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billy99k··on Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060
Well, you can send me a graphics card and find out.
billy99k··on [dead]
You can always leave or just not read my comments. Oh, and stop stalking me. It's creepy.
billy99k··on Doge May Be Dead, but Its Crimes Live On
These total death numbers are suspect, especially since they are taking it at face value by people that hate Trump and Musk.

I haven't seen any proof backing these claims up.

billy99k··on Hire Me in Japan
Software development in Japan is decades behind the US and other parts of the world. You also won't be making that good of a salary, which won't go far if you are living in a big city like Tokyo.

My guess is that you need this for the work visa.

It would be better to get a remote US job and find some other way to get a Visa.

billy99k··on Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter
A vast percentage of women vote for far-left policies, so this isn't surprising.
billy99k··on Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard
I just don't think someone that sees them as patriarchal and violent will ever see their achievements as amazing. They will most likely have the belief that their achievements were due to stealing it from another culture or on the backs of slaves (and the slaves were actually responsible for the amazing achievements).

It's putting a leftists lens on a historical culture. I get bored with these takes pretty quickly because of the obvious bias which leads to complete inaccuracy.

billy99k··on The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore
It stopped being about merit and education a long time ago. It's now about victimhood and minority status. The same people pushing for these things in our universities are shocked that companies want to use H1B talent, because they can't find anyone in the US with the skills.
billy99k··on Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
I had kids and finally settled into a career at 33. It certainly forced me into adult mode after this.

I just met up with my Brother-in-law and his friends for our yearly gathering. All of them are in their 30s and none of them are in what I would consider 'adult mode'.

They are all un-married/no kids, barely scraping by, partying every weekend/wasting money on weed and booze. Certainly no careers (mostly retail, some unemployed and still living with parents).

I wonder if these numbers will change with the new generation, because so many are not having kids or getting married.

billy99k··on Your brain changes at 9, 32, 66, and 83
This makes sense. My old boss retired at 60. He doesn't need to work anymore and spends all of his time going on cruises and at the beach. This has to have a major change on your brain.
billy99k··on Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?
The HN community is tech savvy. If they really wanted to abuse it, they would just use a VPN.
billy99k··on [dead]
I'm glad we are on the same page.
billy99k··on [dead]
I disagree. This is emotional blackmail. The governments in charge of those countries are to blame.
billy99k··on UK union accuses Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise
"The IWGB refuted this, saying that workers only communicated in private and on legally protected trade union channels, and did not leak any information publicly."

I disagree with them here. If trade secrets are posted all over Discord, even if it's a private channel with 50 people, I would still consider this 'public'. It's outside of the company.

billy99k··on Why faster coding doesn't mean faster software delivery
The site didn't load correctly for me, so I couldn't read the article. My experience with this is that software is usually never the bottleneck for delivery. It's always the business side.
billy99k··on After my dad died, we found the love letters
"Before you judge the man in this story too harshly"

I will judge him harshly. Instead of getting a divorce, he emotionally abused his wide and child, which probably means therapy for the child for life. He's a selfish asshole, that doesn't think about anyone but himself.

He also could have brought diseases back home to his wife (Just hearing the stories of his selfishness, he would have kept this hidden or not even gotten tested at all).

"The alternative was to be a laughing stock and die alone in a hospital where nurses don’t dare touch you."

This is the worst case scenario. He could have gotten a divorce, and lived the life he wanted.

This guy deserves zero sympathy.

billy99k··on Conference installed a literal antivirus monitoring system
Co2, so what we breath out? You could just as easily limit the number of people in the room and be just as effective.
billy99k··on What you should know from a trove of ChatGPT conversations we analyzed
Turning to an LLM for 'companionship' shows major IQ issues. At this point it's a glorified search engine and I'm not sure what else you can possibly get from it.
billy99k··on Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades
These public freak outs is also why we don't have abundant nuclear energy.

The climate activists of the 60s-90s stopped us from building more reactors, one of the cleanest sources of energy ever known.

billy99k··on Amazon's Layoffs Are Business as Usual, Not Omens of AI Doom
A socialist site talking about H1b abuse? Color me surprised.
billy99k··on China Just Invented the Battery That Will Kill Gas Cars
It doesn't pass the 'smell test' because you are making guesses from behind a keyboard and it doesn't sound like you know much about electric cars.
billy99k··on China Just Invented the Battery That Will Kill Gas Cars
It was a leaf, yes (not sure about the year). It was probably 150 lbs of luggage and fully charged and in the middle of summer. This was 2 years ago.

He had to turn around and use another vehicle.

Without the luggage, range was normal in the same weather.

billy99k··on China Just Invented the Battery That Will Kill Gas Cars
This will depend on weather (like winter) and weight of the car. A friend of my had a full electric vehicle and had to go back to a gas car when we went on vacation, because the weight of his luggage in the car reduced 70 miles to around 25.
billy99k··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
"..a healthy community hand-picked by parents is not "the real world" though, is it?"

School isn't their only exposure to life. You will get exposure to other people and non-healthy people outside of school.

"Kids in public school are exposed to society at large, in both good and bad ways. My kids are in class with others of different cultures and lived experience and I believe that enriches their lives. Despite, yes, there being some problematic kids in th"

When I was a kid, I was exposed to kids that should have been in prison..and many of them ended up there. My life probably would have been better if they weren't there.

"My kids are in class with others of different cultures and lived experience and I believe that enriches their lives. Despite, yes, there being some problematic kids in there."

This can still be done with home schooling.

"The sad reality of parenting is that you're never going to be able to hand-pick your child's experience all the way through life. Sooner or later they're going to be exposed to the "hostile flowers" you describe."

I disagree. If someone is hostile and aggressive all the time, I wouldn't be around them as an adult. I hand pick my friends, and you probably do too. I also still get exposed to the assholes of the world.

"Personally I think learning to be around those people and still thrive is a part of childhood that prepares you well for adulthood. It may be more valuable than some of the academic work kids do."

If you are at work and someone is sexually harassing all of the women there or generally causing issues for everyone around them (preventing most other people from getting their work done). Do you think they should stay, so everyone can learn to be around them?

You seem to think everyone is a reasonable person that might just have a few issues. This is far from the truth and many times, public schools will just keep these kids there, preventing everyone around them from learning.

It's also a burden to the teachers and staff.

billy99k··on UK bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'
Anyone who states "inclusive and safe environment" almost certainly excludes people they don't like.
billy99k··on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers
"In an ideal world, we should be challenging both"

Not really. Calling food poison and then complaining that poor people can't afford it implies that you support poor people eating poison and or eating the food.

The first complaint implies that they shouldn't be eating it at all and result is that I just can't take the second complaint seriously.

It's just a way to shit on big corporations without having to take responsibility.

billy99k··on Jeffrey Epstein Emails Reveal Depth of Ties to High-Profile Scientists
The 'rape' happened 30 years ago. There were no witnesses, nobody to back up her story, and the trial was a joke due to almost everything she said having so many holes in it, you could hardly call it evidence. Hopefully, you won't have this ever happen to you.

" Long term friend of Jeffrey Epstien, who organised parties for him with young models and sent cryptic birthday notes about secrets written on a drawing of the naked but undeveloped chest of a girl?"

From the same group of people that think kids learning about shit play in school, is fine.

it's a bit funny to be pearl clutching about what amounts to nothing.

It's already been coming out in the past few days that liberal politicians and reporters are not only friends with Epstein, but helped his image and colluded with him during Trump's trial.

All eyes are on Trump. If there was any real connection to Epstein, the Democrats would have used it to torpedo his political career.

There isn't, and they witheld the document release at the expense of the victims.

billy99k··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
Canada has been authoritarian for awhile, while trying to claim to be 'nice'. The protestors during Covid got de-banked, fired, and arrested.

Democracies with Liberal leaders can quite literally get away with murder.

billy99k··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
75,000 is very small for a business.
billy99k··on Jeffrey Epstein Emails Reveal Depth of Ties to High-Profile Scientists
I like how they try to say that Trump is in the same category:

- Witnesses, under oath, said they didn't see Trump near any of the girls. - He was the only one to testify against Epstein years earlier. - He kicked him out of his club after finding out he was a creep.

billy99k··on New Jersey group attempted to harvest organs from patient with signs of life
My elderly father has been ill a few times over the past year and in the hospital (this is in the US). What I've noticed is that Doctors and Nurses keep pushing us to just let him die, instead of trying to keep him alive.

This wasn't something in passing. It's non-stop throughout his time there. To the point of harassment and they try to divide-and-conquer with my family. The first time, he recovered within a couple of weeks and went home.

He's sick again with RSV, and they are pushing it again. He will probably be released within a week or so. He has no dementia, heart issues, or cancer. His main problem is his knees, which is pretty common with a 90 year old.

I'm just not clear on the motive. Why care so much about this? It's not like he's a vegetable and suffering. His quality of life, even after the first time he came out, wasn't too bad.

It also seems like nobody knows what they are doing. If my mom hadn't been there to watch what they were doing, he probably would have died the first time.

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