Hacker News: DaedalusII

New comment by DaedalusII in "Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars"

DaedalusII — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:38:26 +0000

there is mild irony founder is wearing a Casio F-91W while installing solar powered smart collar on cow

New comment by DaedalusII in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

DaedalusII — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:56:37 +0000

google is worst because normal people with no tech experience can accidentally get banned from the only email account they ever had since 2005 which has all their insurance tax resumes family photo etc , never even understand how it happened , or fix it

New comment by DaedalusII in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

DaedalusII — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0000

yes obvious but this is not a secret, its the whole point of yc

yc is explicitly an imitation of harvard , right down to calling people 'alumni'

this is how to find supertalent. much like american idol it works well but not for everyone

New comment by DaedalusII in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

DaedalusII — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:55:20 +0000

zenefits didnt commit fraud in the social sense they allowed people to sell real financial products without having a broker licence. its more like not wearing seatbelts than scamming people

the car was real, but there was no drivers licence. 'licence fraud' -> fraud

delve is an actual scam

New comment by DaedalusII in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

DaedalusII — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:16:37 +0000

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/apparently-the-nhs-is-the-wor...

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/removi...

nhs is famous dumb and has spent years trying to stop using fax machine. £330 million is nothing over a few years.. NHS budget for 2024/25 is circa £242 billion.

the entire annual intake from capital gains tax is £20 million or so

New comment by DaedalusII in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

DaedalusII — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:19:44 +0000

he clearly meant that all the servers and computers were manufactured in his non-EU village in Bulgaria

I for one want Pravetz cloud

New comment by DaedalusII in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

DaedalusII — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:17:58 +0000

this looks like it was vibe coded using an american llm

also, why not chinese or indian alternatives? they're cheaper and oftentime work better

New comment by DaedalusII in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

DaedalusII — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:56:48 +0000

"Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. " >Germany's population is approximately 83.5 to 84.1 million as of early 2026

agree with analysis of iran industry etc, cant see cuba happening. usmil could roll over cuba in a few months and the local population probably wouldnt be hostile

New comment by DaedalusII in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

DaedalusII — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:58:03 +0000

fumigating houses, pest control at commercial food facilities, commercial premises etc is a big dirty difficult job and involves expensive equipment and hazardous chemicals etc plus as OP noted requires exams before you can do it for 3rd parties

New comment by DaedalusII in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

DaedalusII — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:20:41 +0000

I have to call out this disingenuous mob like language which is basically saying "because this person served in the military of a UN Security Council member, it is justifiable to murder them in the street years into their retirement"

how is a submarine commander committing war crimes?

by the same way of thinking, it would be completely justified for people from many countries to show up at random US service members houses and shoot them in the street , or perhaps attack their embassies, commit suicide bombings...

New comment by DaedalusII in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

DaedalusII — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:35:25 +0000

what do you think of theory that denuclearisation movement in west europe was funded by CCCP? it makes sense to think CCCP/Putin would finance subversive movements to remove nuclear and coal and make the region dependent on russian energy exports

New comment by DaedalusII in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

DaedalusII — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:12:13 +0000

its literally cheaper to create a low earth orbit satellite constellation than deal with bureaucracy

New comment by DaedalusII in "OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)"

DaedalusII — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:00:48 +0000

nasdaq listings can be rough, not sure if anyone remember fb ipo

but how else will they own spacex, openai, anthropic, nvidia, in such concentration

New comment by DaedalusII in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

DaedalusII — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:53:06 +0000

there arent enough retail investors in the world to buy this ipo

but they will get a lot of flow from sovereign wealth fund and pensions

you might wonder why anthropic spend time in australia, a country with less economy than canada and almost no industry at all? likely because it has very big pension fund pool to buy their ipo

New comment by DaedalusII in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

DaedalusII — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:51:05 +0000

simple, just have a private bank relationship

jpm and gs will let you open an account in the us if you have $50m cash

New comment by DaedalusII in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

DaedalusII — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:22:21 +0000

Heraclitus — 'For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.'

New comment by DaedalusII in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

DaedalusII — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:43:24 +0000

nassim taleb is primarily a philosopher who pretends to be a hedge fund guy, jordan peterson, robert kiyosaki, tim ferriss maybe, sam bankman fried, the tech lead yt

archetype is people who sell their success as a model for you to follow while having none themselves, wrapped up as some kind of philosophical position, so they can make money

lots of self help authors, failed vc funds, podcasts

New comment by DaedalusII in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

DaedalusII — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:26:18 +0000

the old saying goes that every entrepreneur wishes they were a philosopher, and every philosopher wishes they were an entrepreneur

generally holds true soros marc rich bill gates musk thiel nassim taleb epstein etc

New comment by DaedalusII in "Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation"

DaedalusII — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:15:30 +0000

bad grid, bad fibre, #146 in the world in electricity production per capita. less power output than many US states, rule of law risk, civil unrest risk, and data sovereignty (gdpr), must get expat engineers (and get them visas)

large scale offshore wind in norway could generate 50-75% of the entire US production with 80% uptime and then DCs built in norway or EU area

New comment by DaedalusII in "Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation"

DaedalusII — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:55:10 +0000

cant fund infrastructure because that is when the bad governance results in money and asset being stolen

rule of law why country like singapore and finland end up being richer than brazil or argentina