Hacker News: staringback

New comment by staringback in "Every industry is an overcrowded airport lounge now"

staringback — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:16:13 +0000

This is also the case in Washington State.

New comment by staringback in "IBM and AMD to work on quantum-centric supercomputing"

staringback — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:31:48 +0000

What do you mean? IBM is the world leader of AI development thanks to their cutting edge IBM Watson

New comment by staringback in "Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way"

staringback — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:06:19 +0000

It's actually much worse when you find out the girl was only 9 years old

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/nampa-church-volunte...

New comment by staringback in "Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way"

staringback — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:57:23 +0000

That's not a federal prison

New comment by staringback in "From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year"

staringback — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:41:54 +0000

The cost of Medicare in Australia far exceeds the levy. That was added as an additional tax to supplement the regular funding.

New comment by staringback in "Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations"

staringback — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:14:39 +0000

Think about what a "visa holder" might be and then try your comment again.

New comment by staringback in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

staringback — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:52:48 +0000

This is the most hilarious thing I have ever read from HN, thank you.

New comment by staringback in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

staringback — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:38:41 +0000

> In America everyone is crazy hardworking period, because there is zero socialism.

Spoken like a true European who has never lived in the United States

New comment by staringback in "Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement"

staringback — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:14:41 +0000

> I personally didn't give a rats ass how someone came to be in the US. I'm much more interested in whether they are assaulting and/or stealing from people.

Okay, so you want selective enforcement [1] of laws?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement

New comment by staringback in "Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement"

staringback — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:48:32 +0000

Improper entry by alien is a criminal offense [1]

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325

New comment by staringback in "Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market"

staringback — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:20:30 +0000

source: my eyes

New comment by staringback in "States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option"

staringback — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:19:51 +0000

Ah yes, a micro-apartment the same size as the average American kitchen [1], how affordable!

For comparison, Seattle WA has a minimum wage around 2.5x higher than Tokyo. Here is a larger apartment [2] that is only 1.33x more expensive than your Tokyo broom closet.

Go ahead and find something more akin to the American sized apartments (500sq+ for 1 bd) and you'll see that the prices are almost the same, with much lower wages across the board.

[1]: https://kb.nkba.org/2016/11/new-nkba-research-defines-averag... [2]: https://www.apartments.com/amherst-micro-studios-seattle-wa/...

New comment by staringback in "States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option"

staringback — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:26:12 +0000

Yeah, affordable if you are on American digital nomad visa wages.

New comment by staringback in "Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market"

staringback — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:20:24 +0000

Not wrong at all. Previously owner-occupied single family homes will continue to be bulldozed and replaced with 8 story wooden boxes, owned by national corporate landlords of course.

New comment by staringback in "Dark patterns"

staringback — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:54:55 +0000

It would be similar to your local state's attorney general, since this is from a state government in Australia. NSW has a similar population to Washington State, for example.

New comment by staringback in "Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users"

staringback — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:17:35 +0000

The very next tab: https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html

New comment by staringback in "Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users"

staringback — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:43:13 +0000

No it isn't. https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html

New comment by staringback in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

staringback — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:00:47 +0000

They most certainly did, these drugs stop you from eating, not magically burn fat and leave muscle mass alone.

It has the same effect as starving yourself. Go look up pictures of "ozempic face"

New comment by staringback in "Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers"

staringback — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:56:06 +0000

> Most restaurants smuggle obscene amounts of butter

God I wish that was true. Butter is far too expensive to do that, so restaurants will use the cheapest alternative (usually soybean oil with butter flavoring) instead.

New comment by staringback in "Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers"

staringback — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:42:07 +0000

The nutritional information label that lists the calories in the food? What is the point of that?