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New comment by bayareabadboy in "Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk"

bayareabadboy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:37:45 +0000

A mother’s sugar intake while pregnant also has quite an effect on long term health outcomes for a baby.

Our understanding of reproductive health is pretty frustratingly limited. Hopefully that changes soon

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Ask HN: Is this the worst time to be human?"

bayareabadboy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:25:54 +0000

Im not trying to be rude, but you desperately need to read some history.

To answer your question being born in Eastern Europe (Poland/ukraine specifically) in the late 19th century might be the worst time/place to be human.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "SpaceX S-1"

bayareabadboy — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:19:39 +0000

Space mining gotta be worth a lot longer term

Feel like sky is the limitidk

New comment by bayareabadboy in "The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)"

bayareabadboy — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:13:46 +0000

for me the takeaway is more if I have a business what can I do for my customers like offer a free popsicle that can keep them happy and coming back cheaply

Speaking as someone on a salary. Idk.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?"

bayareabadboy — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:30:04 +0000

Gitlab broke today

New comment by bayareabadboy in "CA, NY Attorneys General sue to resume federal funding of Medicaid, FEMA, PEPFAR"

bayareabadboy — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:09:39 +0000

Politics aside, it’s pretty incredible that 85M people are on Medicaid.

Feel like something is gonna give in our health care system. This doesn’t seem sustainable.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

bayareabadboy — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:46:07 +0000

What are the longer term implications that Apple is doing this on their own hardware and not Nvidia? This seems like a big thing to me, an idiot.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "With congestion pricing stop, New York City enters new era of economic gridlock"

bayareabadboy — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:45:42 +0000

This is the core issue. Unchecked executive overreach, by politicians of both parties at the federal and state level, will end terribly for the republic.

But no one cares if it serves their political interests.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting"

bayareabadboy — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:23:51 +0000

Putin, a former officer in the KGB, is a product of the planned Soviet economy.

Read red state by bill browder, the Russian economy was never a free market even after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting"

bayareabadboy — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:14:44 +0000

I am claiming that if genghis khan was born today, he’d most likely end up very rich in Palo Alto. Digital conquest of the steppe

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting"

bayareabadboy — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:11:53 +0000

You’re absolutely right we shouldn’t celebrate that a maniac hasn’t engulfed Europe in war since 1945. This is an incredible feat for anyone with an elementary understanding of history.

We’re at the longest period of time that a unified Germany hasn’t started a war.

Obviously there are still authoritarians seeking control and starting wars, but they tend not to exist where free markets do. Apologies if that’s inconvenient for your politics.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting"

bayareabadboy — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:04:27 +0000

This is very silly. The world has solved this and it’s markets. Before, mindlessly ambition people would take over countries and start wars.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

bayareabadboy — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:26:00 +0000

Interesting enough read. But I’m not sure he’s a regretful enough boy to write a blog to merit the title.

New comment by bayareabadboy in ""I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)"

bayareabadboy — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:25:49 +0000

Obviously not the whole picture, but $MSFT is up about 1000% since this was written. Funny how things work out.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "OpenAI's chaos does not add up"

bayareabadboy — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:19:26 +0000

I should have been more specific. I was referring to the writer of the original post, not Altman.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "OpenAI's chaos does not add up"

bayareabadboy — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:56:39 +0000

“Sam Altman crafts an elaborate non-profit structure but gets completely blindsided by the possibility of the board overthrowing them.”

Always surprises me that otherwise very smart people are shocked to learn that nonprofits aren’t infallible.

Tangentially, “non-profiting” organizations tend to be far more nefarious historically than profit seeking entities, and it’s not very close.

New comment by bayareabadboy in "The Tesla Semi from an Insider's View After One Year: "Hot Mess""

bayareabadboy — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 02:34:06 +0000

Funny how politics distorts one’s view of reality. Does anyone remember the state of the electric car industry prior to Elon Musk?

You don’t have to agree with every (or any) opinion of his to acknowledge this lol

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Wall Street Is Finally Going to Make Money Off the Permian"

bayareabadboy — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 03:06:51 +0000

Do you have data to back that up!?

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Why Barney Frank went to work for Signature Bank"

bayareabadboy — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:36:02 +0000

Call me crazy, but this makes me think that there’s a chance that Barney Frank may be equally unqualified both to regulate banks and to manage them!

New comment by bayareabadboy in "Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?"

bayareabadboy — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 01:48:54 +0000

lenin by victor sebestyen