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New comment by bradleyjg in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

bradleyjg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:20:41 +0000

CFOs love it because Microsoft does bundle pricing with office. Plus they love to give large credits to bootstrap lock-in.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"

bradleyjg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:12:38 +0000

No it really isn’t. That’s just the latest in a long line of boogeymen. The prior ones being banned somehow didn’t lead to paradise on earth. California is the world champion and banning boogeymen. How’s that going for them?

And it’s not just one party that’s working to make the government incompetent. Both are. One for the reasons you cite, the other because it is beholden to public employees that want more money and less work. Just visit nyc or Chicago to see how that goes.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"

bradleyjg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:02:54 +0000

> We can just ban private equity companies from doing this you know.

Ideologues love to identify some small group of bad guys that if we only rein in everything will be great.

It’s private equity! It’s health insurance executives! It’s trial lawyers! It’s CNN!

The actual truth is far worse. It’s 100 million homeowners, it’s 20 million healthcare workers, it’s an entire generation too online, etc.

There’s no magic bullets. Propagating the idea that there are is how we end up with garbage legislation and regulations that don’t improve anything.

What people need to start respecting and demanding from their government is competence. The ideologues of every stripe need to go sit in a corner for a decade or three while we build back up working institutions.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"

bradleyjg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:33:29 +0000

Yet daycare costs are also exploding. In both cases it’s not primarily about wages going to the direct care workers—-though steep minimum wage increases are a factor in some jurisdictions.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"

bradleyjg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:04:34 +0000

I’m sure the new owners are scummy, but the fundamental problem isn’t scummy people. There’s lots of markets that are okay-ish notwithstanding scummy people. Even those with natural lock in effects.

The fundamental problem is it is at the intersection of two out of the three areas of the economy that have had insane cost growth over the last 30 years—-housing and healthcare (the third is education.) For the first one we know roughly what we need to do but won’t. For the second we don’t even have that.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

bradleyjg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:32:58 +0000

It’s naive to hang on to this fantasy of a small cabal of rich people ruining everything. It’s not at all the case. No one is being tricked. The voters are the problem. Go and talk to them instead of putting them on a pedestal as tricked victims. They are rotten and that’s why they vote the way they do.

We have a moral disease that infects tens or hundreds of millions not some tiny number of ultra powerful parasites.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

bradleyjg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:17:10 +0000

Maybe they are all in North Korea and beyond any extradition. But police broadly defined don’t even try very hard when it comes to certain crimes.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

bradleyjg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:59:42 +0000

The Founders were wrong about this one. We have an overly powerful executive because they split up the legislative power too much and it doesn’t act as an effective counterweight.

Look around the world and find the countries where the legislature rather than the executive is the most dangerous branch as Hamilton suggested. It’s a very short list.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

bradleyjg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:40:27 +0000

When the logic for bicameralism disappears, you should get rid of the second chamber. Not just find some other random thing to do with it.

See, also, US state legislatures post Reynolds v. Sims.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bradleyjg — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:23:13 +0000

I’m not trying to erase anyone’s individual experience, but it isn’t a generational defining event broadly across the U.S. population.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bradleyjg — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:05:08 +0000

> Iraq

Not in same ballpark. There’s no Iraq generation the way there’s a Vietnam one.

> Spoiler alert, a bunch of the current ones are going to be seen similarly too.

No they won’t. The lack of a draft and mass domestic casualties dramatically changes the picture. Especially on the saliency axis.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bradleyjg — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:51:26 +0000

If you graduated in 2007, your classmates were born around 1985. Their parents were mostly born in the mid 50s to the mid 60s and came to political consciousness either during the Vietnam War or immediately thereafter. No war since has been even close to as unpopular or frankly as salient. It’s the passing out of cultural relevance of that war that you are noticing.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

bradleyjg — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:44:30 +0000

In major case, sure. But every last emergency petition? I don’t think so.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

bradleyjg — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:11:34 +0000

Kavanaugh clearly isn’t in the same bucket. His votes go either way. I don’t recall seeing a single decision this administration where either Alito or Thomas wrote against a White House position. Not just in case opinions but even in an order. I don’t think we’ve seen a justice act as a stalking horse for the president in this way since Fortas.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

bradleyjg — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:12:28 +0000

All that may well be true. But one doesn’t have to be a leader in the field of genomics to have read decades of articles breathlessly proclaiming medical breakthroughs (in mice) and then not ever seeing them hit the market (in humans.)

Or in other words the meat of the critique is not aimed at genomics, but rather in science marketing.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

bradleyjg — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:39:44 +0000

You can. It’s called a secondary offering. The SEC has a whole process.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

bradleyjg — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:24:30 +0000

We have contingency fee personal injury lawyers and you have loser pays. Your system works better.

New comment by bradleyjg in "The next two years of software engineering"

bradleyjg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:53:35 +0000

The bottom up and top down don’t seem to match.

Where is all the new and improved software output we’d expect to see?

New comment by bradleyjg in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

bradleyjg — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:11:20 +0000

Neat! Thank you. That’s really the killer feature for this imo.

In a year when I consolidated a bunch of accounts, I’ve found essentially no program regardless of off or online that’s able to build a global view.

It’s a pretty classic data problem—-heterogeneous data sources, entity resolution, etc. Should be amenable to a ml solution.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

bradleyjg — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:10:04 +0000

If there was a sufficiently good import, something deeply customized for at least the top N banks, I think I’d be ok with that workflow. But even Quicken was disappointing on that front.