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FounderBurr··on Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor
Amazing what can be accomplished by smashing together a bunch of trash off AliExpress and GitHub.
FounderBurr··on What would a “good” WebMD look like?
A much better WebMD would like like Wikipedia.

Hint: it’s Wikipedia.

FounderBurr··on Launch HN: Be Golden (YC S22) – Measure and manage your inflammation levels
You can get a CRP level from any lab without a doctors order for about $30. The correct test, drawn and handled correctly, unlike this method.
FounderBurr··on Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
Were you not advised of th4 expiration date of your domain during renewal?

Take responsibility for your mistakes.

FounderBurr··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
These numbers are nonsense. Steak prices have doubled, not increased by 0.1%
FounderBurr··on Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing
Is IEEE really so pathetically desperate for money they need to show layers and layers of ads on their articles? Sad.
FounderBurr··on Art of README (2020)
A readme file should have some cool ansi art, shout outs and serials if needed.

Anything more is just wanking.

FounderBurr··on Apple retaliated against women who complained about misconduct
Supporting women does not make one obligated to ignore facts or fail to protect oneself from crazy.
FounderBurr··on Traffic Fatalities Reach 16 Year High
I see gta level stupid driving nearly every highway trip these days. People were always stupid but the level of dumb driving I’ve seen in the past 3 years has been through the roof.

People are just being much less careful and are heavily distracted.

FounderBurr··on ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology
Being held in contempt will not stop disclosure. Not a very bright attorney.
FounderBurr··on Group F/64
For those not in on this long running Wikipedia in joke, this article started as and continues to be a venue for contributors to one up each other on the pretension scale. I think it’s going well so far.
FounderBurr··on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
But it’s only string…
FounderBurr··on “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
“Malicious mass”… “benign calcification”. Not appropriate to tell people they do or don’t have cancer based on a radiograph gpt guess.

Also, can it tell the difference between a radiograph of a watermelon and a cancer filled breast? Prove it.

FounderBurr··on How to make your own CFexpress card for under $100
“Make”
FounderBurr··on Quaise Energy – Unlocking the true power of clean geothermal energy
Vaporized into what? Something that you’ll have to keep heated to 5000c for 20km until you can vent it?
FounderBurr··on Walgreens replaced some fridge doors with screens, and some shoppers hate it
Nice try video door salesman.
FounderBurr··on Walgreens replaced some fridge doors with screens, and some shoppers hate it
Marketing wank.

Nothing screams failure like appearing on media lying about how everyone likes you so much.

FounderBurr··on Walgreens replaced some fridge doors with screens, and some shoppers hate it
Hey Walgreens, when I see this I’ll just never return to your store to subject myself to this garbage. Same as I never return to gas stations with screeching televisions on the gas pumps or retail stores with a million blaring televisions shouting ads in every isle.
FounderBurr··on Ask HN: Using an LLC to protect side project IP
No. In court your single member LLC is going to be treated as being effectively you.
FounderBurr··on Adding a “duress” password with PAM Duress (2021)
Useful for amateur duress maybe?

Any professional organization will be examining your data in a forensic environment that doesn’t allow data self destruction.

Deniable encryption is the better solution here.

FounderBurr··on I can no longer compile my first Flash game
Always preserve your tool chain.

If you can’t, anything you develop will never really belong to you.

FounderBurr··on Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020)
No they didn’t.
FounderBurr··on Thunderbird’s New Home (2020)
Thunderbird is one of those products that is slowly being improved to death.
FounderBurr··on Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
Give away all that money.
FounderBurr··on Six-Letter DNA Alphabet Produces Proteins in Cells (2017)
Oooh your paragraph of text is sooooo compelling that I do want to “join your site” and agree to your cookie policy!! Omg how did I live without such insight. Take my money please!!
FounderBurr··on Dude where's my coldstart?
This is a joke right?
FounderBurr··on Linux from Scratch
So.. a modern Slackware?
FounderBurr··on Ask HN: Been writing code for 40 years and can't get hired
Change your resume so it looks like you’re 22 years old.
FounderBurr··on Man banned from leaving Israel for 8k years over child support payments
Ignore women, go your own way.
FounderBurr··on Hertz customers arrested, jailed and held at gunpoint after false theft reports
The only reason to file a police report years after a car went “missing” would be as a legally required prelude to making a claim against an insurance policy for the value of the car

I would not be shocked to find out there was a pattern here of reporting cars “stolen” that had become worth more “dead than alive” via insurance fraud.

Also speaking to culpability, someone at hertz had to swear under penalty of perjury that these vehicles were stolen. They may have acted “on orders” from above but they can be held criminally liable by the courts if they choose to actually pursue it.

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