Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — pierat

pierat

HN member
Joined
Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC
HN karma
2,109
Public activity
783 items

About pierat

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #39949872

    This is why hardware that is still controlled by someone else should be classified as a rental, and not a sale.

  2. comment
  3. comment
    Comment #39931586

    And brigading here is also a thing, and comes at punishments of less karma and rate-limiting. Most people want the "expected talking points", and especially so here. If you ask the…

  4. comment
  5. comment
    Comment #39930245

    [flagged]

  6. comment
    Comment #39929891

    [flagged]

  7. comment
    Comment #39925804

    [flagged]

  8. comment
    Comment #39920616

    Wow, sure wish I was in that elite class. I aint. I was a guest. > All the decriminalize crap is pushed by rich liberal types. They live in luxury apartments or out in the burbs. A…

  9. comment
    Comment #39920403

    You're also wrong. Ive been to the rich liberal types' parties. You know how some of them go? Like this: You'll have a retreat to the den. The host will either send someone out to …

  10. comment
    Comment #39920325

    > The problem is also damaging your brain and body with drugs, developing bad habits and/or drug addiction, your supply being contaminated/poisoned, making irresponsible decisions …

  11. comment
    Comment #39919932

    Sure the response can be excoriating, but the US government isn't giving up on Microsoft shit. The USG is Linux-hostile, with exceptions like the NSA doing SELinux, Gidra, and othe…

  12. comment
    Comment #39916657

    I would also say that if you don't have full administrator access,but the company still does? That's a rental, not a sale. And I'd argue that under FTC rule, that's illegal.

  13. comment
    Comment #39906579

    It may now, but when the scammers and the leeches move in, profits approach 0.

  14. comment
    Comment #39901585

    Yet another image host. That'll work out. Heh.

  15. comment
    Comment #39896287

    Hah! LZMAO!

  16. comment
    Comment #39895946

    A friend of mine, who is transgender (this matters here), tried to get their pilots license. Initial paperwork was fine... UNTIL they get to the require mental health disclosure. B…

  17. comment
    Comment #39895487

    No. RPi used to be $25 or $35 , and then use equipment lying around. Now it's $80, plus high performance power, case, active cooling, storage, etc. RPi is no longer in it's own ori…

  18. comment
    Comment #39887651

    Cause people like dang have said exactly that.

  19. comment
    Comment #39886812

    One thing I've noticed is that the admins are super ready to ghost/delete/dead people who respond to companies with harsh critique. It's the similar way Ycombinator-sponsored crap …

  20. comment
    Comment #39881361

    You can laugh out loud all you want, but there are mandatory parking minimums for bars across the USA. Yes, bars have parking lots, and a lot of spaces. The intent is to *drive* th…

  21. comment
    Comment #39865875

    Yeah, and they'll add it back in 2 or 3 weeks once this round of furor dies down. Then it'll be some 'to gain access to your site you must agree....' crap. I'm really hating what t…

  22. comment
    Comment #39859664

    Although they won't, the best would be to remove all shitcoin apps. Let them install a 3rd party repo instead.

  23. comment
    Comment #39854281

    This type of punishment is actually pretty terrible for all parties. I could easily see a different, harsher, but more fair punishment... 1. All assets are sold off to pay victims …

  24. comment
    Comment #39846731

    I learned a long time ago, that HN and YCombinator were never for me. We were too poor and never part of the elite SV venture capitalism scene, no matter how sharp or crazy the ide…

  25. comment
    Comment #39839849

    I chose my words carefully after verifying their definitions. And I believe in "Never Again", in any holocaust, genocide, apartheid, and similar - they should never be done. Israel…