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New comment by bowmessage in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

bowmessage — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:05:08 +0000

Agreed. So who are the outsider chumps taking the other ends of these bets? At this point, it doesn’t make sense to participate unless you’re an insider.

New comment by bowmessage in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

bowmessage — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:34 +0000

Nice - if you can find a Redbox in your area, they seem to allow _very_ long rental periods these days :)

New comment by bowmessage in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

bowmessage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:02:03 +0000

incredible work!

such a nice way to remember their fallen teammates at the end there.

New comment by bowmessage in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

bowmessage — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:11:20 +0000

The thing about gold is, it’s probably quite easy to secretly leave to your heirs.

New comment by bowmessage in "Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS"

bowmessage — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:35:54 +0000

No need. Just hurry up, sign on, and buy tickets.

New comment by bowmessage in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

bowmessage — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:48:16 +0000

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New comment by bowmessage in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

bowmessage — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:06:56 +0000

Where is the veil...?

New comment by bowmessage in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

bowmessage — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:15:32 +0000

If I had to guess, “hot dog” would be the first thing I’d try. “Vegetable dog” was given as 0, and it may be alluding to a Silicon Valley episode.

New comment by bowmessage in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

bowmessage — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:15:47 +0000

Why did you allow them to humiliate you like this?

New comment by bowmessage in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

bowmessage — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:34:54 +0000

> $100 million

Is that a lot? Seems relatively inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but perhaps a warning of larger moves to come.

New comment by bowmessage in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

bowmessage — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:21:03 +0000

Look! It made another TODO-list app on the first try!

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:48:14 +0000

In some meat production, not all meat production, yes.

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:47:45 +0000

How do you incorporate Vitamin B12 into your diet?

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:42:18 +0000

> For large groups of people it's off limits due to personal dietary restrictions

So you’re proposing that the FDA should promote a vegan diet to cater to the lowest common denominator?

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:57:00 +0000

Politics aside, the omega6:3 ratio and PUFA content of tallow is favorable.

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:56:51 +0000

The omega6:3 ratio and PUFA content of tallow is favorable.

Canola and other seed oils are made using toxic solvents which are not full removed from the final product.

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:56:06 +0000

I don’t particularly trust any claims from previous administrations’ health departments, let alone this one.

Politics aside, the omega6:3 ratio and PUFA content of tallow is favorable.

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:54:24 +0000

Beef tallow has a favorable omega 6 to omega 3 ratio and low levels of PUFAs, compared to seed oils and other cooking fats.

I recommend reading the article.

New comment by bowmessage in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

bowmessage — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:47:22 +0000

Remove whatever politics you might believe from the equation.

Is beef tallow a better option for a cooking fat? I think it is.

New comment by bowmessage in "AI is a business model stress test"

bowmessage — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:33:42 +0000

How? I am tired of these unfounded claims. Humans can’t even keep many sites secure.