Hacker News: short12

New comment by short12 in "Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe"

short12 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:33:37 +0000

I think you are really over estimating the size and importance of gamers

New comment by short12 in "noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice"

short12 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 03:39:38 +0000

Why isn't is copyrightble by the owner of the repo?

The answer is, of course it's automatically copyrighted

New comment by short12 in "Bob Saget has died"

short12 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:21:53 +0000

Steve hoffstetter also has some very kind words about him. His post was how I even found out. But you could tell he had a very good relationship and it was very sincere

New comment by short12 in "Bob Saget has died"

short12 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:15:13 +0000

Unfortunately comedians have a pretty long history of drug and alcohol abuse

It's not absurd for your mind to wonder in that direction initially

New comment by short12 in "500M Avira antivirus users introduced to cryptomining"

short12 — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:28:46 +0000

Antivirus companies are universally scummy anyways. But this trend is going to continue for regular software

New comment by short12 in "How to make quitting your addiction easier"

short12 — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 14:40:54 +0000

This article is just flat out the dumbest thing I've ever read in regards to addiction

New comment by short12 in "Launch HN: Homestead (YC W20) – Lot-splitting to build new housing supply"

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:38:26 +0000

That must be a coast thing for HOAs. A lot of the Midwest specify minimum acre(s)

New comment by short12 in "Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?"

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:08:52 +0000

Googles own captchas are Satan. Squiggly lines all over the place. Why they don't use the normally accepted captcha is beyond me

New comment by short12 in "Urea prices increase 270% in 1 year"

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:34:46 +0000

The family farm is a thing of the past. They are called hobby farms

New comment by short12 in "Amazon's Lord of the Rings Series Will Break from J. R. R. Tolkien's Canon"

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:41:04 +0000

People that complain about woke probably are not the target audience anyways

New comment by short12 in "A curated list of warez and piracy links"

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:43:34 +0000

>How are films supposed to get funded if people get them for free?

I don't care is an acceptable answer here

Live off the fat of the land. Judging from how profitable movies are, there is plenty of fat

New comment by short12 in "Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado"

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:55:35 +0000

I've been in the ER dozens of times and I not considered admitted until I am told I'm getting admitted and wheeled upstairs

New comment by short12 in "Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado"

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:53:50 +0000

It's been getting to the point or already is that you can't get treatment. Plenty of urgent care centers are simply closing down for now. Hospitals won't even treat covid.

I'd call that pretty scary

New comment by short12 in "CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S."

short12 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 01:18:45 +0000

My statement wasn't an absolute, hance the basically allows for room for exceptions. Which 6-7 people really do count as a super tiny minority. So what was your point again?

New comment by short12 in "CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S."

short12 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:15:53 +0000

Rabies is crazy. Basically if you get it you die. There are a few exceptions like the girl in Wisconsin a while back

And she wasnt doing something stupid either. If I recall correctly she grabbed a rafter in her Attic and bam

New comment by short12 in "Drug ring hid $1B worth of coke on a single ship"

short12 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 19:48:38 +0000

I'm pretty well versed about hearts. My ticker probably has a couple to maybe five years left at the current rate. It kind of makes you read a lot about them

New comment by short12 in "Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years"

short12 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 19:41:02 +0000

And they have become much more aggressive making it difficult to even navigate the site

New comment by short12 in "Airlines deny boarding to passengers from wild Sunwing party flight to Mexico"

short12 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:22:36 +0000

Since when can you not drink on a plane? I've never really looked if vaping on a plane is against the rules, but it's pretty easy to do that covertly enough anyways

New comment by short12 in "BlackBerry held the tiny keys to my heart"

short12 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:32:56 +0000

I loved the blackberry keyboard. The bad part was that I could so easily text and drive while maintaining my eyes 100 percent on driving

New comment by short12 in "I analyzed 20k recommendations made by Jim Cramer during the last 5 years"

short12 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 04:47:36 +0000

"Following Jim Cramer's advice will make you a millionaire, if you start with 100 million dollars". Jon Stewart