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New comment by DaedalusII in "XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings""

DaedalusII — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:23:01 +0000

but how to do that without protecting the content from enemy LLM companies scraping?

New comment by DaedalusII in "Nvidia is the central bank of AI"

DaedalusII — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:54:30 +0000

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

New comment by DaedalusII in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

DaedalusII — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:47:48 +0000

this post was sponsored by SK Hynix

New comment by DaedalusII in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

DaedalusII — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:34:19 +0000

the biggest problem with claude is it is so negative and tells you things can't be done, are wrong, have hidden problems, etc

I run things through grok to make them positive again after claude does the main work

New comment by DaedalusII in "Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees"

DaedalusII — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:02:55 +0000

There was a time when life was much simpler. We would all walk a few miles down to the 'station then have breakfast and read the 'paper while the steam smoke hung thick in the air

Then we all had to move to cars. The fire man, stations, engineers, and conductors all lost their jobs, and the commute got 10 times more intense. Now we had to drive our own cars, follow road rules, maintain our cars, and find parking

New comment by DaedalusII in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

DaedalusII — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:24:05 +0000

basal take, completely incorrect

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

the US is the most charitable country on earth as a percentage of GDP. There is so much philanthropy that the finance industry is building new businesses just to serve it

https://fintech.global/2026/04/29/the-philtech-revolution-wh...

New comment by DaedalusII in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

DaedalusII — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:26:30 +0000

maybe like this, gary oldman 1990s would have been good. there needs to be a feeling of some edge or at least mystery, depth

New comment by DaedalusII in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

DaedalusII — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:10:51 +0000

"A complicated man" is a stupid translation in the first place

Polytropos means: a man of many twists and turns, describing simultaneously a person who has traveled widely and been "turned" by many hardships and places, as well as someone whose mind is clever, resourceful, versatile, and cunning enough to turn any situation to their advantage

Or as W2 academics chasing book reviews and podcasts slots translate: "a complicated guy"

the perfect actor would be someone with james bond spy thriller feeling not commercial guy that has the energy of a little league coach

New comment by DaedalusII in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

DaedalusII — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:46:48 +0000

that what i mean. where do all those votes go? someone controls them. and those interests are bought and paid for

New comment by DaedalusII in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

DaedalusII — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:59:42 +0000

starlink cellular connection for android in future

New comment by DaedalusII in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

DaedalusII — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:58:37 +0000

you should have a look at proxy firms. you would be surprised

New comment by DaedalusII in "Who Is America's Homer?"

DaedalusII — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:16:08 +0000

Homer

New comment by DaedalusII in "Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders"

DaedalusII — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:35:04 +0000

much more interesting than the actual article

New comment by DaedalusII in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

DaedalusII — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:19:46 +0000

thats been replaced with spac deals

also: can't pump the ipo and get exit liquidity for vc through a dutch auction

New comment by DaedalusII in "USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025"

DaedalusII — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:55:13 +0000

this exact behaviour is why insurance is getting more expensive

New comment by DaedalusII in "USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025"

DaedalusII — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:22:31 +0000

lets see how corgi holds up in a few years

New comment by DaedalusII in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

DaedalusII — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:01:38 +0000

https://www.hornwright.com/civil-rights-law/when-police-plan...

https://abcnews.com/US/florida-deputy-arrested-allegedly-pla...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/20/538279258...

New comment by DaedalusII in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

DaedalusII — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:12:53 +0000

if trump ordered someone to be shot for accepting bribes we would find this idea a lot less appealing

anyone who spent a lot of time in that part of the world will tell you this stuff can basically be made up

the western method to do this is to plant csa material on a person and then publicly announce they've been caught with it. not many people consider that 'possession' can simply be a USB stick found in a tree on your 2 acre lot, or a usb stick that has been planted in your car

your entire family and social network will immediately cut you off and very few consider these things can be fabricated

New comment by DaedalusII in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

DaedalusII — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:18:36 +0000

its difficult to see from the lens of software and information technology, and open source academia, but physical science is often discovered via experimentation and cant just be brute forced. usually it disseminates as it is adopted into industrial process and is then copied. a lot of scientific discoveries are made due to impulsive-creative intuition

for example: - until the end of ww1 the haber bosch process was confined to germany

- jet engine turbine blades today

- most historically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire , medieval napalm that nobody has been able to replicate even now

New comment by DaedalusII in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

DaedalusII — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:16:36 +0000

until mid 00s broadband internet was not widely available outside US/Europe/Japan. At one point I think over 10% of the internet was just Russia. Even today Russia and Japan make up about 5% of the internet each. you can see this in early 4ch culture especially

this meant most of the people on the internet were middle class suburban from the developed world, educated, literate, and technical. importantly, 3rd world bot farms and relentless content grinding had not yet taken off. that is a big difference