HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

java-man

1,593 karma · joined February 17, 2014

1314F8B8382A325318F60A61644FF24E
submissionscomments
java-man··on Wages Fall to 43% of U.S. Gross Domestic Income, Lowest Since 1929
... while companies post record profits. we all know what is happening.
java-man··on Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there

  What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people. 

  The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2113677835244044748

A private citizen turning off a military system with everyone in the administration ok with it?

java-man··on Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there
Read elon's answer on twitter, it's infuriating.
java-man··on Reforming English Spelling
Yep.

  For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

  Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

  Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html
java-man··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
Something like this already happened, many times.
java-man··on Apple's Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro: Everything We Know
I don't want smudges on my laptop screen.
java-man··on Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
Release the epstein files!
java-man··on Musk's proposed SpaceX stock giveaway would go into 'Trump Accounts'
They want to collect personal data of our children.
java-man··on Bessent says a Democrat-led Congress could do little to stop Trump agenda
He is right: it's easy to break a complex system than to build a complex system.

But impeachment and removal from office would be a good start.

java-man··on What Russia's doing to Ukraine is 'fine,' Trump says
and a pedophile, protected by pedophiles.
java-man··on How the Military Will Hack the Election
That's not what I meant. It's a reminder.
java-man··on How the Military Will Hack the Election

   ...  that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
java-man··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
Guess is where Kash is right now and what dictators our dear leader really likes.
java-man··on Drones Hit Third Yandex Data Center Disrupting over 80 Services
It feels like there are fewer nonsensical bots on reddit.
java-man··on DOJ investigating 5 major TV networks over response to White House press ban
We need to investigate DOJ for not following the law. Release the Epstein files.
java-man··on A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
You have to publish a book!
java-man··on Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel
He is clearly a russian agent. Siding with the aggressor country.
java-man··on UPS Worker Missed Security Email, Letting China Get F-35 Parts
I am sure they've been busy finding a scapegoat. Good job, lads!
java-man··on One person can now be a quorum at the SEC
Corruption is so much easier now!
java-man··on Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers
They need to add a touchscreen and menu to access the fire extinguisher, probably with auto-subscription. Then all will be well.
java-man··on Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
Super! Not easy to select or center on a planet though.
java-man··on Promises Made, Promises Broken: RFK Jr. Keeps Covid Vaccines from Children
whiskey tango foxtrot
java-man··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
This is exactly right. 2026 Nissan LEAF is at 30k point, once it drops down to 20-25 it's over for internal combustion cars.
java-man··on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
That's how you double profits, indeed.

At some point the customer base is going to shrink, especially when the AI slop hits the market, right?

java-man··on Porsche CEO assures staff no further job cuts planned, according to memo
It means only one thing - the company is going down.

A standard Japanese EV station wagon beats pretty much any Porsche at fraction of the price.

java-man··on Trump says AI will be renamed 'super intelligence' in all US documents
Relative to high IQ of the Stable Genius, it is.
java-man··on Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

   A few countries, including Switzerland and Spain, have wealth taxes on a small scale. Several, most recently France, have abandoned them as unworkable.
There exists a simple self-correcting protocol for establishing the value of property: the owner declares the value, and the state reserves the right to buy at that price. Or auction it off. If the owner declines to sell that auction price becomes the new value for computing the wealth tax.

The reason they say "it's unworkable" is because the rich don't want to pay taxes.

java-man··on You can now play doom directly from Proton Drive
I don't want to play anything from Proton Drive, I don't want it to do anything beyond storing files. I want any kind of active content disabled or blocked, because making these things possible leads to vulnerabilities.

This article indicates the company is not looking at safeguarding customers' data but wasting their efforts on idiotic marketing. What are they doing? Why?

java-man··on Fed Raises Rates as Warsh Bucks Trump to Contain Inflation
it's already $8 here in California
java-man··on Show HN: Bodily Oddities
This should be taught in school.
Page 1 of 34Next →