Hacker News: stainforth

New comment by stainforth in "New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says"

stainforth — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:46:16 +0000

Wouldn't it be more clear to say that for hiring approach, now the unexpected burden of tagging on a new 100k fee works as a negative coloring (as it I think intends (ostensibly)) to these candidates then? How was the 100k already priced in?

New comment by stainforth in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

stainforth — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:56:49 +0000

"Founders" seems like an arbitrary term devised

New comment by stainforth in "1 in 5 Japanese Workers in Their 20s Turn to Resignation Agencies"

stainforth — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:59:37 +0000

Can you enumerate the issues new graduates are facing, and when they began on timeline?(if even possible to see explicitly first public)

New comment by stainforth in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

stainforth — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:45:51 +0000

If you use Comcast's modem/wifi router, you are part of their service infrastructure. Xfinity WiFi Home Hotspot

New comment by stainforth in "Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra"

stainforth — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:29:26 +0000

"It just means that there’s a lot of low-quality stuff under the same label, which has made that label questionable, and if you want to sift through it you have to be ready to filter for quality yourself... At some level GA is trying to “democratize” geometry." Hit me just now reading the case against GA linked in this thread, maybe the same way Munger remarks on Costco's counter-intuitive membership fee, the notation and systems of "real" math as we encounter them like you say in Wikipedia is the field's membership fee keeping out the riff-raff from overwhelming the gathering place and making the entire store burn down.

"But the point is to make the existing math more intuitive, not to discover new results. The fact that research mathematics is generally not concerned with making calculation and intuition easier to think about is, I think, a giant failure that it will eventually regret. There’s as much value in making things easy to use as there is in discovering them."

New comment by stainforth in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

stainforth — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:40:59 +0000

Right, if phone records for Congressmen and known (or deduced) DOD were made public would that sway any changes

New comment by stainforth in "The City of London which is not part of London (2016)"

stainforth — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:00:05 +0000

Is there a direct relation or something specific you were going to draw in mentioning the history of the Jews in England and the history and particularities of the City of London? That the Jews performed the interest loans on behalf of and/or within the City of London possibly or something like that?

New comment by stainforth in "Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres"

stainforth — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:58:57 +0000

Did it work in its stated goal?

New comment by stainforth in "Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres"

stainforth — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:57:56 +0000

To this day, not one person in the spec reviews in whatever overseas OEM electronics or those split AC units (which are fantastic in one regard) reflects on persistent light in a room where people are sleeping? The worst is encountering AC units when arriving at a hotel that do not have a "display" button to turn off the 20C display in white LED. Are the actual people that make these and make those decisions just tougher or they're just ignorant?

New comment by stainforth in "The fishy death of Red Lobster"

stainforth — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:41:27 +0000

Do you think private equity funds could have other end goals when buying a company?

New comment by stainforth in "Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event"

stainforth — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:08:34 +0000

13000 years ago seems like a special moment for a few events. Is it possible that say a volcano eruption, or a meteor strike saturates the atmosphere and normal cosmic ray interaction with soot and so on can attribute to what they detect in trees?

New comment by stainforth in "Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000)"

stainforth — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:52:05 +0000

Is your name an anagram for PunnyQuip

New comment by stainforth in "Tech companies keep falling for the forever fallacy"

stainforth — Wed, 24 May 2023 08:01:41 +0000

Most people haven't even sold one organ yet, and they could

New comment by stainforth in "Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens"

stainforth — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 03:11:14 +0000

Was response time of the screen analyzed at all? Just the screen itself, not what any of the functions a press would trigger.

New comment by stainforth in "Someone Has to Run the Fabs"

stainforth — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:06:19 +0000

That's a convenient tidbit put forth by who. Reject the premise that "replicating it" requires emphasizing this factor over others. If the true owners of Taiwanese fabs simply took less of the surplus share, the fab could be replicated here by spending more on American workers.

New comment by stainforth in "Amazon Buys One Medical"

stainforth — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:02:33 +0000

Lol why do you think these moves are about improvement of the process? Like its said they have a fiduciary duty to squeeze profit out of their moves. Improvement of the experience for the customer is at least orthogonal to that.

New comment by stainforth in "Zoom lays off 15% of employees"

stainforth — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 23:23:36 +0000

My comment was a play on another comment that refers to wealth from stock as "unrealized gains"

New comment by stainforth in "The effect of high-polyphenol Mediterranean diet on visceral adiposity"

stainforth — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 23:17:14 +0000

How did you encounter that you have that genetic sensitivity?

New comment by stainforth in "Zoom lays off 15% of employees"

stainforth — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 03:29:26 +0000

The learjet flights were "unrealized flights"

New comment by stainforth in "Big data is dead"

stainforth — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 01:54:03 +0000

Is it queries on live data or data thats been moved usually?