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New comment by bmmayer1 in "Wendell Berry has died"

bmmayer1 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:15:28 +0000

"So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute"

RIP.

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Taste Is All That's Left"

bmmayer1 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:10:35 +0000

This reads similar to this from April: https://cokiehasiotis.substack.com/p/a-matter-of-taste-issue...

Quoth Cokie: "When everyone has the same brush, the only variable left is the hand."

Hikaru Nakamura Is Not a Chess Player Anymore. He Is Your Boss

bmmayer1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:41:10 +0000

Article URL: https://worldchess.com/news/hikaru-nakamura-is-not-a-chess-player-anymore-he-is-your-boss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722720

Points: 4

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New comment by bmmayer1 in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

bmmayer1 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:35:37 +0000

Who would you give the Nobel Peace Prize to?

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2"

bmmayer1 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:54:22 +0000

Doesn't Mauna Loa spew CO2 by the metric ton on a regular basis? Why is that vantage point the best source of atmospheric CO2 ppm?

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Robots move Shanghai city block [video]"

bmmayer1 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:36:38 +0000

This is incredible -- serious question -- has anything of this scale been done in the US or Europe? Do we even have the technology?

Do you mine Bitcoin? How does it work?

bmmayer1 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:57:20 +0000

Article URL: https://help.abathhouse.com/hc/en-us/articles/16748674443924-Do-you-mine-Bitcoin-How-does-it-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276178

Points: 3

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AI creates memecoin with $50k from Marc Andreessen

bmmayer1 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:37:18 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1846220545542529329

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857929

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Why it takes NYC nearly 10 years to install 500 feet of pipes"

bmmayer1 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:38:02 +0000

Doesn't the MTA pay $2.95 billion per mile of new track?

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Wells Fargo Fires over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity'"

bmmayer1 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:01:30 +0000

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. We need smarter policies not blaming employees for doing what they need to do to work around them.

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Wells Fargo Fires over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity'"

bmmayer1 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:59:55 +0000

This seems like a silly solution to a silly problem. If you're tracking your employees' performance based on actual business metrics, who cares how many times their mouse jiggles in a given day?

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Harvard applications drop 5% after year of turmoil on the Ivy League campus"

bmmayer1 — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:03:29 +0000

And the third. I'm a UChicago alum and my premed friends were always complaining about having to compete against beneficiaries of Ivy League grade inflation.

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert"

bmmayer1 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:30:59 +0000

It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks"

bmmayer1 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:08:48 +0000

Until this moment I had no earthly idea you could join a Zoom call from a browser. Good on them for their evil genius design team :-p

New comment by bmmayer1 in "The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering"

bmmayer1 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:18:10 +0000

It's amazing that this solution has not been considered more openly and widely until now. It's cheaper, more effective, and doesn't require draconian regulations or near-impossible expectations on human behavior.

It's also something that could be tested for a year. It's not irreversible. It would allow the undeveloped world a chance to achieve a piece of the global wealth pie.

Why are so many people (especially environmentalists and climate scientists) so opposed to this solution?

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it"

bmmayer1 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:55:38 +0000

I assumed OP was talking about seeing crimes as a percentage of crime opportunities, whereas overall crime counts on a per capita basis might mask that people spend less time outdoors because of the risk of crime.

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it"

bmmayer1 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:54:37 +0000

"Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Doorway effect"

bmmayer1 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:59:34 +0000

Opening a new browser tab and forgetting what I was going to do in that tab is a very frequent phenomenon for me.

New comment by bmmayer1 in "Don’t Eat Before Reading This (1999)"

bmmayer1 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:19:55 +0000

Brilliant early work from Bourdain that (I believe) launched his career, which was tragically cut short. Just last month, I feasted on bun cha next to the table in Hanoi where Obama and Bourdain ate in 2015. He was a global ambassador who united the world through our universal love of food, and really had an amazing impact bringing attention to all cultures and traditions.

It's also important to learn from Bourdain's life that even if someone's life looks perfect from the outside, you never know what people are going through. Everyone deserves empathy. And please, if you are suffering, remember that you are not alone and there are people who can help.

The U.S. just expanded its territory by a million square kilometers

bmmayer1 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:37:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.earth.com/news/the-u-s-just-expanded-its-territory-by-a-million-square-kilometers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39055954

Points: 3

# Comments: 0