Hacker News: __Joker

New comment by __Joker in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

__Joker — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:26:42 +0000

Yeah, there is lot talking out of both sides of their mouth here.

If nothing else, at least these should be choice of users to let them choose based on their values and requirements.

New comment by __Joker in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

__Joker — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:27:41 +0000

Matt Levine has discussed similar theme for sub surface gold on earth[1]. NatGold is the company mentioned which tokenizes that.

Obviously pre-mined should trade lower than earth mined gold. Price should be something like Earth gold pricing- mining cost - cost to transport back to earth (or location based prcing, we are some time away from space based economics). Basically you will be trading rights for mining for a particular space mine.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-11-24/lea... (paywalled)

New comment by __Joker in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

__Joker — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:38:40 +0000

Just curious.

If there is iffy interest coverage for the debt and assets might be a stretch to cover (principal + interest), why will someone sponsor the debt here ?

Also, rates seems to be high, at least compared to recent history, to be favorable for this kind of LBO.

New comment by __Joker in "The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf]"

__Joker — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:08:57 +0000

Are there any proxy for population count? Like may be mobile users, I understand people use more than one.

New comment by __Joker in "Gemini Robotics"

__Joker — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:06:50 +0000

Yeah, thinking about the same while back. If I remember they sale of Boston Dynamics was kind of chump change for Google.

I assume google made the choice of selling the "brain" for any "body" whoever develops it. Something like android.

New comment by __Joker in "100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem"

__Joker — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:15:59 +0000

Really sorry, if the question came as snarky or if otherwise. Those were not my intent.

Related to AI given all around noise, really wanted to understand kind of contrarian view of monetary aspects.

Once again, apologies if the question seems frivolous.

New comment by __Joker in "100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem"

__Joker — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:03:39 +0000

"While I continue to believe that many people are going to collectively lose trillions of dollars ultimately pursuing "AI" at this stage"

Can you please explain more why you think so ?

Thank you.

Why did Silicon Valley turn right?

__Joker — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:27:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-silicon-valley-turn-right

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403538

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by __Joker in "Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer"

__Joker — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:58:00 +0000

I assume least desirable place in this context.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/armpit

Apple Intelligence and AI Maximalism

__Joker — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:43:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2024/06/20/apple-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818570

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

China's Capitalist Experiment

__Joker — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.asiancenturystocks.com/p/chinas-capitalist-experiment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786545

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by __Joker in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

__Joker — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:42:12 +0000

Can a argument be made that by not supporting other software on their platform, essentially platform is inhibiting competition, which hinders true price discovery and customer loses ? Like if cars don't allow other FSD on their platform, what choice does the customer has.

New comment by __Joker in "Mark Spitznagel says the ‘greatest credit bubble in human history’ is set to pop"

__Joker — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:13:56 +0000

Econmics noob here.

Leaving aside the Ad Hominem that Spitznagel is hedge fund manager who might benefit from the said event.

I can only gather two main points in the argument.

1. Level of debt is at unprecedented levels ( private, public, global)

2. Kind of follows from 1, Government(FED) has very high annual debt servicing.

How we go from 1&2 to popping the credit bubble ?

Point in polygon calculation using vector geometric methods

__Joker — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 07:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04316

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36278991

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by __Joker in "Gödel's solution to Einstein's field equations (2021)"

__Joker — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:15:29 +0000

High school educated talking here.

Does Quantum Entanglement have any promise for instantaneous communication (theoretically) ?

Understanding the Snowflake Query Optimizer

__Joker — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:15:35 +0000

Article URL: https://teej.ghost.io/understanding-the-snowflake-query-optimizer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34183682

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by __Joker in "Japan to begin extracting rare earth metals from seabed in 2024"

__Joker — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 04:54:16 +0000

Also even if it is beneficial to some or all organism, generally eco system are based on equilibrium. Disturbing that would have consequence which we generally don't understand and can't predict.

Amazon's Heroic Phase Is Over

__Joker — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 07:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://amazonchronicles.ghost.io/amazons-heroic-phase/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34114874

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why the age of American progress ended

__Joker — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 13:22:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/science-technology-vaccine-invention-history/672227/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34027530

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown

__Joker — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:14:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/17/intel-and-the-15trn-chip-industry-meltdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33244767

Points: 288

# Comments: 690