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New comment by aegis4244 in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

aegis4244 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:19:00 +0000

Many, close to most of the "have-nots" just voted to help the "haves" at great cost to themselves. The economic decline across fly over states isn't going to stop. It's going to continue. Resulting in those angry uneducated voters to double down. Those old factory jobs are gone. Unlikely to come back in our or our children's lifetime. They are ideologically opposed to education. Leading to more of the same, just more so. Economically, politically, and educatively.

New comment by aegis4244 in "How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers"

aegis4244 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:40:17 +0000

You can. There are extensions and scripts for exactly that. I never use the app, only browse via the web, even on mobile, just with a user agent switcher.

New comment by aegis4244 in "Ask HN: Books or games to teach kids math"

aegis4244 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:47:24 +0000

Bedtime Math. My kids loved it.

https://www.amazon.com/Bedtime-Math/s?k=Bedtime+Math

New comment by aegis4244 in "Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more"

aegis4244 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:02:54 +0000

My partner and I did exactly that. She let me choose. Ended up with the surname from one of my favorite literary characters. Changed my first name to match as well. Happened to be a childhood nick name anyway, so I've always answered to it.

New comment by aegis4244 in "Python type hints may not be not for me in practice"

aegis4244 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 08:29:05 +0000

Is that a double negative in your title ? Or is it an inside joke I didn't get ?

New comment by aegis4244 in "Hoard of coins from Norman Conquest is Britain's most valuable treasure find"

aegis4244 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 02:20:06 +0000

Yes, but which half ?

New comment by aegis4244 in "Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?"

aegis4244 — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 03:57:29 +0000

My score was an 8. Depression of course. All the usual problems.Thought I was unhappy because no one loved me. Turned out to be the opposite. Found my own key to a joyful life at 31. Had my first child. Cared for someone else more than myself. Cut off all contact with my family 13 years ago, except my kids. Second best decision I ever made. Best was choosing to raise my girl on my own. You cant fix toxic people, but you can leave them. Later I met a woman who can tolerate me. She prefers to work, is very happy she met a man who would rather hang out with our kids than work. I read "The Happiness Equation in my late 40's, had already stumbled into my own life solutions, but that book really helped explain WHY I felt my life had improved so much. You can get to a mental place you feel safe. You only get so many trips around the sun, take them with a smile, never waste a moment comparing yourself to anyone else. Best of luck.

New comment by aegis4244 in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

aegis4244 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:29:35 +0000

If you're looking for some inexpensive land that can be fairly remote you might do worse than Cochise county AZ. The county has an opt out permit program as long as you have at least 4 rural acres. You can build whatever you want, no permits, no inspections. There are some restrictions. No bank will give you a mortgage, can't sell or rent it out within 2 years. You can live in your RV while you build, for 2 years I think, with a 3 year extension possible. Lots of sun for solar. Rooftop water collection for water. There are some septic options, composting, or traditional. All legal. A few dozen people on youtube building all kinds of off grid natural buildings. They get together once in a while, let you tour their build, ask questions. A little snow in the winter, not many days above 100F. 4000+ feet elevation. Fiber laid in some surprisingly rural areas. No paved roads type areas. Weird, but cool.

I did the full time RV bit in a class A. Hated it. Too small to live in, too big to travel in. Hate that black tank. Had to leave great camping spots once a week to dump and get more water, or hook up to some sort of developed campgrounds. Sucked. Regret not going for a small schoolie to travel in, large house on 5 acres to live in. That's the new plan, anyway. Best of luck.

New comment by aegis4244 in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

aegis4244 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:27:11 +0000

Economists say every immigrant is a net economic positive to the nation. They eat,buy food clothing, cars. Every immigrant child is a net negative to the state,at least until they turn 18. But it isn't even. Net neg per kid of maybe 800 a year, positive of each adult of 1200-1600 are the numbers I've heard on freakonomics podcast. Their guests proposed solution was to have the feds pay the states per an immigrant child to offset who bears the costs. I don't think it's even a debatable position that each immigrant is a net economic positive, in the long term. Some political groups worrying about losing their culture is a completely different kettle of fish.

https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/north-american-century/b...

New comment by aegis4244 in "Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New Dedicated Police Unit"

aegis4244 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:06:39 +0000

Violating laws against attacking and robbing ships at sea is terrible. Violating laws protecting imaginary property rights is quite another. Don't get them confused.

New comment by aegis4244 in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

aegis4244 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:21:14 +0000

Have you thought about the pinetab ?

https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/

New comment by aegis4244 in "Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?"

aegis4244 — Sun, 21 May 2023 15:07:23 +0000

Anything by Neal Stephenson. (Except Fall, maybe.) Cryptonomicron is my fav modern novel.

Project Hail Mary. The Martian. Artemis.

Expanse series.

William Gibson,s stuff. Loved Peripheral, and it's sequel Agency.

New comment by aegis4244 in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

aegis4244 — Thu, 11 May 2023 00:06:16 +0000

Newpipe.

New comment by aegis4244 in "Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x"

aegis4244 — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:19:48 +0000

That is a theme in one of Niel Stephensons novels. He predicted the rise of incoherent rage inducing algorithms for profit. Even implied it would work exceptionally well on right wing rural religious people from middle America. People with money and taste paid for a custom feed, curated by humans.

We can add this to a growing list, along with Google earth and second life.

New comment by aegis4244 in "Exercism – learn programming languages for free"

aegis4244 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 06:39:56 +0000

If you already know any other language, then just Google the solution to that exercise and read it until you grok it. If you don't already know the basics, I found mimo to be great for a quick but not really deep dive in python. Great first step. Exercism is fantastic to learn the differences between languages. The mentoring is free, but it's one of the few online learning resources I would pay for.

New comment by aegis4244 in "How Big Is Mexico?"

aegis4244 — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 04:23:12 +0000

That influence hasn't been positive for Mexico.

New comment by aegis4244 in "Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis"

aegis4244 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 01:14:36 +0000

You can buy drugs in every high school in America. Same for every prison. You can buy drugs on death row. We have a higher percentage of our population in prison than the soviets, china or Iran. So how far down the police state road do you think the USA needs to go before you figure out this isn't working?

New comment by aegis4244 in "Oregon partisan rancor spills over into Idaho effort to absorb rural neighbors"

aegis4244 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:49:31 +0000

Yes yes yes....but. Which side is the sensible people with resources and which side is crazy yahoo's?

I would like to subscribe to your news letter !

New comment by aegis4244 in "Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts"

aegis4244 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 01:47:40 +0000

He didn't lead that army. The secret service wouldn't drive him there. He directed them to the capital and then cheered them on though.

New comment by aegis4244 in "FTX owned an $11.5M stake in a tiny rural bank in Washington state"

aegis4244 — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:50:58 +0000

It's the regular kind, Seth would say.