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New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

BloondAndDoom — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:33:58 +0000

Sounds like you have a really limited interaction with immigrants. I’m lifelong immigrant (4 different countries) in every single one of those countries majority of immigrants want to stay. Permanent residency is a constant conversation topic. There are definitely immigrants thinking like your explanation, but definitely a minority. .

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

BloondAndDoom — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:10:15 +0000

> Nobody in their sane mind will accept their hateful ideology if they were not desperate, and in panic.

Wish this was true, but clearly not. Unless you define existential as “inconvenience”

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

BloondAndDoom — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:28:11 +0000

Not really, it’s very common in the UK to not having curtains or closed curtains even if you live on the street level. You can walk in a town and literally watch TV through the windows.

In a tall apartment / skyscraper I bet not more than 10% ever have or close their curtain. Also they paid those prices to look at that view so they want to do that. (A flat there is £1-5M)

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

BloondAndDoom — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:19:25 +0000

I mean they also seem to charge it? (According to the blogpost) then how is it free to the public?

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

BloondAndDoom — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:00:28 +0000

I think I’m happy for some privacy abuse oriented startup and an Airbnb landlord screwing each other. It seems like a good thing for the world.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

BloondAndDoom — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:56:09 +0000

How is there “justice” if everyone knows the party with less money cannot get into a legal battle?

How is then America free and democratic? I’m not American and I’m very confused by this and also the concept of bail money.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

BloondAndDoom — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:52:48 +0000

I just cannot imagine zero net productivity gain from AI usage by a somehow experienced developer. Even if it’s happening right now it’s matter of time for people to figure out how to utilize it right. Only exception would be if people are getting the same output but working less, which is still a net positive (just not in terms of output).

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

BloondAndDoom — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:33:53 +0000

This is another problem with charge back, EBay is screwing you? Do you want to be black listed from eBay all of your life or lose that $100? Can you dare to chargeback Apple or Google?

It’s too risky tbh.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

BloondAndDoom — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:32:22 +0000

I didn’t, the thing with chargeback they don't do it after one month. At least that’s AMEX. I’m sure there is a fight to make and get it back, but I’d rather work and make money instead of fighting to stupid people and system.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

BloondAndDoom — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:24:41 +0000

Recently cancelled something early so I won’t forget, they didn’t send my shipment even though I paid for it. They said I cancelled, tried to work with support but given after a point.

So yeah, not all companies do that.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

BloondAndDoom — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:32:55 +0000

I’m not sure what do you mean. Quite often I’m trying to find an answer to something whether it’s an event, rule, informational. All of them consistently answered for me on AI overview.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Magnifica Humanitas"

BloondAndDoom — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:22:57 +0000

I feel much much smaller version of it already happened. Many many customer facing processes in companies (from customer support to lost & found departments) almost all automated to a point if you are outside of the norm you are screwed. Time you are going to spent is higher than the value you are going to get most of the time.

For the very same reason these companies are very anti-diversity. Because everything designed for a majority of you are minority in terms of your style of living (which many minorities are) then you are going to struggle, happens to me all the time, and one of the reasons I actually moved out of the US to country that I feel more included).

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

BloondAndDoom — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:44:07 +0000

Same here , about 95% of my searches o just look at the AI overview, and that’s been enough.

I don’t like AI only idea but I think it will work just fine

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

BloondAndDoom — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:12 +0000

We will see smaller and smaller teams where all this overhead is minimized by handful of people, and more than ever we will see 2-5 people teams creating great software

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Claude for Small Business"

BloondAndDoom — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:10:08 +0000

To be fair we are already having these kind of stories because of human mistakes or lack of competence. The question is like autonomous driving, is the rate going to be higher or lower or same.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling"

BloondAndDoom — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:34:47 +0000

This is very late sorry, just checking HN.

I like that, but (and I might be ignorant) can't you just change it's all in browser to something else and the users would be oblivious? I'm cautious of this because these kind of solutions still susceptible to a lot of problems internally or some kind of governmental interception.

Is it possible to download as an app and disable internet (not sure if it's a feature of any browsers).

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Googlebook"

BloondAndDoom — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:21:39 +0000

No thanks, I’m sick of companies with their super connected bullshit. MS , Google, Apple etc. We need more isolation between hardware and these conglomerates

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

BloondAndDoom — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:56:53 +0000

As someone close to agriculture this is the only true response in this thread and anyone understand fruit business knows this.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

BloondAndDoom — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:56:15 +0000

If you are in agriculture you understand how expensive to move things, as crazy as this sounds it’s practically only option many times.

Easy way to understand, they can announce it’s free come and get it and it wouldn’t have moved. Which clearly shows financially moving these don’t make sense.

New comment by BloondAndDoom in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

BloondAndDoom — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:42:28 +0000

This might be and not an objective data, 2 more things seem relevant :

1. New releases get on stream within weeks to couple of months. 2. Lots of new movies are supposed to be a TV movie and not a theater release (subjective)

I go to the movies way more than needed and I stopped blindly going to the movies and started to check reviews before because so many movies were really bad which is something I very rarely have experienced in the past (even when I had unlimited passes and seeing more than 1 movies per week)