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New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:12:19 +0000

If the credit bureaus don't have a complete profile when you start, they will after provide the missing pieces.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:14:02 +0000

Exactly.

I don't understand how a community such as this, as connected as it is, can't back channel a message to Google brass to do something about these lockouts, which occur frequently and are unnecessary. There is no way Google doesn't know about them.

Gmail is an essential piece of pervasive personal infrastructure, upon which hundreds of millions of people rely. People are losing irreplaceable data for lack of care on the part of Google. The cost of providing a way to prove identity while maintaining security ought to be part of the cost of doing business for Google as it provides Gmail.

Surely there are some Google employees lurking who can chime in on this frustrating neglect.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Show HN: TopicRadar – Track trending topics across HN, GitHub, ArXiv, and more"

EarthAmbassador — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:41:19 +0000

Why not just use RSS?

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

EarthAmbassador — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:11:12 +0000

Thanks, you got it right. 1970 is the birth year and father lived in the United States for decades prior but had a child while out of the country, the naturalized citizen. The question is really about whether natural born citizenship is available to children of an American citizen when the child is born abroad, but the parent was deceased before majority age. Naturalization would probably be sufficient, but given that even naturalization is theoretically at risk, maybe obtaining outright natural born status is better insurance. There is an N-form for this sort of thing.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

EarthAmbassador — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:05:45 +0000

This question arises from the current regime's efforts to reverse naturalization.

For anyone who has one US citizen parent and one non-citizen parent, where the citizen parent has passed before the child applicant for naturalization reaches 18 years of age, resulting in the applicant applying for and receiving naturalization as an adult, can that same currently naturalized citizen also obtain natural born citizenship status through the deceased citizen parent and would it be advisable?

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "The Origins of Wokeness"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:23:22 +0000

This isn’t the Cold War and ideology is for simpletons.

I may have to write a book to educate people about how the world really works.

Thanks for the motivation.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "The Origins of Wokeness"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:18:25 +0000

2008 TARP for Wall Street? Corporate tax breaks that were unfunded and yielded $2 trillion in cash reserves decidedly not funneled down to working people. Sounds like socialism for institutions too big to fail, but not for people who needed it (70% of Americans with less than $1,000 in savings for emergencies).

How long will this situation continue before the house of cards tumbles down?

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "The Origins of Wokeness"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:13:42 +0000

What nonsense is this? The St. Louis Federal Reserve documented most inflation was due to profit seeking (gouging), not QE—that’s right wing libertarian drivel.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "The Origins of Wokeness"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:11:20 +0000

This comment is historically and intellectually uninformed, i.e., devoid of understanding about the antecedents and relationships between what is driving todays rise of the right, which is a populist counterrevolution to the 60s and beyond’s postmodernism-fueled culture wars, which elevated the marginalized and women, and served as a strategic distraction while the elite locked in wealth extract ion from below and minority rule by manufacturing a pervasive epistemic crisis.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

EarthAmbassador — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:38:40 +0000

Utter nonsense. Productivity gains of the last 40 years have been captured by shareholders and top elites. Working class wages have been flat all of that time despite that gain.

In 2012, Musk was worth $2 billion. He’s now worth 223 times that yet the minimum wage has barely budged in the last 12 years as productivity rises.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "RemotePulse – Boost your remote work productivity with effortless tracking"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:13:24 +0000

Will this remain self-bossware or is the plan to impose on users?

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City"

EarthAmbassador — Tue, 28 May 2024 05:42:03 +0000

600,000 homeless times $10,000 per tiny home, clustered where social services are made available, voila, the problem is solved for $6 billion, which is nothing, excluding the cost of those social services.

The issue is really there is a lack of genuine desire to solve the problem because the cruelty and baked-in lies within American self-reliance philosophy put such a solution outside the Overton window of what is possible.

Instead of a one-time investment, we dump more than $6 billion into the problem but never solve it.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again"

EarthAmbassador — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:54:14 +0000

Not so fast: my daughter could not afford Khan’s tutoring service at a crucial time in her development. I was out of work, had depleted our savings supporting the family, and couldn’t afford it. I pleaded for a waiver. The answer was no and basically “go eff myself.” My daughter lost all confidence in her math aptitude. Her teachers never alerted us as parents about her progress. We’ve been repairing the damage ever since.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again"

EarthAmbassador — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:49:49 +0000

Don’t think so. When my daughter needed the AI-powered Khan tutoring service last year for assistance with math, it was at a time when I had lost my job and depleted the family savings supporting the family. I pleaded for a waiver of the subscription, which was flatly and repeatedly denied. The result, my daughter’s math grades fell to the low 20 percent, and at no point did the teacher notify us. We’ve been repairing the damage ever since. I wonder if Sal Khan approves of abandoning low-income families, because his staff are stuffing families bad.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Show HN: A better UI for ChatGPT, Claude with text search, saved chats and more"

EarthAmbassador — Mon, 13 May 2024 15:11:41 +0000

Sorry, but very little is worth $26/month, in my view. If it operated as an uncensored model with guaranteed privacy, that might be worth something When combined with other features. Unfettered private creation and knowledge generation is a proper goal with LLMs.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Run llama3 locally with 1M token context"

EarthAmbassador — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:10:17 +0000

I second that! The lack of a tool for this is nuts.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "What I remember about Flint water crisis was how state government lied"

EarthAmbassador — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:33:05 +0000

It is remarkable to me how officials are able to commit these harms without suffering any repercussions. Of course, immunity provides cover for so-called official acts, however, when harm is so blatant, it’s rather astounding there are no carve outs in the law so that officials can be prosecuted. I’m not an attorney so I can’t suggest a strategy for holding them accountable, but this is a great time for an activist/crusader lawyer to go after wrongdoers and set a precedent.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Future of Humanity Institute shuts down"

EarthAmbassador — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:28:20 +0000

How does one research and generate insights for what does not exist yet? Is there a framework? At SXSW this year, there were a couple of talks about forecasting, as a tool for futurism, but where ethics are concerned, I’ve not seen a good template. Maybe all if this is obvious, yet I’m curious so I’m asking.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Biden's new student loan forgiveness erase up to $20k in interest for millions"

EarthAmbassador — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:33:03 +0000

Personal responsibility? That’s nonsense ideology. If one has the means, all so-called bourgeois middle-class morality can be avoided, and is by people with the means to do so.

New comment by EarthAmbassador in "Biden's new student loan forgiveness erase up to $20k in interest for millions"

EarthAmbassador — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:31:04 +0000

So people suffered. That’s too bad. Others must suffer too. Why not stop the cycle?

And we subsidize corporate profits, and execute innocent people, and kill humans wars. That is fine in our names with our money.

So doing some good for comet students, who contributing and had no choice but to borrow, seems moral to me. But to be petty and moan about how it’s unfair when there is so much that is also unfair, that sounds small.