someoldgit's comments

On: Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

[someoldgit]

Trump’s next book: “The Art of the Fold”.

[rvnx → someoldgit]

“Gambling with your savings”

[rstuart4133 → rvnx]

You don't send 6 casinos broken and remain solvent by gambling with your savings.

He is, and always has, gambled with other people's savings.

On: A Letter to the American People

[someoldgit]

In its governmental guise, Patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. Trump is the capo di tutti capi, the overboss of all overbosses, the Godfather. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption...

On: Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days

[someoldgit]

LOL, this works well. I used to do exactly this manually every year to maximize free time blocks for pursuing pet projects. Bravo. Great use of GPT. Could you also add factoring in sick days per year (mon/fri)?

On: Show HN: Enable right click and copy on websites that disabled it

[someoldgit]

Some sites block the search option on the rt-clk menu when a word or phrase is selected.

On: A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications

[someoldgit]

Kuhn's compendium of theories is very comprehensive in many of the philosophical areas but could be more detailed in section 9.3 on Electromagnetic field theories, which is my favourite.

Another up to date compilation of 15 articles on Electromagnetic Field Theories of Consciousness: Opportunities and Obstacles is available here https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18437/electromag...

One of the authors (Joachim Keppler) has a very interesting recent paper here https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti...

On: Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain

[someoldgit]

Aside from defining consciousness as an immaterial awareness, what exactly is the physical world composed of? The Michelson–Morley experiment proved that there is no luminiferous aether permeating the quantum vacuum. What we call physical is just fields in a vacuum; there is no substance to anything. Maybe consciousness is the vacuum and fields are its contents?

On: Show HN: Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design

[someoldgit]

I always liked the UofT Library.

On: Ask HN: How do I improve my emotional intelligence?

[someoldgit]

"How to deceive friends and exploit people"

On: Ask HN: Why hasn't OnlyOffice see higher adoption than LibreOffice?

[someoldgit]

OnlyOffice lacks an equivalent to MS Access or LO Base.

[abricot → someoldgit]

Not sure that is what keeps most away

On: Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?

[someoldgit]

Manage others as you would like to be managed.