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New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

ScoobleDoodle — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:53:08 +0000

I’m up for anyone and everyone pointing it out until it’s fixed. Which is hopefully one step on the path to action, which is on the path to change, and eventually resolution. Justice and fairness will be an ever present battle or at least vigilance.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years"

ScoobleDoodle — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:12:50 +0000

What is “EA” in this context?

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

ScoobleDoodle — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:50:55 +0000

Yes! I don't drink alcohol but have gone wine tasting with friends and one vineyard had grape juice from some of their grapes and it was interesting and yummy.

An interesting variety of grape juices would be very cool.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

ScoobleDoodle — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:56:38 +0000

Trial and error :)

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

ScoobleDoodle — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:32:01 +0000

What is "Confucian rectification of names"? Thank you.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "The Amazon tax"

ScoobleDoodle — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:59:02 +0000

Agreed. Also a search along the lines “cars like Toyota RAV4" when I intend to broaden the search to other equivalents, because I don’t know the terminology.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

ScoobleDoodle — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:10:21 +0000

That sounds like unintentional. Which still can be original. A happy accident.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

ScoobleDoodle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:46:47 +0000

Was the account origin feature removed soon after release?

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

ScoobleDoodle — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:44:22 +0000

Even there half the brain was doing the real reasoning. It’s just the other half which was the verbal/story half didn’t know what that real reasoning was so made up a story it believed to make it fit but was different reasoning.

It’s not without reasoning. But half got the reasoning wrong; even if thinking it was right.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)"

ScoobleDoodle — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:38:37 +0000

One can be content or happy without being complacent. Also finding peace with what you have can open motivation to make change. The discontent of one’s current situation can be debilitating and demotivating so removing the mood or feeling can actually enable action.

But then what you put effort in will resonate with you and not be the same as what you would do when trying to chase something to impress someone outside.

There is this strange paradox of accepting a situation enables changing it. I hope others who read this who understand it better will share their more lucid insights.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:57:10 +0000

In case you want to edit it back in: in the 3rd paragraph second sentence, the star in your int* got gobble up by formatting to italics.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

ScoobleDoodle — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:48:21 +0000

This links to “Firefox Focus” which is different in the iOS App Store than “Firefox”. I had no idea.

This Firefox Focus on iOS does effectively block adds on a recipe site unlike plain Firefox. I just did a cursory head to head test on the same recipe site url.

Thank you for sharing this!

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:41:38 +0000

IIRC SpaceX bought 20% of the Tesla Cyber Trucks in 2025. Shady af.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:39:14 +0000

At least one more. Elon Musk did two Nazi salutes in a row on video. Pointed at 2 different audience sections.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

ScoobleDoodle — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:34:23 +0000

It looks like at the moment Russia is winning in the end: Links between Trump associates and Russian officials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...

How the Russian interests have taken over significantly invalidates the purpose and existence of the FBI, CIA, and NSA.

But then again, President Biden's administration had multiple grounds to prosecute Trump for crimes committed, whether the attempted coup or espionage with top secret documents or Epstein, and they just did not make it happen in a way that had any effect.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:36:25 +0000

I'm clarifying and drawing the distinction related to the following because the responder wasn't responding to what was meant, but what they heard: > Sam didn't "win" the case in the sense that most people will think of when reading this headline.

There are 2 senses of "win" here. You're talking about the "win" (A) where it is achieving victory regardless of reason.

The second type of "win" (B) that is being called out in quotes is one based either on the merits of the law (verses a technicality) or a sense of justice.

I'm not highlight the first sense of win (A) which parent of my comment and you seem to be talking about I'm pointing out grandparent is talking about (B).

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:29:21 +0000

I think parent probably means winning on merit or a sense of justice. As in won for a deserved reason rather than a technicality. The technicality here is exceeded the statute of limitations.

A win in any manner isn’t landing the same for observers as winning for a just reason.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

ScoobleDoodle — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:25:25 +0000

For someone with more knowledge than me: How does this affect other Chromium based browsers?

I did some web searches and see Brave has its own AI thing “Leo” that is intended to preserve privacy. But I don’t think that is on device. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

I use Firefox myself but have family and friends who use various Chromium based browsers.

Thank you.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

ScoobleDoodle — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:56:58 +0000

It doesn't seem to be mostly just fluff to me.

MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos' ex wife) show it can be turned into real money. As of December 2025 She had given away $7.1 billion in 2025 charitable donations, and $26.3 billion since 2019.

In reality there is the ability to execute on the shares to turn them into real money.

Jeff Bezos holds less than 10% of Amazon stock himself. Which is a huge amount of money, and a not insignificant amount of which can be turned into "real" money and even with some decline is still a phenomenal amount.

In that same time period the stock valuation has more than doubled.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:01:43 +0000

Except GP said they also pointed it to the source website to reference and then had the follow up weirdness.