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philtaron An upcoming story about Coinbase

> Reading between the lines, I imagine that the complaints workers claim to have filed were ignored by management at some level of the process, or not filed on the right paperwork or something.

Reading the lines (instead of between them) tells you that two of the complains were investigated by a third-party which found no evidence of wrong-doing.

philtaron Low parental income in childhood linked to increased risk of mental disorders

Interpretations I can think of, some obviously more reasonable than others:

1. People with mental disorders, tend to have lower paying jobs, and also kids with mental disorders.

2. We must fix income inequality to protect the kids.

3. Low income people should not be allowed to have children.

4. People who will have kids with mental disorders can usually predict that by using their income as a marker (this one kinda breaks the laws of physics but whatever)

I'm sure there's more. But just reading the ultra left and ultra right interpretations in this thread immediately killed my creativity.

philtaron When Jewish wives beefed with butchers and changed the world

"I want to kill you, but I want to do it nicely." - Humans to cows.

philtaron Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

Would be interesting to hear a before and after sample

philtaron Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

Yes, gitlab has no choice but to block them.

Also yes, gitlab doesn't really care about them or they would have given some sort of notice. Even 24 hours.

philtaron Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl”

If you were one of the people who thought this was talking about Amazon the eCommerce site as opposed to the actual Amazon, welcome to the new world order.

Edit: I mean just from reading the title but I guess this post didn't land well. Oh well.

philtaron Google TV

1) Phones were a low margin market. Laptops are the lowest of margins. Desktops too. Apple doesn't care about what the current margin of a market is because it slaps a premium on it to reach the margin its looking for.

2) Apple does not create apps for other platforms as a source of profit. They have never done that. To guess that they would do that now is a gigantic leap in logic.

philtaron Slo Mo Guys created a great video of the Apple Watch water-ejection system

They are literally called "The Slow Mo Guys" and not "The Slo Mo Guys"

Post title and 9to5mac article has their name wrong.

philtaron Gimp 2.10.20

"Why do you need to X?"

This is what I sounded like when I was trying to convince my non-nerd friends that they should use Linux on their laptops. People have different requirements. If a modern interface that isn't blurry on modern screens is one of those requirements, then so be it. Convincing them that their requirement is wrong isn't going to fix GIMP

philtaron Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar

Curious: Isn't it considered bad to link directly to the product like that?

philtaron Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

Not to be rude but:

> Not OP and not in their age group

Then why are you answering?

philtaron Product Marketing for Engineers

I think that speaks more about your capacity to focus than your marketing ability.

philtaron A sad update about SideQuest – We cannot remain open source

Maybe it's me but how would going closed source solve any of this?

philtaron Juul is reportedly laying off 800 to 950 employees

The most surprising thing here is that they had that many employees to begin with.

philtaron Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

He's comparing postgres to normal desktop application.

philtaron 7-Eleven Struck Back Against an Owner Who Took a Day Off

You make it sound like you don't know seven eleven is supposed to be open 24/7/365.

That's their whole shtick. If the owner didn't like it he could have opened a normal grocery store. No one forced him to go to 7-11.

philtaron Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

https://conceptboard.com/

I use it almost every day.

philtaron Updating our advertising policies on state media

A couple of weeks since he heard of them. Which is the only thing that matters in 2019. And they will stop once he stops hearing about them.

philtaron Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

If you don't turn off the auto-renewal, it actually charges you for a full year of NORMAL priced Maya.

philtaron Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets

What about every org that uses windows? Are they rookies?

philtaron Steam Labs

I've never seen that in my autocomplete. Must be based on your previous search results.

philtaron Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)

Why is this article so high up? It's a blog post by an Amazon associate who fails at following basic instructions (dedrm tells you how to remove the new DRM and how to do it without a physical device)

"hacker news"

philtaron Tell HN: US Visa application now requires you give old emails and phone numbers

My concern other than the privacy implications is that I have so many throw-away social media accounts that I can't keep track of them. If one of them is discovered because of an old phone number of email address and is considered a valid reason for denial of a visa that would really hurt.

philtaron Tell HN: US Visa application now requires you give old emails and phone numbers

Here's the actual policy instead of a news article: https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...

"Other questions seek five years of previously used telephone numbers, email addresses..."

philtaron Elon Musk Got Cuphead Working on a Tesla

I'm really tired of these headlines that give musk credit for everything. There's thousands of people working at these companies. It's not like Musk ported unity to Tesla himself.

philtaron Namecheap launches free public DNS

I don't trust namecheap. I've been directly lied to from customer support all the way to literally the CEO.

They are super slow to move when something goes wrong and are generally untruthful. Should've realized they're not to be used for important things when their name has the word "cheap"

Edit: wanted to mention that they were the best registrar bar none early 2000s. No one could even compete. Now they are horrible.

philtaron When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean

Very close to 0 people would do that.

You have to pay money, then become a janitor just for a chance.

philtaron The Curse of Genius

I = 1

I is 1

The variable I is storing the number 1.

They all mean the same thing. Programmers were taught that the first one is best. Because it is accurate and concise. What you call coherence introduces the risk of misunderstanding.