<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: saul_goodman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saul_goodman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:59:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saul_goodman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "What if we made advertising illegal?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We describe "consuming" information and media just like food. I would settle for all media and advertisements having a required Nutrition Facts label:<p>Serving size: 1200 words / 60 seconds<p>Total commercial advertisement content: 600 words<p>Total US Government sponsored content: 300 words<p>Total foreign government sponsored content: 100 words<p>Total NGO sponsored content: 200 words<p>% of daily content of society shaping propaganda: 30%<p>% of daily content of subliminal content: 15%<p>% of daily content of emotional manipulation: %40<p>% of daily content of Gen5 warfare: 20%</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:27:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606250</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought we already a place like that called Twitter...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:05:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683542</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "FCC warns Portland church to shut down pirate FM operating under its steeple"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sadly the system is incentivized to kill off "harmless pirates", especially if they are doing something interesting. It's always going to be in the best interest of commercial broadcast operators to lodge complaints against pirates competing in their band. If you are in the business of selling advertisements on any band of radio (AM/FM/TV/etc), you don't want listeners possibly soaking up air time from anyone else when it costs you money to run your station. So the deck is always stacked against pirates in common broadcast bands. On the other hand, the shortwave broadcast band has much less locality so it's easier to do interesting things on those bands. But of course there's only a fraction of people who actually listen to shortwave broadcast bands, at least in the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:05:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35498864</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35498864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35498864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think people completely miss the point that this further enables a caste system in the US. You have an entire class of people who have almost no rights who live and work in this country. Any politician that makes it easier for illegal immigrants to survive in this country is NOT doing it out of the goodness of their heart. It's a calculated move to further abuse a class of people who can be completely abused without recourse.<p>Does no one stop to wonder why the government is actively hindering border states from enforcing their international borders after 20+ years of a war on terrorism? Why are these people coming to the US in such high numbers now full-well knowing they will be abused here? Look up the School of the Americas and who their list of graduates include.<p><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/School_of_the_Americas" rel="nofollow">https://wikispooks.com/wiki/School_of_the_Americas</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:32:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197621</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Apple has excellent IPv6 support on their devices, fully supporting automatic configuration of 464XLAT on devices with NAT64, and overall an excellent attitude to forcing IPv6 support from developers"<p>Other operating systems are bit of hit or miss"<p>My iPhone works, what's wrong with the rest of you for not doing this??!!<p>But in all seriousness, I think this will be a security nightmare for quite a while if there is some forced conversion to ipv6. I realize IPv6 wasn't created yesterday, but I assume it's got plenty of security holes waiting to be discovered until I see otherwise. The only way you are going to see it be used by end-users is if the various *nix distros roll out IPv4-less images. Same for Windows/etc. Otherwise you are begging for a security nightmare of epic proportions with software that is accidentally using the wrong stack by default, firewalls not filtering anything as expected, etc.<p>And who thinks it's a good idea to make all the things globally accessible? It's an internet of shit out there already, this would make it even worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:58:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048290</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "What is the randomart image for?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my head I've always read that as rando-mart. I have a mental image of a small high-density city street shop with anything you could possibly want to buy including small ascii art images of my ssh keys.</p>
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<p>Yea, oddly this has not yet bubbled to the surface of this story. Your government at work!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:39:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790854</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Always has been"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 04:01:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34785106</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34785106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34785106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "What's Going Wrong in Particle Physics? [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very good talk. However I would only disagree with her on the idea that funding will dry up for particle physicists and that the model of funding helps to drive the useless cycle if bad ideas in physics (and any government funded science).<p>1) Obtaining grants to continue study in any field of science is greatly improved if you are iterating on an established idea that is already understood. Getting a grant on a completely novel idea outside of the mainstream field of thoughts is going to be much harder. Along with this is the reality that government grants are managed by a revolving door of industry and university insiders which is both a terrible and great thing. On one hand you don't want lobotomized bureaunaughts making uninformed decisions on which researchers to support. On the other hand your knowledgable staff on granting agencies are going to be the ~top of a given field and as such will weed out non-mainstream ideas for funding as "they already know" that a new line of thought to be foley.<p>2) While governments freely waste taxpayers money, they still do it strategically. After Hiroshima the world understood how important it is to keep a close eye on the physics community. Every country with a viable nuclear program must continue to engage in this game of useless increments in particle physics. Making progress is not what is important, what is truly important is that a country has its own base of physics knowledge and active development so that should another physics breakthrough happen elsewhere then they have a chance of recreating it on their own within a short enough window for it to make a difference. If you didn't already have physicists engaged in their craft then you would be 5-10 years behind the curve of any post-nuclear-physics breakthrough. The same game is played in many other fields of science...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:57:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34777357</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34777357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34777357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "How ‘Diversity’ Policing Fails Science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>American exceptionalism is dead. Persia was once known for their strong pursuit of knowledge and science, it's why the majority of the visible stars in the sky have Arabic names even to this day. Then the region transitioned heavily into religion. That's not an indictment of religion, just that we are watching our own downfall by valuing political beliefs above the actual requirements of any given job. It's probably too late to correct at this point as there will always be people willing to do what is asked of them, to proselytize the desired belief system to the next generation. Our union will just fracture as so many before have been fractured.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34724429</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34724429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34724429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2012)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hehe. One time I was in a ride share from Berlin to Essen.<p>"Where are you from"
I respond with something mid-western. 
"How far from New York or LA is that?" 
"I can drive a day in any direction and still be in the middle of nowhere".<p>It was cute to see the confused looks on everyones faces. I get it though, you drive a couple hours in any direction in Europe and you are likely to be in another country or a body of water.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 05:54:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34689247</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34689247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34689247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "The curious Soviet mini-sub of South Alabama (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, who's ready for another hackerspace group to own a submarine...
<a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80239100" rel="nofollow">https://www.netflix.com/title/80239100</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:21:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34353066</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34353066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34353066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have to remember that all of the classified details about US hydrogen bomb designs we have were leaked from leaked from Russia after the Soviet Union broke apart. And yet only two countries have managed to become nuclear states since then (Pakistan and North Korea).<p>It's the engineering that makes nuclear weapons hard to do, not the knowledge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33973065</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33973065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33973065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you garden then you may want to know your actual amount of rainfall to gauge how much watering you need to do. You'd be surprised how much rainfall can actually vary over a small area compared to a regional average.<p>And for people in rural areas that are not near other weather sensors, or areas that may not have regular internet connectivity or frequent outages (and coastal areas subject to storms and high winds). And of course weather nerds and sensor nerds, because those MQTT databases won't fill themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744282</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When narratives collide. I hope someone does the math on how much this will degrade solar panels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:22:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33198231</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33198231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33198231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "How to open a safe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So when will the Flipper plugin be released?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641997</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "Snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I've heard of it, therefore everyone has heard of it"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 22:27:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31535638</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31535638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31535638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "Start with who, not why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reads to me like someone who has been raised to believe identity politics matters above all else. But to be more generous, sure, there are limits to the degree of arsehole people will tolerate as they follow the mission. However then let's look at Stallman. What really does seem to matter is still the mission.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:29:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166637</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't believe this many people really care wtf is going to happen to Twitter. I hope Musk takes the hardware running it and makes it into an AGI who's sole job is to pass the butter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:46:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036668</link><dc:creator>saul_goodman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saul_goodman in "Study conspiracy theories with compassion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here here. On one hand, she makes an attempt to "Sam Harris" the issue of conspiracy by recognizing that a persons circumstances lead them to their beliefs. It's obvious some segment of "the establishment" was lying to us over certain parts of covid. The problem is that people can't tell why they are lying and then fill in that part of the narrative in their head with conspiracy. With a 0.5% death rate, why the mind job to all of society over this thing? Is there something else you guys know about covid that we don't about yet? Is long covid the reason? But anyone who at least thinks a little bit can see the stench and coverup about the origins of sars-cov2 and gets derailed right there. Then we have massive censoring of social media about any discussion of covid which again forces people into their conspiracy narratives. The establishment is its own worst enemy.<p>Another issue is that the establishment tries to put vaccines in a separate box from the rest of modern human inventions and its a total disaster. Sure, vaccines are well tested, but look at what happened with the advent of PCB's, Agent Orange, Asbestos, Benzine, etc. The last 100 years has trained everyone to expect modern chemistry to be a disaster. You can't separate that knowledge from vaccines and say "this time it's different". Of course, none of those other chemicals were tested in the context of being injected into the human body, but that's just details at this point for most people. Combined with reducing a testing regiment that should run over a decade to 1 year and you no longer get to stand on your high-ground and say "your vaccine fears are misplaced". No, the onus is on the system to be 100% transparent and honest. But we didn't get any of that, in fact the stench of rot continues to linger:
<a href="https://denvergazette.com/news/judge-scraps-75-year-fda-timeline-to-release-pfizer-vaccine-safety-data-giving-agency-eight/article_f007b8b4-ad66-59b4-a270-4709bc3e4814.html" rel="nofollow">https://denvergazette.com/news/judge-scraps-75-year-fda-time...</a></p>
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