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New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

EcommerceFlow — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:37:47 +0000

Like I said, as it currently stands the evidence is 5,000 with Sam and like 5-15 against him (from the article).

We can theorize on motivations all day, but since the hitpiece didn't bother contacting any 'pro Sam' employees, it's a moot point.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

EcommerceFlow — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:17:44 +0000

Yet when he was fired, 99% of OpenAi employees backed him and were ready to resign. That actual event/evidence is more telling than any hit piece article.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

EcommerceFlow — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:39:31 +0000

Disappointed the article doesn't transmission of electricity and how little the loss is. People are quite surprised that it's like 3.5% per 1000 km.

We could just build out huge solar farms in AZ and transmit it accordingly. We did it for railroads, why not here?

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:33:55 +0000

Why do people accept that supply/demand works in so many industries when the private market is allowed to flourish, but won't accept it for healthcare, education, etc?

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

EcommerceFlow — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:39:11 +0000

Same thing has been happening with sports bets for years, this particular point (threats) isn't unique to political betting.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:02:23 +0000

You can't really gauge 'tone' via text, I was just referring to the mission success reality on the President's side.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:19:31 +0000

This isn't a military decision but more a public opinion one. Should an American ship take a hit, have casualties, become disabled, etc it would put immense pressure on the administration to settle/end the war, even though on a military objective level it makes a lot of sense. This is a reality of the instant informational world we live in.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Oil is near a price that hurts the economy"

EcommerceFlow — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:11:55 +0000

And it's already down to $95 lol

HHS DOGE team open sources the largest Medicaid dataset in department history

EcommerceFlow — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DOGE_HHS/status/2022370909211021376

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017538

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Claude Opus 4.6"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:23:40 +0000

I didn't compare to that level, just had it create a plan first then implemented it.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Claude Opus 4.6"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:10:06 +0000

Anecdotal, but it 1 shot fixed a UI bug that neither Opus 4.5/Codex 5.2-high could fix.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns"

EcommerceFlow — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:23:08 +0000

Or we just scale up energy, allowing people to live everywhere!

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns"

EcommerceFlow — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:19:25 +0000

I see this as an energy problem. We have 'unlimited' water from the Oceans, and distillation technology exists, it's just not economically viable (enough) because of the high energy costs of distillation. Elon's solution to this is solar panels everywhere, since they're so incredibly scalable (imagine an automated solar factory). Hopefully this comes to fruition sooner rather than later.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:16:08 +0000

The Wikipedia "reliability" list shows wild, almost laughable biases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

Surely people don't think sources such as Mother Jones are more 'reliable' than The New York Post, Fox News, or The Heritage Foundation? Not a coincidence there.

Having such obvious biases does nothing but damage the Wikipedia brand, and at this point has me anticipating Ai replacements.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:25:34 +0000

Filtering content for children is not 'banning books'.

By this definition, The Bible is the most "banned book" across the country, even though it's probably the most consequential piece of literature ever written.

This continuous doublespeak is even more humorous considering the site has actual shopping links to every 'banned book'.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows"

EcommerceFlow — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:41:28 +0000

The more free market an industry/service, the more efficient the outcome.

Why do people readily accept this for everything else, but don't see the reality in regards to healthcare?

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

EcommerceFlow — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:20:22 +0000

Gemini 3 had a great 24 hour SOTA run for coding

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic"

EcommerceFlow — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:21:07 +0000

The VAST majority of this growth will continue to be in healthcare and/or social security (mostly healthcare though).

Until our healthcare markets become more free market, this growth in spending will accelerate as boomers age.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Estimating AI energy use"

EcommerceFlow — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:44:08 +0000

The question to ask is why supply of energy hasn't kept up with demand. Regulations (primarily in Democratic states) is most likely the answer. When you use government incentives to pick winners and losers with energy sources, it throws the entire energy market out of sync.

New comment by EcommerceFlow in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

EcommerceFlow — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:40:45 +0000

Here's a link to the full interview Bezos had yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0x3UZDKSNo