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New comment by adamiscool8 in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

adamiscool8 — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:56:13 +0000

Zuck was in roughly the same position and they didn’t put out a statement skipping that IPO. The valuation criticism is more valid but this line belies political motivation.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

adamiscool8 — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:18:14 +0000

Can you give a specific example, ideally that would not have been solved by people-hours amounting to less than the token costs?

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Google Search as you know it is over"

adamiscool8 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:53:07 +0000

Agree, but the average user trusts the AI knowledge box as expert summary, even though clicking through often reveals contrary information, so this is going to be a net negative overall for a while…

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

adamiscool8 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:13:25 +0000

It was a public safety disaster that the country is still trying to recover from.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

adamiscool8 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:40:15 +0000

In Canada, for most of the 20th century until maybe 15 years ago, your PII was in a big book that lived at everybody's house and the library unless you specifically opted out.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s"

adamiscool8 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:03:34 +0000

"Once you've been to [the Netscape ISP Homepage], you'll never stop wanting to beat [front-end Javascript frameworks] to death with your bare hands."

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

adamiscool8 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:30:55 +0000

After thousands of years of research we still don’t fully understand how humans do it, so what reason (besides a sort of naked techno-optimism) is there to believe we will ever be able to replicate the behavior in machines?

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people"

adamiscool8 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:19:50 +0000

The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is using this technology to fight against.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/haiti

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

adamiscool8 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:29:14 +0000

Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!

New comment by adamiscool8 in "After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead"

adamiscool8 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:41:07 +0000

Hopefully they embrace AI. 800 episodes is such a rich corpus and there could be such bright-line guardrails in a "Springfield style guide". If AI can replicate the 90's Golden Era through voice cloning + an intentional hand-drawn cel animation quality aesthetic, I would unironically love to create my own AI-generated episodes from a random premise.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

adamiscool8 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:49:29 +0000

0.1% of users is not necessarily 0.1% of conversations…

New comment by adamiscool8 in "New YC homepage"

adamiscool8 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:00:17 +0000

Just realizing that in more than a decade of perusing Hacker News, I may not have ever visited the homepage.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:33:47 +0000

Two years ago the same party that currently holds Canadian government and just made these concessions to China completed a report [0] that found

>[China’s actions] collectively "undermine our democratic institutions, our fundamental rights and freedoms, our social cohesion and our long-term prosperity.”[343] [and] the need to consider the threats in the context of an increasingly assertive PRC. Accordingly, Minister Garneau stated that various countries, including Canada, are reassessing their relationship with the PRC in light of its authoritarian and coercive actions.

But yeah a little chirping about Canada’s own unfair trade practices must be DEFCON 3 for US-Canada relations.

[0] https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/CACN/report...

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:16:31 +0000

Better how?

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:14:23 +0000

Ragebait would be trying to argue that China running secret police and propaganda operations on Canadian soil, against Canadian citizens, is in any way equivalent to a domestic force taking actions primarily against foreign nationals, in a statutorily authorized way within a legal framework that can be challenged.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:07:52 +0000

It’s a good thing Canada waited for China to resolve all these issues before swinging open our market doors to them.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:02:36 +0000

The offset is not positive when you factor in the externalities that go into escalating Chinese EV production.

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:59:40 +0000

China and their famously steady temperament would never be so bold as to try to own a dependent country or strategically weaponize trade. These are real things Canadians believe - talk about eye opening!

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:54:54 +0000

Except those actions are not secret, nor illegal, nor a threat to any other country’s sovereignty?

New comment by adamiscool8 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

adamiscool8 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:52:47 +0000

Nothing to do with “unfair, non-market policies and practices […] and China’s intentional, state-directed policy of overcapacity and lack of rigorous labour and environmental standards”? I suppose that doesn’t even register anymore to the average selectively outraged parochial Canadian.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/08/can...