Hacker News: zzzbra

New comment by zzzbra in "Big tech is now targeting Native American land for data centers"

zzzbra — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:54:25 +0000

Eddington (2025) was a documentary.

New comment by zzzbra in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

zzzbra — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:54:36 +0000

You’re getting downvoted for this which is crazy.

New comment by zzzbra in "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

zzzbra — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:03:51 +0000

Nolan makes cerebral films for dumb people. I find most of them to be entertaining and fun, but they do lean a bit too much into profundity as a vibe without a whole lot of actual substance.

New comment by zzzbra in "Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020)"

zzzbra — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:55:11 +0000

my gf in Tokyo years ago was a country folk singer. played slide on a metal resonator guitar. for much of my time there my evenings were spent at folks and roots music bars, listening to talented live musicians. in States we live in abject poverty, culturally.

They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They're Felons

zzzbra — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:36:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/children-traffic-death-parents.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44814310

Points: 10

# Comments: 3

New comment by zzzbra in "Hiroshima (1946)"

zzzbra — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:24:03 +0000

I just bought this paperback.

New comment by zzzbra in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

zzzbra — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:11:26 +0000

your reasoning falls apart because mass transit options are inherently faster due to the geometric-space efficiencies gained by their form factors. You just need to induce enough people to participate in it to cross a tipping point where it becomes financially viable to run regular service, e.g., in NYC taking a train is often the fastest.

New comment by zzzbra in "Thoughts on thinking"

zzzbra — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:08:38 +0000

Reminds me of this:

“There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.” ― Ben Horowitz

New comment by zzzbra in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

zzzbra — Wed, 14 May 2025 22:57:53 +0000

This is precisely the reasoning I bring up. In essence traffic congestion is an externality not unlike pollution. What society now pays in the form of a financial levy it formerly paid in the form of a wasted time. We've made explicit a cost that was already there, and by doing so the system can respond to it and behave more intelligently.

New comment by zzzbra in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

zzzbra — Wed, 14 May 2025 22:55:01 +0000

This is a curious form of fundamentalism. "All motion is good, and damn any effort to coordinate it."

New comment by zzzbra in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

zzzbra — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:21:29 +0000

Finally a budget cut I can actually celebrate.

New comment by zzzbra in "Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs Acme'"

zzzbra — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:00:18 +0000

what if the movie is actually bad

New comment by zzzbra in "They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]"

zzzbra — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:41:56 +0000

I just had this experience with my girlfriend last week. she could not fathom this particle man I kept singing about was an actual song.

New comment by zzzbra in "Plex Is Going to Make You Pay for Its Best Free Feature"

zzzbra — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 05:00:54 +0000

This is certainly disappointing.

Plex Is Going to Make You Pay for Its Best Free Feature

zzzbra — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 05:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/plex-is-going-to-make-you-pay-for-its-best-free-feature-2000578442

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443712

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by zzzbra in "Scroll-Driven Animations"

zzzbra — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:58:13 +0000

When did we stop referring to this as Parallax Effects

New comment by zzzbra in "Los Angeles fires expose inflated US home prices"

zzzbra — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:19:39 +0000

what incompetence is that? Having a hard time seeing the link between technological progress and thebsize of wild fires.

New comment by zzzbra in "Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram"

zzzbra — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:28:49 +0000

I ask you honestly -- why? Why do you think it's awesome? It sounds like hell to me.

New comment by zzzbra in "Learn perfect pitch in 15 years"

zzzbra — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:08:04 +0000

love to see someone I went to high school with on HN's front page :)

New comment by zzzbra in "The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It"

zzzbra — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:49:27 +0000

TLDR; libertarian take that misses a lot of structural and historical factors. save yourself wasting the fifteen minutes on this high school grade evolutionary psychology postulating