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New comment by d3rockk in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

d3rockk — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:13:00 +0000

>Except the "profit that is mathematically impossible" part. That's just made up and false. It's entirely possible that we are actually underestimating demand, and there is going to be tons of profit.

JP Morgan says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on AI buildout is equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netflix subscriber 'in perpetuity.'

Very, very, very unlikely it makes profit, which why AI keeps getting overhyped by CEOs.

New comment by d3rockk in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

d3rockk — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:32:02 +0000

Question to your question: How many will actually get a job?

When the system fails to reward compliance, that begrudging conformity will eventually curdle into systemic disruption.

History has proven so time & time again.

Lock a massive class of highly educated, financially desperate young people out of the economy.. they won't just starve in silence. They organize unions, radicalize politics, and ultimately rewrite the rules of the game.

New comment by d3rockk in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

d3rockk — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:05:14 +0000

might be closer to accurate if the 2-5% is his estimate of the physical time spent making key-strokes

New comment by d3rockk in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

d3rockk — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:44:33 +0000

Bingo

New comment by d3rockk in "Where did my taxes go?"

d3rockk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:18:02 +0000

Because U.S. corporations were taxed on a total of gross receipts of roughly $40T, while personal income was taxed on a much tighter pool of roughly $23.9T.

New comment by d3rockk in "Where did my taxes go?"

d3rockk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:56:33 +0000

Very painful to see Corporate income taxes @ 8%, vs. Personal income taxes @ 36%. on the income pie chart^

However, not at all surprised. That stat would arguably make the most material difference to voters, if only they knew about it.

Edit: Adds another degree of pain when you consider that the CEO-to-worker pay ratio reached 281-to-1 in 2024.

New comment by d3rockk in "Stop Flock"

d3rockk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:59:10 +0000

That is absolutely terrifying.

New comment by d3rockk in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

d3rockk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:06:10 +0000

Now they just need every iPhone owner on the planet to subscribe, and this AI bubble will officially be unpoppable!

New comment by d3rockk in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

d3rockk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:02:28 +0000

Yes it does. https://iran.liveuamap.com/

New comment by d3rockk in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

d3rockk — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:34:19 +0000

It's wild how the President literally said, "I love the poorly educated." It turns out that when you treat a PhD like a deep-state conspiracy and a high school diploma like a Nobel Prize, you just get a country that tries to fix its power grid with thoughts, prayers, and a sharpie.

New comment by d3rockk in "Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples"

d3rockk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:04:27 +0000

To be fair, this same realist perspective seems to suggest humans would not have been capable of developing a COVID vaccine for 5 to 10 years; yet, they identified the virus and authorized vaccine use within eight months.

New comment by d3rockk in "Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump"

d3rockk — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:43:14 +0000

Thank you for reminding me about the Nobel War Prize.

It's a shame that history has repeated itself here, political satire has yet again become obsolete.

New comment by d3rockk in "Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases"

d3rockk — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:05:11 +0000

The Netherlands typically accounts for roughly 1.5% to 2% of the global video game market. After applying this share to Epic’s global estimated revenue of $5.7 billion, we can estimate roughly $100 million to $115 million for 2024.

1) Total Estimated Epic Revenue: $5.7 billion https://sacra.com/c/epic-games/ 2) Global Gaming Market: $187.7 billion https://best-of-gaming.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024_Ne... 3) The Netherlands Gaming Market Size: $2.5 billion https://www.imarcgroup.com/netherlands-gaming-market

New comment by d3rockk in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

d3rockk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:28:55 +0000

Fear not- there is research in this area~

https://caniphish.com/blog/how-to-spot-ai-audio

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-modera...

even coded detectors exist https://www.submithub.com/ai-song-checker?id=09f25ee7913a415...

New comment by d3rockk in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

d3rockk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:22:33 +0000

So there's really accurate ways to detect "pure AI". The AI music detectors out there are mainly looking out for production things:

-a flatness to the EQ spectrum that you wouldn't get out a properly mixed and produced piece of audio

-no good stem separation, so no per-source eq (relates to above point)

-change BPM mid-song

-unnatural warbles at the end of every phrase

-vocals will have these weird croaky voice cracks, or sound scratchier and raspier

There definitely are tell-tale signs of "pure AI" in audio, but it becomes a lot more nuanced when any sort of secondary mixing/mastering/compression happens (which is the case 90% is the time in the real world- anything on YouTube/Spotify get's compressed).

New comment by d3rockk in "Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator"

d3rockk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:47:27 +0000

This has insanely incredible potential for language learning. Do you plan to implement support for additional languages?

New comment by d3rockk in "US Confirms Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela"

d3rockk — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:42:17 +0000

So there's French Guiana, and then Guyana. Both are part of the Guianas (or Guyanas/Guayanas).

The "Guiana" region (land of waters), was home to the Arawak and Carib peoples, and then there was a colonial scramble between the Dutch, English and French over the last half millennia-- each respectively took over some portion and then slapped their names on it.

Guyana is independently english speaking because they were colonized by the British- centuries ago it used to go by British Guiana.

French Guiana is basically an overseas department of France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guianas

My Flights Are in the Epstein Files

d3rockk — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/my-flights-are-in-the-epstein-files

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422326

Points: 5

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New comment by d3rockk in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

d3rockk — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:46:04 +0000

this_user gets it.

Successful publicly traded companies have a responsibility to generate more revenue and increase the stock price every year. Year after year. Once their product is mature after so many years, there aren't new variations to release or new markets to enter into.

Sales stagnate and costs stagnate; investors get upset. Only way to get that continual growth is to increase prices and slash costs.

When done responsibly, it's just good business.

The problem comes in next year when you have to do it again. And again. Then the year after you have to do it again. And again.

Such as all things in life, all companies eventually die.

New comment by d3rockk in "'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app"

d3rockk — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:48:46 +0000

"The goal, in short, was “down with algorithmic listening, down with royalty theft, down with AI-generated music”."

In the article they do mention Massive Attack, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof and Hotline TNT delisting their music and then further speaking out in protest- removal being 1/3 parts of the listed "goal".

But really it seems like the discourse on Spotify is making waves again with the recent reveal of Ek's Helsing investment. Given this is the same dude who said that "the cost of making content is close to zero", it's understandable that people are speaking out.