<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: theorique</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=theorique</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:36:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=theorique" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A passport is probably the most common ID issued by a federal government entity (Department of State) in the US.<p>A military ID is a also federal document (Department of Defense) but that only applies to a certain subset of the population.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:55:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118066</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Ask HN: Do Udacity nanodegrees get anyone a job without academic background?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>almost sends a negative signal.</i><p>Could you expand on that? Is there some common feature of people who have completed nanodegree courses?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:32:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750492</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Left-wing newspaper reports on actions of left-wing employees of major tech company based in left-wing geographic area.<p>I'm quite sure this article is going to be unbiased...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:14:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547025</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Australian telcos block access to 4chan, other sites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I get freedom of speech, but I don't believe that people should actually have it."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:04:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431435</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one is arguing that people should be harassed "literally all the time" (or ever).<p>Some of the more egregious deployments of "safe spaces" in universities happened in response to controversial campus speakers who were deemed to have views that were threatening to some students. According to some campus radical leftists, the very <i>presence</i> of such speakers was "violence" and a literal "threat" to marginalized students.<p>Of course, the students could simply refuse to attend the talks of speakers they didn't like, but that wouldn't make as dramatic a statement as creating an explicit "safe space" where they could congregate.</p>
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<p>Is that really true?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:28:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218569</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you dry out the used pods and their contents, couldn't they be burned for energy?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 20:33:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719293</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>There are no secrets to weight loss. Eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter if that involves keto, or vegan, or one meal a day. Thyroid problems also don't change physics.</i><p>The point of the article is, the timing of feeding vs fasting leads to differences in fat storage.<p>The work of Dr Fung, among others, suggests that concentrating eating into a few (4-8) hour period per day causes better outcomes than feeding during the entire waking period.<p>Same thing with the balance of macronutrients. Tuning the ratio of fat:protein:carbohydrate can make a diet more filling and more sustainable on fewer calories. This enables that "calories in / calories out" rule to actually work and cause reduction in stored body fat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:11:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202918</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "The Socratic Method in an Age of Trauma (2017) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The lesson is "quantifying the cost of getting killed".<p>The method by which that lesson is conveyed to the student is the Socratic method.<p>The point is that the Socratic method of asking leading questions and building agreement at each stage was more effective in getting the point across than "do you understand X? OK, good."<p>The student constructs the knowledge him/herself and internalizes it better than otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:22:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058976</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Now I work from home where my wife and toddler are. Being home to educate her is worth more than just about anything. I don't have to drive 2 hours every day just to be an ass in a seat. Two hours where all I do is sit in a car and wish to be home.</i><p>To be fair, an hour by car each way is on the long side of a commute, at least compared to the US average. (For some cities, it's probably pretty good.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:38:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17989692</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17989692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17989692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "How America lost its love for the stick shift"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>I maintain that the best way to minimize the effect of a lane closure is to use whatever lanes are legal/open for as long as possible -- because leaving an open lane of travel unused only exacerbates the problem.</i><p>I agree with you. Fully packing an 'ending' lane until it actually <i>ends</i> is most efficient from a road usage point of view.<p>(I have lived for 10+ years in the Boston area but did not grow up there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:36:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17968536</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17968536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17968536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "What Companies Mean by Culture Fit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience, culture fit is exactly that - a nice way of saying that the candidate was "a huge asshole or complete weirdo."<p>It's shorthand for "I think they could probably do the work, but I don't think that I/we could actually stand working with this particular candidate".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:24:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953839</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "What Companies Mean by Culture Fit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Culture: "we have a billiards table and like craft beer. YOU SIMPLY CANNOT FIND ANOTHER STARTUP LIKE US!" /sarcasm</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953809</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "What Companies Mean by Culture Fit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you mean that the candidate is too inclined to say "that's not my job" when they might be called upon to perform tasks that lie outside their narrow area of focus?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953801</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the apparently coordinated action taken by Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and YouTube (Google), it doesn't seem to be independent, private companies acting independently.<p>It may not be a violation of the First Amendment, but it could be bumping up against antitrust law. Taken together, these companies have a significant near-monopoly in content distribution.<p>It's more like the power company or the gas company cutting you off because they don't like your politics. Yes, <i>technically</i> you can use a generator or get propane delivered, but the question is whether they should be legally allowed to cut you off.<p>If they are truly a public square and common carrier, then these platforms need to permit all content that does not violate the law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:24:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953415</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Been 'De-Monetized'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think this woman went through a rational process of "deciding" that she was upset with YouTube because they are alleged to have cut off the income on her videos.<p>She snapped, identified the target of her rage, and took violent revenge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:22:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754928</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Furthermore, assuming that one's 'consciousness' could actually be brought back in some kind of form that roughly approximates what it was like when one was alive, what's to prevent one's body/brain from being used in some kind of terrible medical experiment?<p>For example, what if an evil scientist or organization were to buy up cryogenically preserved bodies on the cheap in 300 years?<p>Yeah, you could say it's unlikely, but why is it more or less likely than being unfrozen into some paradise?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:22:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748713</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's no dietary or metabolic need for carbohydrate. The human body can survive and thrive perfectly well with only fat and protein as macronutrients. Practically speaking, doing that is challenging and complicated because most foods are a mix of all three macronutrients.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:02:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16213223</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16213223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16213223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If "over here" is outside of the US, then it's in a different legal jurisdiction, and the laws are going to be different.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:49:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16070633</link><dc:creator>theorique</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16070633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16070633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theorique in "Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Hahaha. Sorry, but this "we're launching a currency that we don't call a currency but that everybody, including us, knows is meant to be a currency <wink>" is ridiculous.</i><p>Why is it ridiculous for a small EU nation to pay lip service to EU regulations with regard to this financial experiment? What would be a better way to do what they're doing?</p>
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