Hacker News: GeorgeWBasic

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

GeorgeWBasic — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:59:11 +0000

Nope, a comment that flippant about wasting RAM use deserves that snark. It's always been bad to do it, and it's even worse nowadays.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

GeorgeWBasic — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:02:07 +0000

Have you heard that there's a RAM shortage?

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

GeorgeWBasic — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:46:53 +0000

The parent was saying that AI wrote that, not you.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Helium is hard to replace"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:21:53 +0000

Are you aware of what the US regime has done to Iran? There's a reason they say that.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

GeorgeWBasic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:20:31 +0000

"Our adversaries" are in the US government, or is this not crystal clear by now?

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

GeorgeWBasic — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:40:33 +0000

And more importantly, resisted releasing the files as hard as he could.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Digg is gone again"

GeorgeWBasic — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:30:31 +0000

Wasn't asking you, and that isn't what my next sentence said at all. Your reading comprehension could use some work.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Digg is gone again"

GeorgeWBasic — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:49:03 +0000

Would now be a good time to point out that I said that "It's not proof" and "weak evidence"? Because that is what I said.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Digg is gone again"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:41:28 +0000

Not to the same extent at all. If you use ChatGPT for a while, you'll see it writes like that very frequently. Humans do write like that sometimes, but not with anywhere the frequency that ChatGPT does it. That's weak evidence for it being ChatGPT.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:39:45 +0000

From all I've seen, he actually argued against this war prior to paying lip service to it. He'd be an improvement.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Digg is gone again"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:55:02 +0000

"Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall." is a VERY ChatGPT way to write. It's not proof, but the parent is right that this smells a bit of AI writing.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:20:24 +0000

Impeachment, and then we could get there. It's not impossible.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:19:04 +0000

People are admitting that now. It's happening. There's some hope that something can be done about him.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:17:06 +0000

That isn't true. There's actually a large number of people, probably in the millions, but probably not a majority of those who voted for him, who no longer support him in any way. And of the ones who remain, yes: they're pretty dense to still support him now. There are some lunatics who genuinely believe that the US has the right to dominate and exploit all other nations, but the majority of them simply believe the lies he's telling. I've already seen that when they are confronted with the facts about, say, Gaza, some of them can change their minds. It would be a mistake to turn them away instead of treating them like potential allies. There really is something more important at stake.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:09:26 +0000

If it's being burned, it isn't helium.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,""

GeorgeWBasic — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:02:16 +0000

Why the personal attacks on someone who's trying to explain to you why the Democrats lost, and why they will continue to lose, now when it's more important than ever? Since when did he say he prefers the lunatics in power now? The election showed the result of attitudes like yours, where you say "vote for us or you're a despicable person" to undecided voters just makes you lose. Ordinary people hear that and they think: fuck you, if you're going to try to tell me what to do, then I'm voting against YOU.

The left in the United States is a group of extreme orthodoxy and excommunication of everyone who doesn't toe the line on absolutely everything, and what you just said is a great example of this. He doesn't agree with you on everything, so he supports pedophiles! Right now, the right is fracturing and millions of people who voted for Trump realize that he's a madman. Right now is the time for the left to move to the center and accept these people into the fold, and accept that they won't agree on every single thing, because there's something far more important at stake.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

GeorgeWBasic — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:32:10 +0000

I know they're saying it's that high, but I doubt those numbers. Further, that number is going down every day. People are massively against this, and I would estimate that millions of his former supporters have left as they see what he really is. Of the ones who are still there, a few of them are lunatics who think that it is okay for America to invade, conduct regime change, and kill at will, but the great majority of them are people who won't admit to themselves the truth because they will be cast out of their tribe. Tribalism like that is a very powerful force in people, on both sides (and this whole concept of left and right sides is really something that needs to go away: it is really us vs the elites). Some of these people can be reached, and when they come to their senses, shouldn't be rejected. Large numbers already have, and I do believe it's in the millions.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

GeorgeWBasic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:16:13 +0000

In this world, the one where China isn't invading its neighbors and overthrowing governments all around the world.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

GeorgeWBasic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:08:57 +0000

Your comment is actually a great example of why his approval rating is as high as it is. It's because those who still support him know what you think of them. They know that you think of them as less than human, and they are willing to do anything, even support a complete monster like Trump (and he is a murdering, sociopathic monster), to fight against you. And one promise he is keeping, along all the many he's broken, is that he is fighting the left.

Don't think that people like you, who so casually dehumanize those who disagree, have no responsibility in him getting elected.

New comment by GeorgeWBasic in "The whole thing was a scam"

GeorgeWBasic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:17:44 +0000

jatora, your honest comment is flagged and your account seems to be dead.