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New comment by aikinai in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

aikinai — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:34:35 +0000

How is Scott Bessent like a racist grandpa?

New comment by aikinai in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

aikinai — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:45:11 +0000

Private capital. This is a VC website, and you just naïvely and incorrectly assume startups are government funded?

Even if the government had funded it, it would have been a good idea with extremely positive ROI. But no, they didn’t; you just made that up.

New comment by aikinai in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

aikinai — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:15:35 +0000

It started in the early 2000s. Politics hadn't shifted left enough to make him right-wing back then.

New comment by aikinai in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

aikinai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:37:33 +0000

This is exactly how people on here claim SpaceX is dependent on government handouts.

New comment by aikinai in "Grok Build is open source"

aikinai — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:32:36 +0000

Without a shift to electric cars and the emergence of reusable, affordable space travel?

New comment by aikinai in "Grok Build is open source"

aikinai — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:17:47 +0000

Companies aren't funded by one person, even his. After their current round, Blue Origin will have raised more than three times as much capital as SpaceX, and SpaceX is obviously far more advanced and has already gone public.

Rivian used ten times more capital to reach their first delivery and twenty times more before their IPO as compared to Tesla.

It looks like it's not Musk's money making his companies successful.

New comment by aikinai in "Grok Build is open source"

aikinai — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:53:55 +0000

That's a somewhat valid point about the "move fast and break things" culture at SpaceX. I'm sure there's some correlation between the pioneering, hyper-productive culture at Elon's companies and safety violations, but there's no way you could claim that lax safety standards account for the massive gap between SpaceX and the rest of the entire industry. It's not like they're just pumping widgets out of a factory faster and cheaper. They've revolutionized the cutting edge across all aspects, including design, software, etc. If the best companies could be explained by cutting safety corners, then China would be leading America in everything.

And that was the first I'd heard about high fatality rates for Tesla, so I looked it up. The cars themselves are always rated as very safe, and it seems the reason for high fatalities is just who buys them. Apparently, it's young, affluent, more risk-tolerant people who frequently drive fast on highways.

New comment by aikinai in "Grok Build is open source"

aikinai — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:32:20 +0000

Ben Thompson calls these strategy credits.

New comment by aikinai in "Grok Build is open source"

aikinai — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:45:08 +0000

Weird how other people can put up more money and not be able to make the same things as Musk’s companies.

New comment by aikinai in "Grok 4.5"

aikinai — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:05:49 +0000

Somehow you have it 100% backwards. Grok is the only one that's not trained to be extremely biased.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/0...

New comment by aikinai in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

aikinai — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:03:03 +0000

None of those books are banned.

New comment by aikinai in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

aikinai — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:46:23 +0000

That doesn't change anything the parent said. If not copying Apple created a better product that people want to buy, someone would be doing it.

New comment by aikinai in "Mario and Earendil"

aikinai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:42:35 +0000

Oh… not what I expected this to be about.

New comment by aikinai in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

aikinai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:24:25 +0000

You can also do that in high-functioning societies. In Japan people leave their purses, phones, etc to hold their seat before ordering in a café, going to the bathroom, etc.

New comment by aikinai in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

aikinai — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:29:51 +0000

Wow, this was so well presented! I almost didn't click on the article since I assumed it would be a meandering explanation about awkward edge cases or something. But this is so clearly and succinctly demonstrated! Amazing work by the author.

New comment by aikinai in "Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens"

aikinai — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:39:07 +0000

"You let me in at the time, therefore you can never deem the past entry fraudulent" is not how the law works. It was fraudulent at the time of entry, but the government doesn't know that until true intent is revealed when the foreigner applies for a change of status.

The timeline is:

1. Foreigner is married to or intends to marry a US citizen and live in the US (they know this; the government doesn't). 2. Foreigner enters the US with the assertion they have no intent to immigrate (they know this is false; US doesn't). 3. Couple applies for change of status to immigrate → This reveals the foreigner's original intent to immigrate even at the time of entry (the US now knows the entry was fraudulent)

I'm not defending the law; I believe it's haphazard and inhumane. Why do you get to apply while together inside the US only if you decided to marry and immigrate after entering the US, but if the foreigner is outside the US at the time you make the decision, you're now locked out for years? But that is what it is, and these people are getting burned trying to skirt the law.

New comment by aikinai in "Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens"

aikinai — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:27:39 +0000

In many cases regarding immigration, any single agent can act as judge, jury, and (deportation) executioner. Again something I learned many years ago and have kept top of mind for my own family.

If you are already married, then you enter the country with an assertion that you have no intent to immigrate, then you soon after apply to immigrate, chances you were not lying are vanishingly slim.

Yes, if you meet after you enter the country, then that doesn't apply to you. That's exactly when it is appropriate to apply from inside the country and stay while your application is pending. That's not what these couples are doing.

New comment by aikinai in "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"

aikinai — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:47:33 +0000

That sentence should probably be broken up for better clarity, but the content looks true and informative to me. Did you include that to imply there's something wrong with it?

New comment by aikinai in "Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens"

aikinai — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:38:31 +0000

It's extremely unlikely a journalist this haphazard is going to differentiate between a visa waiver and a temporary visa. Obviously some came on other visa if they could work, but it doesn't matter anyway; any non-immigrant visa you enter with will include the requirement that you have no intent to immigrate.

The only options are to be lucky enough to have decided to get married and immigrate after you were already in the US, or to do the application from overseas.

New comment by aikinai in "Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens"

aikinai — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:30:54 +0000

I assume you’re insinuating some kind of insult? I’m honestly not sure which one. For not risking my family to cheat US immigration law?

Edit: And now browsing the latest on this thread, it seems all the commenters here who have actually filed petitions agree—the law should be enforced evenly.