HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

StuffedParrot

1 karma · joined November 11, 2019

submissionscomments
StuffedParrot··on Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
Search warrants are issued for specific suspects. This is equivalent to searching a crowd, which is a violation of your fourth amendment.

Naturally this hinges on whether or not your activity on google is yours or theirs. While their terms of service is clear, courts may have different opinions.

StuffedParrot··on Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
It is the determination that is illegal itself.
StuffedParrot··on FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm
200mg is normal for ibuprofen, and prescriptions for 800mg versions are not unusual.

Meanwhile 500mg is, I believe, more than they combine with opiates and acetaminophen does lead to death via organ failure on the order of hundreds of people a year. I was curious why they weighted the acetaminophen proportionally so much higher than the ibuprofen.

StuffedParrot··on The Mac “Pro”
> Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space.

This is certainly cultural. I’ve worked in four different states for four different developer driven companies and they were all mac dominated. Macs are certainly “there” in the developer community.

StuffedParrot··on Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions
It seems like a generational thing.
StuffedParrot··on E-scooter company goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads
There’s large differences between bad luck, failed plans, mismanagement, and fraud. It’s optimistic to assume the best of the person who raised funds.
StuffedParrot··on FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm
That seems pretty high for acetaminophen and low (proportionally) for ibuprofen. Why would you prescribe that?
StuffedParrot··on Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment
If your life was materially impacted by slow mobile speeds you should spend less time on your phone.
StuffedParrot··on Dating While Dying
> Nothing he said is related to the usual talking points of incels.

From my understanding, explicit, fatalist despairing of your sex life is the red/black pills to which incels refer. It is definitely an attitude to be concerned about, regardless of what labels you want to use, because it's a worldview that will reproduce itself without intervention.

> Can't you garner sympathy for a person who is missing out on one of the basic human needs (emotional connection)?

Do you think the advice to lose the incel angle (i.e. and actually admit the possibility of future relationships) was bad advice? That strikes me as more helpful than pitying him.

StuffedParrot··on Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
Surely this value would be easy to demonstrate.
StuffedParrot··on Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
I often wonder what the positive VC experience is like.
StuffedParrot··on United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
You didn't call anyone stupid, you asked a passive aggressive question designed to demean without advancing any worldviews or assertions of your own. That's fucking stupid.
StuffedParrot··on United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
> However since New York "insists" on paying about 7x what Spain would for the same amount of subway it is just barely worth it to build the SAS, and anything with even slightly less ridership potential is a waste of money.

Literally any amount spent on the subway will be returned in rent to landlords. You're just looking from the wrong perspective.

StuffedParrot··on Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
> It's interesting how the article accuses Ring and Amazon of selling via fear, but that's also exactly what the article itself is selling.

Just because something is published by vice doesn't automatically make it untrue (though it broadly is very suspect). However, you've made the great case yourself that these product purchases are motivated by fear, not by material return on investment.

StuffedParrot··on California car burglaries are at crisis levels
I don’t see anyone “progressive” arguing for not prosecuting people who break into cars, or not looking for them, or deprioritizing them. This is hardly a polarizing viewpoint. It’s just a useful dog whistle for certain styles of law and order conservatism.

There IS a progressive effort to prioritize moving forward with felony charges over misdemeanors. Perhaps you got confused?

StuffedParrot··on California car burglaries are at crisis levels
You should run for DA.

Also, you can break a window from across the street with a ball bearing. Good luck.

StuffedParrot··on United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
I would kill for second avenue subway in 99% of America. It only sucks in Manhattan. MTA is the worst, except it’s also the best mass transit in the country.
StuffedParrot··on United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
By “addressed” what are you referring to wrt Boeing?
StuffedParrot··on United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
This is stupid; let people have their own values and convictions.

Also there is a train to most airports to avoid taking a car.

StuffedParrot··on EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection
I recommend googling :)
StuffedParrot··on California car burglaries are at crisis levels
Sure, but the underlying difference is that people actually know their rights, not that SF is somehow soft on crime as implied.
StuffedParrot··on California car burglaries are at crisis levels
The arrest rate for car breakin in SF is 2%, let alone prosecution. What’s your suggestion for raising that rate—hire a cop for every car in the city?
StuffedParrot··on California car burglaries are at crisis levels
I believe what you’re describing is nation wide and doesn’t have anything to do with SF.
StuffedParrot··on EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection
This is hardly unusual for them; they removed the ability to blacklist sites from domains because people were blacklisting commercial sites.
StuffedParrot··on Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry
> it’s easy to assume they are the same person.

Easy, sure, but you’re probably wrong.

StuffedParrot··on Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017)
Ahh, a libertarian finding joy!
StuffedParrot··on McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
> There’s only the strength of the programs and how much value people derive from them, and if 20 executives are able to sleep and handle their stress a little better, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Mindfulness cannot fix the underlying problems that lead to mindfulness being useful to capital in the first place. Personally I’d rather my CEO make work less miserable and sleep that way (say, hire people for fewer hours and raise wages) than sleep well because they paid for someone to soothe them through the arduous travails of being a high paid executive.

That said, anyone who didn’t see capital swallowing this is dense. Anything that can be commodified will be. Arguing over it is pointless.

StuffedParrot··on After WeWork, SoftBank’s Startup Bookkeeping Draws Scrutiny
> If it's really one big conspiracy to prop up valuations via recent financing, loans, or market comparables, then wouldn't one of these parties call it out.

Not if they accept the same culture of growth that enables this in the first place—it’s certainly still speculation, not a science. I would love to see the justification behind the $47B valuation.

StuffedParrot··on Domes are overrated
The author should read the mars trilogy. Its omission here is glaring.
StuffedParrot··on Switzerland’s Nation of Hoteliers
More importantly your employer won’t like it.
← PreviousPage 3 of 5Next →