hackerNoose (u/hackerNoose)

hackerNoose commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

seanp2k2 · 10 months ago

Do…people really think that prices will go down when cheap foreign labor is off the table? Do they think we can establish replacement infrastructure at comparable costs in months or a couple of years? Will they want to work those jobs for comparable pay to keep the costs of goods stable?

hackerNoose · 10 months ago

Cheap foreign labour is good for rich people but bad for poor people that they compete with, at least in the short term.

hackerNoose commented on Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/s... · Posted by u/alsodumb

mortehu · 3 years ago

I think you are using a definition of evidence normally associated with criminal trials here, and not scientific evidence.

hackerNoose · 3 years ago

This is more akin to a criminal case where science can be used as evidence.

hackerNoose commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

concinds · 4 years ago

It may interest you to know that Namecheap, just a few days ago, banned a few domain names purely based on an ambiguous tweet that got 8 likes, that didn't even ask for those domains to be banned or cite any ToS violation.

https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284

Namecheap then reverted that decision when they got ratioed (with no tweets supporting their decision). I've never heard of these domain names and don't keep up with crypto, but it doesn't seem like they did much research before banning them.

I was thinking of switching everything to Namecheap just a week ago, because of a friend's recommendation based on their ease-of-use.

Because of this Twitter story, and the Russian suspension, I'm now glad I didn't. You can't cancel users' service, that they paid for, and give them only a week's notice. I'm not Russian but this volatile style of customer relationships totally destroys any trust I could have in them.

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

This "Mean Girls" style of running a company is not something I'm willing to accept even for remotely important services.

hackerNoose commented on Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year drive.com.au/news/norway-... · Posted by u/fourmii

albertop · 4 years ago

Do you know how they are generating electricity?

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

Lots of cheap hydro.

hackerNoose commented on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/danso

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

People don't get vaccinated because of the evidence but because they chose to believe in some authority. Heavy handed censors (or fact checkers in newspeak) and other coercive tactics lead people to distrust these authorities even more.

hackerNoose commented on Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable nature.com/articles/s4159... · Posted by u/4512124672456

wombatpm · 4 years ago

But people are purchasing the horse version. What is the conversion between a 50 mg tables and a tube of paste for a 1200 lb animal? By using the wrong formulation you run the risk of liver damage due to an overdose of ivermectin.

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

That's a straw man. These people are of course doing something dangerous but mainstream newspapers are routinely calling doctor prescribed Ivermectin 'horse dewormer'. Both 'camps' treatment of this subject has been a real low water mark and it looks like the science might be as well.

hackerNoose commented on Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/edtechdev

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

Your sentiment is the root problem of the issue. Any issue that touches on problems facing white people will of course be reflexively supported by the alt right, white supremacist, etc., as well. This makes it impossible to talk about these issues without being associated with those groups or accused of "dog whistling". Similarly, if you speak up about men's issues you are considered part of the manosphere, a misogonyst and probably alt right. Basically any opinion that doesn't sing to the choir is labeled a "dog whistle" and dismissed. Basically we have allowed a small group of anxious people to silence all discussion and it's frankly destructive and untenable in the long run.

hackerNoose commented on Squats can boost brain activity [video] bbc.com/reel/video/p09v8w... · Posted by u/davesailer

egor2820 · 4 years ago

It can also burst a spine disc for older people

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

It's also the best protection for your spine and maybe the only well established way of mitigating back pain. I've noticed a lot of older people are afraid of weight lifting because they think it will lead to injuries, however the science shows that it's one if the safest forms of exercise. Personally I don't understand how people function without it.

hackerNoose commented on Rent control isn’t working in Sweden bbc.com/news/business-583... · Posted by u/ZeljkoS

pydry · 4 years ago

>Only around 8% of Swedes live in households spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing, compared to 15% in the UK and almost 40% in Greece, according Eurostat data.

I wonder what metric they use for "not working".

It's not like a lack of rent control is creating vast new supplies of housing here in London and as far as Im aware the fastest period of homebuilding in NYC was in the 50-60s when rent control was at its strictest (https://cbcny.org/sites/default/files/media/image-caption/Ho... ).

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

I live in Sweden and I can attest that rent control is a disaster. Lofty political aspirations aside the simple truth is that the middle class does not want to live in the crime-ridden suburbs and will do anything to stay out of there. As that is the only place where you can rent they're forced into taking huge loans and buying something in the city, or they can try their luck on the unsurprisingly flourishing black market. The effect of this is that Sweden now has one of the highest private debt burdens in the world. As long as the prices keep going up the system keeps limping along, but if that would ever change there could be some interesting consequences.

hackerNoose commented on America’s government comes clean on UFOs economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jodrellblank · 4 years ago

I tried linking the debunk videos to someone in a HN thread, and they dismissed them and did the "do your research like I did ;) ;)" thing. I asked for any research links and read the single one they offered and argued it, but they preferred to take the authority of trained Navy Pilots to some internet rando. Neither of our opinions changed.

Their position is roughly "it has been seen by competent people, and mechanisms speculated about by competent people, so it exists, so there must be holes in our understanding of physics / future tech which makes it possible to exist, just imagine what they might be". My position is "I as a layperson can't imagine how it could work, therefore it can't work even though I have no qualifications to declare that. Instead just imagine the ways qualified people are wrong about things all the time".

hackerNoose · 4 years ago

Have you actually listened to the interviews with the pilots? The debunking videos offered do not explain what they saw or experienced. Choosing the debunking guys explanation means that you basically have to believe in a conspiracy involving the pilots. So you're back to square one.