Hacker News: slips

New comment by slips in "Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived"

slips — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 02:13:20 +0000

This is largely to taste. An apostrophe doesn't always mean it's possessive, as just demonstrated, but it is also used for plural abbreviations or for numbers (like 1960's).

Casual English is fairly fluid. People rarely talk exactly according to the rules of English class.

New comment by slips in "Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready"

slips — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 02:03:36 +0000

This is a lot of words to communicate a fairly shallow fantasy.

New comment by slips in "A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’"

slips — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:45:28 +0000

This comment section is also a bunch of speculation without any evidence. Seems to be the same with every other story or conversation about this topic.

New comment by slips in "Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike"

slips — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:58:40 +0000

If one wishes to price like that, they do it from the start. We have more than enough history to show that you don't offer customers something for one price scheme and then change it in the middle to get even more money out of them. It doesn't work and only causes problems.

New comment by slips in "NULL license plate not such a bright idea"

slips — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:13:25 +0000

Did you read the article? It literally says people at a private citation outfit put NULL in the license plate field when there is no number available.

New comment by slips in "Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser"

slips — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 18:37:04 +0000

What would you classify as "real" science? Be cautious of dismissing research because it doesn't fit into your personal definition of reality.

New comment by slips in "Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study"

slips — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 15:28:29 +0000

Like the article touched on, there are regenerative practices that do not require pesticides. Frankly, pesticides are a human convenience. Utterly unnecessary for survival. If we weren't focusing on mass producing food, largely unused to directly feed people, we wouldn't need to spray everything with poison to keep things easy and profitable.

Trying to find a "smarter" way to poison things is exactly the status quo and it will lead nowhere good.

New comment by slips in "Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks"

slips — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:17:22 +0000

Are you saying Americans can live without seeing the president rant on Twitter? I wonder if I can do my own research that's greater than 140 characters...

New comment by slips in "Burnout"

slips — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:24:45 +0000

Marketing what? Mental health? Everything isn't some shill post or /r9k/ nonsense. People do speak authentically.

New comment by slips in "The terrible truth of climate change"

slips — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:14:15 +0000

Accepting the fact that we're just like any other animal on this planet, merely along for the ride until the day we're done, will help curb the rage and grief felt towards the planet's reformation.

This is just what happens here. Species rise and fall, lands rise and sink, yet the Earth spins on until some other shit starts to happen on the surface. We just happened to fuck it up for ourselves faster. Humans have been good at that since day one.

New comment by slips in "Burnout"

slips — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:50:45 +0000

Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able. There's a lot of tricky ground to navigate as a person and you don't have to be experiencing trauma to get help.

New comment by slips in "Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day"

slips — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:51:44 +0000

Perhaps call out the other person as well?

New comment by slips in "Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there"

slips — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:50:19 +0000

I love the audacity of humans setting up laws to regulate space. Hilarious levels of hubris.

New comment by slips in "Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day"

slips — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:08:08 +0000

Cool. You're one tough dude. We're all jealous of you. Congratulations, it's gonna be a fun life.

New comment by slips in "Moving the World to a 4 Day Workweek – An Interview with Aidan Harper"

slips — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:10:20 +0000

Some people don't exist to work and want to engage with their own life. We shouldn't build a system that forces everyone into a "work-first" way of life, and then use a specific group that's fine with it as a rationalization.

New comment by slips in "How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox"

slips — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 18:30:53 +0000

How is it a disaster? From what I've seen, a number of gripes are due to people not actually understanding how DoH works or expecting it to do something it isn't designed to do.

New comment by slips in "Conflict at Walmart threatens its ecommerce battle with Amazon"

slips — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 21:37:40 +0000

It was a thing. I actually used it frequently to get household items and save money on bulk orders. Then it got acquired by Walmart and I stopped shopping there. Same with Bonobos.

New comment by slips in "Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars"

slips — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 05:12:24 +0000

According to who?

New comment by slips in "NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time"

slips — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:57:54 +0000

More like damned if do commit a bunch of civil violations, damned if you don't because you're still an untrustworthy agency.

New comment by slips in "California’s mountain lion faces ‘extinction vortex’"

slips — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:01:51 +0000

I doubt reasonable housing prices will come with more development, especially in California. That's just the tag-line to get approved so you can start bilking renters/home owners. In this case, I'm for preserving the non-human entities.