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New comment by V__ in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

V__ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:23:19 +0000

This is such a good metaphor.

New comment by V__ in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

V__ — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:11:06 +0000

You replace half of a team with AI. Salary cost go immediately down, but team output can keep up for some time. You don't see the technical debt, the security issues and the prompt injection which will result in wrong invoices being sent. In six months suddenly there will be a big problem, but this quarter a lot of shareholders are happy about the cost-cutting. You may even be promoted by the time shit hits the fan, and it won't even be your problem anymore.

On the other hand there probably also is a general correction in the market after the covid hiring spree.

New comment by V__ in "Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)"

V__ — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:24:33 +0000

Has someone answered why a civilization would send "von Neumann probes" or similar into space? It would take so long for any answers from those probes to arrive that there really doesn't seem much value in them.

New comment by V__ in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

V__ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:40:30 +0000

Especially Cheney pushed hard for this, ignored the intelligence communities assessments, then got his own source, a burned source, Ahmed Chalabi to fabricate reasons for an invasion.

New comment by V__ in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

V__ — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:46:22 +0000

The U.S. can't win this war. John Kiriakou did a nice analysis on this on his recent podcasts. "Iran just has to prolong the war and survive it to win". Trump on the other hand needs a decisive win fast, or the economic and political fallout will be too big. As long as Iran can launch cheap drones and keep a small but steady pressure there is just no path out of this for the U.S. except to go home.

New comment by V__ in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

V__ — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:34:21 +0000

Bond's Casino Royal had a stock short sell bet with a planned attack.

New comment by V__ in "Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data"

V__ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:00:16 +0000

This is so interesting. Especially since it's kinda weird to train a robot to mimicking human play. I wonder what a perfect robot what actually behave like.

It wouldn't need to split-step to activate muscles, the footwork would probably be minimal. I imagine a lot of different unusual looking swings to confuse human players, while still making perfect contact. It could make really late drop shots or even rotate the racket at the last moment for crazy angles.

Would love to watch this.

New comment by V__ in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

V__ — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:37:27 +0000

There is probably some lingo somewhere clarifying that you pay for the "experience" of her and not for her in particular.

New comment by V__ in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

V__ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:59:32 +0000

Another big problem is the mentality. "We have always done it this way" and "I don't want to change it" is extremely prevalent. I say this as a German.

This is also reflected in the big political parties, which would rather keep these beliefs alive than inspire change.

I really don't see a solid economic future for Germany when enough other countries implement more progressive economic policies.

New comment by V__ in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

V__ — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:00:38 +0000

Because insults can be fined. That is a German law though, not an EU thing.

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

V__ — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:27:07 +0000

I meant that the admin would ask Bezoz for the surveillance, and he would tell his marketing team to find a frame which makes the surveillance look good.

New comment by V__ in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

V__ — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:24:44 +0000

> an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn.

That is a crazy amount.

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

V__ — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:42:03 +0000

Of course, they would. If the administration asked Bezos, and he gets a benefit out of it. He will task his marketing team to come up with something which tries to frame it in a positive light. Knowing that even if a few people make a stink this will blow over eventually and when it rolls out, he can always say it is just about puppies and neighborhood security. Nobody cares.

New comment by V__ in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"

V__ — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:12:04 +0000

If possible block I would block by country first. Even on public websites I block Russia/China by default and that reduced port scans etc.

On "private" services where I or my friends are the only users, I block everything except my country.

New comment by V__ in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

V__ — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:54:24 +0000

> For many consumers there isn't sufficient money in the account to settle all the one-time and ongoing transactions they are liable for

This is a uniquely American viewpoint. In most of Europe you don't buy anything on credit ever.

New comment by V__ in "Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges"

V__ — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:19:33 +0000

I'm tired of living through these interesting times.

New comment by V__ in "[dead]"

V__ — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:10:04 +0000

Kinda ridiculous that people don't understand the only reason for the behaviour and extreme expansion of ICE:

To allow Trump to steal the next election and/or to create an armed conflict to further his power. There is no interest in actual immigration enforcement.

New comment by V__ in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

V__ — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:52:07 +0000

Water (given enough volume) is a pretty good heat storage.

https://youtu.be/Bm7L-2J52GU?t=270

New comment by V__ in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

V__ — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:22:28 +0000

They have top men working on it right now.

New comment by V__ in "The Enchiridion by Epictetus"

V__ — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:36:45 +0000

Ryan Holiday has really popularized Stoicism in the last decade.