Hacker News: 1121redblackgo

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation"

1121redblackgo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:21:13 +0000

Yep. With side channel/one order of thinking above the laws, its trivial to get around said laws. Need better laws.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

1121redblackgo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:37:12 +0000

And behind the quitting decision is very little safety net and usually substantial financial obligations keeping people handcuffed. Something has to give. The power employees had during covid was the way it should be, or something more closely approximating that.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

1121redblackgo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:39:07 +0000

This whole thread reeks of Grok astro and challenging Wikipedia. There are fair criticisms of Wikipedia, but I am smelling something fishy.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

1121redblackgo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:24:42 +0000

The floor is much lower, but the ceiling can be the same-ish on a case-by-case basis. That's been my experience as well.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

1121redblackgo — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:30:45 +0000

And why people are jumping out of buildings, actually and metaphorically, in 996 cultures.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

1121redblackgo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:53:08 +0000

Yes and also a true meme.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year"

1121redblackgo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:38:53 +0000

What makes you hopeful that this year is like the other years, and not more like something unto itself?

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela"

1121redblackgo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:34:26 +0000

Seems like our leaders laundered our money through the US military and government apparatus, to the tunes of billions of dollars, so that they could carry out the dirty work of overthrowing the Venezuelan government in order to enrich Exxon and other oil companies. That's our money doing this. My money doing this. Boomers are cooked, man.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

1121redblackgo — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:07:55 +0000

Complications from vaccines are not anywhere close to 49% if that is what you are insinuating.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

1121redblackgo — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:30:45 +0000

and in the same breathe, the risk is closer to zero than not.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

1121redblackgo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:02:26 +0000

At what point is it fair to call the list something other than ‘predictions’

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "How we lost communication to entertainment"

1121redblackgo — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:36:39 +0000

This article makes me think of how defiant Discord has been against all of this, and how slowly I'm starting to succumb to many of the same forces, although much slowly than other platforms. It's a minor miracle they never got bought up/sold themselves.

Also reminds me of the Dark Forrest Yancy Strickler stuff.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

1121redblackgo — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:55:21 +0000

First human robot war is us telling the AI/robots 'no', and them insisting that insert technology here is good for us and is the direction we should take. Probably already been done, but yeah, this seems like the tipping point into something entirely different for humanity.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

1121redblackgo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:00:21 +0000

And make sure you do it at their friend’s houses too, and on every public device, and make sure they never leave that locked down app bubble ever.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

1121redblackgo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:57:51 +0000

Ok, now we have no restrictions. Timmy just got his driver’s license at 13 and is on his way to 7-11 to pick up a 24 pack because he’s young and curious.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

1121redblackgo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:31:23 +0000

Likewise, the state abdicating its responsibility and placing the burden solely on parents isn't fair either, and that is exactly the environment we currently find ourselves in.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

1121redblackgo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:45:30 +0000

We do not currently have the political apparatus in place to stop the dystopian nightmares depicted in movies and media. They were supposed to be cautionary tales. Maybe they still can be, but there are basically zero guardrails in non-progressive forms of government to prevent massive accumulations of power being wielded in ways most of the population disapproves of.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

1121redblackgo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:38:02 +0000

I actually do think people directly see the negative public health impact, its so visceral in so many parents lives, and that that is the driving force behind all of this.

I love being cynical, but I actually do buy these efforts as being purely "for the kids", kind of thing. Sure, there are knock-on effects, but I do buy the good faith-ness of phone bans in school and of these social media bans for kids.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

1121redblackgo — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:58:44 +0000

Thoroughly dank. Very well done and interesting write up.

New comment by 1121redblackgo in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

1121redblackgo — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:17:52 +0000

What is the rationale for 100 miles? Curious if anyone knows, or if its an arbitrary number a lawmaker decided?