Hacker News: Daz1

New comment by Daz1 in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"

Daz1 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:02:18 +0000

"capitalistic hellscape"

get a grip lmao

New comment by Daz1 in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

Daz1 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:06:07 +0000

People don't actually care about answering this question, they just want to steal music and keep a 'clean' conscience.

New comment by Daz1 in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"

Daz1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:42:09 +0000

>Because cloud monetization was awful

Citation needed

New comment by Daz1 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Daz1 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:02:35 +0000

Do you like losing money?

New comment by Daz1 in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

Daz1 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:50:07 +0000

what a cringe comment

New comment by Daz1 in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

Daz1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:34:47 +0000

Phones come in dozens of different sizes too, what are you on about? TVs come in a greater range of sizes because they're designed for different viewing distances and room configurations. Phones don't have this variable, you hold them in your hand.

New comment by Daz1 in "We’re secretly winning the war on cancer"

Daz1 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:15:10 +0000

Yes Trump and the capitalists are hiding the cure, you're right

New comment by Daz1 in "Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight"

Daz1 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:15:33 +0000

Yes and also there is zero aesthetic thought put into japanese towns which is why they're so ugly, everything is functional

New comment by Daz1 in "How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta"

Daz1 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:43:44 +0000

Why would I want to do this?

New comment by Daz1 in "Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)"

Daz1 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:57:45 +0000

>You're selling yourself for free.

I get to avail myself of their product for free

Because "they" will attack you economically by psychologically targetting you with advertising for items you don't actually need, but they will manipulate you into thinking you do.

Meaningless buzzwords, nobody is being 'economically attacked'

>Because "they" create an electronic copy of you with all this data. With AI and other existing / future technologies they could create a version of you to populate their metaverse.

Slippery slope fallacy. Does not exist

>"They" sell the electronic copy of you, and this can be bought by anyone, including governments. If the government of the day (which may change - boy howdy) don't like things you say or how you conduct yourself (or re-define what fraud anbd corruption means), then they can target and harass you much more specifically when armed with all this extra information that's extracted from your electronic trails.

>Another slippery slope argument.

New comment by Daz1 in "A Year of Telepathy"

Daz1 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:24:19 +0000

Severe case of MDS

New comment by Daz1 in "Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data"

Daz1 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:02:49 +0000

No I'm not mad at Meta, keep up the great work.

New comment by Daz1 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

Daz1 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:25:31 +0000

>In 1960 the top tax rate was 91%

How many times does this need to be debunked?

New comment by Daz1 in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Daz1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:24:42 +0000

>Plenty of places have had catastrophic droughts, famines, and plagues. Nearly half of Europe died a few times from plagues. Most natives in America were absolutely wiped out from disease and other issues. Tens of millions died of famine in China last century. Tsunamis washed away and killed hundreds of thousands in Indonesia and Japan this current century.

Conveniently you selected pre-technology examples. How curious.

Meanwhile the impending global famine(s) - (plural) of the 20th century never came to be because captitalism kept pumping out agriscience improvements to improve crop yields to 10 times what they were in 1900.

New comment by Daz1 in "How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)"

Daz1 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:16:42 +0000

this is mostly fantastical nonsense. I go home at 6pm everyday. go outside at 6pm and you will see businesspeople everywhere also on the commute home.

also it is nearly impossible to fire anyone in Japan for anything

New comment by Daz1 in "New iMac with M4"

Daz1 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:00:02 +0000

>No way that any technologically competent person can claim that the iPhone 16 is a massive and amazing improvement over the iPhone 15.

Kicking off with a logical fallacy, strong start.

>There is "change", sure - the chip is now every so slightly faster, it can do "AI things", it can take slightly better photos, etc.

Just say you're technologically uninformed.

>But any comparison of these changes with the previous model for an average use case

Kathy using Instagram while she waits in line at the supermarket is not a useful point of comparison when we're comparing iterative improvements, keep up.

>Apple could have easily skipped releasing a new model this year, packaged exactly the same hardware and released the iPhone 16 the next year and fundamentally nothing would've changed.

What an absolutely ridiculous statement.

>But the shareholders won't like that, will they?

Low IQ statement.

New comment by Daz1 in "New iMac with M4"

Daz1 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:29:09 +0000

>There is very little change from one iPhone to the next

Visually, sure. Under the hood? Wrong.

>The business model is built on a revolving demand cycle that is unrelated to long term thinking, maintainability, efficiency, nor sustainability.

Sorry you need to qualify this statement. An iPhone 6S is still completely usable and almost certain to be in a functional condition assuming it has been looked after correctly. That's a 8-9 year old phone. Meanwhile my 2001 phone was hopelessly outdated e-waste in 2007.