with HN comments?

OP: "gives an anecdote about how the article is wrong or incomplete"

REPLY: "gives an anecdote about how the OP is wrong or incomplete"

REPLY-REPLY: "gives an anecdote about how the REPLY is wrong or incomplete"

repeat adnauseum on every comment chain for ever and ever.

New comment by ryanx435 in "Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems"

ryanx435 — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:04:03 +0000

How do you pronounce /e/?

"Slashy-slash"?

New comment by ryanx435 in "Ask HN: What steps can I take to earn $250K+?"

ryanx435 — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:51:36 +0000

RSU is "restricted stock unit"?

so basically you get equity worth 250k. But what is the actual take home pay amount?

New comment by ryanx435 in "Major League Baseball tickets are going biometric in 2019"

ryanx435 — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:35:43 +0000

This won't go over well with companies that pay for the suites as it introduces a huge hassle when inviting clients to ballgames.

"Hey, thanks for doing business with us! Come to a ball game at our company suite, free! We just need your finger print and a scan of your face!"

New comment by ryanx435 in "A California mall operator is sharing license plate tracking data with ICE"

ryanx435 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:35:04 +0000

They are both places to buy goods and services, not really much of a difference tbh.

New comment by ryanx435 in "A man who paves India's roads with old plastic"

ryanx435 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:16:36 +0000

from the article:

To environmentalists who believe that the technology could be harmful because of toxic fumes from plastic residue, Dr Vasudevan points out that the plastic used is softened at 170C. “Plastic decomposes to release toxic fumes only if it is heated at temperatures above 270C (518F). So there is no question of toxic gases being released,” he says. Since plastic coats the stone and interacts with the hot bitumen, it’s properties change and it doesn’t break down when exposed to light and heat.