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New comment by chad_c in "Every postcard tells a story"

chad_c — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:27:12 +0000

Museums. Bookstores.

Those are the top-two places I see them when traveling abroad from the US.

New comment by chad_c in "GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup"

chad_c — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:03:55 +0000

People will both-sides this, but you are right. When your express purpose and position is to promote unitary executive theory and destroy US democracy, everything is suspect.

Marketplace (APM) has had several discussions about how difficult it is to mess with BLS numbers, but it's only a matter of time as Vought and Heritage make their way into these organizations.

New comment by chad_c in "How to earn a billion dollars"

chad_c — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:10:45 +0000

You can't.

For some subset of the population, they are okay with exploitation as long as they are able to exploit someone else that is lower on the capitalist hierarchy.

New comment by chad_c in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

chad_c — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:28:08 +0000

Along with his zero credibility. Dude torched his career just like Taibbi.

New comment by chad_c in "Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public"

chad_c — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:07:51 +0000

Capital is orders of magnitude more powerful than labor. Until that changes, this story will be repeated.

New comment by chad_c in "Operating Margins"

chad_c — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:50:52 +0000

So that’s where the South Park Epsiode name comes from. Holy cow.

New comment by chad_c in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

chad_c — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:36:57 +0000

It was here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749054 but that comment has been deleted.

New comment by chad_c in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

chad_c — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:19:38 +0000

I’m sure an anthropologist can clarify, but once a community reaches a certain size, it seems that emergent properties take over.

New comment by chad_c in "Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Informed?"

chad_c — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:16:16 +0000

Who profits from lying about the acceleration of climate change?

New comment by chad_c in "Reinvent the Wheel"

chad_c — Sun, 25 May 2025 02:14:11 +0000

It’s not that you can’t tear down the fences. It’s that you studied why they were there in the first place.

New comment by chad_c in "Reinvent the Wheel"

chad_c — Sat, 24 May 2025 22:58:44 +0000

I’m reminded of Chesterton’s Fence [1]. I just explained this to a coworker that was proud of indiscriminately eliminating 200+ positions.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/w/chesterton-s-fence

New comment by chad_c in "Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?"

chad_c — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:52:25 +0000

What panels do you have? Do you have energy storage as well?

New comment by chad_c in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

chad_c — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:55:30 +0000

DHS is a counterexample here. It’s huge.

New comment by chad_c in "How to Remove Useless Localizations"

chad_c — Tue, 28 May 2024 10:30:25 +0000

Monolingual used to save gigabytes on OS X.

New comment by chad_c in "Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food"

chad_c — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:38:02 +0000

For those interested in learning more about the cases here, the precedent is referred to as "Chevron" [1] and the case seeking to overturn it this term is Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo [2]. Cafe Insider discussed the case in detail this week [3].

[1]https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/467/837/ [2]https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/loper-bright-ent... [3] https://cafe.com/insider-podcast/cafe-insider-1-2-do-agencie...

New comment by chad_c in "You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe"

chad_c — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:04:03 +0000

"in conversation with Joe Rogan"

Yikes.

New comment by chad_c in "Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age"

chad_c — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:24:35 +0000

And just living!

Our time is short.

New comment by chad_c in "APPL $3T valuation isn’t far off – but no thanks to Vision Pro, argues Bloomberg"

chad_c — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:22:15 +0000

I didn't know this was an investment philosophy when I started investing, but it's exactly the approach I've taken!

New comment by chad_c in "APPL $3T valuation isn’t far off – but no thanks to Vision Pro, argues Bloomberg"

chad_c — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:47:20 +0000

Don't take investment advice from strangers and all that, but...

I bought a single share of AAPL in 1/2008. Then another share in 10/2008. I slowly expanded my investment as it split. It's the second-highest performing stock or fund I've owned over that 15yr period ($TSLA is the highest).

$AAPL pays a dividend. Reinvest the dividends and go long.

New comment by chad_c in "Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale"

chad_c — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:05:14 +0000

Has to be.