Hacker News: sabbaticaldev

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "As drugstores close, older people are left in 'pharmacy deserts'"

sabbaticaldev — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:55:21 +0000

Those same 5 meds are probably free in most EU countries and even some south american ones. It could also be given for free in the US at a fraction of the total spending but that would impact the GDP too much.

From zero to 25usd/month is a huge difference

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

sabbaticaldev — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:32:05 +0000

it is a global community, not everyone here drank the western kool aid

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

sabbaticaldev — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:27:53 +0000

it’s more like imaginary scenarios still need to face field reality

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Would you pay $19 for this Mac menubar app?"

sabbaticaldev — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:58:47 +0000

no, I won’t, that would be a waste of money

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "As drugstores close, older people are left in 'pharmacy deserts'"

sabbaticaldev — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:47:09 +0000

those market forces made the US have the most expensive meds

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Why eating less slows ageing: this molecule is key"

sabbaticaldev — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:00:53 +0000

If I don’t eat breakfast I won’t snack or be hungry until 5pm so the slogan isn’t a oversimplification, it’s marketing

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway"

sabbaticaldev — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:33:54 +0000

the fact that other companies succeeded doesn’t have much to do with the many that failed with terrible assumptions

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp"

sabbaticaldev — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:30:43 +0000

Probably done by the same NSO Group. But for US americans they are the good criminals, the chosen criminals

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "The Year of McDonald's"

sabbaticaldev — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:44:21 +0000

my friend, people just recently died for eating mcdonalds.

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Inside the university AI cheating crisis"

sabbaticaldev — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:46:41 +0000

> Essays are only ever used in an academic context. No-one outside of academia writes an essay.

ooh-a for the new way to write outrageous essays so to engage people.

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Inside the university AI cheating crisis"

sabbaticaldev — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:44:13 +0000

For what’s worth (for you) the results would be the same if it identified all of them as plagiarism

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'"

sabbaticaldev — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:23:38 +0000

> that we assume that employers should care more about employees

you find your fantasies fascinating, great.

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Waymo – Avoiding a Falling Skateboarder"

sabbaticaldev — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:12:14 +0000

wow. Liabilities

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]"

sabbaticaldev — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:01:44 +0000

so you want the title to be one man dev team which is composed by one woman? this is conservative wokeness

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]"

sabbaticaldev — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:59:57 +0000

it does make it story more interesting tho

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn"

sabbaticaldev — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:05:38 +0000

Argentina, Brazil. although they say brazil is just a few days away of developing a nuclear bomb if it decides to. It would not be able to throw it anywhere useful tho at maximum south american neighbors

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Multilspy: Building a common LSP client handtuned for all Language servers"

sabbaticaldev — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:00:43 +0000

> Did you write this with a LLM?

You compressed your intelligence too much here.

“Intelligence is compressing information into irreducible representation.”

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'"

sabbaticaldev — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:49:11 +0000

Then when these guys get shot there will be posts complaining

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "Germany government collapses at a perilous time for Europe"

sabbaticaldev — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:34:48 +0000

it works well for the US as some 5 to 12% of the US army is composed by immigrants

New comment by sabbaticaldev in "US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19"

sabbaticaldev — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:15:12 +0000

Facebook, instagram and youtube have been used to manipulate elections way before tiktok, that’s not the reason it’s being banned.