<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: tinglymintyfrsh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tinglymintyfrsh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:07:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tinglymintyfrsh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Update on Sharing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What if you have 5 homes (with 5 different ISPs)? Is each a household or are the collection of people households?<p>What if you have friends who are basically family who more-or-less live with you? Are they not part of the "household"? <i>"Sorry, Bob, while you maybe my daughter's godfather and donated a kidney to me, you're now going to need your own Netflix account because Netflix wants to mash the 'pump corporate profits' button that has been a primary contributing factor of both embarrassing wealth transfer from the poor to the rich and inflation post-pandemic."</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 20:43:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050603</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Update on Sharing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first thought: How is this going to block me from Netflixing on a United flight or in a hotel? It seems problematic.<p>Also, there are nontraditional families with multiple homes. How many accounts do they need?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 20:36:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050514</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Realize the marketing and support (likely none) of retail parts like these: manufacturers don't believe enterprise customers will not scream at them if some or many of them fail. They can play fast-and-loose to push the boundaries to get marketshare. Big name vloggers and tech reporters may complain.<p>OTOH, enterprise parts are built and supported towards conservatism and reliability.<p>There is crossover and a spectrum between the 2, but this case isn't a complete surprise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 22:56:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016402</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Russia’s Nukes Probably Don’t Work – Here’s Why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of those things no one ever wants to test.<p>What is the equivalent of Pantex in Russia? Who services them?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 22:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016379</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Waves from a perch overlooking AUS and Giga Texas.</i><p>I've run into enough NVIDIA and AMD engineers at The Domain to surmise this is true.<p>We need a funnel towards training highly-skilled blue-/light-blue-collar workers to feed the strategic needs of said fab industry if the US were serious about building domestic capabilities and competitive independence.<p>Right now, I don't think the current state of the US education system from national to local levels is promoting the fundamentals needed to attain this goal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 22:47:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016353</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And rice produced in North America tends to concentrate arsenic.<p>Because something is difficult doesn't mean it's okay to rationalize more of it. Marketing something as "nontoxic" has a storied history of failure. DDT for one.<p>Cost/benefit analysis always. Perhaps in a survival or humanitarian crisis situation the risks of water-borne diseases would be far greater.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 22:35:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016274</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Holistic contributing factors.<p>The main barrier to change is a widespread attitude problem: neglect rather than translating intent into action. The average American doesn't know anyone lacking housing and won't get personally involved to help "a stranger".<p>Furthermore, social workers and aid agencies <i>generally</i> don't take any proactive steps to get out to where unhoused people are or ask what they need. They're usually employees with performance standards and grand initiatives unrelated to practical and meaningful assistance.<p>Finally, the social safety net in America is a disgrace. Even in so-called liberal states, it treats recipients like criminals and doesn't respect them or their time while delivery inadequate resources to lift anyone out of dire situations (averaging $140 in cash and $225 for food per month). The recent debt hostage crisis engineered by far-right Republicans to attach punitive restrictions on ABAWDs and non-ABAWDs is a further punitive, collective attack on the poor for the crime of being poor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 22:27:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016214</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rotoscoping is similar.<p>Perhaps Campbell soup shouldn't be Xerox or art either?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 21:47:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994550</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SCOTUS is dysfunctional: art isn't art and women don't have bodily autonomy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 21:45:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994535</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Windows XP Activation: Game Over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Worth noting Microsoft product keys are/were tied to the channel they were sold through, and the difference being 2-3 files on install media.<p>PS: VLK XP doesn't suffer this problem.<p>Edit: Nice utility to extract product keys from a live system. <a href="https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 21:43:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994510</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "What happened with ASUS routers this morning?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These sort of vendor YOLO changes are more of the domain of Microsoft's MDE.<p>I use an Deciso OPNsense where it doesn't insist on breaking itself on the orders of corporate overlords.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 18:49:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992395</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>American workers are the wimpiest creatures on the planet. That's why they don't have unions, tolerate horrible bosses, and have few protections.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 18:48:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979545</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>America is built on the exploitation of undocumented workers for the food supply and of cheaper foreign labor held hostage by employers for tech. These are forms of coercion much as tying health insurance to employment. Tools of power to keep employees at a disadvantage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 18:45:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979516</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Americans don't realize how bad they have it.<p>America is only a Good Place(tm) for the very rich while its suffering expands out in a Power law distribution. No other "rich" country abuses homeless, the disabled, the almost homeless, and the working poor with as much unequal treatment as much except so-called "third-world" countries. The middle class of America is small, privileged, and unaware of the suffering and exploitation of ~100 M Americans below it and of its enablement of the "1%" to continue the status quo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 18:42:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979489</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazon corporate just went to 100% in-office. People who were previously remote now have to commute or would be fired. Even if there job has nothing to do with being in an office and their team is elsewhere in the world. My neighbor is one such employee where it wastes gas and time getting them to an office they don't have a business reason to be in except fulfill butt-in-seat mentality of the overlords.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 18:36:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979419</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My grandfather and mom would sing this occasionally.<p>There's a danger to society when the common case becomes a factory town. Too many risks of depending on the company store for everything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 17:25:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35791094</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35791094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35791094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "American travelers are being charged up to 3 times more for vacations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And they didn't even have to put it in the content or the chumboxes. Personally, I setup a micro VPN box of my own on AWS in other countries. I'm wondering though if they alter the price depending on the currency or on credit card details.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 17:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776416</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "American travelers are being charged up to 3 times more for vacations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>3 truths:<p>1. Most Americans aren't good with money.<p>2. If you know someone will start bidding much too high, low-ball them first.<p>3. The tourist is a universally hated abomination that deserves to be lightened of its burden.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 17:42:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776395</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "American travelers are being charged up to 3 times more for vacations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Mexico, there's a hotel scam. You can book one room only to be told it was "sold out" or "unavailable". There is a quiet "discussion" room to haggle to make other arrangements. You can be Mexican from "real" Mexico and it will still happen even if you "confirm" the room (which is meaningless) because it's a money-maker by holding your vacation hostage by testing your patience and enjoyment through brinkmanship. It's a classic bait-and-switch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 17:36:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776303</link><dc:creator>tinglymintyfrsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tinglymintyfrsh in "American travelers are being charged up to 3 times more for vacations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep. Us Americans have a reputation of being rich, *sshole tourists.</p>
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