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New comment by Qworg in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

Qworg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:03:20 +0000

What are the knock on effects of lowering the total number of people/the velocity of money/the number of companies in America?

Canada's housing supply cost issues are driven by a wide variety of factors, very little having to do with immigration and far more with a small number of wealthy families owning a huge amount of land and a larger number of wealthy people holding many homes.

New comment by Qworg in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

Qworg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:49:38 +0000

If you enjoy the podcast or the newsletters, I do recommend the Discord (https://discord.gg/oddlots) - the folks there are generally very smart and it is a great place to discuss everything from the economy to climate to transportation to defense.

New comment by Qworg in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

Qworg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:47:48 +0000

Mentioned, but there's usually a discussion.

New comment by Qworg in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

Qworg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:32:39 +0000

Your responsibility as a developer in this new world is design and validation.

A poor foundation is a design problem. Throw it away and start again.

New comment by Qworg in "The Dawn of the AI Drone"

Qworg — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:51:46 +0000

Both TOWs and M47 Dragons are "remote controlled".

New comment by Qworg in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

Qworg — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:34:30 +0000

Given what you need, you should look at a Telo.

https://www.telotrucks.com/

Not launched yet though.

New comment by Qworg in "Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back"

Qworg — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:24:56 +0000

Your team's fixed preferences get stored into your .agents.md file so you don't type it over and over.

If you change your preferences, the team refactors.

New comment by Qworg in "Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery"

Qworg — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:33:24 +0000

While the methodology wasn't published, Microsoft did something similar for Flight Simulator.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/flight-box...

Surviving AI Psychosis

Qworg — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:50:55 +0000

Article URL: https://joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599283

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Qworg in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

Qworg — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:38:09 +0000

FIS is just waiting for them to pay $250k/enabled API call to make it happen...

New comment by Qworg in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

Qworg — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:12:03 +0000

Come now - you really believe that Elon saw DOGE as a good faith effort to cut costs in the government?

For someone with such a vaunted intelligence, he was either dumb or complicit. "Working things out from first principles" would have had him leave after the very first step.

New comment by Qworg in "From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning"

Qworg — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:37:01 +0000

To make it more concrete - here's an example in Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse

New comment by Qworg in "E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper"

Qworg — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:45:20 +0000

Postal banking existed in the US in some form until 1967. We could (and should) bring it back just for the reasons you stated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings...

There are places in the US where the bank drives to the town once or twice a week, since there's otherwise no way to get cash or transact.

New comment by Qworg in "In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships"

Qworg — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:09:34 +0000

The issue with your last statement is that it _is_ part of your job and an increasingly important one at that.

It is _also_ your job to make them less bad - this is good because your incentives are aligned.

If they both can't be of use and can't be made better, then you need management to step in.

New comment by Qworg in "Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)"

Qworg — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:37:35 +0000

What are robots or not is a point of debate - there are many different definitions.

Generally, it has to automate a task with some intelligence, so dishwashers qualify. It isn't a existence proof (nor did I state that).

New comment by Qworg in "Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)"

Qworg — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:13:57 +0000

The wits in robotics would say we already have domestic robots - we just call them dishwashers and washing machines. Once something becomes good enough to take the job completely, it gets the name and drops "robotic" - that's why we still have robotic vacuums.

New comment by Qworg in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

Qworg — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:58:17 +0000

I'm not saying it has to be perfect.

I'm saying that this outcome will never exist because more has changed than just the plant closing. If we coupled "reopen the plant" with "the plant makes entirely new things" and "the plant trains local workers to take these jobs" and "the plant pays above local service/construction wages" and "the plant will be successful in geopolitical competition" and "the plant can do 10x the amount of business due to advances in automation to get to the same level of employment" and on and on.

We could solve _each_ of these problems, absolutely - but they are all interlocking parts of a wicked problem. Blowing up the economy and threatening a global recession won't actually solve any of these.

New comment by Qworg in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

Qworg — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:43:20 +0000

It isn't a bad thing - unless you don't have a job/have been stuffed with the idea that meaning and good pay could be yours if not for those foreigners.

New comment by Qworg in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

Qworg — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:41:22 +0000

It isn't just "reopen the plant" - it is "reopen the plant and match economic conditions in the time period from the 1950s-1990s".

Just reopening won't bring back the comparably high wages from that time period.

New comment by Qworg in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

Qworg — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:38:31 +0000

You can see the report here: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations

Given that both elasticities were set to cancel each other, that's why you get a flat trade deficit/imports calculation.

This is, sadly, the way a freshman econ student would calculate tariffs.