Hacker News Reader

> How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days

That is only 1 VIP twitter recipient, not the total received by Twitter.

snomadon California pulls the plug on rooftop solar

It wasn't even a topic in the governor race, despite the numerous well documented connections between the governor and PG&E

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/pge...

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/gavin-news...

snomadon Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k

Why did he buy 10% of twitter stick? That wasn't a momentary lapse of judgement.

snomadon A clean start for the web (2020)

Since all the clients have to do the work, doesn't that result in a net increase in electricity consumption? Since most electricity comes from fossil fuels doesn't that in net hurt our battle against climate change?

snomadon Hacker News Guidelines

There is a school of thought, primarily from critical theorists and their derivatives, that proposes constant agitation, there is no neutral. E.g. Kendi's anti-racist. As this school of thought has taken root in schools and media, political discussion has expanded to encompass more and more of life. It is the intended result. Fair to say they have been wildly successful.

snomadon My take on Elon's offer for Twitter

> This comes up all the time that "you can't make edgy jokes anymore", but it isn't true.

What would be your explanation for Nimesh Patel being removed from stage at Columbia?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-snl-writer-nimesh...

snomadon Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

Is Spengler the only person describing cyclical history? Probably not since someone above your post mentioned

> Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Muslim scholar from Tunisia

snomadon Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

No reason ad tech companies should have freedom to associate real world data with online data. This seems like the perfect candidate for a US state proposition.. no company engaged in online ad tech may combine or allow any other entity to marry online identities with real life.

snomadon There Is a Much Larger Problem Than the Great Resignation

> It would be good to analyze what happened between 1965 and 2022, what has changed that instead of progress we see some kind of downward spiral.

Whether you agree with him or not, this video highlights how the 70s changed everything (in the US at least)

The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY

snomadon Police in tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’

Its a Motte and Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle

snomadon More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

> without that community college plus a cheap state school isn’t expensive.

UCLA is 13k per year, *if* you are from California. Classes are likely impacted (even upper division) so even if a person goes to UCLA just for the last 2.5 - 3 years they could easily owe > 30k

The real cost

- rampant corruption (in california, if they ever opened the books on the non-profit entities it would be a major stunner and awakening for many people). Last I saw there was ~100 non-profits serving ~20 campuses . You can read more https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/auxiliary-organizations/.... But what they don't tell you, those books are private and not shared with the public. Rest assured, they are money laundering machines.

- rent seekers like Pearson and Mcgraw Hill (fun fact, did you know the 2 joined forces to run a company called Follets that runs most campus bookstores (how is that allowed?)

- administration bloat

snomadon Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

> We were warned - time and again - and each time that warning was ignored.

And at least in the US, their are 1000s of people receiving good money to take that warning seriously. And they still failed.

snomadon Steam has been banned in China

remind me, what happened in 2013?

snomadon Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain

A great use case would be data collected in the process of complying with general govt regulations.

Why this is better than central DB: Allows govt to outsource IT Public interest in the data will result in 3rd party clients being developed It makes that govt data more accesible for all parties - no gatekeeping

Use case examples All modern houses have a ton of compliance docs - window installers, insulation installers, HVAC, etc. Recording that data on the public blockchain provides a universal storage mechanism and API to that data. There is no reason for that data to be private / behind gatekeepers and a whole range of stakeholders - home builders, academics, environmentalist - want access.

Tracking highway per mile marker. Similar to the home building example - the govt collects a whole bunch of data (accidents, pollution run off and constituents, expenses). Many entities could use that data and relying on all govts worldwide to provide it seems cumbersome to unlikely.

snomadon Debunking our narratives of the late 70s and early 80s

That completely ignores leaving the gold standard... which was necessitated by... runaway govt spending

snomadon Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel

The democratic party famously screwed over VP Wallace in a highly rigged convention (so power leaders could get relative neophyte Truman in)

Rumors are the mob delivered the election for Kennedy; even those historians who argue otherwise essentially characterize it as the democratic party stealing the election "An order from the mob to work for Kennedy only insured a total Chicago effort of the kind that historically had been known to work miracles in the early-morning hours of vote counting"

Lyndon Johnson famously stole his 1948 senate election

Democrats were plenty happy to use vote harvesting to take Orange County, Ca while arguing against it in Georgia (2018).

[ed] And a new one just hitting news today, https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/10/13/marie-beren-voter-...

I would respectfully disagree with your assertion this is a one party issue

snomadon Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel

* refuse to accept college IDs as valid for voting, even those issued by the state government because it's a state school (college students are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). Hunting licenses? Cool (people with hunting licenses are more likely to vote for the "right" party).

* prevent college students who live most of the year in-state, and can prove it, but have an out-of-state driver's license, from voting.

* place extra hoops on people whose name doesn't match their birth certificate, make them produce every document with every change and toss their registration if there's a typo (this mainly affects married women, who are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). This is an effective way to disenfranchise a lot of older women who don't have a current driver's license.

---

Do you have studies/papers/numbers for any of these groups?

snomadon Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP

I'm curious how a similar tool built for airplane and helicopter crashes. What if it was due to mechanical failure, would you want the story to focus on a mechanic?

snomadon Facebook whistleblower says she wants to fix company, not harm it

Check out elsagate on reddit... https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/

snomadon Free Parking Is Killing Cities

That is a pretty broad brush.

Would you be ok with a strip club and liquor store next to a elementary school? I wouldn't, and appreciate zoning laws for that reason.

Simply blaming NIMYism feels like lazy analysis. Every community is different.. how, why, and where things are built is far too complex to explain w/one word.

snomadon Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

Ban algorithmic account suspensions to users who have derived $250 from a service in last year - all must be confirmed by a human.

Gives Google, fb, twitter, et al time to ban the bots (in first 30 days of an account life), while still protecting users from ever expansive tech cos.

snomadon Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal

> Legislate what, specifically?

I got some suggestios - No company w/more than 1 million MAU and deriving any income from online advertising may not combine any online information about a user with any physical real-world data; they may not sell data to another 3rd party that will combine online and physical;

- Ban the algo: Any user deriving more than $250 in value from an online service may not be banned by an algorithm. They must be given 60 days notice and an opportunity to remove their data from the service

- No company may own more than 1 domain in the top 5,000 (as measured by monthly traffic). All domains must be consolidated to 1

- No more hiding behind scale, expand the carve outs for 230 form beyond child porn to definitely include any threats of violence - but especially death threats

Thats just a start...

snomadon Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’ explaining work-from-home salary cuts

Isn't remote work obviously good for the environment, especially in the big cities like SF and Seattle? Shouldn't Google, MSFT, Apple, et al be encouraging more remote work - given their size their local impact on rush hour traffic is likely noticeable.

Maybe this is another area where government needs to step in and mandate all employers over a certain size allow work-from-home with no pay consequences.

snomadon Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

We don't even need a carbon tax per se; we just need consumption based tax system (as the US had until 1913), instead of a productivity based tax system.

snomadon Microsoft Edge Experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode

I prefer a paginated inbox, its that way in gmail for me (maybe I turned on some setting years ago?).

The pagination is a nice break and lets me know I am done, everything on back pages has been previously processed.

snomadon Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe

I wonder how long until Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea develop nuclear weapons.

Won't be good for the world, but can't blame them.

snomadon Striking to End Suicide Shifts, Frito-Lay Workers Ask People to Drop the Doritos

Yeah...

> The plant, which is one of 30 in the U.S., employs about 850 people. Yet, officials said, only about 20 — approximately 2% — averaged over 60 hours per week.

> "Our records indicate 19 employees worked 84 hours in a given work week in 2021, with 16 of those as a result of employees volunteering for overtime and only 3 being required to work," the company said on Monday.

That's not even the normal qualified/hedging language, that's pretty cut and dry.

snomadon Assange case: Key witness admits he lied

How many years was he in forced isolation by that point?