lastiteration (u/lastiteration)

lastiteration commented on Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked? · Posted by u/d--b

yzydserd · a year ago

Yes. I simply hope the commenter reflects and doesn’t use a gender next time if there is no evidence of gender. That’s simply it. In 2025 I don’t feel it is appropriate for a commenter to use the pronoun “him” when there is no evidence of gender, and there isn’t at the time of comment.

I called someone out recently for the same, incurring -4 karma, and it turned out the gender pronoun was wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514127#42520946

lastiteration · a year ago

Who cares about the gender pronoun, it's just a commenter online. The content is why we are reading. The author could be male, female or a bot. Not important, not relevant.

lastiteration commented on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? mikegalsworthy.substack.c... · Posted by u/mariuz

insane_dreamer · a year ago

> seems that the EU as a single block is almost finished

you're drawing some pretty far-fetched conclusions here

Germany and France have always been the core of the EU (and its founding members).

lastiteration · a year ago

The organisation founded in 1957 which is now known as the European Union, originally had six members: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Weird how everyone always forgets about Italy

lastiteration commented on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? mikegalsworthy.substack.c... · Posted by u/mariuz

debesyla · a year ago

Italy not only can close the outer borders, but Italy must and doesn't (doesn't work hard enough).

That's what Frontex is all about. Same in Lithuania - not only it can close outer borders, but it has a requirement to do so.

So unless being sovereign is about having borders open, this argument doesn't work.

lastiteration · a year ago

If European NGOs are free to pick up (mostly) economic illegal migrants a few miles off Libia and drop them in Italy, the former interior minister is prosecuted for blocking them (finally absolved), you see it's not a lack of will

lastiteration commented on Updates to H-1B uscis.gov/newsroom/news-r... · Posted by u/sul_tasto

jltsiren · a year ago

A shortage is a situation, where the market cannot bring high prices down by increasing the supply. For example, if software engineers earn more than equally demanding roles in other engineering fields and the situation persists long enough, there is a shortage of software engineers.

lastiteration · a year ago

Who decides if the price is high or low? That should be the market. High salaries -> more people decide to pursue it as a career -> more competition -> lower salaries. They are trying to force salaries down quicker

lastiteration commented on Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport theguardian.com/media/art... · Posted by u/NoxiousPluK

zerodensity · 2 years ago

Well I mean in many countries, blocking the surveillance agency from listening in on your calls/texts/chats is illegal. So making an app that interferes with the agencies ability to "listen in" is infact a criminal enterprise.

Don't have to like it but the law is the law.

lastiteration · 2 years ago

That's when people should not comply

lastiteration commented on Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts 1fps.video/... · Posted by u/RomanPushkin

cornholio · 2 years ago

Does it use WebRTC? The last time I've looked at this - and what stopped me from releasing a more polished MVP of the same low impact continuous meeting-not-a-meeting concept - is that the only way to scale WebRTC is to use your own paid infrastructure. The only peer to peer topology available WebRTC clients support is a star, so without a multiplexing server you are practically limited to a handful of peers in any session.

So you are either offering a slow and very limited free service, or you need to pay hand over fist and burn venture capital to basically compete with Zoom and WebRTC. Slowing the video stream to very low FPS does help somewhat with scaling, but makes for a niche product.

If you can crack P2P multiplexing and offer an unlimited free service, and tack on some fremium model on that, that this thing can take off like a rocketship, if for no other reason that every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop. A free and capable screen sharing app can become THE tool for collaboration, disrupting things like Slack if the right features are there.

I'm seriously interested to cofound something like that, let me know if anything I've said makes sense to you.

lastiteration · 2 years ago

"every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop"

..talk about micromanaging

lastiteration commented on Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell retractionwatch.com/2024/... · Posted by u/susam

epistasis · 2 years ago

Do you really think that the current situation poses a >25% cost on scientific productivity? Do you think your system would be able to recapture that?

That assessment does not match up with what any practicing scientist thinks is even within the realm of possibility for harm to science.

Reading these conversations is like listening to C-suite execs at big companies talk about what employees are getting away with via work at home policies.

lastiteration · 2 years ago

Most stuff in papers can't be replicated so you can't really trust anything and are forced to see what actually works and is worth building upon. This is very expensive both in time and money.

lastiteration commented on Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming eos.org/articles/oceans-m... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

Dig1t · 2 years ago

If you scroll down to the bottom of this thread you’ll see a ton of flagged and dead posts from people who question this stuff. There are plenty of normal people who doubt the scientific conclusions of climate scientists. It doesn’t help that the solutions to the problem almost always seem to be taking away freedoms and raising taxes.

See: farmers in the Netherlands getting their farms taken away by the government, French folks rioting over increased taxes, ULEZ cameras in London fining people for driving in the wrong neighborhood, etc.

It seems that the solutions are all sticks and there are no carrots.

The majority of people want to fix the problem, myself included. But I also deeply care about the growing authoritarianism that we are seeing across the world.

I want to decouple fixing the climate from authoritarian governance.

lastiteration · 2 years ago

This is exactly right. Let's engineer solutions that are technologically based and better than what we currently have, not increase government control over people. Freedom is at least as important as the climate. A solution that is mandated is not the same as a solution that emerges organically as better both for the user AND the environment.