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New comment by danorama in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

danorama — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:28:13 +0000

"Bernie Sanders was supposed to be the same, and when he dropped out a lot of us switched to Trump because they represented the same thing."

That is definitely an opinion.

How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future

danorama — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:22:06 +0000

Article URL: https://markatwood.substack.com/p/how-amazon-dies-a-possible-maybe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564523

Points: 7

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New comment by danorama in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

danorama — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:01:47 +0000

Poe's Law just smacked me upside the head on this one. Hard.

New comment by danorama in "Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year"

danorama — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:54:03 +0000

Maker of lying software caught lying. Then lying about the lying. At least he’s consistent.

New comment by danorama in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

danorama — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:08:48 +0000

"Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic."

For a company of Anthropic's size, this may very well be a death sentence, even if their work has nothing to do with the military supply chain. They could have just canceled the contract, but they wanted to go full Darth Vader on them to prove a point in case anyone else thought about "negotiating" "voluntarily" with the federal government.

New comment by danorama in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

danorama — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:59:38 +0000

I have to admit, “accept this unilateral change to the contract or we will use the full power of the US government to destroy your company” is certainly a tough negotiation stance. You got that part right.

New comment by danorama in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

danorama — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:58:31 +0000

Seriously.

Hegseth trying to play “I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further” just shows this gang’s total lack of comprehension of second-order effects.

New comment by danorama in "Child-free 'Disney adults' are transforming the company's theme parks (2023)"

danorama — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:56:04 +0000

You can't scale up the Magic Kingdom, no. But Disney had a pattern going for a while where they opened a new Florida park every 10 years or so: 1971, 1982, 1989, 1998. That probably helped a lot. They've done some small expansions in the existing parks since then, but they're about 20 years behind in adding a new park. I think that's a huge part of the crowding issue now.

(Now Anaheim, there they're kind of hosed. No space to expand.)

New comment by danorama in "Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to trial"

danorama — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:22:41 +0000

Original title: "Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial"

Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to trial

danorama — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:22:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083699

Points: 15

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New comment by danorama in "Peaceandquiet.io"

danorama — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:33:22 +0000

The specific decisions to track particular "Names" on this site is certainly evocative of...a particular way of thinking, is it not?

New comment by danorama in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

danorama — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:45:11 +0000

Can I suggest that using the term "liberal hivemind" is really never going to help your case no matter what your "opposing opinion" is?

New comment by danorama in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

danorama — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:48:55 +0000

Apologies. I forget the /s is mandatory in 2026, since the world is so weird that it's really not obvious any more.

New comment by danorama in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

danorama — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:19:09 +0000

Not to be too reductive, but while there are some amazing technical achievements there, generative AI seems to be really good for individuals (particularly wealthy ones) and bad for society as a whole. I can create lots of neat new things for my own purposes while social trust dissolves in a sea of slop.

Collective action problems are just the worst.

New comment by danorama in "[dead]"

danorama — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:18:42 +0000

I'm legitimately curious what you think an ideal reaction would be.

New comment by danorama in "We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is how they start"

danorama — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:02:04 +0000

Oooh! I know this one! Just follow the money. All the way back to the Department of Homeland Security. You’ll find the paymasters and your answers there.

New comment by danorama in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"

danorama — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:53:09 +0000

Whoosh.

New comment by danorama in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

danorama — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 04:03:34 +0000

“Women who stay home for kids invariably watch lots of TV and maybe do three hours of actual recognizable work per day max”

As a parent, I believe I speak for many when I say [citation needed].

New comment by danorama in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

danorama — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:43:15 +0000

But what if Avery has the skills and training to watch 5 kids at once in a group?

New comment by danorama in "California Approves Redistricting Plan"

danorama — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:35:57 +0000

I agree with you! But that’s not where we are, and this is a valid response to the Texas Leg trying to disenfranchise Democratic voters everywhere and Texas’s Democratic voters in particular. The Leg had months to undo this when they saw the possible response from CA. They chose to assume Democrats couldn’t fight back after the first blow. They were wrong.