Hacker News: EricDeb

New comment by EricDeb in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

EricDeb — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:50:50 +0000

Do you have any personal experience with the immigration system at all?

New comment by EricDeb in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

EricDeb — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:54:43 +0000

He's actually agreeing it reduces the need for engineers to produce the same level of output as now. He's making the argument that companies would then desire more output to capitalize on additional ideas/projects. I could see it going either way, but likely demand will fall.

New comment by EricDeb in "EFF is leaving X"

EricDeb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:19:27 +0000

X "impressions" are not worth very much

New comment by EricDeb in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

EricDeb — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:21:33 +0000

average salary of a high school teacher in seattle is 90k plus you get summers off.. doesnt seem too bad..

New comment by EricDeb in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

EricDeb — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:57:10 +0000

I dont know too much but Jensen Huang seems like a good guy

New comment by EricDeb in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

EricDeb — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:30:17 +0000

I would imagine very rich people have extremely good lawyers though that can tell them very accurately if they will get off if it goes to trial.

New comment by EricDeb in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

EricDeb — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:40:57 +0000

well ideally more power should be distributed amongst normal people

New comment by EricDeb in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

EricDeb — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:40:13 +0000

couldnt you have control shares that weren't worth money?

New comment by EricDeb in "How private equity is changing housing"

EricDeb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:39:26 +0000

What about a law where you couldnt use over a million dollars (to exclude normal people) a year of any asset as collateral for a loan unless you paid capital gains on it at its current valuation?

New comment by EricDeb in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

EricDeb — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:52:04 +0000

American devs should support the hire act bill

New comment by EricDeb in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

EricDeb — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:52:20 +0000

guns are a very efficient tool for murder or suicide. They absolutely will increase the number of deaths due to their effectiveness. Whether that's worth the societal price is up to the people.

New comment by EricDeb in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

EricDeb — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:19:58 +0000

This would be very helpful for American jobs.

New comment by EricDeb in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

EricDeb — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 04:32:42 +0000

Still, I'll take it

New comment by EricDeb in "Please Fund More Science (2020)"

EricDeb — Sat, 24 May 2025 20:37:31 +0000

It's possible private funding could build a better incentive structure but still a shame there's far less public research being done

New comment by EricDeb in "Claude 4"

EricDeb — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:32:07 +0000

I think you would need the biological components of a nervous system for some of these things

New comment by EricDeb in "Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule"

EricDeb — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:31:25 +0000

No one private citizen should be able to hold that much influence

New comment by EricDeb in "Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule"

EricDeb — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:27:09 +0000

As someone more on the left I would condemn and hope any politician of any party who engages in corruption is held accountable.

New comment by EricDeb in "Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M"

EricDeb — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:12:20 +0000

Is this article out of date then? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/12/7/a-year-int...

New comment by EricDeb in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

EricDeb — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:14:31 +0000

Hiring someone who was part of the Com and who was already terminated once for leaking secrets seems like a pretty big security violation, whether or not it was signed off by someone.

New comment by EricDeb in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

EricDeb — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:19:33 +0000

Why would musk want another AI company or is this just to get back at Altman?