ktkoffroth (u/ktkoffroth)

ktkoffroth commented on Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently reuters.com/world/asia-pa... · Posted by u/gumby

l33t233372 · 2 years ago

> socializing the costs of office space

Aren’t we talking about private businesses here?

ktkoffroth · 2 years ago

I don't mean "socializing the costs" in the sense that the public sector is paying for it, but the employees are. It's a common strategy to spread your externalities and costs among your customers, employees, and the general public (see: large multi-national banks and automakers getting bought out by governments).

ktkoffroth commented on Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently reuters.com/world/asia-pa... · Posted by u/gumby

pessimizer · 2 years ago

I don't think anyone is proposing forcing you to work from home.

ktkoffroth · 2 years ago

No, but if many people are working from home (and socializing the costs of office space), then the company has less incentive to keep an office around at all, leaving people who prefer working from an office out of luck.

ktkoffroth commented on Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

prh8 · 2 years ago

For all that effort, why not just get a permit?

ktkoffroth · 2 years ago

Not GP, but I would imagine it's mainly a privacy concern. Some people feel that the government knowing you have guns defeats the purpose of having them in the first place, as they can theoretically be taken at any time. A Concealed Carry Permit or similar is antithetical to that belief.

ktkoffroth commented on FTC fines supplement maker $600k for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings engadget.com/ftc-fines-su... · Posted by u/Stratoscope

LegitShady · 2 years ago

when you get caught committing fraud for big dollars like that, people should go to jail. Personal culpability will be more of a deterrent than corporate liability. The people who made that decision should be facing jail time.

ktkoffroth · 2 years ago

por que no los dos?

ktkoffroth commented on The maddening mess of airport codes [video] youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUV... · Posted by u/CharlesW

ktkoffroth · 3 years ago

Nice to see this video here, I know CGP Grey is (or, atleast was) an avid HN lurker. If you're seeing this Grey, I'm a big fan, thanks for the videos and podcasts over the years :)

ktkoffroth commented on Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on? wsj.com/articles/why-do-a... · Posted by u/malshe

a_e_k · 3 years ago

I think mishearing a word causes an effect that feels something like a mental mispredict leading to a pipeline flush. There's definitely a delay to refill that pipeline.

ktkoffroth · 3 years ago

This is the best way I've ever heard it described

ktkoffroth commented on Auditory brainstem response distinguishes occasional and constant tinnitus jci.org/articles/view/155... · Posted by u/Tomte

TekMol · 3 years ago

What I noticed when talking to people with tinnitus:

For some people, putting fingers in their ears and altering the pressure alters the frequency of their tinnitus. For others, it does not.

Could it be that this makes it possible to differentiate between two different types of tinnitus?

For the HN readers with tinnitus - does it alter the frequency for you, when you put fingers in your ears and move the fingers into different directions?

ktkoffroth · 3 years ago

For me, it doesn't seem to alter the frequency of the underlying tinnitus "signal", but it does add some lower frequency rumbling, which I believe is my tensor tympani response.

ktkoffroth commented on Ontario government staffer fired after $100 donation to Ottawa convoy toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontari... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2

542458 · 4 years ago

Canada’s protest laws are different (and much more limited) than those of the US. Any protest that significantly disturbs the peace is not protected.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/chec...

ktkoffroth · 4 years ago

Isn't significantly disturbing the peace kinda the entire point of protest? I would wager many of the protests and demonstrations done during the Civil Rights Movement in the US "significantly disturbed" the peace, and yet they were effective at creating needed change.

ktkoffroth commented on How bad is my gas stove? carbonswitch.co/how-bad-i... · Posted by u/hbgb

clusterfish · 4 years ago

Then why don't electric stove makers make the stove cycle run at a higher frequency, reducing the deviations? Or provide a larger diversity of max power outputs on different burners of the stove, or something.

Seems like this problem would have been solved long ago if enough people actually cared about it...

ktkoffroth · 4 years ago

I would imagine this is a situation where cost won over convenience. Particularly in the appliance space, products are often made actively worse in the name of driving down cost. And this isn't just one or two companies, it's virtually every single one.

This, of course, makes it unviable to produce a better product (like an electric stove with better temperature feedback/control) without dramatically increasing prices to make up for the loss in market share.

ktkoffroth commented on Report to Congress: Robocalls and Transmission of Misleading Caller ID fcc.gov/document/fcc-subm... · Posted by u/infodocket

thewebcount · 4 years ago

> It's become nearly unusable, for example, as a way for businesses to contact customers they have an actual relationship with because of all the spam.

On top of that the telcos are joining in on the fun. I am an AT&T cell phone subscriber and in the last month they’ve started robo-calling me non-stop to sign up for their ailing DirecTV service. Who in their right mind would subscribe to that with all the better streaming options available? But the worst part is that they technically aren’t breaking the rules themselves because we do have an existing business relationship (if you can call paying my bill on time and doing everything in my power not to otherwise interact with them a relationship).

ktkoffroth · 4 years ago

I recently questioned this when setting up my mother and grandfather with TV and internet for their new house. The internet TV provider either don't have, or charge so much extra for channels they consider "essential" (that's another issue) that it's not worth getting the service, as the price is equivalent or more to a satellite TV provider.