Hacker News: stevenh

New comment by stevenh in "Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison"

stevenh — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:52:30 +0000

You think people should go to prison for being obnoxious?

New comment by stevenh in "What is Money? (1913)"

stevenh — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:05:03 +0000

This is an astroturfing article meant to hypnotize the reader into thinking fiat currency controlled by private banks is a good thing. Its purpose was to normalize this idea of money and grease the tracks for the Federal Reserve Act that would be rammed through congress a few months later.

New comment by stevenh in "Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?"

stevenh — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:10:53 +0000

It sounds like you know the reason we should swallow those specific chemicals? Perhaps you'll be the first here to answer the question.

New comment by stevenh in "Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?"

stevenh — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:55:43 +0000

Imagining sinister ulterior motives behind an innocent question seems like something a conspiracy theorist would do.

New comment by stevenh in "Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?"

stevenh — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:31:48 +0000

Please enlighten us, what are the health benefits of swallowing sodium silicofluoride and hydrofluorosilicic acid?

Edit: Just to be clear, you shouldn't assume that my comment being gray means it was unanimously downvoted. I saw it losing three points for every two gained, meaning roughly 40% of HN shares my curiosity.

New comment by stevenh in "Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit"

stevenh — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 16:34:27 +0000

Apple's latest Magic Keyboard is an atrocious piece of garbage whose keys are so sensitive that they trigger when you breathe on them. Apparently Tim Cook thought it would be a good idea to make this the only keyboard you can buy from Apple and cancel the old model that humans could actually use. I bought one of the older ones from Amazon and now I get to worry that it's going to be a counterfeit that phones all my keystrokes home to China. Nice world we're building here.

New comment by stevenh in "Kenneth Eng Is on the Other Side of Viral Now"

stevenh — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 06:08:04 +0000

I wonder how different his quality of life would have been if he had grown up in an Asian ethnostate.

New comment by stevenh in "National Identity Is Made Up [video]"

stevenh — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:35:58 +0000

Why do you suppose the New York Times wants us to believe something like this?

New comment by stevenh in "Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself"

stevenh — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:55:19 +0000

Teams are spontaneously disbanded and their projects are moved to other countries because it prevents people who share the same allegiance or ideology that runs counter to Google's from conspiring to hide "accidental" exploitable bugs in the code which could later be used to damage the company. The project gets audited by the next team's fresh eyes and if an exploit is found then it is patched and can be traced back to the moles who can then be monitored or fired. Rinse and repeat until launch.

New comment by stevenh in "China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit"

stevenh — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:39:50 +0000

I can't tell whether the people in this thread claiming this will be the downfall of China are serious. Do you really believe that, or do you just want it to be true because you're afraid of China?

New comment by stevenh in "The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data"

stevenh — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:27:27 +0000

What kind of car do you have?

New comment by stevenh in "Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Put It All Together"

stevenh — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:04:25 +0000

Isn't this what concierge doctors offer?

New comment by stevenh in "Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge"

stevenh — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:29:43 +0000

He was referring to Damore's supposed right not to be fired as "amorphous".

New comment by stevenh in "A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’"

stevenh — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:33:45 +0000

You're proudly declaring how easily you are manipulated.

New comment by stevenh in "Fiat Chrysler pushed a UConnect update that causes constant reboots"

stevenh — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:58:12 +0000

I haven't entered a dealership since 2010 and part of me was holding onto hope that most of these "upgrades" were optional. This thread is confirming my fear that I'll never be able to find a new car worth buying again no matter how much money I bring to the table.

New comment by stevenh in "What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?"

stevenh — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:25:41 +0000

Is this what you think about other people you see working at coffee shops?

New comment by stevenh in "What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?"

stevenh — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:09:48 +0000

Coinhive has been around for awhile.

New comment by stevenh in "Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'"

stevenh — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:53:29 +0000

Grammarly's ad links directly to an immediate single-click-to-install page for their suspicious browser extension whose fine print asks for total access to look at your private webpage data, keystrokes, ability to inject mysterious scripts into every single page you visit, including email, banking, cryptocurrency exchange login pages, etc. With over 10 million active installations, they could easily use this absurd amount of power to profit in a shady manner. The ROI for their ad spend must be incredible because the average tech-naive person just has to fall for it once and then this extension is installed for the remaining lifetime of their computer. The whole thing has a stench similar to the Hola browser extension botnet incident.

New comment by stevenh in "How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village"

stevenh — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:34:47 +0000

Related interview with a monk in Myanmar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvEBaAiy5b4&t=1m17s

New comment by stevenh in "How black people still need to outwit racists in rural America"

stevenh — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 02:46:44 +0000

Your anecdotes as a white man are not more valuable than his as a black man. This isn't the first time you've whitesplained to a minority on HN how their lived experience is invalid.