HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

JohnLeTigre

128 karma · joined September 1, 2015

submissionscomments
JohnLeTigre··on Science was ignored today
If gender equality has a negative effect on the climate (ie. more cars, more refined produce consumed, etc), why would they have this as a requirement in the Paris accord?

I guess where I was getting at is that they seemed to have used this agreement to push a westernized social agenda. Considering that every country is sovereign, I'm not sure this is a proper approach.

Mind you, I would love to have gender equality across the world but it would be preferable to offer opt-in approaches.

JohnLeTigre··on Science was ignored today
That's odd, I didn't know that gender equality affected the climate.
JohnLeTigre··on Ask HN: Which games are you playing in free time?
For some reason I'm in a nostalgic phase

I'm playing Lufia II for the snes

I'm amazed I missed that one at the time.

JohnLeTigre··on Autonomous Ships
As guess this would qualify as great news for sea-faring pirates.
JohnLeTigre··on CPU Utilization is Wrong
or your code could be riddled with thread contentions

I guess this is why he used the term likely

Interesting article though

JohnLeTigre··on Gender Roles with Text Mining and N-grams
It would be fun to compare results with male writers, just to investigate the discrepancies in how genders may perceive the other.
JohnLeTigre··on A look at my BBS Software from '93
I miss those days

I miss live-chatting with the sysop if he was around

I miss gaining access levels and discover new files/areas

I miss re-loging at 12:01am to have double turns for my attack in BRE

I miss the discovery involved, how you would need to come up with interesting/new content to maintain you UL/DL ratio

I miss the epic mail convos we had in my BBS community

I miss GT's

JohnLeTigre··on This $400 appliance that squeezes juice out of a bag appears unnecessary
That's a juicy story
JohnLeTigre··on Charging Bull sculptor says New York's Fearless Girl statue violates his rights
Sorry for the late reply, the act of living itself makes me see the world slightly differently every day as new events unfurl.

I prefer learning from observations rather than being subjected to ideological propaganda. One respects the sovereignty of my conscience, the other does not.

Art does have a great impact on everyone's conscience, this is what makes it poignant. But there is good art and bad art, and in my book, ideological art is always bad since it veers your mind towards ideologies, towards a self-imprisonment of the mind, towards a false sense of consciousness, etc.

JohnLeTigre··on Charging Bull sculptor says New York's Fearless Girl statue violates his rights
The addition of the girl makes it look like the bull intends to go after her, that's kind of a troubling thought and it does not respect the initial artistic intent of the bull statue.

"financial resilience" becomes "confronting women"? wow.

JohnLeTigre··on My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal
For diplomatic reasons.
JohnLeTigre··on My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal
I'm sure you are aware that their justification is to help determine if people are linked to dangerous groups or not.

Personally I wouldn't go that far but still, my point is that: not being searched at the border is a priviledge, not a right.

JohnLeTigre··on A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
lol, good point

I suspect it wasn't tresspass though, more like a bought-pass

JohnLeTigre··on A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
Some observations

- Surely there is a difference between overbooking and diminishing the number of available seats after the fact.

- Also, I would like to see how their "random computer pick" complies with their legal obligation of having IDB priority criterions.

- That was excessive force without any doubt. I mean, they had to clean up the blood afterwards.

- The doctor had to meet patients the next day, he had to uphold his hypocratic oath, I'm not sure this constitutes a "refusal" to vacate the plane in the legal sense.

JohnLeTigre··on Ask HN: What is it that you hate about the Unity Desktop?
What I dislike: It makes me feel like a user.
JohnLeTigre··on My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal
Of course, but they have the right to know what you are bringing in, this can involve searching people, it's a practical necessity.

Try entering your country with a piece of nuclear grade uranium.

JohnLeTigre··on My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal
Not to be incendiary but when she said "the ongoing erosion of our rights", I cringed.

Nobody has the "right" not to be searched or interrogated at borders (except for some politicians that have diplomatic immunity).

Is she a politician? if not, no right was infringed.

JohnLeTigre··on Disapproval of FCC regulations a significant blow against privacy protection
Great, now everyone will use Tor and torrent over I2P. I wonder if these technologies can handle the extra bandwidth.
JohnLeTigre··on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess
It's illegal to taxi people around without a permit.

Look it up, gypsy cabs are not new at all. Most people kept a low profile and stuck to their own ghettos though.

Anyways, the conversation is not substantive anymore, both of our points where made.

JohnLeTigre··on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess
It's an app
JohnLeTigre··on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess
Typically 2/3rd of expenses in companies go into salaries. That's a huge chunk of money.

Somebody finds a system that reduces the salarial expenses to zero and all the hard-capitalists are over-joyed, secretly dreaming that they could apply this model to their own business.

In the mean time workers, while owning the means of production, are still liable to pay all the running expenses, to invest their time and work and give a percentage to a stranger, for some odd reason.

This is a form of feudalism.

I am not anti-capitalist, but I fear that this form of economy on the long run will not allow individuals to flourish economically through the merit of their work.

JohnLeTigre··on Privacy issues with the “Hugging Face” chatbot for teens
I wonder if they collect exif metadata (which may contain geolocation). This is creepy.
JohnLeTigre··on Amit’s Game Programming Information
oh man! loved that game.
JohnLeTigre··on Why we should all have a basic income
It's a cool idea but the problem is that people that sell goods will raise their prices knowing that everyone has more disposable income.

So the cost of life will raise and the people will have the same relative expenses (practically as poor) but without any fallback system this time around.

So unless UBI is coupled with strict pricing regulations, it's a scam.

JohnLeTigre··on Ask HN: What motivates you in life?
solving problems
JohnLeTigre··on Ask HN: I’m being bullied at work. What do I do?
Typically, agressive people are those who can't admit defeat, agressivity being their last resort to "still win".

The trick is to maintain their illusion that they are in control.

So instead of saying: "It would be unwise to implement this feature because of X"

you could say: "I'm wondering if X could stop us from implementing this feature efficiently, what do you think?"

(what do you think = I am relegating control to you)

Stay clear of personal statements as much as possible but if it's unavoidable, think of "leaving them an open door"

Say your PO ate your lunch (for god knows what reason),

you would not say: "Why did you eat my lunch?",

you would say: "It might have been an accident but did you eat my lunch?"

(It might have been an accident = I'm giving you a ready-made excuse that you can use so that you can still feel in control about stuff)

It is important to have you "open door" at the begining of the statement for maximum effectiveness.

---

Business-wise though, the typical steps is

- try and fix it one on one (use the open door trick): "It might be just me but did you notice work tensions between us, if so how can we fix this..."

- if this fails, go to HR but don't talk badly about anyone, you need to use the "ask for advice" approach.

- if this fails, start sending your cv to other jobs

JohnLeTigre··on Concerning Stephen Hawking’s Claim That Philosophy Is Dead (2012) [pdf]
Maybe he meant that positivism is dead.
JohnLeTigre··on It’s official: Venezuela is a dictatorship
That didn't seem very journalistic, especially considering how things are extremely complicated over there. ah well
JohnLeTigre··on An empirical study on the impact of C++ lambdas and programmer experience
There's a guy at work whose position is unclear to most. It's just that random guy.

Typically, on monday mornings and friday evenings, he's very loud and looking busy. This is an age-old trick to superficially keep your job.

Ever so often one would hear his odd sounding voice pierce through the office talking about some idiosyncratic evidence while looking proud of himself.

Truly, if this guy was a programmer (which I doubt), he would be using lambdas. See, lambdas might have a use after all...

JohnLeTigre··on What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like
Too bad there was little to no talking

the human voice is an important sound

Page 1 of 3Next →