Hacker News: c22

New comment by c22 in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

c22 — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:41:01 +0000

If moving to Saudi Arabia to teach English is an option in your life then you are already in the top 10% by wealth.

New comment by c22 in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

c22 — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:47:41 +0000

This is like when you're working retail and the scanner glitches or the barcode isn't registered and the customer says "I guess that one's free then!" and you have to say "ha ha, very droll sir" as if you didn't hear that same joke yesterday.

New comment by c22 in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

c22 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:58:33 +0000

I haven't read the book but I always try to incorporate people's names into many sentences when they are a new acquaintance as it forces me to remember their name.

New comment by c22 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

c22 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:23:20 +0000

Actual pawn shops already do this, though.

New comment by c22 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

c22 — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:01:43 +0000

Who should take out the loan if not the new company? The old company? What would be the difference?

New comment by c22 in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

c22 — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:33:59 +0000

I dunno, this guy's setup looks pretty decent: https://youtu.be/2IsR06zf8nQ

New comment by c22 in "Japan is building cardboard suicide drones"

c22 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:43:14 +0000

You can flatpack the cardboard frame.

New comment by c22 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

c22 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:05:48 +0000

The vast majority of it was stored underground as petrochemicals. A fact made immediately apparent by looking at like any chart. Is this a serious conversation?

New comment by c22 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

c22 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:51:49 +0000

Wealth is not created, it's stripped from the natural commons and it is, despite being massive, obviously finite. What you're referring to is "value creation"--the transformation of this natural wealth into a form that some other humans find valuable at a point in time. This value creation is rewarded via capitalism by the accumulation of monetary instruments which very much represent an appropriation of this wealth. If this system wasn't zero sum then we wouldn't have inflation?

New comment by c22 in "The RAM shortage could last years"

c22 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:22:06 +0000

Apparently...

> OpenAI’s rapid growth, fueled by the success of ChatGPT and other AI products, led to a landmark agreement in October to purchase 900,000 DRAM wafers per month from Samsung and SK Hynix—amounting to roughly 40% of global supply. This surge in demand, coupled with limited manufacturing capacity, sent prices for memory kits skyrocketing. [0]

[0]: https://peq42.com/blog/openai-canceling-many-large-purchase-...

New comment by c22 in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

c22 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:41:24 +0000

There's all sorts of fun and exciting milestones ahead, but in my experience around 18mos - 4yrs is sort of a sweet spot. Enjoy it while it lasts!

New comment by c22 in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

c22 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:28:51 +0000

I think you are correct, but the likelihood of perceiving probably is tied to language.

It's amazing how much time we spend on autopilot.

New comment by c22 in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

c22 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:27:25 +0000

Fortunately a lot of ocean isn't anywhere near a beach.

New comment by c22 in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

c22 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:42:34 +0000

I taught myself next to a bed so I didn't have to bend over to pick them up.

New comment by c22 in "Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter"

c22 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:43:39 +0000

Is there any reason to believe we didn't already sail past that point decades ago?

New comment by c22 in "Overcoming the Friendship Recession"

c22 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:46:59 +0000

Man, this is the opposite for me. I'm filled with a great sense of relief any time my phone rings and I recognize the number...

New comment by c22 in "Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US"

c22 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:18:43 +0000

But we still restrict sale of alcohol to minors, suggesting that it, like driving, is a privilege granted only to those we trust to control it, rather than a natural right deserved by everyone.

New comment by c22 in "Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US"

c22 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:55:20 +0000

Wouldn't it be better to take the alcohol away?

New comment by c22 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

c22 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:41:39 +0000

Make the drone carry a couple of orange cones (or just look like an orange cone itself) and you can even have it save the spot it finds until you get there.

New comment by c22 in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

c22 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:13:04 +0000

I understand, of course, and was being mostly tongue in cheek. However, I do think there could be something to the idea that as the majority of the world has trended younger we notice a net decrease in perceived maturity across the population.