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New comment by a_ba in "Show HN: Buy the whole stock market in one cheap fund and get on with your life"

a_ba — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:30:41 +0000

There’s the MSCI ACWI IMI Index for which there are tons of established ETFs available. How is this one better?

New comment by a_ba in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

a_ba — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:52:05 +0000

Who is suggesting to tax the human capital of these people?

New comment by a_ba in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

a_ba — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:19:23 +0000

Do you also flat out reject the idea that it is raining because there will be sun later?

New comment by a_ba in "Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers"

a_ba — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:53:17 +0000

Actually kids also want chocolate cake, cigarettes and unregulated online gambling too!

New comment by a_ba in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

a_ba — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:52:26 +0000

If only these companies had the means to make political donations to make his all go away. Oh wait, they do and it’s election season!

New comment by a_ba in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

a_ba — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:48:31 +0000

The answer is simple: too big to jail

New comment by a_ba in "We must pace the frontier"

a_ba — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:37:45 +0000

Maybe instead of creating more rules we should trim down our legal systems and re-instate some basic accountability. I‘m pretty sure we have sent people to prison for running a botnet before and slapped material fines on torrenting operations.

New comment by a_ba in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

a_ba — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:56:07 +0000

"What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense." (Napoleon Bonapart ~1800)

New comment by a_ba in "Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar"

a_ba — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:58:19 +0000

That seems crazy expensive. In Germany small-self install kits are quite popular. Hitting up amazon.de shows kits for around € 0.3/watt

New comment by a_ba in "Plotnine"

a_ba — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:07:37 +0000

I have used neither in quite a while now but there is an alternative from jetbrains that i started using because it shares the same ergonomics and had better (?) documentation.

https://lets-plot.org/python/

New comment by a_ba in "TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election"

a_ba — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:29:53 +0000

While I don’t think you’re wrong with respect to the mechanics of the algorithm favoring „engaging“ content. However at the same time I do think that they have the finger on the scales because the media company’s know full well what they’re serving. I bet there’s not a lot of pro democracy content trending on Chinese TikTok the same way anti democratic content is served in western TikTok

New comment by a_ba in "Googlebook"

a_ba — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:01:08 +0000

Related: How is it possible for Google in 2026 to get away without a cookie banner that allows you to manage your tracking preferences? The cookie notification only links to a "Learn more" [0] page but provides no specifics on how cookies are used on this site? Is this some legal wizardry or plain ignorance of the GDRP?

[0] https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en

New comment by a_ba in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

a_ba — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:08:03 +0000

Russia and China would likely disagree as they count their gains: - yet another massive blow to their trust and reputation among allies - again massively undermining NATO thereby fostering global instability - weakened credibility vis a vis defending Taiwan

New comment by a_ba in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

a_ba — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:52:24 +0000

I don’t think it’s misleading (at all) when you take into account that the index is volume weighted. If you held two different stocks: 1 from megacorp worth 90; 1 from smallcorp worth 10; if megacorp is down 10% while smallcorp is up 10%. Your portfolio would still be worth less even though 50% of your portfolio positions are up.

New comment by a_ba in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

a_ba — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:55:42 +0000

Just because it's a binary choice doesn't make it a 50/50 chance. Flipping a fair coin (50/50) is different from flipping a weighted coin (say 80/20) even though the possible outcomes are the same.

New comment by a_ba in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

a_ba — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:43:53 +0000

The light is a mere technicality. Zuck himself was smart enough to cover his laptop cam/camera with tape 10 years ago[0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36596070

New comment by a_ba in "Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU"

a_ba — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:24:53 +0000

care to take your vile racism elsewhere?

New comment by a_ba in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

a_ba — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:20:04 +0000

I see - thanks for taking the time by writing this up and adding a little more texture to the debate

New comment by a_ba in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

a_ba — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:58:05 +0000

would you care to clarify on this? are you saying the current administration has been corrupted by foreign adverseries? or has the administration been outsmarted by foreign adverseries?

New comment by a_ba in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

a_ba — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:59:30 +0000

Can someone enlighten me what people actually use this for? The article mentions „managing your calendar, responding to emails, file your taxes“

The bottleneck for emails and my calendar is not the speed at which I can type/click some buttons, but rather figuring out what I want to write or clarifying priorities when managing my calendar.