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burger_moon··on Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now
I clicked a dot by my house which is not in california and it shows $929
burger_moon··on Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc
This Glen Greebwald who "quit" in protest to his false Hunter Biden witch hunt?

The guy lost all credibility pushing that fake bullshit story so far he lost his job at his own news org.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-quits-the-inte...

burger_moon··on Cryptocurrency Startup Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Shows
Black tongue comments are really getting tiring to read on here.
burger_moon··on I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months
Thanks for writing this is up!

I've been thinking about enrolling at WGU for their CS degree and was just chatting about it yesterday.

I'm also self taught but with only half a degree completed. I think about moving abroad especially for retirement reasons. Having that paper makes all the difference. Without it it's much harder to live anywhere outside a home country permanently.

burger_moon··on CIA Labs
The CIA also has a venture capital firm for investing in startups.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

burger_moon··on Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
> Every single day this is posted there is a raft of comments that either use ad hominems to attack the source without addressing what it had to say or red herrings

Those comments are getting really tiring and it's disappointing to see this place accept ad hominems against the source over and over in those threads instead of actually discussing the trial.

Ofc complaining about comment quality isn't new, that's existed before I started coming here.

Hn does a pretty good job of being off topic in threads but it's the nastiness of the comments that degrades the quality of conversation (I myself am guilty of this too, and I need to work on that).

burger_moon··on I no longer build software
I went the other way into programming from the trades.

Sometimes, especially when I read about people leaving this industry to go work in the trades it makes me nostalgic and miss working with my hands and building real things.

But I also have enough bad memories of shitty work conditions and waking up sore day after day to give me a gut check to stay put for a little longer.

> I don't think programming is the probkem. Anything you do 40 hours a week for other people will get to you just the same. Programming is a pretty sweet gig, all things considered.

Turning my hobbies in jobs killed off a lot of fun I used to have. I think it's pretty universal and why it should probably be more common to switch industries a couple times at least through your career to keep things fun and not stay in a burned out mentality forever.

burger_moon··on Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
Also when your salary is tied to feature development, bloated apps and poor UX is inevitable.
burger_moon··on Instagram's Hashtags Has Been Favouring Donald Trump
Reached for comment, a Trump campaign spokesperson lambasted the bug as an example of alleged bias against conservatives on social media platforms.

They're being favoured and promoted by FB but also biased against...

burger_moon··on Sledding athletes are taking their lives
Weight cutting is pretty bad for your body, and they take it to extreme levels of drying out their bodies too, so any of these sports which have weight classes (all the weight lifting, wrestling) are pretty damaging to all organs in the body and have caused death before. Not advocating to stop these in Olympics, pointing out there's non-obvious risks athletes take beside head trauma.
burger_moon··on Will Garmin Pay $10M Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?
> I'd be shocked if they ever admit it was ransomware.

Won't they have to since they will need to report it for shareholders?

burger_moon··on Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add more horsepower
I thought it might be about metal matrix composites which are even lighter than traditional forged magnesium pistons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_matrix_composite

burger_moon··on Help HN: Laid off due to Covid, almost out of runway
Have you looked through the July Who's Hiring thread? Also probably worth going through the last few months of submissions and reach out to any of those companies looking for front end devs.

Also post this in the Who wants to be Hired thread, although I don't know how effect that thread is (I never got any contacts from that one)

Edit: also sorry I don't have anything to offer you, my job isn't hiring right now. But any time I see these posts I always give them an upvote. I hope you the best!

burger_moon··on The Rise of the “Liberaltarian”
How many people drive around without insurance right now though and even people who don't have driver's license. It just isn't practical to think people will do it, especially when times get tough. If I'm choosing which bill to pay, I'll take the water bill over the insurance bill
burger_moon··on Economists Think Congress Could Create an Economic Disaster This Summer
FTA consensus on unemployment in December is around 10% which is pretty staggering. Right now it is 11% so not a lot of recovery on the horizon according to them
burger_moon··on Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate
In a way they don't benefit from hate. How many people here quit fb because of politics and toxic communities?
burger_moon··on Moldova Shuts Down Bootleg Helicopter Factory
What a crazy story. Would be interesting to read a more in-depth article on underground helicopter manufacturing.

I wonder how that would work in the US? I don't think there's anything illegal about building your own aircraft. That's basically what the EAA is all about I think.

https://www.eaa.org/eaa

burger_moon··on What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture, part 2
Where can I find the communities that are upset/distrust NASS? Is this on twitter/forums/fb? I'd like to take a deeper look into the problems they're discussing but I'm an outsider, not sure where to begin looking.
burger_moon··on Hey opens its email service to everyone as Apple approves its app for good
Can anyone comment on the benefits to using Hey over Fastmail? I am switching off gmail next week and have been looking at using one of these.

Fastmail is $30 or 50/yr vs Hey $99/yr

Are the features of Hey worth the extra money?

burger_moon··on TwitterySafety censors President Trump, accusing him of threatening harm
Or maybe called out on imprisoning Asian American citizens in their own country
burger_moon··on TwitterySafety censors President Trump, accusing him of threatening harm
> accusing him of threatening harm

> they will be met with serious force!

Sounds like it matches up.

Why would this not end well for Twitter? USC230 isn't going to be changed because of Trump complaining, outside of that Twitter isn't losing any followers by doing this, it generates more buzz on their platform.

burger_moon··on Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (1985)
Since we're on the topic of Germany WWII. I read a couple books about Treblinka over the weekend. The atrocities that happened there were sickening. To read about what these people were forced to do there in this death camp is painful.

The Germans and Ukrainians who did these horrific acts of murder and torture were unaffected by it, as told by two authors who survived.

It leaves me with more questions than answers. How can people do this to others, it takes so little to motivate people to turn into savage murders, and why did then not teach us about these death camps in school. Everyone knows about Auschwitz but they skipped over the pure death camps and focused more on the rah-rah we're winning battles than observing the suffering that took place. It all makes me sad. It makes me sad knowing what some people in America the "free" country were going through during this time too.

burger_moon··on Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?
> Arrests and summonses plummeted in early 2015. This, in labor and political parlance, is called a slowdown.

Why doesn't this lead to shrinking budgets and layoffs of police? Aren't they providing a data backed solution to reducing the cities budget?

burger_moon··on George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook
> Speaking at a cocktail party in Davos on Jan. 22, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, repeated the worn Silicon Valley cliché that Facebook is trying to make the world a better place.

How out of touch is Sandberg, yikes. The hubris of a FB exec still clinging onto that old phrase after everything they've become associated with.

This being written by Soros and not an article about something he said makes this message much more interesting. He's putting FB on blast in public forum, it's a much louder message.

> In 2016, Facebook provided the Trump campaign with embedded staff who helped to optimize its advertising program. (Hillary Clinton’s campaign was also approached, but it declined to embed a Facebook team in her campaign’s operations.)

Will this become a theme for all elections? Does FB also do this for other elections and in elections outside of the US?

It feels like a bit of a dirty game to embed your engineers into a political campaign.

burger_moon··on Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Reflections on the Color of My Skin
Thank you for posting this.

Here is a facebook free link https://outline.com/gY2JRt

burger_moon··on Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms
>He says a call center worker told him that he didn't qualify for any help because he was late on a car payment last year. When NPR contacted Ford, the company said that is not its policy. And after reviewing the case, the company is now letting Baird skip his next car payment, which he says is a big help.

It appears Ford operates on the Google customer service spectrum of only helping those who can gain support of public outcry.

What I would like to see is a response from Ford that they will open an investigation to review everyones requests which have been denied for skipping payment.

burger_moon··on Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days
When Trump eventually loses his position as POTUS (as everyone does), will Twitter ban his account for previous TOS violations, or violations after POTUS?

I wonder how this will play out once he one longer holds the 'in the publics interest' badge.

burger_moon··on 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
Could be that the subverting of posts has gotten better and the users who submit there are still looking for gifs of guys drinking refreshing cans of Pepsi™ after a crossfit workout
burger_moon··on 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
This is a great example of why they had to write a python script to delete comments to prevent getting attacked later. People want to throw fits over everything
burger_moon··on Bromite v83 Released
No way. Braves built in ad blocker is trash. I don't don't need or care about their brave token stuff either.

I love Bromite, been using it for about 4 months now and have no complaints or issues.

The maintainer of Bromite is a HN user and who I discovered Bromite through, gladly keep supporting them.

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