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New comment by DebtDeflation in "Peptides: where to begin?"

DebtDeflation — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:34:07 +0000

>compounds need to undergo a rigorous regiment of empiric testing before they are given to potentially millions of people

Particularly when the mechanism behind most of these peptides comes down to "promotes more rapid cell growth". The intent may be to repair the skin, muscles, or ligaments, but biology is rarely that specific.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

DebtDeflation — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:09:25 +0000

>The internet will likely be far worse without ads than with ads.

Ads won't go away. They'll just move from infesting websites to infesting AI chatbots.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

DebtDeflation — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:28:05 +0000

Agree. People understand and accept firing for performance issues. People understand and accept layoffs when they're a rare event needed to save the company from bankruptcy. What's not understandable or acceptable to most is the current trend of companies doing annual or even quarterly layoffs as an ongoing way to manage earnings.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

DebtDeflation — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:19:45 +0000

This is why I've started telling younger people in the industry (I'm 52) "Don't worry about giving two weeks notice or doing knowledge transfer, it's not your problem. If you accept an offer and a better offer comes in before you start, take it and don't think twice. If the better offer comes in after you started, quit and take it, and don't think twice. If you're in the middle of a critical project at work and they're depending on you when a better offer comes in, take it and walk away." Loyalty in employment relations has been dead for a long time, since before I started working, but now it seems that even basic decorum on the part of employers is dead as well, and there's no reason to allow it to be asymmetric.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"

DebtDeflation — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:39:38 +0000

Once you get outside the SV and NYC bubbles, the vast majority of kids do not have their own laptops in the US. Phones, obviously are somewhat more common, but as even you note that's mainly with regard to teenagers - the average 10 year old in middle America does not have their own phone.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"

DebtDeflation — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:17:41 +0000

Age verification at the OS level makes no sense to me. Most households aren't going to have a separate device for every family member and so you will end up with a tablet or computer set up by one of the parents (and thus having their age stored) that will be used by both parents and children. Likewise, people generally won't create a separate account for every potential user.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "What Is a Tort?"

DebtDeflation — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:25:30 +0000

This comment brought me back in time 40+ years to a Saturday morning perched in front of our TV. Thank you.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

DebtDeflation — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:51:38 +0000

Could you imagine giving MetaClaw full access to your local file system, email, web browser, and all other applications? What could possibly go wrong.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

DebtDeflation — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:26:57 +0000

> Nvidia's "rack scale" machines like GB200-NVL72s and GB300-NVL72s are basically a fully built rack you roll into a DC and plug into power and network. In that case, Oracle should probably just buy the rack-scale Vera Rubins when they come out instead of Blackwells and roll them into their new DCs.

This is what I don't understand. Why is the article making the assumption that the DC itself is tied to a particular GPU generation? AWS doesn't knock down a building and start over every time Intel releases a new Xeon.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

DebtDeflation — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:50:43 +0000

> a CTO of a F100 company explicitly state that whether AI is driving efficiency or not, the capital investment, and more importantly, the promises of efficiency to investors will mean some people will be let go

That seems like an insane gamble to me. Lay off all the workers now and hope that AI can deliver on its promise to replace them some time in the indeterminate future.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

DebtDeflation — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:12:37 +0000

At this point it seems the entire AI Safety/Ethics debate was nothing more than a Marketing campaign to hype up the capabilities of the models - get people to think that if they're potentially dangerous that must mean they're so capable and they need to sign up for a subscription.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Layoffs at Block"

DebtDeflation — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:28:15 +0000

> the absurd overhiring that they did in 2022 and 2023

The overhiring took place from mid 2020 through mid 2022. The reversal into layoffs started in late 2022 and was in full swing in 2023. While the overhiring problem was real, the correction was largely complete over a year ago. The layoffs we're seeing today have nothing to do with overhiring and everything to do with managing earnings to sustain equity valuations.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

DebtDeflation — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:45:06 +0000

Totally agree. And it goes beyond criminal history. Just because I choose to make a dataset publicly available doesn't mean I want some AI memorizing it and using it to generate profit.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

DebtDeflation — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:52:42 +0000

Sure, but people will just drive to the next closest airport and fly. Quarantine makes no sense as an explanation without accompanying roadblocks.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

DebtDeflation — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:38:55 +0000

It's shocking to me how prevalent this "who needs Salesforce when everyone can just vibe code their own CRM from scratch in a day" narrative has become in the business press. Like, what???

New comment by DebtDeflation in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

DebtDeflation — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:43:08 +0000

Oracle is a perfect example of using empty AI partnership announcements to goose the stock price and also a perfect example of how unsustainable of a strategy it is.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

DebtDeflation — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:38:53 +0000

Given that they have around 44,000 employees in total and they surely aren't firing all of their managers, it would seem they have a lot of managers. The press release indicates most of the reduction is in IT, so internal operations, not Engineering/Product or Sales/Marketing.

New comment by DebtDeflation in "Common Plastic Chemical Found to Feminize Males and Masculinize Females"

DebtDeflation — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:40:19 +0000

Specifically, exposure during fetal development, and the changes it causes are potentially life-lasting.

Common Plastic Chemical Found to Feminize Males and Masculinize Females

DebtDeflation — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/common-plastic-chemical-found-to-feminize-males-and-masculinize-females/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764923

Points: 3

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New comment by DebtDeflation in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

DebtDeflation — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:30:46 +0000

Information Retrieval followed by Summarization is how I view it.