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teklaon Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

Man, its amazing how confident you are about this, considering I know individual people who independently work at Visa, Mastercard, AND Apple, who have worked on mobile payments who independently confirm that none of them know any personal info and that its all pass-through.

So, are you sure you know what you are talking about?

teklaon Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

So no numbers?

teklaon Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

> 29.7 Trillion on entitlements excluding social security

Convenient to exclude SS for ... no reason other than it makes your numbers look better because its a vast majority of entitlement spending so it makes your argument look bad.

May I ask you provide numbers including all entitlement spending, which includes SS?

This is what I meant by knowing what the numbers are.

teklaon Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

Have fun comparing defense vs welfare/entitlements per year.

Link the comparison please. I already know what the numbers are

teklaon Allow Carriers on Planes

I'll bet that is less of an issue than the issue of evacuation.

Currently, aircraft seatbelts are designed for very quick release when needed with no training or muscle memory needed, shove your hand at your waist and pull the metal flap and it immediately comes apart. This seems like it could be an issue with baby carriers, since a) you can probably expect a bit more complex arrangement of straps buckles and b) lack of muscle memory or training on presumably a different style of carrier than what you ever ever use outside an airplane.

A second issue that comes to mind, how to do seating arrangements? Imagine a parent struggling to remove baby during a emergency. Imagine a 3 seat row window side, where others are stuck waiting for parent to release baby.

This seems like a certification nightmare

teklaon Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

Should Doctors have a legally enforced max pay? Same with the web devs, max $150K, anything else is just profit driven bullshit right?

teklaon Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

Easy. PE 99% of the time buy businesses that were already failing and provide a lifeline. A failing business can't afford to pay for expensive medical treatments without a loan that a bank will not provide since it is failing.

People who are vehemently against PE generally do not have any idea of how the system works

teklaon How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine

Yes, he has a BA in physics

teklaon Brood War Bench

At high levels of play Zerg is generally considered significantly stronger than the other races. So I generally will assume AI will tend to pick Zerg

teklaon Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border

This has not been true since 1977 at the very least, but Fourth Amendment exception at the border has been around for longer than even that.

teklaon Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border

You understand that no one actually believed that lie. It was built to stop people from running to west Germany.

teklaon Why Does the Universe Expand?

> Using Aristotle's deductive reasoning, I also believe we exist within a black hole.

Wut

teklaon Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

This is a almost entirely oversimplified take on the Great Depression to the point of meaninglessness

For a decade before Black Thursday,there had been many things that were signs that the economy was having trouble even if the "Roaring Twenties" made it seem like everything was fine.

IMO the largest issue was that American farm sector was teetering on the edge because of the dramatic drop in crop prices. This deflation screwed over farmers who mechanized with lots of debt, which because of said deflation, became impossible to pay off.

The fed also implemented rate hikes to curb speculation right before 1929 which froze up credit contributing to deflation

The problem of the Great Depression was NOT the stock market crash, it arguably wasn't even the real start, just the most "spectacular" one. The problem was that with the entire economy deflating, it caused a massive downward spiral that the Fed did not really have the tools to fix, because of Gold Standard and lack of legal authorization.

This was why the Govt went to extreme lengths to try and figure out how to raise prices, which is why you get programs to pay farmers to NOT grow food, and mass killings of pigs and cows and other farm animals, even as the farmers who raised those lifestock went hungry.

So no, speculation was not the problem, it just sparked the key issue of the fact that the economy was deflation uncontrolled, but was just hidden.

teklaon Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

Are you kidding me? Have you heard of a tiny event called the Great Depression?

The Japanese Lost Decade?

Greece Debt Crisis?

teklaon California's High Speed Rail to Nowhere [video]

Since its a one party state, there is barely reason to bother to care about being actually effective.

The train to nowhere will always be a train to nowhere because every single second it continues to not run, billions of dollars are being spent on consultants, construction workers waiting around, armies of lawyers, NGOS who barely have any reason to be paid, etc.

They are curiously also fans of the politicians shoveling this money at them to not actually build the thing they are also being paid to build simultaneously

teklaon A rough guide for going back to the Moon

This is such a bad response. The space race was to get to the moon. There is a reason the USSR dropped any crewed lunar plans instantly when the USA landed (also they couldn't get the N1 to stop exploding) and went all in on satellites. They also kept the crewed tests secret because they knew they were behind the USA and was embarrassing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericaBad/comments/1apgsc9/regardi...

teklaon Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts

Oh thank god. It hurt my soul watching the horror that is the new ST. Starfleet Academy was almost unspeakably terrible

teklaon People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

I can play the piano, saxaphone, and guitar, and I've never considered being able to think about music to be actually hearing it.

teklaon People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination

Yes I've had auditorial hallucinations. It was clearly inside my head, I was not "hearing" it

teklaon My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment. I Emailed the CEO

It's not baffling because insurers are not dictating care. They only decide if they want to pay for it.

Doctors are free to give any care they want.

teklaon My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment. I Emailed the CEO

Hell of a ragebait title.

Insurance would pay for standard care of an aggressive cancer, not for something that was much worse at prognosis.

teklaon New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore

It is pretty interesting to watch. "I'm pro immigration EXCEPT specifically the kind that directly affects me"

teklaon People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

I'm pretty sure this is the default. Who literally hears music when thinking of it.

teklaon XCancel service is suspended until further notice

Of course not.

Xcancel allows HN users and adjacent to swear that they have left Twitter because it has nothing to offer them because its all shit, but still consume Twitter content because every other similar platform really sucks and is boring and has no content

teklaon OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

Charge the "engineers" you dont get to take that title if you don't take the responsibility of that title.

I'm going to assume that this will never happen

teklaon I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

In case of the very likely title only reader posting:

> Speculation: Assetnote pulled in everything it could find under tesla.com, including pool-ntp.tesla.com, which CNAMEs to pool.ntp.org, which can resolve to my machine — 67.215.249.229. The asset inventory saves this as a Tesla asset, and starts throwing exploits at me, a stranger.

> Not a vuln in Tesla, and I'm not asking for anything, but I just wanted to let you know that you may unintentionally be being a nuisance.

teklaon Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

This is normal on HN

teklaon Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

Florida did not ban Flock cameras from the entire state.

They revoked permits for all license plate readers, including Flock, from state roads.

Local roads are unaffected by this order.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/florida-bans-flock-li...

> Monday’s order did not affect cameras on private property or on local rights-of-way — where 98% of the surveillance cameras are located

teklaon Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683853#49684407

Founders own words

teklaon Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

Doesn't seem to be what their YC Pitch was

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety

> From the moment we started Flock Safety, we had an incredibly clear, boldly audacious mission ... We provide a life-or-death product, a mission-critical system for cities