happytoexplain (u/happytoexplain)

happytoexplain commented on The Synology End Game lowendbox.com/blog/they-u... · Posted by u/amacbride

ffsm8 · 13 hours ago

You regret switching them from Synology to Trueness? Am I misunderstanding your final note?

It's confusing me after the preceding displeasure wrt Synology

"This" in the last paragraph refers to the rest of the comment, not to the preceding sentence.

happytoexplain commented on New "Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag" EO Would Violate First Amendment reason.com/volokh/2025/08... · Posted by u/pcaharrier

y-curious · 3 days ago

The Epstein thing is the true bait, which I feel Americans are swallowing hook line and sinker.

The real meat of the issue is nationalization of companies, militarization and trying to take over the Federal Reserve.

Honestly, every president of the US has semi-directly killed thousands of people. I feel that whatever exposure he had to Epstein's island pales in comparison to, you know, operating the military industrial complex.

Many people are also surprised that politicians lie and that the ultra rich do abhorrent stuff above the law. Seems like a new trend /s

happytoexplain · 3 days ago

No no no, the real issue is getting everybody to disagree about what the realest issue is.

happytoexplain commented on New "Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag" EO Would Violate First Amendment reason.com/volokh/2025/08... · Posted by u/pcaharrier

ethagknight · 3 days ago

I’m interested in better understanding why some actions constitute speech, but other actions don’t. Setting aside the politics of the moment, Reading the text of the amendment, it seems like a real stretch to go from the text to “burning a flag is infringement of first amendment, but libel can be prosecuted without infringing.

From the article, here is the justification: >> [anti flag burning policy] is a content-based, indeed viewpoint-based, enforcement policy.

happytoexplain · 3 days ago

Not to be too blunt, but the difference between the two seems obvious (of course that doesn't mean you have to agree with the law's treatment of that difference): Libel has the potential (and I think, by definition, the intent) to have concrete harmful consequences, while US-flag-burning is purely expressive - the harm is only emotional (if we assume the burning is done safely, since that's irrelevant to the topic).

Maybe you could argue that it "encourages" further action and should be covered under something similar to hate speech laws, but it doesn't seem specific/actionable enough to make sense - and anyway, that's tangential to the question of the difference between libel and US-flag-burning.

happytoexplain commented on In the Matter of Lisa Cook paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/chmaynard

happytoexplain · 3 days ago

The two supposedly equivalent economic strategies you're referring to sound like things an honest person could believe have different consequences - i.e. you would have to take a bad-faith interpretation to force a "hypocrite" label.

happytoexplain commented on macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

wk_end · 4 days ago

I don't follow him closely, but I'd always thought that John Gruber - while often a very good writer - got a little too much exposure to the Reality Distortion Field. So I'm a little surprised to see him come down so hard on this.

Was I wrong about Gruber or is this a proverbial canary in the coal mine?

happytoexplain · 4 days ago

I think it's more the case that Apple is just one of those companies where people tend to leap to the "sycophant" accusation to describe anybody who likes Apple more than a little, because of the (perhaps historical) visibility of their super-fans.

To be frank, Apple earns (earned?) the majority of its applause.

happytoexplain commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

amenghra · 9 days ago

Price segmentation happens all the time in pretty much every industry.

happytoexplain · 8 days ago

Must be un-criticizable then?

happytoexplain commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

tux3 · 9 days ago

That is price segmentation. People who are price insensitive will not invest the time to fix it

People who are probably shouldn't be on aws - but they usually have to for unrelated reasons, and they will work to reduce their bill.

happytoexplain · 9 days ago

>People who are price insensitive will not invest the time to fix it

Hideous.

happytoexplain commented on CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years ft.com/content/d8da9877-a... · Posted by u/petethomas

GuinansEyebrows · 10 days ago

look, i agree with not blaming each other, but at some point we are going to have to develop a sense of class solidarity like the ownership class has, and to wield it in order to effect material changes.

happytoexplain · 10 days ago

Why would this comment be directed at the parent, rather than at the GP?

happytoexplain commented on CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years ft.com/content/d8da9877-a... · Posted by u/petethomas

megaman821 · 10 days ago

Connect the dots here. What on earth does CEO pay have to do with vegtable prices? Perhaps look at tarrifs and trade barriers, transportation and storage fees, weather patterns and probably a dozen more things more relevant than CEO pay.

happytoexplain · 10 days ago

You think the suffering peasant dragging the wealthy into the streets gives a shit about how many layers of indirection lie between his suffering and their wealth?

happytoexplain commented on RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/duxup

1970-01-01 · 11 days ago

I'm using it tightly and rightly. Keep the bits about clean water, clean air, microplastic pollution, screentime, drug commercials, etc.

Have your doctor selectively ignore the anti-vax and non-ionizing EM radiation ducks.

happytoexplain · 11 days ago

This is bold - you think RFK Jr. doesn't believe in what he's saying? That it's some kind of show?