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New comment by OGEnthusiast in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

OGEnthusiast — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:50:48 +0000

I don't understand why we don't just ban private equity. Seems like zero value-add to the actual real economy.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "I’m joining OpenAI"

OGEnthusiast — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:12:50 +0000

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New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

OGEnthusiast — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:08:58 +0000

Being anti-immigration is actually left-wing and pro-labor in most functional countries in the EU. It’s only in the US and the UK where being left-wing also being means pro-open borders, however odd that may be.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

OGEnthusiast — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:57:31 +0000

If most of the Internet is AI-generated slop (as is already the case), is there really any value in expensing so much bandwidth and storage to preserve it? And on the flip side, I'd imagine the value of a pre-2022 (ChatGPT launch) Internet snapshot on physical media will probably increase astronomically.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

OGEnthusiast — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:16:04 +0000

Good for them.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

OGEnthusiast — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:16:29 +0000

Given how badly scrolling has cooked the brain of the average American, seems like a smart thing for the EU to ban.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Google offers buyouts to staff in its business unit who aren't 'all in'"

OGEnthusiast — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:45:33 +0000

Sounds like an immigration moratorium and more deportations will be a necessary part of revitalizing the American middle-class going forward.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Shut Up: Comment Blocker"

OGEnthusiast — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:43:16 +0000

Feels like this will be especially valuable as more comments are just AI slop

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Healthcare Jobs Have Become the Engine of America's Labor Market"

OGEnthusiast — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:31:03 +0000

Very bleak future ahead for the American middle class, especially those who don't already have significant capital in either stocks or real estate. Things are going to get pretty ugly IMO.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app"

OGEnthusiast — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:59:37 +0000

Yet it's fine when American big tech cos track you? At least TikTok is being honest about it.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Ask HN: Why does no one talk about the H-1B problem?"

OGEnthusiast — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:40:43 +0000

There’s really no other way to do mass deportations though.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

OGEnthusiast — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:59:06 +0000

So maybe the people who aren’t having kids due to climate change were right after all?

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

OGEnthusiast — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:49:14 +0000

A nice throwback to the pre-slop, pre-engagement bait era of the Internet.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

OGEnthusiast — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:54:09 +0000

Yeah but ironically it's actually the workers in the US who are being exploited. The workers in the developing countries are largely beneficiaries since they get access to wages and a labor market far beyond their local region. (Obviously the companies still benefit the most.)

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

OGEnthusiast — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:58:31 +0000

> It's so infrequent you wouldn't believe

Is there a publicly disclosed number we can use to verify this claim?

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

OGEnthusiast — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:56:46 +0000

I'm not saying it's true or not true, I'm saying I don't know what "xenophobia" has to do with evaluating the quality of workers being used in potentially life-saving situations.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

OGEnthusiast — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:52:53 +0000

Why is it xenophobia if it could be true?

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

OGEnthusiast — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:04:02 +0000

Seems like the main issue is that taxes in America are far too low.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "An Update on Heroku"

OGEnthusiast — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:18:10 +0000

Downfall? The founders and VCs made tens of millions of dollars. That’s the success condition for them.

New comment by OGEnthusiast in "The Waymo World Model"

OGEnthusiast — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:49:22 +0000

What's going to happen to all the millions of drivers who will lose their job overnight? In a country with 100 million guns, are we really sure we've thought this through?