Hacker News: dagenleg

New comment by dagenleg in "Thinking will become a hobby"

dagenleg — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:21:49 +0000

Historically, happiness of ones subjects has very-very rarely been a marker of status, more so because it's hard to measure.

At the same time number of slaves and size of the concubine pool are pretty straightforward and intuitive metrics.

New comment by dagenleg in "Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman"

dagenleg — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:30:39 +0000

This is kind of supported by what Sarah Wynn-Williams wrote in her book.

New comment by dagenleg in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

dagenleg — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:35:54 +0000

There's no need to bring US nuclear forces into this discussion, we're talking about Russian authorities and their competence here.

Sure, it's possible that this one specific force is more professional than the rest, but the bar is low. Soviet Union is the state that gave us Chernobyl after all. For more recent evidence, do check out the recent Russian track record with space technologies - the 2018 ISS air leak incident is particularly telling. Or, you know, the whole war thing that's been going on.

New comment by dagenleg in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

dagenleg — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:28:54 +0000

You're claiming that everything is fine because Russians have procedures in place. Russians. You're appealing for calm based on the trust in Russian competence, after referencing Sverdlovsk incident. It's just too funny.

New comment by dagenleg in "Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing"

dagenleg — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:52:01 +0000

By this logic Biden's administration was far left.

New comment by dagenleg in "CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3"

dagenleg — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:59:35 +0000

Ukraine did notably send its army into Iraq, as one of its overtures towards NATO. There have been plenty of attempts from Ukraine to get closer and participate in the collective security arrangement.

Frankly unfair for a German to judge Ukraine for not being part of the western alliance, when it was largely Germany in the first place that was preventing it from joining.

New comment by dagenleg in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

dagenleg — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:28:44 +0000

How is USSR, a direct continuation of the Russian Empire, not an empire?

New comment by dagenleg in "The Future, Made in China"

dagenleg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:46:26 +0000

I think the parent is referring to heavy financialisation of the economy in the West. As we've recently seen, such economy can grow quite unconstrained by the material concerns such as factories, energy or workers.

New comment by dagenleg in "The Future, Made in China"

dagenleg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:36:44 +0000

Taiwan is liberal democratic china. It's doing quite okay.

New comment by dagenleg in "The Future, Made in China"

dagenleg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:34:34 +0000

It's not just large corporations, it's arguably most jobs, and it's getting worse. Wageslaves don't get to keep those proceeds either, not enough bargaining power.

New comment by dagenleg in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

dagenleg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:41:37 +0000

The UX is horrendous, density of information is a fraction of what it was and the infinite scroll sucks

New comment by dagenleg in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

dagenleg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:56:34 +0000

> not including geeks

Sir, this is Hackernews

edit: Sorry, I could not resist. Just does not feel like arguments to the tune of "my consumption habits do not require X, so who even needs X" really work well at the discussion forum for, ostensibly, geeks and hackers

New comment by dagenleg in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"

dagenleg — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:06:04 +0000

Not the best success story, granted, but socialist revolutions in China and Russian Empire had definitely hurt the rich as a class. Definitively even.

New comment by dagenleg in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

dagenleg — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:18:09 +0000

Why is everyone on social media talking about Midea? I never see any other brand mentioned. Is this a coordinated marketing campaign?

New comment by dagenleg in "The Post-American Internet"

dagenleg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:05:09 +0000

Why Cantonese?

New comment by dagenleg in "The F-35 is losing the trade war"

dagenleg — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:49:01 +0000

Are you familiar with the "proofster" concept? It's funny how poignantly on the nose some memes can be.

New comment by dagenleg in "Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer"

dagenleg — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:22:56 +0000

Why? Because killing serial killers is good, and having war is bad?

I think the person you were responding to had a more utilitarian view. When war happens, the death of conscripted young people is unavoidable. It's kill or be killed. We prefer wars not to happen, and people not to die, but it's not a choice.

Killing a serial killer who has already been apprehended is a choice. And it's here that we can actually start weighting options and see what is better for the society, bringing up possibilities of wrongful convictions, Blackstone's ratios and second order effects of the death penalty.

New comment by dagenleg in "Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer"

dagenleg — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:29:29 +0000

I can't help but notice that your definition of "utopia" includes people never disagreeing with you.

And no, you can't justify death penalty because some people "get out on a technicality". Innocent people end up in jail on technicality too.

New comment by dagenleg in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dagenleg — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:09:50 +0000

No, where are you getting this from? His value proposal was that he was a) an outsider in politics, b) russian speaking ukranian. He was elected on on the platform of reducing corruption and negotiating the end to the Donbas conflict.

New comment by dagenleg in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dagenleg — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:36:24 +0000

30% of the population protesting - that would be absolutely enormous! Revolutions are made by single digit numbers