Hacker News Reader

kaesar14on Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows

For what it's worth the last episodes were by far the worst and the biggest blows dealt to the characterizations.

kaesar14on Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows

I don’t mind diversity in my work, I’m a non-white person in America myself, but the decision to have everyone from the Two Rivers be different races (other than Rand) is just silly and destroys worldbuilding.

Not to mention the changed plot beats that I won’t spoil that rob Rand of his big moments and give them to all the female characters, when they already all have major plot moments in EoTW!

kaesar14on Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows

There might be fans of the show but I’ll never understand how, it’s god-awful. 0 respect for the source material and far more interested in winning diversity points in a story that was already quite interesting in its gender dynamics. That reads like an anti-woke critique but it’s just my genuine feeling.

kaesar14on Strava hikes monthly subscription price

You’re not wrong but “no one’s done it so no one should ever even try” isn’t a good reason

kaesar14on NYC Slice

Grow up on can mean a lot of things here, I and many other New Yorkers would take it to mean the food that has the most significance in our memories. Its not about eating this stuff every day, it’s about the food we cherish.

kaesar14on Carta lays off 10% of the workforce

How is saving costs not a justifiable reason? Maybe all of this is why European employees have such a hard time finding US salaries.

kaesar14on Why was Roman concrete so durable?

Exactly my point as well. The ancients didn’t think to not tear down buildings so we could discover them 2000 years later. It’s a miracle anything of that time is left at all in terms of physical structures, and the best preserved have been buildings repurposed by the church.

This isn’t even touching on the subject of the Latin corpus which is ONLY extant because of the Church.

kaesar14on Why was Roman concrete so durable?

What an atheist meme. These things were ‘lost’ because of breakdowns in trade networks caused by breakdowns of central authority and invasions by outside powers. If anything, the Church is what’s kept the Classics alive through its usage of Latin in the clergy and its preservation of Roman structures as churches.

kaesar14on Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?

I find the city to be better for small children and for disabled people than car focused suburbs to be honest. It means stuff is closer to get to and both groups of people are not completely reliant on other people driving them around to get to places. I do not believe the only way a world can be livable for disabled people, small children, and elderly people, is to pave the entire country in tens of millions of miles of roads and drive on them with heavy and dangerous polluting machines.

kaesar14on Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned

It’s a good thing the only cost of their prediction capabilities is human welfare and security, small potatoes in the end.

kaesar14on Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia

Implying what’s existed in Australia for thousands of years doesn’t constitute ‘civilization’ :)

kaesar14on Stanford hates fun

Different strokes for different folks. I learned pretty much all of my adult social skills at parties. Computer science classes were useful but everything useful I learned in college was from the traditional college experience of partying and meeting as many people as possible.

kaesar14on Ask HN: What assurance do early startup employees have against dilution?

I completely agree, but my point is that there's not really a situation (at a VC funded tech company) where you're not getting diluted and you're still getting growth on your equity

kaesar14on Ask HN: What assurance do early startup employees have against dilution?

This is all true but it's important to remember dilution IS what you want if you're signing up to work at a startup. No dilution means no growth, flat and simple. If your founders aren't expanding the pie, what chance do you have of walking away with a payout?

Larry and Sergey owned 100% of $0 and like, 20% of $1 trillion. Which would you rather have?

kaesar14on Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA

This is how we got to a housing crisis.

kaesar14on Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn

Relocation to the Bay was impossible for me to avoid as someone who graduated with 3 FAANG offers and a multitude of other big tech and startup offers as a 2019 grad. All SF or Bay mandatory. Don't know if that's changed post COVID though.

kaesar14on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?

So clearly it's comparable to heroin and slot machines at Vegas then, if we don't know the impact. Just gotta get a couple more years in to know for sure whether we can compare it to opiates :)

kaesar14on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

Sounds extremely southern to me. Not in a pejorative way, but in a way that seems really odd when said by a Northeastern US English speaker.

kaesar14on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

It's because of the name attached to it.

kaesar14on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)

Goals scored isn't a great metric though since there's more teams than ever. Highest goal to game ratio was during the 50s.

kaesar14on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)

Not that Gretzky wasn’t great. He indisputably was and his title as the GOAT of hockey is totally fair.

However, these records are incredibly influenced by the era he played in. Look at a list of the highest scoring seasons for teams ever and it’s either far pre expansion or the late 70s and 80s - Gretzky’s era.

Messi’s records are astounding for the reason that soccer scoring trends have remained far more stable (imo)

kaesar14on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)

France lost with two penalties given. Get over it.

kaesar14on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)

Doesn’t seem unusual that a top team would get more penalties

kaesar14on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)

And yet France just got away with a blatant handball. Geopolitics indeed.

kaesar14on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Also, giving your children unfettered access to the internet is not the same thing as giving them money for a slot machine. They don't have money unless you give it to them. It's not difficult to prevent them from having unlimited access to your credit cards.

Children will grow up into adults that have access to all this stuff anyway. Better to teach and manage excess early then restrict.

kaesar14on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?

Yeah, every time is a huge exaggeration.

kaesar14on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?

I don’t know, I see it with the children around my family all the time. They’d rather play with one another then sit around on their phones. You’re not giving the children enough credit :)

kaesar14on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?

That’s just not true for every child. Children are not so reductive.

kaesar14on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?

I think the more important thing is fostering your children to have other interests - when the electronics are given just to make a kid shut up it can eventually become their "real" parents. When parents are active and make an effort to show their children other activities and find what they're interested in, the electronics won't be as enticing.

Maybe that requires a child having some built in proclivity towards some manner of creative expression or physical activity, who knows.

kaesar14on ‘Two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for half of missing workforce

Markets are not global. The immigration market is highly regulated and the H1B visa is an abusive system which keeps Indian and Chinese immigrants enslaved to their jobs for up to 20 years while waiting for a green card. It’s a perfect labor group to take advantage of. You want a real global market for international labor? Fix the immigration system.