Hacker News: vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vectorpushHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:05:52 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Is K8s Too Complicated? "]]>The words have meaning. If you don't understand them you could just ask for them to be explained rather than throwing out insults. I suspect you actually do understand the meaning of what was written though so I suppose that means you're just trying to start a flamewar.

]]>Sat, 12 May 2018 19:45:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17055671vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17055671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17055671<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations"]]>There is no agreed upon measurement of job performance that transcends the partisan divide.

]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 06:17:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956209vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956209<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Ethereum Sharding FAQ"]]>This is a typical condescending blockchain enthusiast line. Stop implying that the critics don't understand how things work, it's insulting, intellectually lazy and false. When the blockchain is actually useful enthusiasts won't have to beg everyone to give it a chance.

]]>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:42:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928852vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928852https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928852<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool"]]>It's statistically possible, so why not?

]]>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:26:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881951vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881951<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Decentralization Roundup for 2017"]]>It's not "fair" as far as logical argumentation is concerned because the statement proves nothing since it is equally true of successful technologies as it is of failed technologies. It is an absolutely meaningless platitude.

]]>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:17:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008919vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008919<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Decentralization Roundup for 2017"]]>This is an oft repeated fallacy by blockchain enthusiasts. Skeptical predictions from the past that turned out to be incorrect in hindsight has absolutely zero relevance to the viability of blockchain technology.

]]>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:03:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007954vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007954https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007954<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"]]>Sure you can, just store them in .sql files and have your CI system auto deploy them.

]]>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 04:14:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15949365vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15949365https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15949365<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Cheatsheet for the modern JavaScript"]]>It's unfortunate that you take such an inflammitory tone when you're so completely incorrect. They are constant, end of story.

]]>Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:44:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378889vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378889https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378889<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Pale Moon blocks AdNauseam extension"]]>This makes no sense. Have you ever used a web forum before reddit? People get banned all the time for arbitrary reasons on forums all over the web, why should reddit be any different? "The internet" has not been turned into anything, it remains the same as it has always been, a place where communities of varying interests can interact at their own discretion, a freedom which includes the prerogative to exclude anything the administrators deem off topic, offensive, annoying or even boring.

The internet gives everyone the freedom to create a community of their own, and it's easier, cheaper and the experience is better than ever when doing so. There are already popular "anything goes" discussion forums (e.g. 4chan, voat) that give much wider room to "freedom of expression", so how have companies like reddit or google prevented others from operating in any fashion they find acceptable within the confines of their own communities? The answer is they haven't.

]]>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:09:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113567vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113567https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113567<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Marko – An isomorphic UI framework similar to Vue"]]>If you're rebuilding aspects of your production system for the sake of "incorporating newness" then the problem is poor engineering not react or any other tool. If things are working fine as they are, you only have yourself to blame when you introduce new technology that you find too complex to manage.

]]>Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:18:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060518vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060518https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060518<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers"]]>Not necessarily (based solely on the axiom that men and women have different brain chemistry).

It is logically possible that the differences we observe in career distributions are more heavily influenced by other factors besides differences in brain chemistry.

]]>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 02:54:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835582vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835582https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835582<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers"]]>It does not follow logically that just because men and women are biologically different that those differences are necessarily significant with regard to career distributions.

]]>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:32:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835158vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835158<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace"]]>Bitcoin ATMs are rare, notoriously unreliable, often require invasive KYC and always come with a gigantic markup.

]]>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:57:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835017vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835017<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace"]]>> You can acquire cryptocurrency just as easily as you can acquire cash:

This is obviously untrue. Cash is ubiquitous throughout every corner of society, while cryptocurrency is extremely niche to the point of practical obscurity.

> sell things for it

The overwhelming majority of potential buyers will not have even heard of crypto.

> exchange currency with friends

Very few people have friends who dabble in cryptocurrency.

> exchange currency with people you find on LocalBitcoins

Risky, time-consuming and impractical, especially for someone that's only looking to buy some weed. Additionally, localbitcoins puts you back "in the streets", you're better off just exchanging cash for drugs in the streets rather than exchanging cash for crypto in the streets so you can go back online to buy the drugs.

> steal it, run a business taking payment in it, ...

That is absurd. You're not making a very convincing case.

]]>Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:48:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829293vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829293https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829293<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace"]]>People who buy drugs "in the streets" generally aren't versed in how to acquire and manage cryptocurrency. Most people buying drugs have a personal relationship with a dealer and don't do transactions "in the streets". Additionally, actually acquiring cryptocurrency requires a bank account in good standing and a ton of invasive KYC paperwork which will raise suspicions and alienate "street buyers". Finally, in my personal opinion, a street transaction would be preferable to giving out my address to anonymous dealers on the internet, but I know some may agree on that point.

]]>Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:16:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829116vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829116https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829116<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "The Chemicals in Your Mac and Cheese"]]>I agree and I appreciate the nuanced tone of your answer.

]]>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:06:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778333vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778333https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778333<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering"]]>So the only option is to arrange an in-person meetup with a random stranger from the internet so that they can gouge me with a gigantic markup or just rob me. This sounds terrible even if I have no beef with the government, but totally absurd if I am actually trying to hide money from authorities; for all I know, the person I meet up with is a federal agent or works with them.

]]>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:43:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633431vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633431https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633431<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering"]]>It's a currency that can't buy much of anything, so it's close to useless as far as paying for the needs of a typical person. You can speculate about the future of crpyotcurrencies all you like, but the future you imagine is not inevitable and certainly not the reality of today or the foreseeable future.

Beyond that, if we're speculating, a world where all transactions live on a blockchain is an ideal one for a government bent on tyrannical control of the economy. It is likely that governments of the future will have advanced methods of associating wallet activity with real-life activity, especially for citizens who intend to interact with the larger law-abiding economy (if you ask me, blockchain money is the ideal currency for a tyrant). Of course, you can just continue to speculate about future crpytocurrencies that will solve all these issues and that is the reason why this type of speculation gets us nowhere.

]]>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:37:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633404vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633404https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633404<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering"]]>How do you turn eth into spendable money without a bank account?

]]>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:14:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633279vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633279https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633279<![CDATA[New comment by vectorpush in "Blockstack: A New Decentralized Internet [pdf]"]]>Facebook is not mandatory, you don't have to use it, the government doesn't need to get involved.

]]>Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:20:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14627716vectorpushhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14627716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14627716