Hacker News: bootsmann

New comment by bootsmann in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

bootsmann — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:30:31 +0000

> Because the US could literally destroy the ICC without any repercussions aside from some reflexive gasps from European globalists.

Similar to how the US literally destroyed the dictatorship in Iran?

New comment by bootsmann in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

bootsmann — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:40:56 +0000

The average American doesn’t understand growth, you can see it in who they vote for.

New comment by bootsmann in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bootsmann — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:44:38 +0000

If they’re mathematicians they have written this name down about a 100 different times throughout a standard Real Analysis course. Riemann was foundational in that field.

New comment by bootsmann in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

bootsmann — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:27:22 +0000

Less time on sick leave would be measurable…

New comment by bootsmann in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

bootsmann — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:57:53 +0000

You are absolutely right :)

New comment by bootsmann in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

bootsmann — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:17:44 +0000

I don’t think this is true at all. Maybe if you have an agent writing some of your code it will be 99% because its so verbose but I don’t think the modal software engineer is a vibecoder.

New comment by bootsmann in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"

bootsmann — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:34:19 +0000

Most of this is googleable but there are thousands of traders that make sure the gold price is the same globally so nobody had to “move” their gold in the reverse for this trade to work.

The difference between London and the US is that the bars are of different size (12.5 vs 1kg).

New comment by bootsmann in "How to read more books"

bootsmann — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:50:45 +0000

An easy trick nowadays is to simply log out of the accounts. Most social media websites really want you to log in so they become unusable when you log out. Its a good defense in depth strategy.

New comment by bootsmann in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

bootsmann — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:12:15 +0000

Its also an interesting way to discover what that part of the brain is for, right.

New comment by bootsmann in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

bootsmann — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:02:50 +0000

The US doesn’t have this leverage either, Trump is just uniquely willing to hurt his own country for his own idiosyncrasies. It is pretty established at this point that Americans were the most hurt by his tariffs.

New comment by bootsmann in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

bootsmann — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:30:35 +0000

Their options are probably insane sunk cost, hard to steal an engineer who has Xm in potential gains if they choose to stay.

New comment by bootsmann in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

bootsmann — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:28:04 +0000

DMA is killing innovation by, checks notes, not allowing Apple to lock out competitor products from competing on an even playing field?

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:43:32 +0000

Its honestly so annoying, every 3 years we have to vote against the same garbage proposal because the SVP is unwilling to accept the will of the electorate.

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:38:53 +0000

Immigration is being controlled, EU immigrants require a work contract to come here (and consequentially 80% are employed with the rest split between spouses, kids and students). I strongly prefer this system over having some random bureaucrat in Berne decide who is "valuable" and who isn't.

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:33:49 +0000

It is a population cap, you can read this proposal its like 5 lines of text.

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:32:32 +0000

> more people with certain skills (if you're filtering based on that)

This is how freedom of movement works, yes, and it's a key reason why our country is so rich.

New comment by bootsmann in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:50:50 +0000

I can sell the tomatoes in my garden for twice the price of those in the supermarket and still make massive loses.

New comment by bootsmann in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"

bootsmann — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:08:08 +0000

> the research doesn't mention anything about the socioeconomic environment in which each of the children grew in.

The main trick behind randomized control trials is that you can disregard factors like this because these effects would be randomly distributed as well.

New comment by bootsmann in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

bootsmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:24:38 +0000

SpaceX needs 4 profitable consecutive quarters to be included. If you have a lot of faith that they will achieve this I recommend you buy day 1 so you can ride the highs when the passive money eventually pours in.

New comment by bootsmann in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

bootsmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:21:48 +0000

Read the quote you posted again