Hacker News: Brigand

New comment by Brigand in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Brigand — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:17:44 +0000

They should have to float on the market for a certain amount of time before being added to any index. This would reveal what the market value of the stocks actually is.

New comment by Brigand in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

Brigand — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:19:45 +0000

So everyone who was wrong once 20 years ago should have their well presented insight dismissed without further reasoning?

New comment by Brigand in "Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)"

Brigand — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:18:07 +0000

Every employee is off welfare. Employment is very lucrative.

New comment by Brigand in "India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir"

Brigand — Wed, 07 May 2025 10:46:32 +0000

They absolutely covered Bin Laden. The intelligence agencies are not of your opinion:

„Counterterrorism officials told Logan that there is no way the Pakistanis didn't know about this.“

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-pakistan-know-where-bin-lad...

New comment by Brigand in "Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea"

Brigand — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:00:43 +0000

I would wish commenters would abstain for personal attacks and stick to reasoning and arguments.

New comment by Brigand in "Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea"

Brigand — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:45:58 +0000

4. We simply let things run their course and consider the current situation a new type of filter event, where those unable to deal with the new high-dopamine environment are unable to procreate. Some people will make it, society will change and a new kind of people will emerge. The black plague reduced the population by up to 90% and the current population collapse will not be half as bad.

New comment by Brigand in "The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, passed away"

Brigand — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:49:52 +0000

What is your definition of evil?

New comment by Brigand in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

Brigand — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:35:52 +0000

My impression is that a focus on dignity and worth of every person has lead to a complete fixation on rights and wants of minorities and underprivileged groups.

What is missing from this point of view are individual responsibility and willingness to contribute. From what I see online some people a fed up with this approach and this has caused the current backlash.

Perhaps dignity needs to be complemented by responsibility and we all ought to keep both in mind?

New comment by Brigand in "Efficient German Language Learning: Is Anki the Answer?"

Brigand — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:15:09 +0000

People I know had good success with Pimsleur.

New comment by Brigand in "Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout"

Brigand — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:24:14 +0000

Having excess energy from solar could make it possible to capture the excess co2 over time.

New comment by Brigand in "Mark Zuckerberg explains why so many tech companies are doing layoffs"

Brigand — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:47:35 +0000

It is not publicly traded, value estimates are more like political statements now. To the owner, getting running cost down may have made twitter long term viable.

New comment by Brigand in "The global fight against HIV is at risk"

Brigand — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:52:16 +0000

The empathy overdrive is on track to bring down civil live in many cities of the us, maybe the country as a whole.

New comment by Brigand in "iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates"

Brigand — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:30:44 +0000

This is easily solved with a tough protection case.

New comment by Brigand in "Musk blames Anti-Defamation League for 10-50% of X revenue loss"

Brigand — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 02:27:34 +0000

The way many a wokist agenda sucks out live of something fun.

New comment by Brigand in "Worker was paid with 91,500 oily pennies: feds. Now company owes him much more"

Brigand — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:09:13 +0000

Where do you live that shoplifters are easily convicted?

New comment by Brigand in "Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?"

Brigand — Sat, 13 May 2023 15:34:23 +0000

Cormen, Introduction to algorithms

New comment by Brigand in "I was bullied by a customer-focused, highest-market-value company"

Brigand — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:52:22 +0000

I am in the EU and got perfect customer service. Really no complaints.

New comment by Brigand in "The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents"

Brigand — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:01:17 +0000

But elderly population grows so it’s still net up.

New comment by Brigand in "Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume"

Brigand — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:47:39 +0000

Agreed, I read all cover letters and so far they contain a good deal of predictive power on how an applicant will do in the interview process.

New comment by Brigand in "Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought"

Brigand — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:06:05 +0000

You are not detecting incognito mode but another attribute that correlates with incognito mode.