Hacker News: thecrazyone

New comment by thecrazyone in "France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra"

thecrazyone — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:37:20 +0000

By your logic, banning it through regulation decreases options and hence diversification.

Governments are not angels which seems to be an assumption in your and sibling replies. They're a bully who doesn't want someone else to get power.

I'm not being extreme, humor me. If the govt didn't want a monopoly, isn't it a hypocrisy that they themselves are one?

The proper thing to would've been to get closer to anarcho-capitalism, ie let there be govt currency and FB's libra. Let people decide what they want to use.

New comment by thecrazyone in "Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox"

thecrazyone — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 17:17:33 +0000

Not sure about the website you run but there might be a corelation to Linux users and your site. It could be either due to your network and the way people came to know about the site or it could be the content among other things

New comment by thecrazyone in "Bed that saved me from the Taliban"

thecrazyone — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:53:58 +0000

Why aren't autonomous or remotely controlled rovers, or turrets ever installed?

New comment by thecrazyone in "Bed that saved me from the Taliban"

thecrazyone — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:50:53 +0000

Me too, I assumed its the electric blanket one which is right after that paragraph.

New comment by thecrazyone in "Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?"

thecrazyone — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:49:45 +0000

This seems awfully contrived.

Issue 1: It's very difficult to tell if your contribution got 50% improvement in performance because there were 10 other devs pushing in features and bug fixes. This is the attribution problem

Issue 2: This happens over time. It's very unlikely that your 50% improvement happens every year or month. Because, think for your self, this is compounding with large rates. It grows quickly. 1.5x improvement in 6 cycles (months or years) is 10x. This essentially is the time problem

Issue 3: even if you deliver the results you did, in a large company there's a large bureaucracy and no one person has the ability to increase your salary by that much. This is the control problem.

New comment by thecrazyone in "Farewell, Google Maps"

thecrazyone — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:53:22 +0000

I agree, but is it _that_ easy? Not like no one has tried

New comment by thecrazyone in "Farewell, Google Maps"

thecrazyone — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:49:47 +0000

A good competitor can make a drop in replacement possible by aligning their api with that of google's

New comment by thecrazyone in "Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up"

thecrazyone — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:52:53 +0000

and where is this mythical job/ company?

In Silicon Valley, pay is high, so is the cost of living, reverse in other places. If your situation differs, you've got it good (unless you're in a bad job in a high cost of living place)

New comment by thecrazyone in "California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online"

thecrazyone — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 06:47:28 +0000

what's the point of a cvv then? This seems rather odd

New comment by thecrazyone in "California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online"

thecrazyone — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 06:33:01 +0000

I'm a libertarian and I don't know what to say. There will be shitty companies as well I guess, but when they lose customers due to such practices, they will learn? If they don't learn they will go out of business.

You're stuck with a bad govt law, no efficient weeding out process exists.

New comment by thecrazyone in "Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations"

thecrazyone — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:50:38 +0000

good catch :)

New comment by thecrazyone in "Why you should not use Google Cloud"

thecrazyone — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 06:46:17 +0000

Haha :D

New comment by thecrazyone in "Why you should not use Google Cloud"

thecrazyone — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 06:42:14 +0000

That's interesting. I was of the understanding that everything at Google office tries to de-stress you/undistract you. I thought that would result in people being calmer/ more empathetic.

New comment by thecrazyone in "Why you should not use Google Cloud"

thecrazyone — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 06:36:22 +0000

What is this? Fightclub? "Rule #1 of fightclub: You never talk about fight club" :D

Seems like a recipe for breeding unfairness. "Don't talk about the system", :sigh:

New comment by thecrazyone in "Grow the Puzzle Around You"

thecrazyone — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 06:06:03 +0000

This seems like a false dichotomy.

"Founders need to be tech" is said often, but you're assuming "Founders need to be tech OR Founders need to have soft skills", which is an unnecessary assumption.

For example, "Founders should be determined" is also expressed often, doesn't mean they're expecting it to be an either-or with the quality of "being tech"

New comment by thecrazyone in "Grow the Puzzle Around You"

thecrazyone — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 05:59:58 +0000

I really liked your approach of going about proving your point with Google Search hits. Really well done sir. I'm going to borrow this approach :D

New comment by thecrazyone in "I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA"

thecrazyone — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:29:06 +0000

Wow, that was nice and succinct.

New comment by thecrazyone in "Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve"

thecrazyone — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:20:23 +0000

Wow, Clean up trash before we throw it?

We're throwing away our time is all we're doing. Looks like no one here values time. Sorting into 13 bins, etc. We need govt to get out of the way so someone can figure this out and make money (their incentive to figure it out).

Govt's not going to figure this out for us. It has no incentive to.

New comment by thecrazyone in "Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve"

thecrazyone — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:11:48 +0000

This is govt monopoly btw, not some private monopoly like Google (which is earned and can go away).

New comment by thecrazyone in "Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve"

thecrazyone — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:10:16 +0000

I feel the same way. There need to more options to waste management. I don't want to feel obligated to sort out trash. Take my trash, sort it out and bill me.

This is insanity on stilts.