Hacker News: cholantesh

New comment by cholantesh in "8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution"

cholantesh — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:52 +0000

Doubtful, he has a history of ableism that his base revels in.

New comment by cholantesh in "Beyond These Stars"

cholantesh — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:02:38 +0000

I thought of the Futurama episode Godfellas myself.

New comment by cholantesh in "State of Devs 2026"

cholantesh — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:33:25 +0000

Yes it's part of an inevitability framework.

New comment by cholantesh in "Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know"

cholantesh — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:06:10 +0000

It's more of a political pamphlet since this is a Cato Institute publication.

New comment by cholantesh in "I switched to Brave"

cholantesh — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:16:05 +0000

>Since this was a position also held by the majority of California voters, or, to reuse my example above, Barack Obama, I find it hard to give much credence to the idea of it being an example of "abhorrent bigotry".

Well neither qualifier requires a consensus view, so there's no correlation here.

New comment by cholantesh in "I switched to Brave"

cholantesh — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:25:04 +0000

I don't disagree that it's a pretty sharp left turn for this (kind of muddled in general) blog post; I was pretty narrowly focused on the ahistorical notion that Eich had recanted in the intervening years.

That being said, I find it odd that you think no one can sincerely hold the position that someone's bigotry was/is abhorrent, however mainstream it was when they were putting money behind it (which is about as direct a piece of evidence that you can get).

New comment by cholantesh in "I switched to Brave"

cholantesh — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:06:53 +0000

None of the three authors you are citing here knew him personally, either, and none of them seem to be particularly 'aghast'.

New comment by cholantesh in "I switched to Brave"

cholantesh — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:58:28 +0000

>You can say that you like his work without having to have endless caveats about how you don't agree with a political position he took twenty years ago that *even he no longer believes*.

Not according to the public record.

New comment by cholantesh in "Be Using Rootless Containers"

cholantesh — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:54:39 +0000

>American politics

Is racism/aversion to it a uniquely American phenomenon?

New comment by cholantesh in "Eiffel Tower employees strike after female staff removed"

cholantesh — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:49:31 +0000

BAPS denies that they made any such request (let alone a _demand_); seems weird that DW omits any mention of this.

New comment by cholantesh in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

cholantesh — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:53:22 +0000

>if you want a silly pic with ur kids, just pay someone on fiver. it will be only slightly more expensive and likely far more exciting for kids as they have to wait for the dopamine hit.

Or, y'know, learn how to draw, or accept that it's not exactly going to be Chuck Jones caliber stuff.

New comment by cholantesh in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

cholantesh — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:46:10 +0000

I suspect they're a bot, fwiw.

New comment by cholantesh in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

cholantesh — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:48:28 +0000

And if the terrorist group that provides the impetus for the sanction is practically nonexistent, it's entirely sensical?

New comment by cholantesh in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

cholantesh — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:25:13 +0000

>They are making and providing tools that enable communication specifically for Far Left groups, some of which are terrorist groups.

As per a government who puts cycling and expressing distaste for inflation in the same camp.

New comment by cholantesh in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

cholantesh — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:47:56 +0000

"HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute with major support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust, as well as additional funding from the B & E Collins Foundation, and William H. Donner Foundation." ~ https://humanprogress.org/about/

New comment by cholantesh in "Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development"

cholantesh — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:06:58 +0000

Especially funny because by his own admission, Spector wasn't even a major contributor to the development of Thief.

New comment by cholantesh in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

cholantesh — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:59:35 +0000

How do you imagine they get there in the first place?

New comment by cholantesh in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

cholantesh — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:51:25 +0000

Quite a lot of folks who got into tech for the tech are also miserable, because, as the byline rather aptly puts it, a lot of it is pointless. It does not serve a public good, or even a public desire, and 'work for its own sake' is only engaging up to a point.

New comment by cholantesh in "How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise"

cholantesh — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:26:30 +0000

I quite regularly read weird characterizations of the USSR, but 'feudal dictatorship'?

New comment by cholantesh in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

cholantesh — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:29:56 +0000

Luckily, desk workers can never get tired or experience physical or psychological stress, or be subjected to unreasonable demands from leadership; these are just laws of nature.