marcelluspye (u/marcelluspye)

marcelluspye commented on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads timsh.org/tracking-myself... · Posted by u/apokryptein

robotnikman · a year ago

>what “my data” means

It makes me wonder, if everyone 'owned' their own data, I wonder if it could be used as a form of UBI. Everyone has data from using services, everyone owns it, everyone can sell it to make a living just doing whatever they are doing everyday.

This is only just a shower thought I had the other day though, there are probably many pitfalls when it comes to such an idea.

marcelluspye · a year ago

This idea is the subject of the 2013 book "Who Owns the Future?" By Jaron Lanier.

marcelluspye commented on Henry Kissinger Has Died nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us... · Posted by u/Kye

nojvek · 2 years ago

Guy was a crook and had no remorse for killing millions of civilians and cozying up with dictators. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_637693...

The world needs less people like him.

No one should ever be complicit in carpet bombing. It's inhumane.

We in the US ought to hold the govt accountable everytime they drop bombs from the sky on civilians.

We're currently helping Israel do that in Gaza with our tax dollars. Hospitals and Schools getting air bombed. That is not who we are.

marcelluspye · 2 years ago

>That is not who we are.

No, that is not who you would like us to be/have been. Very evidently, that is who we are.

marcelluspye commented on 99-year old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30k out of work cnn.com/2023/07/31/busine... · Posted by u/DamnInteresting

annacappa · 3 years ago

Funny how this is being framed by the article writer in terms in unionization. Are they suggesting that the workers should just give up their pensions and wages so that a clearly broken and mismanaged company should just lurch onwards? Why is it when a company succeeds everyone praises the management and heaps huge bonuses on the C suite but when they fail they try and blame the workers.

marcelluspye · 3 years ago

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. Even in the news.

marcelluspye commented on Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) compart.com/en/unicode/U+... · Posted by u/t0m44c

enriquto · 3 years ago

> This is for math.

Heh.

The "tabs vs spaces" debate of mathematical typography is whether these symbols should be used at all in printing, or reserved for actual blackboards. In LaTeX you can have actual boldface letters, so you should write a boldface letter R to represent the real numbers and so on. Using "blackboard bold" in print looks terribly off to some (many?) people.

marcelluspye · 3 years ago

I hated when textbooks/papers did this. Half the time you can't tell if they meant to use the bold letter or if the printer was just being generous on that character. Made legibility quite a bit more difficult. BB letters are unambiguous.

marcelluspye commented on Americans have quit quitting their jobs wsj.com/articles/american... · Posted by u/gmays

lotsofpulp · 3 years ago

It might just be that most people’s value systems prioritize giving advantages to their children and/or securing one’s retirement above their values.

marcelluspye · 3 years ago

Citation needed.

marcelluspye commented on The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/tmlee

s_dev · 3 years ago

The core problem of competitive games is that they're "owned" by someone. Imagine if "soccer" or "tennis" was owned by a corporation.

This is what's happening when you watch a competitive game of Counter Strike (Valve) or Starcraft (Blizzard).

Sure there are institutions like FIFA and Wimbledon but nobody owns football/soccer.

My proposal would be for a game to be competitive it must be open source by default -- a generous license like MIT.

marcelluspye · 3 years ago

The closest thing to this at the moment, I think, is online Chess.

marcelluspye commented on Idaho Stop en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida... · Posted by u/mmastrac

flerchin · 3 years ago

What's interesting to me is that cyclist injuries went down after these laws were passed. At least according to the wiki. Naively, I would think they'd go up, or stay level. Do you have any hypothesis for why that may be?

marcelluspye · 3 years ago

Not the OP, but here's my observation: When I have to stop at a light until it turns green, I have to navigate the intersection while the cars around me are entering it as well. Suddenly there's a car trying to pass me, a car in the oncoming lane turning left, etc. If I can skirt through the intersection while the light is red and there's no transverse traffic, I can get through without interacting with any other moving vehicles.

I've also been involved in car(-car, not car-bike) accidents before where some idiot at a light was looking at their phone while stopped, and did something stupid when they noticed others moving in their peripheral vision. Plausibly, such idiots could be the cause of a lot of accidents at intersections.

marcelluspye commented on Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down nissan.com/... · Posted by u/bmcahren

luhrkuhr · 4 years ago

Weird folks out there. I’m named for my grandfather, a former MLB player with a World Series win to his name. While back found out there was a man impersonating him after his death, not too far from where we lived at the time.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2011/05/15/baseball...

marcelluspye · 4 years ago

Is this comment supposed to be the hook for a short story or film where you slowly learn that you're actually the grandson of the impostor?

marcelluspye commented on Ask HN: Do you use a physical calculator in your day job, and why? · Posted by u/social_quotient

marcelluspye · 4 years ago

My father still has his an HP-41CX he was given for his HS graduation in the early 80s, which he had restored about a decade ago. He uses it mainly, but not exclusively, when he wants to show it off.