Hacker News: strangesmells02

New comment by strangesmells02 in "Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers"

strangesmells02 — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 03:40:36 +0000

Does anyone care about 4k? Ive been using either 720 or 1080p for years and never had an issue

New comment by strangesmells02 in "The U.S. economy shrugged off the tech bust"

strangesmells02 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:39:31 +0000

why do you say this? not disagreeing just curious why you're thinking that?

New comment by strangesmells02 in "A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue"

strangesmells02 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:04:39 +0000

Chonky boy Telescope

Telescope AF

Oh lawd he comin

New comment by strangesmells02 in "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA"

strangesmells02 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:04:12 +0000

> anonymized data to people who have agreed to submit for research

Seems fine to me?

New comment by strangesmells02 in "X says it is worth $19B, down from $44B last year"

strangesmells02 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:50:21 +0000

He didn't pay 44 billion for Twitter.

He paid 44 billion to restore free speech.

I think his cause is more noble than sheer capitalism

Edit: down vote and hate all you want... mark my words .. Elon is going to go down in history as a visionary, a hero and a champion of free speech.

a bunch of angry ex-twitter employees on hacker news is not an accurate representation of reality

New comment by strangesmells02 in "X says it is worth $19B, down from $44B last year"

strangesmells02 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:47:23 +0000

That's the cost of free speech apparently.

Elon's cause is more noble than sheer capitalism.

Advertisers don't want to be on a platform that allows honest, open communication. A sterile non-controversial platform is much safer for them.

At some point as our rights and our freedoms in this country slowly erode, we're going to be grateful to have Twitter and to Elon Musk for being one of the last platforms to put our freedoms over sheer capitalism.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "New York Times tech workers to strike this afternoon"

strangesmells02 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:46:21 +0000

I tried to get a job working for the New York times tech department they treated me like absolute ass.

Glad they're getting ripped off.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "Autism and responding to authority (2019)"

strangesmells02 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:39:28 +0000

I'm always struggled with these types of people who think they're better than you and expect you to treat them as such.

The weird part is if you show them up or prove that you're better than them in some way they become extremely ass kissing.

I find it disingenuous and nauseating and it seems that a lot of people are like this if not most people.

Maybe this is just the normal human hierarchy at work and I have autism and I don't connect with it.

I just try to treat everyone equally. I guess I'm the weirdo.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic"

strangesmells02 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:13:13 +0000

Caste is an accurate word to describe it.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M settlement"

strangesmells02 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 09:46:39 +0000

Its out of this world bad. Like every job after a day has hundreds of applicants according to LinkedIn.

Online applying seems to be shooting the rez into the void

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M settlement"

strangesmells02 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 09:44:05 +0000

Im seniorish. Got about a decade in the tech industry.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M settlement"

strangesmells02 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:19:11 +0000

One company down...the entire rest of the tech industry to go.

As an over 40 the job search is grim

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It's Time to Tax Billionaires"

strangesmells02 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:05:05 +0000

These current politicians are continuing to skyrocket the national debt.

I don't have to vote for new politicians. I just have to wait for the dollar to collapse.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It's Time to Tax Billionaires"

strangesmells02 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:10:11 +0000

World wars are over. Countries have Nukes now.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "Gen Z wants less sex in TV and movies"

strangesmells02 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:36:04 +0000

showing gratuitous sex scenes is not developing the characters and not developing the plot.

is literally just gratuitous clickbait.

May have been titillating before PornHub existed, but now it's just a hassle to watch.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "Gen Z wants less sex in TV and movies"

strangesmells02 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:34:06 +0000

and taxi driver

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It's Time to Tax Billionaires"

strangesmells02 — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:01:11 +0000

> helping a country defend itself from a brutal imperialistic invasion not helping defend democracy?.

It's not anything that I'm willing to work a few extra hours a week to pay for.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away"

strangesmells02 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:15:47 +0000

And it stresses me out just submitting code to github.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It's Time to Tax Billionaires"

strangesmells02 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:34:39 +0000

So what?

USA is not the world police.

If there's no strategic interest or benefit I don't think I should have to work a few extra hours per week to help pay for that war.

New comment by strangesmells02 in "It's Time to Tax Billionaires"

strangesmells02 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 05:05:58 +0000

> biggest military rival

Russia has the economy the size of Italy. Three American states have bigger economies than Russia. Were more advanced than them on every level technologically economically militarily. The only thing they have is nukes which they'll still have no matter how Ukraine turns out.

We would wipe the floor with them in a head on military conflict.

> defend democracy

That's been the propaganda reason for previous wars...