Hacker News: alwayseasy

New comment by alwayseasy in "Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds"

alwayseasy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:14:01 +0000

When I read your quote, I was agreeing with you. However, according to the article this very far from the very graphic content of the book in question!

It feels like a strawman quote.

New comment by alwayseasy in "How AI destroys institutions"

alwayseasy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:03:10 +0000

It feels like you didn't read or even skim the full article and instead are just reacting to the title.

New comment by alwayseasy in "How AI destroys institutions"

alwayseasy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:02:20 +0000

Note this is the asbtract, so please let's not debate the abstract...

The link to download the paper is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5870623

New comment by alwayseasy in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

alwayseasy — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:34:18 +0000

Ok thanks, this changes things! X exagerates how it counts views but overall I do believe millions saw it.

New comment by alwayseasy in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

alwayseasy — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:49:52 +0000

366k views in 4 days hardly qualifies as a worldwide hit. It's decent, but other ads saw more views faster this year, like that American Eagle ad with Sweeney.

It's hard to measure on Youtube due to the weight of paid views but still.

Anyway, it's a cute ad.

New comment by alwayseasy in "Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship with the U.S."

alwayseasy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:24:05 +0000

True on Lutnick but he is playing into Trump's deeply held belief (despite every data point saying the opposite) that Americans want manufacturing jobs.

New comment by alwayseasy in "Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship with the U.S."

alwayseasy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:21:45 +0000

In a dark humor way, it is the intended effect by Trump but really, how many Americans dream of a sweatshop job? Reminds me of a famously documented conversation between Cohn and Trump during the first administration (Bob Woodward's book):

Cohn starts assembling every piece of economic data to try and convince Trump that American workers did not aspire to work in assembly factories. “See,” he says to Trump at one point, “the biggest leavers of jobs – people leaving voluntarily – is from manufacturing.” “I don’t get it,” replies Trump. Cohn soldiers on. “I can sit in a nice office with air conditioning and a desk, or I can stand on my feet eight hours a day. Which one would you rather do for the same pay?” Trump still wasn’t buying it. Eventually, exasperated, Cohn simply asks Trump: “Why do you have these views?” “I just do,” Trump replies. “I’ve had these views for 30 years.” “That doesn’t mean they’re right,” says Cohn. “I had the view for 15 years I could play professional football.”

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/the-best-fights-betwee...

New comment by alwayseasy in "Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities"

alwayseasy — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:11:55 +0000

Specifically here, he is under oath in France so an American gag order wouldn't protect him from the French justice system.

This make it less likely he's lying. It could be possible Microsoft France has a "rogue" employee system where a key person only obeys to Microsoft US orders rather than his French boss and French law. Then the boss can swear to the Senate that they're complying.

This is exactly the system the US Congress accused TikTok of having set up.

New comment by alwayseasy in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

alwayseasy — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:23:09 +0000

Well, in a few notorious cases the tax services cared and the voters cared.

New comment by alwayseasy in "U.S. military was caught off guard by Israeli strike on Qatar"

alwayseasy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:11:18 +0000

So you're saying the entire part about ALBMs (the crux of this article) is fake. Why not start with this then?

Maybe conspiracy theories are not welcome here.

New comment by alwayseasy in "U.S. military was caught off guard by Israeli strike on Qatar"

alwayseasy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:05:00 +0000

They are incompatible. He is lying or not smart enough to filter out propaganda.

New comment by alwayseasy in "Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem"

alwayseasy — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:03:02 +0000

Your bank sticks with any tech that comes out first? How is this a cogent argument?

New comment by alwayseasy in "Fake images that fooled the world"

alwayseasy — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:32:23 +0000

>there used to be a widespread belief in aliens and animal cryptids in the 70s. Today, less so

I looked it up and belief in aliens has actually been slowly creeping up since the 70's where it hovered around 29%. The belief spiked in the late 90's and is now around 40%. My guess is the internet played a role.

New comment by alwayseasy in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

alwayseasy — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:11:51 +0000

When has Signal called for a violent overthrow of the US government?

New comment by alwayseasy in "DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up"

alwayseasy — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:26:30 +0000

You're right: Republican Senator Hawley introduced that bill Friday. https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haw...

New comment by alwayseasy in "We Love Writing Software So Much, We're Willing to Do It for Free"

alwayseasy — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:29:35 +0000

Really cool project!

New comment by alwayseasy in "'Anti-sex' beds have arrived at Paris Olympics"

alwayseasy — Thu, 16 May 2024 14:04:04 +0000

This is a famously debunked fake news. Expected nothing less from the nypost but a bit more from hacker news. Most fun source: https://twitter.com/McClenaghanRhys/status/14165677689382912...

New comment by alwayseasy in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"

alwayseasy — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:45:59 +0000

The success of SpaceX is placing Musk in a position to decide where America's allies have access to the internet and choosing what region of the world can be cut off just through meeting politicians he likes.

New comment by alwayseasy in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

alwayseasy — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:10:02 +0000

This social listening company does one: https://alerts.talkwalker.com/alerts/

They might try to call and email you though.

New comment by alwayseasy in "IBM Rebus"

alwayseasy — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:12:19 +0000

It's the case in most companies unfortunately.