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New comment by bradleyjg in "White House Says Access Is a 'Privilege' in Court Filing Defending Media Ban"

bradleyjg — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:42:35 +0000

> because accepting this framing doesn't really seem to leave a whole lot of legal wiggle room.

No, it’s not a problem. The government can’t grant or withdraw a privilege for impermissible reasons.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

bradleyjg — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:11:56 +0000

You’re comparing the current system not to the status quo ante but to a utopian fantasy that only ever existed in your imagination.

That’s a weird goalpost.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

bradleyjg — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:07:37 +0000

Do you have three examples from 20 years in Afghanistan of analysts being held judicially accountable for target selection errors?

New comment by bradleyjg in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

bradleyjg — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:28:21 +0000

An aside, but tests should be that difficult. Otherwise you aren’t getting any signal at the high end. Even in the face of grade inflation that signal can be translated into grad school recommendations (in the uk case, getting all 10 might even garner a “really not bad.”)

New comment by bradleyjg in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

bradleyjg — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:53:47 +0000

Perhaps you’re right but how about starting with anything at all meaningful against the company itself?

They end up pay some class action lawyers $8 million dollars and we get a letter offering FREE CREDIT MONITORING!!1!

New comment by bradleyjg in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

bradleyjg — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:17:21 +0000

> there’s a second possibility worth putting on the table, and we’ll be clear that it’s a theory

100% Claude

New comment by bradleyjg in "Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers"

bradleyjg — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:16:13 +0000

That’s 6k-10k acre-feet. Which is 1500-2500 acres of rice.

California alone has about half a million acres of rice cultivation.

But big scary numbers are big and scary.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers"

bradleyjg — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:07:57 +0000

When in comes to water everything besides agriculture is a rounding error.

The only thing an article like this tells you is that the author has an ax to grind.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

bradleyjg — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:07:48 +0000

One thing I hate about SV culture is the bullshit. Are we talking about making lots and lots of money? If so, please for the love of god just say so.

Fame? Status?

New comment by bradleyjg in "Claude Opus 5"

bradleyjg — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:33:05 +0000

I’m waiting for like GEICO’s app to significantly improve.

I’m not expecting Chrome to because it already had virtually unlimited resources devoted to it. On the other side I’m not expecting my local water district’s to any time soon because the people in charge don’t care even if it was significantly cheaper to improve.

But in the middle is something like GEICO and that’s where I expect improvements if this thing is real.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Claude Opus 5"

bradleyjg — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:50:25 +0000

Let’s say somehow the politics lined up and you were given huge hiring budget for your team. You went out and recruited what seemed like great talent. Weekly standups make it seem like everyone is ramped up and firing on all cylinders.

It’s great, right? But you look at what your team has actually delivered since—-and it’s just not that much more than last year.

I think that’s where a lot of us are at the micro and macro level. It seems really great from the inside and outside but we are still waiting to see the dramatic change in actual concrete software output.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise"

bradleyjg — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:29:35 +0000

That exact dynamic—-sharply appreciating house price, falling interest rates, no prepayment penalty—-allowed them to use the homes as an infinite piggy bank. Very convenient.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise"

bradleyjg — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:15:28 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-Shiller_index#/media/File...

If you bought at exactly the right second of the crash, houses were where they were at the peak of the late 80s bubble.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise"

bradleyjg — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:43:02 +0000

Yes, the finger pointing can and does go in many directions. Meanwhile the observed pattern is the boomers (actual boomers) get the golden path and every other generation doesn’t. Maybe they were uniquely virtuous and wise.

Strongly doubt the xennials will be as rich in twenty five years as 70 year olds are now.

New comment by bradleyjg in "Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise"

bradleyjg — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:18:19 +0000

> Someone in their 60s is supposed to be doing better than someone in their 20s.

That’s an incredibly new, and probably temporary, phenomenon.

Across the vast majority of space-time the non-working elderly are poorer than their still working children and rely on them.

As late as the Greatest Generation senior discounts weren’t a sick joke.

New comment by bradleyjg in "AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report"

bradleyjg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:21:43 +0000

You can just not plant anything. It’s not required that every inch of desert is used for irrigated cultivation.

Alfalfa is the cleanest case of a crop that would not be planted nearly as much if western water law (prior appropriation) wasn’t so colossally stupid.

New comment by bradleyjg in "AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report"

bradleyjg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:37:17 +0000

Alfalfa isn’t food.

New comment by bradleyjg in "AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report"

bradleyjg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:30:42 +0000

Radical Luddite posting on the internet is … something.

New comment by bradleyjg in "AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report"

bradleyjg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:58:00 +0000

I don’t really know how to rephrase it. It’s a distraction.

This article could have been about shipping alfalfa to the Middle East and Asia, but instead it was about this.

New comment by bradleyjg in "AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report"

bradleyjg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:02:48 +0000

My point was that google generates hundreds of billions of dollars from the same water that $34 million in alfalfa. It’s absurd to complain about their usage.

Water use policy is about agriculture, agriculture, and also agricultural. Everything else is a distraction.