Hacker News: Afforess

New comment by Afforess in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

Afforess — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:53:30 +0000

Power + Control >> Money.

That’s it.

New comment by Afforess in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

Afforess — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:34:32 +0000

Except this makes no sense. There isn’t enough power to run all these new chips, so the demand must be speculative, not growth.

New comment by Afforess in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

Afforess — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:13:41 +0000

Sounds like you have zero empathy for the real costs AI is driving and feelings that this creates for website owners. How about you pony up and pay for your scraping?

New comment by Afforess in "The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing"

Afforess — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:31:47 +0000

Thanks for doing the meme! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

You are very intelligent!

New comment by Afforess in "Detroit's carmakers to save billions in emissions rollback"

Afforess — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:20:17 +0000

False. The US Auto market is subsidized and regulated in opaque and convoluted ways that distort prices and demand significantly.

New comment by Afforess in "German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional"

Afforess — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:05:08 +0000

The knee jerk anti communism is your propaganda showing. Marxist historical materialism is a mainstream mode of analysis. Nothing inherently leftwing or revolutionary about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism

For the gamers, the Victoria series by Paradox uses historical materialism as its gameplay.

New comment by Afforess in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

Afforess — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:50:17 +0000

You are missing the point. I don’t dispute the sales data, I agree with it, it supports my point. It’s not out of preference, it’s enforced by regulations and encouraged by the tax code.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popu...

New comment by Afforess in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

Afforess — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:43:06 +0000

Wrong. American car choice has everything to do with government subsidies, car safety standards and fuel standards. Consumer choice doesn’t matter in the US Auto market.

New comment by Afforess in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

Afforess — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:20:27 +0000

Yeah, I came to the same exact conclusion last year. Heck, even Ford’s CEO drives a BYD and thinks their a major threat.

This administration seems set on demolishing American industries though. Such a shame, but maybe we can finally get decent rail once all the car lobby’s are dead. (But probably not)

New comment by Afforess in "World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says"

Afforess — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:55:47 +0000

Desire for children is above the replacement rate, though.

There is a gap between the world we live in and the world desired. One solution would be to close the gap.

Google Sunsets Kaniko

Afforess — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:43:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44173240

Points: 2

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New comment by Afforess in "The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)"

Afforess — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:28:00 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

CEOs are not the living embodiment of a company. They are an agent with their own values too.

New comment by Afforess in "California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy"

Afforess — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:21:20 +0000

California should acquire some nuclear weapons then.

New comment by Afforess in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

Afforess — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:57:59 +0000

How was my response uncivil? Your reply is bad faith because it provides no evidence.

New comment by Afforess in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

Afforess — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:48:50 +0000

I’m an active DSA member. What about you?

New comment by Afforess in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

Afforess — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:45:42 +0000

Voting is the minimum of civic duty, not the maximum.

New comment by Afforess in "When the U.S. tried to replace migrant farmworkers with high schoolers (2018)"

Afforess — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 05:59:42 +0000

Setting aside the moral component, and focusing on the economic; the Trump deportation plan is red carpet invitation for consolidation. Agriculture today is a declining mix of many medium and small growers, with a few mega growers that have increasingly concentrated their market share of output. Deportation will greatly accelerate this trend, consolidating most agriculture under a few mega growers. Small and medium sized farm operations can’t afford the capital for complex automation to replace manual labor - but mega corps can.

New comment by Afforess in "Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job"

Afforess — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:28:42 +0000

Majesty I & II were implemented like your idea of this game…

New comment by Afforess in "New Mac Mini with M4"

Afforess — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:12:03 +0000

This seems like the perfect home media transcoding server (Plex, Kodi, etc). I am curious if these will ever be able to run Linux.

New comment by Afforess in "US satellite jammer is set for delivery as flaws are fixed"

Afforess — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:35:57 +0000

You can’t wait for escalation? Are you pro-war???