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New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

MaxHoppersGhost — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:14:12 +0000

These guys (VCs) entire livelihoods rely on tens of thousands of young people throwing away their early years of lives trying to get super rich. Only .01% even see moderate success but PG and co don't care and continue to pump the dream and urge folks to waste their lives to try and make them rich.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

MaxHoppersGhost — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:43:07 +0000

> don't get married, don't have children

Bad advice. You’re going to need family connections and loyal people you can bet your life on to survive if the rest of what you’re saying is remotely true.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:40:23 +0000

Those aren't the same workers though. There's a dichotomy of remote workers - some are screwing off during the day and some are working more hours than they should be since it can be hard to unplug from the desk (especially if it's a full remote cmpany with people across four plus timezones).

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:38:05 +0000

And money spent on a more expensive house closer to the office vs the same home in an affordable place. It's the main reason I can't go back to San Francisco, once you get used to a less than one million four bedroom house in a pleasant neighborhood you can't go back to living in a shoebox for twice the price, even if it's the most beautiful city in the world.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:36:07 +0000

I'm glad you work remote because to be candid you sound like a miserable person to be stuck in an office with.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply"

MaxHoppersGhost — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:28:07 +0000

Unchecked illegal immigration leading to wage/housing cost pressure, unmitigated spending driving inflation (which Trump has continued) via unnecessary stimulus, high oil prices causing everything to cost more not just the price at the pump.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

MaxHoppersGhost — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:31:04 +0000

>China believes in Climate change and are at least taking steps to address it

I've got a bridge to sell you!

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Who Is America's Homer?"

MaxHoppersGhost — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:55:45 +0000

All land is "stolen". The people the US "stole" the land from had "stolen" it from someone else and so on and so forth.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:17:15 +0000

Well whatever you guys have been doing hasn't worked for a damn and only hampered EU's ability to actually project power and make changes.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:39:06 +0000

Places I know that are getting them are generally seeing big time pay (relatively that is) for construction work and then dozens to a hundred of ongoing jobs once the work is done. That doesn't sound like much but it's huge for many of these communities.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:37:22 +0000

Yet Europeans will continue to hamstring their economic activity to lower their footprint which is really not doing anything in the grand scheme of things vs. China/India and what Africa will produce if/when they modernize.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:41:37 +0000

What is the increase in jobs/GDP for those communities that have paid more in electricity? A lot of these data centers are built in places with declining population and zero economic prospects for locals within their communities so they're a huge boon.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

MaxHoppersGhost — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:48:39 +0000

Wonder who this guy pissed off in the CCP.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:12:15 +0000

China is still doing horrendous things to its population that the US stopped doing over 100 years ago. Not the same.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle"

MaxHoppersGhost — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:18:59 +0000

The vast majority of folks don't want to walk/bike in Phoenix, Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans, etc where it's near or over 100 degrees in the summer.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama"

MaxHoppersGhost — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:33:49 +0000

“Scientific expertise” was already sold out to politics as we saw during covid. The further degradation to podcast bros is the cherry on top.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

MaxHoppersGhost — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:43:20 +0000

Citation needed.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

MaxHoppersGhost — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:20:23 +0000

I wish we’d focus more on living standards than wealth as I think that’s what really matters. “How can we lift up the people with low living standards in the US?” should be the question rather than “How can we keep people from becoming ultra rich?” which I think is what happened in Europe. The only reason wealth should be checked is because of undue influence on politics/power. Otherwise I don’t care if there are 1,000 trillionaires as long as as many Americans as possible have a good quality of life. I think for many the obsession with redistributing wealth comes from a deep seated jealousy.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

MaxHoppersGhost — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:33:17 +0000

Or how about you get the heck out of the fast lane when someone is approaching you going faster? Tailgating is an acceptable and common way to tell someone to gtfo of the way. That is common courtesy in most states in the U.S.

New comment by MaxHoppersGhost in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

MaxHoppersGhost — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:48:10 +0000

They were not lovers, that is modern BS painted over myth.