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New comment by aga98mtl in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

aga98mtl — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:46:22 +0000

> but what about everyone else pushing for the law but who didn't go?

Who exactly is influential & organized enough across many western countries to push legislation that no one is asking for? Notice that epstein said he worked for [withheld] in some of his emails.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

aga98mtl — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:40:52 +0000

The typical couple does not want a glass box.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Trump's new visa fees spur offshoring talks, hiring turmoil"

aga98mtl — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:43:18 +0000

I would pivot H-1B teams to Canadian offices if I were big tech.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future"

aga98mtl — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:08:33 +0000

US rockets were always made by private providers like SpaceX or Boeing.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Uber Just Reinvented the Bus Again"

aga98mtl — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:00:58 +0000

I do not understand why Wired exist. Who wants news about technology from a techno-pessimist angle?

New comment by aga98mtl in "Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?"

aga98mtl — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:05:54 +0000

You could take these type of orders as "pending" then require a SMS code to access the final payment page. Adding an extra step like this might discourage the attacker if their goal is not attacking you specifically. They will move on to another easier target.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Show HN: I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas"

aga98mtl — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:28:22 +0000

Wall to wall astroturfing on Reddit is killing it's usefulness since the election. We need an alternative that prevents botmasters from having 5000 accounts. One solution is doing like X/twitter and charging $8/month. Another solution would be using Meta's social graph. Is there some other way to prove you are a human?

Le Chat by Mistral: 1,100 tok/s

aga98mtl — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:12:45 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/1887548442014106076

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42964377

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by aga98mtl in "CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins"

aga98mtl — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:17:44 +0000

Only one lab in the world doing GoF experiments on this specific furin cleavage site AND a random natural mutation happens within a few KM of this lab on this specific furin cleavage site. What are the odds of this happening? Very close to zero.

New comment by aga98mtl in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

aga98mtl — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:48:02 +0000

Yes cutting $2T is not realistic. If they manage to do a few percent of the goal it is still going to be good for everyone.

Bloat is a major issue that prevent anglosphere societies from achieving goals that poorer societies do easily. Ex: Spain or France do awesome public transit for 3 or 5 times less than we do.

New comment by aga98mtl in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

aga98mtl — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:38:52 +0000

Yes, the republicans will cut spending. Next election cycle the Democrats will be able raise spending, but now from a more sound basis. The deadwood will be pruned. DOGE is good for both the left and the right.

Also do note that the current Twitter valuation is higher than we he bought it. Cutting 80% of the staff at twitter was the right move. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/elon-musks-startup-xai-now-120118...

New comment by aga98mtl in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

aga98mtl — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:57:55 +0000

Humans are meant to have kids and form families. This is the life meaning that is escaping childless strivers.

New comment by aga98mtl in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

aga98mtl — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:54:32 +0000

> He seems to realize he is an Elon bro but still thinks DOGE is an important national priority and not a problematic oligarchic downsizing of our important federal services and regulatory bodies.

I'm confused by this belief. Anyone who has ever interacted with a big government in the West knows they are a knot of old and confusing regulations that cause every thing to be slow and expensive. A leftist should be happy that the state gets to accomplish more with it's existing budget.

New comment by aga98mtl in "The Surprising New History of Horse Domestication"

aga98mtl — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:39:01 +0000

I do not understand how this article undermines the Kurgan Hypothesis. The modern horse enters the picture later according to those discoveries, but it is still within the right time frame and geographic location.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad"

aga98mtl — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:14:51 +0000

>The participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, but the diets had the same amount of calories total, and the same calorie density. The results are striking; participants eating ultra-processed foods consumed more calories and gained weight while the other group lost weight. [1]

Did they eat the same amount of calories or more calories? People will eat more of tasty food and less of bland food. You could get the inverse result by giving bland ultra-processed food and tasty unprocessed food.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads"

aga98mtl — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:35:12 +0000

Every big retailer has its own house brand. There is nothing special about a big retailer using their sales data to make decisions on house branding.

No they cannot adjust their pricing to whatever they like because Amazon is not a monopoly. People can buy stuff elsewhere. If Amazon pricing is bad, people will leave and it will kill Amazon.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads"

aga98mtl — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:48:42 +0000

How are consumer harmed by Facebook Marketplace appearing in Facebook?

New comment by aga98mtl in "Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads"

aga98mtl — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:47:59 +0000

But why would Facebook not have the right to show Facebook Marketplace on their own platform? Is Facebook not allowed to add features to their app? Is Facebook Group an unfair competitor to other online forums? Who decide what features are allowed?

New comment by aga98mtl in "Ask HN: Can calculus be taught without differentiating or integrating by hand?"

aga98mtl — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:28:51 +0000

A charitable interpretation of what he said is that we need to do real world experiment instead of of relying on the opinion of supposed experts. Real data based on well made experiments trumps the opinion of any particular person.

New comment by aga98mtl in "Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector"

aga98mtl — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:25:05 +0000

I believe it is an elaborate psyop to shift the blame of inflation away from the government and toward a boogeyman, the "evil" grocery chains. As you point out the margins are super tight in food retail, it is impossible for it to be the cause of inflation.

From the point of view of the average man however, the grocery store is exactly where he is facing inflation daily! This makes it the ideal scapegoat.

The average man will never ever realize that the monetary mass surged during covid while real world production slowed down. More dollars chasing fewer goods & services equals rising prices. That monetary policy smoothed out the COVID downturn and it was a great success, but it was not a free lunch.