<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: tomoyoirl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomoyoirl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:33:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tomoyoirl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Not Every User Owns an iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eh. If one wanted to do charity for the less fortunate, it might be better to just work for or give to bona fide charitable causes - rather than operating a marginal, possibly unprofitable Android app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:19:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647109</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine $FOOTBALL_TEAM fans vs $OTHER_FOOTBALL_TEAM fans, except instead of their fervor being a minor factor setting the general mood in the arena, it’s the actual competition</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:12:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589509</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Experts say a proposed revamp to the recycling symbol is still deceptive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not sure how any program to recycle plastic bags (etc) is supposed to show 60% recycling-compliance without labeling instructing consumers to recycle the bags. Wouldn’t it just be simpler to ban the plastic?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:53:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972448</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazon is kind enough to include unit pricing on many UI elements.<p>It does seem to be less than consistent about the units, though. $/count, $/oz, $/g, $/lb, all on the same search page? Yes, and more :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:47:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41064532</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41064532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41064532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don’t be ridiculous. Plea deals were created by prosecutors so they could eliminate the right to a jury trial by overcharging and making it far too risky to exercise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:57:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857319</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s also a pressure tactic to extract a guilty plea because there’s no negotiation and a one week deadline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 01:35:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841858</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t look forward to taking them and choose other drivers, mostly because the price and wait time dynamics are a little funny, but I am glad I did take a ride or two. They’re much better drivers in the sense of “not interested in pushing any limits.” They navigated around a parked truck effectively, queueing and waiting their turn to go into the opposing lane behind some other cars. The perception display of surrounding people and cars was very comforting. My only moment of fear was a sudden stop because a wrong-way bicyclist had lurched out into traffic — that’d happen with any driver, unless we hit the guy. Yeah, I guess you can cone them, they’re that conservative of drivers.<p>It’s clear that they’re not the cars for me to worry about out there on a bike / on foot / etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789883</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume all regular customers will be paying a fare of $3.25 or less per ride on the reusable Opus card (fare purchased in a 10-ride pack). Essentially you’re paying for the chip with the very-occasional-commuter one-ride convenience fee.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:15:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40771432</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40771432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40771432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How big a trend is that, though? Most companies are all too happy to do a capitalism and move office expenses into OpEx, to improve their return on capital by being a pure-play widget company instead of a hybrid widgets / real estate development and holding corporation.<p>Sure, there are some big sprawling HQs of the gigacorps who just can’t find enough space to rent otherwise, but that seems to be a minority of office employment to me?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:55:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743862</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pundits say the economy is fine, and that the labor market is still really tight (but slackening gradually). They do note that economic sentiment is really, really bad, and it seems to be for non-economic reasons (residual inflation shock, mostly). Avoiding further inflation is the key reason that policy is leaning on the labor market at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:20:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724137</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "The sun's magnetic field is about to flip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With respect, 2/3 of the carbon dioxide out there is purely natural such that “icky” isn’t an appropriate foundation for the relevant public policy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:40:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685821</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "US Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Free coffee”?<p>Look, if you’re going to allege corruption and votes for sale here, I think it’s a little more potent when you suggest he’s gotten better compensation than some “free coffee”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671493</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "US Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An exception? Like how the CFPB was created independently such that it didn’t answer to the president?<p>(Actual exceptions like this would violate separation-of-powers principles and typically get struck down.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671299</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "US Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some particularly weird parts of that have come when the protection of the union actively conflicts with other employer mandates, like hostile working environments — e.g. from 2015-2017 the NLRB went after Cooper Tire for firing an employee who had used racist slurs on the picket line</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:53:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671163</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Can large language models reason?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe you could train it explicitly on <i>modus ponens</i> et alia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 16:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525868</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s a lot to say about the structure of health care, but the classic “Now” lecture isn’t it. Most people make key decisions about provisioning and paying for their health insurance months before they actually need it, and likewise establish relationships with a primary care physician or dentist at a quite ordinary level of urgency.<p>The vaccines are also a particular bad example. (The typical Now-lecture example is of emergency room care).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 14:19:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40524055</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40524055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40524055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Romans also used the March-based year; that’s why February has fewer days and why October is literally the eighth month</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 14:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466485</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Students invent quieter leaf blower"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Decibels are logarithmic; a 1 dB reduction in sound is ~26%.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 13:18:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378059</link><dc:creator>tomoyoirl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomoyoirl in "Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A key benefit is that it might be able to perform follow up screenings that make sense for that type of cancer, rather than expecting absolutely everyone to take all the tests ever at the same rate, at significant inconvenience and expense.</p>
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<p>Look, the other elephants start out the stork delivery scene declaring they’re part of “a proud race” and end it gossiping about “what would Mr. Jumbo think?!?” and “Jumbo? More like dumbo…”<p>We also see what happens to certain black men in the world, during “Song of the Roustabouts” (“when other folks have gone to bed / we slave until we’re almost dead,” “boss man hounding / keep on pounding / ‘grab that rope you hairy ape’”)<p>Afterwards we see the cruel and arbitrary nature of those who mock the poor kid, contrasted to the universal experience of family (“Baby mine don’t you cry”). Eventually the kid ends up with a bunch of (black) crows, including one Mr. “Jim Crow,” who make fun of him, before his buddy from Brooklyn calls them out on how people make fun of <i>them</i> for being different too, and they feel real bad; after finding friendship there, he earns social acceptance for his athletic feats (flight) and later through participation in the armed forces (“Dum-bombers for victory!!” read the newspapers.)<p>You sayin’ that this isn’t about race at all, and the whole storyline is just a coinkydink? Ha! Tell me another one. Disney’s been at this stuff for longer than your parents have been alive.</p>
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