Hacker News: wooter

New comment by wooter in "After harsh criticism, Facebook quietly pulls services from developing countries"

wooter — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:47:04 +0000

and flashlights for night-time robberies

New comment by wooter in "Intel under investigation over age discrimination in massive job cuts"

wooter — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:59:13 +0000

thats what I'm saying. many people jump to 'discrimination' when its merely a discrepancy. discrepancies exist everywhere for entirely benign reasons. furthermore, believing its discrimination for its own sake (like age discrimination) would contradict the belief that companies optimize for profit (which I don't think is a bad thing) since there no absolute causality there.

New comment by wooter in "Country Time Lemonade Will Pay Legal Fees for Unlicensed Lemonade Stands"

wooter — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:52:27 +0000

seriously? the blame is on government, local or otherwise, for criminalizing safe, voluntary interactions. requiring licenses of children operating a lemonade stand is indoctrinating a serious level of statism, which historically has had far more victims.

New comment by wooter in "Intel under investigation over age discrimination in massive job cuts"

wooter — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:23:24 +0000

discrimination vs. discrepancy. I find it odd that many people jump to the first while simultaneously holding the belief that corporations only care about profit.

New comment by wooter in "The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official"

wooter — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:16:16 +0000

netflix came to be a multibillion dollar business without these laws. more likely, we'll get more consumer friendly options over diverse, specialized 'types' of ISPs, thanks to caching, as we have seen like free music streaming on t-mobile or free netflix on flights. or more vital/cool things like guaranteed rates for remote medical monitoring through partnerships

New comment by wooter in "Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new home-share law"

wooter — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 04:55:27 +0000

blame the people extorting taxi drivers for licenses. the government shouldn't be able to tell you what you can use your car for.

New comment by wooter in "Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new home-share law"

wooter — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:43:37 +0000

foolish and regressive. enjoy higher DUI rates, less service and less availability. for what its worth, i've been taking uber and lyft in quebec for years.

New comment by wooter in "Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new home-share law"

wooter — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:36:50 +0000

I find it sad how prevalent this mentality is. the cost to technology and progress is immeasurably vast.

New comment by wooter in "NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash"

wooter — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 04:30:33 +0000

fdareview.org - the fda kills more people in late/non approvals than it saves through denials. this is why compassionate use has been on the rise

New comment by wooter in "Microsoft acquires Github"

wooter — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:40:33 +0000

i vastly prefer atom - open source or not.

New comment by wooter in "Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends"

wooter — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:35:26 +0000

HN has reached a level of popularity where its attracted too many non-engineers that love jumping into these threads with ignorant, reactionary, hyperbolic responses. every post on uber/tesla autopilot has at least a few people calling for elon to be tried for manslaughter for car accidents. really shows the stupidity of the mob. this thread is another great example. if only it were benign and didn't have real, foolish policy implications like the GDPR

New comment by wooter in "Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)"

wooter — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:30:18 +0000

not even remotely close to true.

New comment by wooter in "Microsoft acquires Github"

wooter — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:01:24 +0000

well, there was the atom editor. which now i fully expect msft to kill in favor of vs code. damn it.

New comment by wooter in "Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)"

wooter — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:53:02 +0000

seriously? spain, italy, and greece don't have malfunctioning governments?

New comment by wooter in "Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks"

wooter — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 13:19:08 +0000

lol, it can be slow on larger projects but its innovative and complete. i really like the packages system/community. always open to suggestions, whats better?

New comment by wooter in "Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks"

wooter — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 13:17:57 +0000

i actually love atom and kind of hated vs code. ill check it out again tho. what do you like more about it?

New comment by wooter in "Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks"

wooter — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:52:31 +0000

i'm also a big fan of the atom editor

New comment by wooter in "Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs"

wooter — Thu, 31 May 2018 21:21:44 +0000

> If a government project has a net economic (or public health) benefit then by definition the money was not squandered.

Just want to point out that this statement doesn't account for opportunity cost. if it could go to something of greater net benefit, the difference between the two could be considered squandered.

New comment by wooter in "Discussion if Google Fonts is GDPR compliant"

wooter — Thu, 31 May 2018 17:44:35 +0000

unreal. and advocates deny any and all costs and collateral. i can't believe their spending limited political and financial capital on this rather than the multitude of real problems in the EU - without any compelling cost-benefit analysis no less.

New comment by wooter in "Discussion if Google Fonts is GDPR compliant"

wooter — Thu, 31 May 2018 17:42:01 +0000

so you think EU law should dictate viable fonts, libraries, and distribution methods? why is the EU so paternalistic and authoritarian? why don't they focus limited economic resources on bigger problems? where is the cost-benefit analysis?