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New comment by SethMurphy in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

SethMurphy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:01:12 +0000

I am a student of history and am offering the observations I see in regards to that. Your points are valid too and the narrative around the war. Another validation of my point. Neither of us know the true motives, but history has shown the side the United States chooses is the one that benefits trade th most, not a moral decision. This is my only point.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/03/business/iran...

New comment by SethMurphy in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

SethMurphy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:29:01 +0000

Yes, and the price of oil has gone up 10% last I saw. United states domestic oil sells at the same price. Maybe not planned, but a reality. On the flip side the possibility this affect the global economy, which includes the US, more negatively is probably true also.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

SethMurphy — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:10:27 +0000

I am making no implications of Trump, very on purpose to keep this in point (it's hard), but explicitly stating that the policies of the United States are based on capitalism and always have been, while the narrative given and received is that of humanitarianism, which in my opinion is a side effect only. In this case hopefully a positive one, hence my concern for the reckless nature of the war (let's just call it what it is, not just an attack or military action).

New comment by SethMurphy in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

SethMurphy — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:22:54 +0000

Wars are almost always about commerce, history has shown that. Ideology is used to back the motive publicly, but the reason for involvement is almost always trade or commerce. This case could be different, but it is not obvious to me that this case is any different. A simple example is WW1 where the US was forced to back the UK because of their large debt to US banks, despite them still being a colonist power at the time.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

SethMurphy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:45:05 +0000

If the United States truly supported regime change there should be a clear next leader favored to succeed the Ayatollah, otherwise this feels more like a favor to oil companies, raising prices temporarily, and a sound bite for political gain, without a care of what happens to the country later. Simply toppling a government seems quite risky without further planning. Just expecting "good" people to fill the leadership vacuum is a gamble that could easily backfire and lead to greater crackdowns on freedoms and death to those Trump told to go get the power.

New comment by SethMurphy in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

SethMurphy — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:52:40 +0000

It took one obvious, obnoxious, and well infiltrated new music AI slop in the my recommended new music feed to finally turn me completely sour on Spotify. I was a prelaunch US user who had brand loyalty built in from the start. I even met Daniel Ek during the big early hype. Its gone. It has been the listen of last resort for awhile, and I used it for discovery of new releases. It's dead to me now

New comment by SethMurphy in "AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study"

SethMurphy — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:43:38 +0000

Avoiding copy and paste is the key for me to keeping my syntax memory.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

SethMurphy — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:02:31 +0000

What I don't understand is how the site will send the 2FA code request to the bad actors phone, instead of the real users phone? Is this not part of what makes it more secure than a text or email? Wouldn't the bad actor need to be logged into the authenticator as the user your trying to hack?

New comment by SethMurphy in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

SethMurphy — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:59:51 +0000

Can you explain this more, I don't understand Google authenticator completely? Could a bad actor spoof a 2FA as they can with an email, and capture your input?

New comment by SethMurphy in "Self-employed, self-exhausted"

SethMurphy — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:34:46 +0000

I have started using —ahem— em dashes more regularly so people think I am as smart —well clever at least— as AI.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Fictional K-pop bands zoom to top of US music charts"

SethMurphy — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:54:36 +0000

This is Spinal Tap.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Cool People [pdf]"

SethMurphy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:57:22 +0000

I think the term for this would be "poser", the not cool sub segment of the cool kids.

New comment by SethMurphy in "As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal"

SethMurphy — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:49:58 +0000

Dogs, in the US, are no longer an asset to use as a tool, such as herding, but merely a companion in the vast majority of cases. Agreed they became what they were in order to be useful enough to feed and care for, but different traits may be desired as a pure companion.

New comment by SethMurphy in "As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal"

SethMurphy — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:16:38 +0000

It always fascinated me that particular behaviors, like herding, can be so ingrained to a particular breed of dog. The dog is no longer in a setting where this is crucial to their survival, yet the urge exists. I do wonder for how many generations the behaviors would last, assuming the dominant genes were not surpressed. That is of course assuming genes are the factor that drives it. It's almost as if environment has little to do with the behavior in this case, other than having opportunity to exhibit the behavior.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]"

SethMurphy — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:50:12 +0000

Yes, my thoughts exactly too. Not an endorsement by the way.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]"

SethMurphy — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:13:40 +0000

If the answer is the end of - I'll call it - "Consumerism", and the industries we choose to subsidize are those that are more essential to a community driven life (e.g. food, shelter, health, education, transportation, communication, etc ...), I think it is possible to lower the "Standard of Living" as reshaping what the term means, undoing years of advertisement based conditioning.

Americans may no longer have an unnecessarily large or luxurious automobile, or a screen in every room, but I would argue excess becoming the standard is the problem and a major cause of the imbalance.

The solution doesn't feel very democratic or free though, values that have been critical to the identity of the USA.

New comment by SethMurphy in "Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados"

SethMurphy — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:16:43 +0000

You have a place to live and avocados now, that could be considered a win win. "Win" is such a subjective term as used here. The equation is not as simple as jobs lost equals bad, jobs gained equals good. I too have the gut reaction that a farm subdivided is a bad thing, but logically I can't really convince myself it's really as simple as that.

New comment by SethMurphy in "A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up"

SethMurphy — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:00:38 +0000

Recording and watching or listening to myself play has been very helpful for me. Even a temporary recording of just the current session, or most recent n minutes/beats would be nice. It's hard to evaluate execution in real time while performing it. To get it right as a user experience is not a simple task though. However, your great minimal feature set could also be seen as a plus to drive the practice routine efficiently no matter the quality, you'll get better too.

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

SethMurphy — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:47:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/catalytic-computing-taps-the-full-power-of-a-full-hard-drive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529426

Points: 5

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New comment by SethMurphy in "Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics"

SethMurphy — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:53:27 +0000

I recognize the reference because of the tool. I remember the name because it's simple. The flavor itself is irrelevant in my thought process.