disantlor's comments

On: US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds

[disantlor]

yeah but how much are employers spending to lobby, etc, and is that not a significant force-multiplier on their 1.5B direct spend against unions?

On: WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency

[disantlor]

theres also one about pennywise, pound foolish

[rob_c → disantlor]

which is the statement being made to cancel the money since after X years there are almost zero deliverables rather than being the a&e dept for the world, in countries where leaders have fleets of sports cars whilst their people die of situations not far from cholera.

On: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

[disantlor]

worth a try

On: Facebook is cooked

[disantlor]

yes i deleted facebook eventually because they would not stop showing me this stuff despite clicking “show me less” many times

On: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?

[disantlor]

im with you, im completely over digital at this point

[bpt3 → disantlor]

I'm not at all, but if I had to leave it behind I'd just keep building offline exclusively instead of doing both.

On: Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants

[disantlor]

i wouldn’t say this reddit thread clearly makes the point you think it does

On: Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

[disantlor]

aka we pay their negative externalities? no

[s1artibartfast → disantlor]

I think everyone should pay for their own externalities. Put gas in your car, and you are generating the externality, so expect to pay some company a gas tax to remove that carbon.

Buy electricity from coal and the power plant is the emitter, who should pay for capture. However, if you are a electricity customer, expect that cost to be passed on to you on your bill.

On: Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine

[disantlor]

WFMU

On: A rare disorder makes people see monsters

[disantlor]

yes, if you don’t like flavor then soylent will do

[IAmNotACellist → disantlor]

Sick of all these articles overflowing with filler. Bring back the inverted pyramid

[card_zero → IAmNotACellist]

Nobody in the article mentions Star Trek movies, though. That guy mentions "They Live" and somebody else makes a comparison to Dementors in Harry Potter movies, but Star Trek was gratuitously inserted by your cranky chatbot.

[IAmNotACellist → card_zero]

>Nobody in the article mentions Star Trek movies, though.

So I saved even more time by not reading it

On: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

[disantlor]

I do the same thing though I have a different mental analogy, but it works!

[tithe → disantlor]

Could you share the visualization that you use?