dbmajorkey

I love Hacker News... the random things you learn

A long time ago, my grandmother got a call one day saying that I was hurt badly and needed money. That I was afraid to contact my parents because I had been doing something I shouldn't have, and all my grandmother needed to do was send money to this hospital, which was just some scammers fake information.

I hate scammers. The idea that now you will be able to create videos, that interact and respond to questions, as if there is a real "grandson" on the other end of the video call is disturbing. I don't know how we deal with that.

Legit question... how do we deal with that?

I used to live in Houston. It was always amazing to me how, regardless of what engineers and city planners came up with, mother nature just wins and you get flooding. I think there is only so much you can do when you turn dirt, which takes in and absorbs water, into concrete across a city the size of Houston.

Hopefully everyone is staying safe and heeding the warnings. Our thoughts are with ya'll.