Hacker News: NoImmatureAdHom

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

NoImmatureAdHom — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:08:54 +0000

Andrej: Guys, thank you for the interest but I'm really focused on this education thing rn

Anthropic: Okay, let's add two zeroes

Andrej: I am very excited to join Anthropic!

(I do not blame him, I think this is reasonable, I find the whole money-falling-from-the-sky thing amusing :-)

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

NoImmatureAdHom — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:16:02 +0000

My spouse was a PhD student at MIT, graduated in 2022. He was getting paid $58k a year when he left. Not an extravagant living in the Boston area, but not bad. On top of that is amazing benefits.

I'm sure it varies by department? Well I'm not sure, I assume...

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

NoImmatureAdHom — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:12:56 +0000

No, it doesn't.

DEI is about rewarding and punishing people for immutable characteristics like race and sex. Where people live isn't at all immutable, and a government may rightly do stuff to encourage economic activity (like research) in this area vs. another. In fact, they do it all the time.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

NoImmatureAdHom — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:11:18 +0000

Fewer graduate students is a good thing. Academia produces WAY too many graduate students relative to the jobs available (in aggregate, some fields it's more of a problem than others). It's good for the PIs (professors in charge of a group) to have lots of graduate students, but as a whole that means most of them will not get a job...

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

NoImmatureAdHom — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:09:20 +0000

The idea of a union for graduate students seems silly to me (and I was one for six years). The idea that you're exchanging labor for money is insane: any grad student at MIT could 10x their $/hr by taking a job in the private sector. And they could get those jobs easily. They're students, they're getting training.

Student unions like MIT's GSU should be banned.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns"

NoImmatureAdHom — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:07:57 +0000

It's possible GP got it wrong, but there is a "code is speech" angle on this. Shapes can't be illegal.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

NoImmatureAdHom — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:35:10 +0000

I think this is a failure of imagination :-)

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

NoImmatureAdHom — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:16:42 +0000

WHERE DO I SEND MY MONEY?

This is the question this website should be answering. Signing petitions is all well and good, but I want to vote with my wallet.

WHERE DO I SEND MY MONEY???

One thing I will do in the future is buy a nifty Motorola / GrapheneOS collab phone, but I can't do that yet. So for now: WHERE DO I SEND MY MONEY?

It is literally amazing to me that people aren't giving this as an option on such social coordination sites. Who is willing and able to sue Google over this? Who is actually doing it?

*WHERE DO I SEND MY MONEY*

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

NoImmatureAdHom — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:26:39 +0000

I'm gonna say it: we need to build a Thunderbird replacement. It's got too much technical debt. It can't convert new users. We need something that does.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

NoImmatureAdHom — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:39:28 +0000

Here's what the ACLU says:

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/can-border-agen...

I think the 48h detention is across the board (without a judge involved, border or not the border). ACLU says device seizure is up to 5 days barring "extenuating circumstances", whatever that means.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

NoImmatureAdHom — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:45:29 +0000

That sucks. You were wronged, and I hope you get justice.

In the U.K. or Hong Kong, "justice" would entail prison.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

NoImmatureAdHom — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:38:30 +0000

You don't have the protections of U.S. law at the border.

CBP is also asking, not compelling. You don't have to give them your password. If you don't, and you're a foreigner, you may be turned away. If you're a citizen, and I remember correctly, they can seize your device for up to two days if they want.

But they're not going to put you in prison for refusing like the U.K. and Hong Kong will.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

NoImmatureAdHom — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:30:34 +0000

Where do I donate to oppose this bullshit?

I want to open my wallet. It should be the top comment.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

NoImmatureAdHom — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:28:59 +0000

The nuclear option is linux

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

NoImmatureAdHom — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:33:08 +0000

.gov would love a graphene-native phone if manufactured in the U.S. or by an American company

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "More cows, more wives"

NoImmatureAdHom — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:55:41 +0000

I don't know the feminist take, but just to explain: the reason there is much much more polygyny than polyandry is basic reproduction mechanics. Women max out at ~13 kids, the most reproductively successful men have had thousands. So, a single well-resourced man can keep a bevy of wives at close to their reproductive limit no problem.

(Well, problems come when you do this as a society and create an age group of young men who have no shot at a wife because of 50/50 birth ratio. They get violent.)

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

NoImmatureAdHom — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:23:29 +0000

As of six months ago the non-smartphone flow did not work. Totally unsurprising for the UK, of course.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

NoImmatureAdHom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:32:30 +0000

God Bless America

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

NoImmatureAdHom — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:28:40 +0000

All these things are true except

- Force was used to disrupt lawful governmental authority.

In the end, it wasn't anything history books will recognize as an insurrection. Because it wasn't an insurrection. That word means something, and this wasn't it. Was it bad? A bad thing? Yes, it was a bad thing I'd say. Not an insurrection though. Whatever those people did, it wasn't going to change anything. The powers that be could have had every last one of them killed with a snap of their fingers. They didn't because that would have been an overreaction to a bunch of methbillies trashing the place.

New comment by NoImmatureAdHom in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

NoImmatureAdHom — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:18:09 +0000

Jan 6 wasn't an insurrection. Nobody was armed except one guy with a pistol and the dude with a spear. It was a bunch of obese methbillies trashing the place.

Insurrections do not look like that.