short_throw's comments

There are a lot of surprises here. I'm surprised this wasn't settled confidentially out of court, since Javice presumably doesn't want to go to prison and JPM doesn't want all this publicity as the bank that paid 9 figures for a fake excel sheet they were gonna use to spam people.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good thing that this fraud will be punished... I'm just surprised, either Javice is incredibly stupid/arrogant or someone in JPM was really mad and wanted to press the nuclear button, because a "renegotiation" after a "record keeping error" would have left both parties a lot better off.

"I gave my kids junk food and they got excited."

Do you think there could be any potential confounders here?

Well I think if Intel had decided to start from scratch to make "x86 only more power efficient, it'll only take one product cycle" they would have failed miserably, but if they said "let's make a phone cpu, that's our new top priority" that program could have grown into making great laptop cpus a decade later.

Making a new product that fills a new niche in a short timespan is viable. Making a product to directly replace what the old system does after decades of iteration is usually a delusion.

For steering you're exactly wrong. Drive an old car without power steering, on the highway you'll barely notice, but you'll be using all your might to park. It's much easier to steer a rolling tire.

Power steering systems create heat and rely on airflow for cooling...so prolonged steering back and forth in a parking space is a worst case scenario for the system.

If the article were more prescriptive (i.e. it were giving people life advice or suggesting policy) I'd agree.

But it's primarily descriptive ("this is what I lived" and the prescriptive parts are limited to "if you find yourself in this situation, here's how to do it better than what I did").

Seems a bit silly to require a meaningless disclaimer on someone's memoir.

He left a factual statement of his own experience. It's not poorly worded.

It's entirely fair to point out that different castes would see and experience casteism very differently...but sheesh, it's tiresome to see a bunch of (probably white) keyboard warriors show up and argue with in Indian American about what it's like to be Indian in America.

HN predictably tearing him apart for his pricing and marketing.

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This guy can get information on a new topic into my brain faster than anyone on YouTube, while keeping me entertained and enjoying every minute of it. His code report videos are so entertaining (but less technical) that my non programmer wife likes to watch them.

I'm glad he can make a living at this. He's put thousands of hours of labor into producing fantastic content for free. I was happy to pay a fraction of a days pay to buy a lifetime membership to support his years of work, but if you don't like it don't buy it.

High quality technical content is important to me, and I'm thankful whenever those creators find a way to eat without being totally subservient to google's algorithms.

It seems you're a big fan of judging people on superficial details of their internet comments.

The point was pretty clear to me...that there's a person and a family on the losing end of all this. Giving the owners of a store a backstory is humanizing, OP gave as much detail as he knew which wasn't much and that's fine. It's a shame we're all so tense about cultural details that people get attacked for trying to say something nice.