Hacker News: tyrrvk

New comment by tyrrvk in "NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant"

tyrrvk — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:28:39 +0000

So much for freedom of speech in US Universities. Israel dictates what is forbidden/permitted on US campuses now?

New comment by tyrrvk in "Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data"

tyrrvk — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:44:57 +0000

This coupled with the hot mike incident yesterday where Trump was saying how El Salvador needed to build more mega prisons for the "home grown..terrorists" is beyond concerning. Sure sounds like DOGE is compiling lists of 'less desirable s' that will soon be swept off the streets in unmarked vans. America has turned fully fascist.

New comment by tyrrvk in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

tyrrvk — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:52:25 +0000

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New comment by tyrrvk in "A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones"

tyrrvk — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:15:49 +0000

Once again, Private Equity is the driving force behind this new scam.

New comment by tyrrvk in "The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive"

tyrrvk — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:34:58 +0000

My favorite comment from the article was from the Hollywood/media exec lamenting that what IA was doing was 'theft'. Didn't Hollywood come about from people trying to outrun Edison and his patents? The hubris is astounding.

New comment by tyrrvk in "Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner"

tyrrvk — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:15:34 +0000

I wonder the same thing. It had a lot of 'renegade cool kid' energy early on, I suspect this was done on purpose. However, if you look at the investors, and people working on the project now (lot of industry types) it's moved slowly into the corporate sphere. I think rather than legal assault, they are going to slowly start to boil the frog and users will find themselves in a system that differs radically from what they expected (or want) and by that time moving all their files etc will be too much. I stayed far away, and have supported Kodi the entire time.

New comment by tyrrvk in "SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole"

tyrrvk — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:37:59 +0000

From a Libertarian perspective why would we not:

1) have Congress+FDIC...

This made me chuckle. I thought Libertarians want gov _out_ of their lives. :)

New comment by tyrrvk in "Reddit co-founder’s quest for unseizable property"

tyrrvk — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:38:43 +0000

oh look. Some techbro billionaire fretting about his billions. Why is this news? What's next, an indepth look at finding 'just the right bunker' for the apocalypse. I mean, yeah a bad thing happened. His family survived, and he's gotten a better life than 99% of the population on the planet. Cool. Maybe rather than worry about hoarding his stuff he could find ways to improve the planet? Or better yet, collect some digital thing, obfuscated behind other digital things all with some arbitrary value - that won't feed you, keep you warm and or provide clean water in a real emergency.

New comment by tyrrvk in "Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity"

tyrrvk — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:48:00 +0000

If you are in the US - public libraries are a wonderful resource for kids to visit.

New comment by tyrrvk in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

tyrrvk — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 01:57:05 +0000

Yeah, I'm not going to base the idea that "inequality is OK" by someone from the federalist society. That's like asking an arsonist if fire is good. I'd argue that the lower class has lost upward mobility in this country in the last 40-60 years. Sure, cheap crap can be purchased from walmart - but that's just subsidized crap. China has been lifting their lower classes up - yes, but at our expense.

New comment by tyrrvk in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

tyrrvk — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 21:14:12 +0000

The creation of a whole new federal branch - "homeland security" was created under BushII. Cushy federal jobs with pensions all funded off that sweet sweet defense budget. So now airline travel is ruined all for security theater..and you think ACA is overreach?

New comment by tyrrvk in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

tyrrvk — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 21:12:33 +0000

no/low taxes has been done since the 80's and all we have for it is massive wealth disparity in this country. It's a failed policy that punishes the majority so a few can be obscenely wealthy. The wealthy economic zones also require we be OK with little to no environmental regulation, Hong Kong was known for having medical waste simply be dumped into the ocean. It wasn't unheard of to find used syringes and such wash up on the beaches..

New comment by tyrrvk in "Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year"

tyrrvk — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:57:58 +0000

We talk about insurance killing the medical field, but I'd also argue that EMR companies are doing a number on the profession as well. Have you seen the Epic campus? Epic - located in Wisconsin (not the gaming company). The amount of overhead a hospital needs to support/run that behemoth can't be small. And Epic is _swimming_ in cash.

New comment by tyrrvk in "ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]"

tyrrvk — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:56:39 +0000

I agree 100% with ICANN's position in this matter. I think their reply was level headed and correct.

New comment by tyrrvk in "Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates"

tyrrvk — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 01:50:47 +0000

I should have clarified NSO group. They are an Israeli company with many ex members of Israeli NSA (whatever it's called).

New comment by tyrrvk in "Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates"

tyrrvk — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:03:33 +0000

You can't catch obesity from someone coughing in the same room as you.

But to extrapolate further: Sugar taxes have been tried in countries - Mexico for one. I think there was massive backlash from CocaCola/Pepsi etc, for infringing on their freedom to make obscene profits. I seem to recall discussions here about some of the lawmakers finding Israeli spykits on their phones (the ones pushing for the sugar tax). edit: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/technology/hack-mexico-so...

New comment by tyrrvk in "Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]"

tyrrvk — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 17:09:54 +0000

Teams is garbage, every time I use it I loathe computing in general.

New comment by tyrrvk in "Enough is enough"

tyrrvk — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:56:50 +0000

Um, they kind of are? Or at least think they are? Any sort of international pressure is met with cries of 'anti-semitism' which quickly shuts down anyone. It is used to combat the BDS movement, which itself is intended to put pressure on Israel over the occupation of Palestine. A non-violent option similar to what happened with South Africa.

New comment by tyrrvk in "I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To"

tyrrvk — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:52:16 +0000

Interesting - I wasn't aware of this.

New comment by tyrrvk in "I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To"

tyrrvk — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:18:15 +0000

I find this viewpoint exceedingly arrogant. That you somehow know what's best in the case of a novel global pandemic?