Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — touktouk

touktouk

HN member
Joined
Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC
HN karma
14
Public activity
14 items

About touktouk

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #23132222

    It is quite possible that people agree with you that source code should be first and foremost useful, but disagree on compactness vs airiness.

  2. comment
    Comment #22994212

    No, but unless the French decide that they can force others countries to follow their laws, the only choice is between [French protection laws applied in France; French protection …

  3. comment
    Comment #22986523

    The order specifically singles out Amazon categories for products. I am not a software engineer, but something along the line of: > if item.category is not in authorized_categories…

  4. comment
    Comment #22986493

    How is that odd? The issue was the safety of its French employees, and therefore the order from the French court relates to the Amazon facilities in France.

  5. comment
    Comment #22985913

    This does not address my points. - A large chunk of the Fed liabilities are coins and bills. What does it mean for the Fed to "default" on those coins and bills?

  6. comment
    Comment #22985882

    "Free markets, except when the markets do not work" is not particularly specific - I fail to think of any mainstream party in the West that do not agree with this principle. The di…

  7. comment
    Comment #22977693

    Well Amazon has been sued by its workers' representatives, lost in the first trial and lost again in the appeal trial. It is of course possible that other delivery services have si…

  8. comment
    Comment #22977576

    The liabilities of the Fed [0] are money in circulation, reserves accounts of banks (mainly to meet requirements) and the deposits of the Treasury. Besides the fact that it is not …

  9. comment
    Comment #22969273

    Defaulting on the debt means anyone owning treasury bonds lose their money.

  10. comment
    Comment #22967082

    Should every message be written with all possible audiences in mind?

  11. comment
    Comment #22956829

    This plan is supported by the region (~ state) rather than the city of Paris. Next regional elections are in March 2021.

  12. comment
    Comment #22948758

    The strongest plausible interpretation of what the previous comment said is that it refers to the Fields medal, which has been described as the mathematician's Nobel Prize [0]. Ass…

  13. comment
    Comment #22933162

    We can only assume that if the author of previous comment actually missed them and not their faces, they would have said so.

  14. comment
    Comment #22915238

    Would that mean that any assassination done with a weapon is a failure?