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New comment by anomaly_ in "Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties"

anomaly_ — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:50:33 +0000

it also helped that the government stuck the equivalent $1T+ debt for building the highspeed system onto an off balance sheet entity before privatising the JR companies. so investors picked up the (barely) cashflow profitable lines without construction debt.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

anomaly_ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:19:19 +0000

>Economic benefits can not justify the deaths of people

This is a absurd standard. Humans wouldn't be able to use power stations, cars, knives, or fire! Everything has inherent risk and we shouldn't limit human progress because tiny fractions of the population have issues.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

anomaly_ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:09:00 +0000

What on earth are you talking about? 1) card collecting isn't gambling because there is no expectation of winning money, 2) Baseball and sports cards have been a thing for like 100 years at this point.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

anomaly_ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:52:31 +0000

Based on OPs location and some of the marketing comments on their site, they probably think the Pope is the Anti-Christ.

New comment by anomaly_ in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

anomaly_ — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:26:33 +0000

GDPR is in the process of being unwound by the EU as it has been an unmitigated disaster.

New comment by anomaly_ in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

anomaly_ — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:04:49 +0000

It can’t be. Those uses are suboptimal, hence the users aren’t willing to pay the new prices.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Claude Opus 4.6"

anomaly_ — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:59:44 +0000

Sounds pretty human like! Always searching for a shortcut

New comment by anomaly_ in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

anomaly_ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:43:44 +0000

It's not a "processing fee". It's an distribution/access/market fee for the captive audience that Apple has spent tens of billions developing and supporting.

If you think you can make any money selling software on the internet and paying nothing other than $0.35 + 1.7%, think again.

New comment by anomaly_ in "The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible"

anomaly_ — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:41:45 +0000

Have you looked at a website in the last 10 years?

New comment by anomaly_ in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

anomaly_ — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:27:55 +0000

I bet they weren't as valuable as you think. This is a common issue with certain high performing line delivery employees (particularly those with technical skills, programmers, lawyers, accountants, etc), they always think they are carrying the whole team/company on their shoulders. It almost never turns out to be the case. The machine will keep grinding.

New comment by anomaly_ in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

anomaly_ — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:16:37 +0000

It's like half the poster on here live in some parallel universe. I am making real money using generated image/video advertising content for both B2C and B2B goods. I am using Whisper and LLMs to review customer service call logs at scale and identity development opportunities for staff. I am using GPT/Gemini to help write SQL queries and little python scripts to do data analysis on my customer base. My business's productivity is way up since GenAI become accessible.

New comment by anomaly_ in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

anomaly_ — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:00:29 +0000

He rolled away on his heelys.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

anomaly_ — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:10:38 +0000

I recently bought a handheld spectrophotometer for work (color assessment). The product from the leading US company (X-Rite) is ~US$15k in my market. I bought the Chinese equivalent for US$3k. Maybe if I needed guaranteed nine 9s of colour accuracy the US product would be worth it, but for 95% of users in the market, the Chinese product is more than fine.

New comment by anomaly_ in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

anomaly_ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:56:47 +0000

The internet is basically full of maladjusted people with sad lives. Strong chance that the post you read on HN, Reddit, X, etc is written by someone profoundly unhappy with their lot in life.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

anomaly_ — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:43:57 +0000

how happy do you think the shareholders would be about that?

New comment by anomaly_ in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"

anomaly_ — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:17:48 +0000

Bold to assume a poster on the internet can actually read.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS"

anomaly_ — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:34:12 +0000

> People in the EU are super wise. You have a meal with some sort of French person who works in Brussels—it's very impressive. They're cultured, they have wonderful taste, they understand all these different countries, they know something about Chinese porcelain. And if you lived in a world ruled by them, the growth rate would be negative 1%.

New comment by anomaly_ in "How to Attend Meetings"

anomaly_ — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:35:54 +0000

Basically my experience too. I've gradually come to the view that meetings are best as a place to communicate decisions/rubber stamp. If I need a particular outcome I will pre meet with the key people to get their input / socialise the decision / etc. And then the meeting just serves as formal approval.

New comment by anomaly_ in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

anomaly_ — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:31:23 +0000

If you want to airdrop android users just buy an android mate

New comment by anomaly_ in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"

anomaly_ — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:08:31 +0000

This sounds a lot like AI.