HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

TRDRVR

no profile record

comments

TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
People sit on their phones?
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
I’ve heard a lot of denialists push the Tonga volcano and resultant water vapor in the stratosphere as evidence that climate change is more complex than we understand.

I always whole heartedly agree that it’s very complex, but we do know introducing novel gases to various parts of the atmosphere is generally chaotic and something to be avoided when we can.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Everyone here is complaining about the nature of the proposed natural experiment and I’m just here thinking “where are the pockets on OP’s clothes?”

Phones are stored primarily in front pockets that are nowhere near the colon in terms of biology (almost everyone has relatively dense meaty quads and femurs between the thigh and colon) or the inverse square law.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Please don't make personal attacks like that on this forum, it's against the rules.

So is claiming someone didn't read a source when you disagree with their interpretation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
As someone else who doesn't deal in identity politics, please know I don't care what you think of it and was trying to share information on a forum for the intellectually curious.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
No I just think all those quotes reference colonization.

Many people believe that specifically the Irish Pale popularized the statement, but the OED aren't among them.

What are we disagreeing about?
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Isn't this a forum for the intellectually curious?

I made no call to action.

I guess I should have known any time the information is something certain people would consider 'woke' it elicits a strong emotional reaction beyond the information itself.

My bad.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
And what were those fences specifically used for pray tell.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Incorrect from a formal logic standpoint.

It doesn't necessarily have bearing, but you cannot generalize the way you are doing.

Then no word would mean anything.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
You have successfully repeated the opinion of the Oxford English Dictionary after reading an entire article about how the British used Pales to colonize areas and define boundaries, but I'm not sure it's as cut and dry as you want it to be.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
What about the link contradicts the point that it's pro-colonialist?

The etymology is in doubt for any particular area, not the concept of what a pale was and how it was used to colonize.

That is the point of "many believe."

Also keep in mind that the major doubter is the Oxford English Dictionary...
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
>we even accepted multiple currencies

You accepted multiple currencies without taking a spread on Forex? How did you convert it for free? Not even actual forex businesses can do that...
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Just a periodic reminder that 'Beyond the Pale' is a pro-colonialist phrase that many believe was was part of Britain's Centuries-long campaign to eliminate Irish culture.

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/12/beyond-the-pale.h...
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
A huge aspect people ignore is how expensive it is to handle cash. From storage, administration, transportation, loss, etc. it's usually a little more expensive to take cash vs. card.

This is why your grocery store partners with an ATM network to let you take out extra cash at the POS. As long as you're paying the fee, they'll do whatever they can to trade you cash for a digital deposit into their bank account.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
There are “people who improperly use data that’s being given to them, like Plaid,” Dimon told analysts. [0]

Amazing how openly CEO's like Dimon will fear-monger about start-ups, when in reality they're just not satisfied with their own team's progress in doing the same exact thing. But of course it's OK when they eventually launch the product.

[0]https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/37293/dimon-scared-shit...
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Just FYI, the stock is down 99% since he joined as CEO in March 2021.

Some of that is market, but TSLA is -15% since then.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Yes. I agree. That was the point I was making.

I'm not saying the company is committing securities fraud, I am saying that if the company created a scheme as described by the commentor I was replying to, then that would be securities fraud.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
>He is effectively paying for these flights by buying Canoo stock.

If a CEO is intentionally creating a situation to make a company unprofitable and paying it back by buying shares, that is 100% securities fraud and I'm stunned anyone disagreed with that assertion.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
My friend, that is not how public companies work.

Every common shareholder is an equal, you don't get to launder jet travel the way he's doing - that's securities fraud.
TRDRVR
·2 years ago·discuss
Great follow up!

Ornithopters are designed by humans who sleep - the complex computers needed to make them work replicate things humans told them to do, right?

It is a very incomplete model of an ornithopter to not include the human.