Hacker News: somebody78978

New comment by somebody78978 in "What the US can learn from affirmative action at universities in Brazil"

somebody78978 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:31:51 +0000

How is it an oversimplification? Affirmative action states that your requirements for getting into college change depending on your race.

New comment by somebody78978 in "John Goodenough has died"

somebody78978 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:38:33 +0000

You could say that it was good enough

New comment by somebody78978 in "Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks"

somebody78978 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 01:34:17 +0000

And yet when people talk about negative ways to express and enforce feminitity, they never seem to use the phrase "toxic femininity".

New comment by somebody78978 in "San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks"

somebody78978 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:19:43 +0000

So by your logic, if I order a human driven taxi, and the driver does something illegal, I should be arrested along with him? Obviously assumming I didn't threaten and/or bribe him to do that illegal action.

New comment by somebody78978 in "First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources"

somebody78978 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:15:34 +0000

I don't understand, the whole point of studying a virus in a lab is to gather data on it.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Dating, education, and sex ratios"

somebody78978 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:43:32 +0000

Well, maybe the reason why those men didn't want to complete college is because they don't have the same support that women do (or at least, that's what they percieve).

New comment by somebody78978 in "Parachute use to prevent death, trauma when jumping from aircraft (2018) [pdf]"

somebody78978 — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:28:52 +0000

If the meta-RCT shows that RCTs are efficacious, then RCT's are effective. But, if the meta-RCT shows that RCTs are not efficacious, that means the meta-RCT, which is also an RCT, cannot be trusted, which means that RCTs are still effective.

New comment by somebody78978 in "US lawmakers urge PayPal to end ban on Palestinians in Occupied Territories"

somebody78978 — Thu, 25 May 2023 14:14:17 +0000

I don't think the U.S. government has the right to force a company to operate in another country.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way"

somebody78978 — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:51:13 +0000

Yeah, but that's also been the case for thousands of years.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features"

somebody78978 — Tue, 16 May 2023 15:15:01 +0000

> When my girlfriend texts me when I'm out with my AirPods, I think we'd both like me to hear her message in her actual voice rather than Siri's

And then you can use voice to text to text her back, and she can hear it in your voice! It's just like a phone call from 30 years ago, but one that requires infinitely more processing power!

New comment by somebody78978 in "Science is a strong-link problem"

somebody78978 — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:40:38 +0000

Yeah, but human females can have more kids during that 15 year window, so that reduces the risk somewhat.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination"

somebody78978 — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 18:01:25 +0000

But you still end up with the problem where your caste determines your privilege; the only difference is which caste benefits. Wouldn't it be better to work toward a system where the caste has no impact on your opportunities?

New comment by somebody78978 in "Maybe people do care about performance and reliability"

somebody78978 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:18:09 +0000

Regarding TurboTax, I'm pretty sure the clients want the software to work slower; there are times when the software just pauses and says something like "Checking over to make sure we found all deductions", even though obviously all of that work has already been done.

New comment by somebody78978 in "The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can (2015) [video]"

somebody78978 — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:27:14 +0000

Doesn't "neat" just mean without ice?

New comment by somebody78978 in "U.S. No Fly list publicly shared on a hacking forum, government investigating"

somebody78978 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:31:04 +0000

We don't need an alternative. I've never understood why we need to go through security to board an airplane, but not to board a train.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer"

somebody78978 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:38:50 +0000

*Carmella, not Carmine, lol. Carmine is another mob boss.

New comment by somebody78978 in "The world is burning more coal than ever before, new report shows"

somebody78978 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:33:59 +0000

Yes, due to quantum physics, the end products of comubstion weigh slightly less than the starting products. But this change is so minisqule that you can basically ignore it.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer"

somebody78978 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:44:54 +0000

> This is unfortunately yet another gendered imposition, with women feeling like they have to adhere to a beauty standard that comes from the male gaze.

Beauty standards are set and enforced by both men and women. A lot of women dress up to impress other women, not just men.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer"

somebody78978 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:37:08 +0000

> Most women in prostitution are from marginalized backgrounds and many are trafficked. Where is their freedom?

The exact same problem applies to migrant farm workers, but nobody is proposing to solve it by making farming illegal.

New comment by somebody78978 in "Female spies of MI6"

somebody78978 — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:11:54 +0000

> Where does it say they were not allowed?

The first couple of paragraphs talk ad nauseum about how hard it was for women to become spies.