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New comment by bratbag in "U.S. science is in chaos"

bratbag — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:34:51 +0000

Their needs are met.

They are turning to racism because of their wants and fears.

New comment by bratbag in "U.S. science is in chaos"

bratbag — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:21:50 +0000

And if you are any kind of strategic thinker when faced with that problem, you will do two things

1. Invest in propaganda to ensure the US becomes hostile to immigrants.

2. Invest in opening yourself up to immigration.

China is openly doing 2. It would be foolish to assume they are are not also investing in 1 and secretly cheering on the current administrations hateful stupidity.

Immigration is the US superpower, and everyone who wants to knock them off the number 1 spot is eroding it.

New comment by bratbag in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

bratbag — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:45:11 +0000

I found it fun to read.

New comment by bratbag in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

bratbag — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:26:42 +0000

War against someone who wants my society eradicated provides a lot of value to my people.

New comment by bratbag in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

bratbag — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:06:59 +0000

Its a really interesting question.

Lets take it to its farthest extent: can you take a picture of a black hole?

New comment by bratbag in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

bratbag — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:56:15 +0000

Or a life where everyone operates in absolutes, with no shades of grey allowed.

Zero reflection and total constant analysis paralysis are both non viable.

New comment by bratbag in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

bratbag — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:08:29 +0000

Or the value of everything non ai drops to zero, which makes the value of ai infinite by comparison.

New comment by bratbag in "AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power"

bratbag — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:22:31 +0000

It's not about blindly accepting autogenerated code. Its using them for tooling integration.

Its like terminal autocomplete on steroids. Everything around the code is blazing fast.

New comment by bratbag in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

bratbag — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:21:37 +0000

The majority of obese people want to be thin, but will die obese anyway.

Just wanting something that requires a significant overhaul of how you do things, is not enough.

New comment by bratbag in "Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers"

bratbag — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 05:46:30 +0000

If this reduces error rates to below those of a human, then that's an acceptable approach.

Unless you think humans code reviewing humans is pointless because errors sometimes still slip through?

New comment by bratbag in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

bratbag — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:20:16 +0000

Pass.

Im glad not to be confined by historical rules invented by people who could not hope to predict the future, and would not choose to put that kind of burden on my descendents.

New comment by bratbag in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

bratbag — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:18:15 +0000

The libertarian fantasy where its possible to exist without the choices of others impacting you, doesn't work in the real world.

New comment by bratbag in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

bratbag — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:15:54 +0000

They voted against it because they thought it didn't go far enough.

New comment by bratbag in "The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide"

bratbag — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:27:23 +0000

Those three things are just part of point 4 in the article.

An authoritarian leader will tell you those things are under threat and that only they can protect them, to create a feeling of threat that will persuade the gullible to give up their freedom.

New comment by bratbag in "Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office"

bratbag — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:03:31 +0000

I'm one of those people who is happier when spending some time in the office each week and have said that when surveyed.

Don't assume survey results that run counter to your anecdotal experience have been fabricated.

New comment by bratbag in "UK's Online Safety Act comes into force"

bratbag — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:19:56 +0000

This is overblown.

The police are responsible for deciding how to classify a report. Their decisions need to be audited to avoid corruption.

Ergo they have to maintain a record of reports they decided were not hate crimes.

New comment by bratbag in "We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix"

bratbag — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:22:32 +0000

Depends what else it's solving for.

I've seen multiple issues solved like this after engineering teams have been cut to the bone.

If the cost of maintaining enough engineers to keep systems stable for more than 24 hours, is more than the cost of doubling the container count, then this is what happens

New comment by bratbag in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

bratbag — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:28:40 +0000

The us system is what a free market approach inevitably degrades into when consumers don't have a real option to say no to a service.

New comment by bratbag in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

bratbag — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:16:46 +0000

If they used their own products to do this then yes. If not then no.

Is that what happened?

New comment by bratbag in "Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]"

bratbag — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:32:42 +0000

Hypothesis: The better you understand the world, the more likely you are to need an occasional drink.