Hacker News: HamsterDan

New comment by HamsterDan in "That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake"

HamsterDan — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:44:38 +0000

Sure, it's not true, but the fact that I believed it could be true pretty much confirms that Elon is evil, does it not?

New comment by HamsterDan in "Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people"

HamsterDan — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:27:56 +0000

Finding food and housing is a source of stress for literally all life on earth. Only for a fortune few humans is it not a source of stress.

New comment by HamsterDan in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

HamsterDan — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:09:08 +0000

If the EU can force every person on earth to dismiss a cookie popup on every website they visit, surely they can pass some regulation to rein in the expansion of tipping.

For example, just make it a requirement that the default tip is 0% in point of sale systems.

New comment by HamsterDan in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

HamsterDan — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:03:26 +0000

This is going to expand tipping dramatically. I don't understand how you could have any optimism that tipping will go away after this is passed.

Businesses are going to work hard to blur the line between a tip and a required payment so that they can call their income a tip while customers think they're obligated to pay it.

New comment by HamsterDan in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

HamsterDan — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:58:44 +0000

That's not a tip, it's a bid. Expect a lot more businesses to start operating like this if no tax on tips goes into effect.

New comment by HamsterDan in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

HamsterDan — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:27:22 +0000

Restricting food to civilians has been a legitimate war tactic forever. It's called a siege. If this is unacceptable to Palestine, they need to return the Israeli hostages.

Israel is under no obligation to provide aid to their opponent in a war. Anybody suggesting such is transparently anti-Semitic. Nobody would ever make such a ridiculous claim if it were their own countrymen held hostage.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs"

HamsterDan — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:45:41 +0000

This change neither increases nor decreases the size of the government, so it's unclear how you think "party of small government" is relevant here.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality"

HamsterDan — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:06:53 +0000

If the rich won't run away, then Spain and Brazil don't need global action. They could just jack up taxes on the rich in their own countries. And since you've now pinky sworn that the rich will stay and pay the extra taxes, it won't have any adverse effects domestically.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality"

HamsterDan — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:16:01 +0000

It's a monstrous disincentive to increased productivity. If you're a smart, ambitious person who wants to work hard and advance your lot in life, are you really going to stay in Spain knowing that the government is going to take half of everything incremental thing you do?

This is basically inviting your best and brightest to move to the US and other low tax countries.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Dull Men’s Club"

HamsterDan — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:58:56 +0000

Your standard for dull is too high. Most of the world does not create anything. The mere fact that you're creating something, even if it is an amateurish model airplane, is already cooler than what most of the world does with their free time.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

HamsterDan — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:55:00 +0000

What the governor of California believes does not matter when federal agents are being attacked. The President has a responsibility to protect his agents. If California is not doing that sufficiently, the President is more than justified in sending reinforcements.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

HamsterDan — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:49:27 +0000

Democrats, socialists, and communists, yes.

It sure isn't Republicans rioting because their candidate is enacting one of the cornerstones of his platform.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

HamsterDan — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:45:39 +0000

If 500 people can't stop 10 from causing violence, then those 500 never believed in peace to begin with.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

HamsterDan — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:43:01 +0000

If local police are unable or unwilling to protect federal agents doing their jobs, bringing in the military is absolutely the right decision. These rioters used hammers to destroy concrete bollards, pelted federal agents with the fragments, and faced no resistance from the LAPD while doing it.

Bringing in the military was necessary.

New comment by HamsterDan in "LLMs replacing human participants harmfully misportray, flatten identity groups"

HamsterDan — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:10:19 +0000

How terrible. Identity groups should never be flattened. We must always remember that we're different from each other.

New comment by HamsterDan in "U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams"

HamsterDan — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:14:58 +0000

They are a foreign company. They have no due process rights. We could hit their data center with a cruise missile tomorrow and it would be perfectly legal.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine"

HamsterDan — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:25:08 +0000

That cat is out of the bag, don't you think? Even if the US passes a strict law protecting copyright owners from having their works used to train AI, China is not going to obey that law, so US companies will just fall behind.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

HamsterDan — Thu, 22 May 2025 23:12:25 +0000

Harvard is a systematically racist institution. They even went to the Supreme Court to fight for the right to discriminate against white and Asian students.

Republicans and Trump-voting independents signed up for this. They want to see Harvard treated the same way it treats others.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

HamsterDan — Thu, 22 May 2025 23:00:47 +0000

There is a 99% chance of this getting overturned.

Harvard will sue, lose in court, and then give DHS everything they want at which point they'll get their visas back.

They just want to pretend to be the victim for a while so that their overwhelmingly far-left faculty don't leave.

New comment by HamsterDan in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

HamsterDan — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:48:11 +0000

You should have AI start writing your comments for you so at least then they'll make sense.