Hacker News: delabay

New comment by delabay in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

delabay — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:17:31 +0000

Yes and don't forget consumer preferences. This is Hacker News where they are still clamoring for a "small smartphone" because everything else is too big. Shocker, small phones don't sell. Neither do bulky ones when compared to sleek iPhones.

New comment by delabay in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"

delabay — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:46:33 +0000

The dreaded Wile E Coyote attack, the bane of every commuter's existence.

New comment by delabay in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

delabay — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:22:13 +0000

This year's winner of the nobel prize is highly organized and ran a parallel election campaign, which was obviously dismissed by the Maduro regime. There is a slim possibility of a peaceful transition given the democratic efforts underway in Venezuela for many years at this point.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:16:14 +0000

I don't think it has dawned on the HN crowd how insatiable the demand for dollars across the world is. This stuff is being used in all corners of the world, and accelerating.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:11:29 +0000

Regulators also have enforcement functions.

Are you asking how laws work?

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:09:56 +0000

Money can be used to buy goods AND services! Stablecoins are money! Wow!

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:16:08 +0000

"Better off with a locally managed currency" wow, please research the counties I mentioned for five minutes.

It's a luxury opinion to view the USD as trash. It means you have options. USD is the best many people in the world can hope for.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:13:26 +0000

Unironically yes, and their communities will prosper as a result. I see no problem here.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:04:38 +0000

Or, an alternative, and hear me out, maybe this could also be called "an economy"

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:02:49 +0000

If tether wants to maintain their dominant position (they do) then they will work to be compliant with the LAW, on a timeline deemed appropriate by the law makers.

Take your conspiratorial trutherism elsewhere.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:44:57 +0000

As of 2025, USD stablecoins are a regulated industry. The frequency of uninformed comments like these will asymptotically go to zero.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:42:50 +0000

Stablecoins offer a relentless price insensitive buyer of US debt. This is good for America, good for democracy, and good for property rights globally.

However, stablecoins WILL cause unrest in Nigeria, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Turkey as their corrupt local currency completely erodes and the ruling class can no longer extract from their citizens.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:40:11 +0000

Totally, utterly, completely false. An honest discussion of this matter has no space for tether truthers stuck in the year 2015.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:26:24 +0000

This number will continue to climb and I am confident before the decade ends, stablecoins broadly will be the largest holder of US debt. The interests are fully aligned between the issuers and US govt - issuers keep the interest, US has a price insensitive buyer of debt.

This is ultimately good for the world, good for democracy, and good for the downtrodden and underprivileged members of corrupt countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Turkey, who have suffered their own currency crises to the great detriment of their citizens. With only an Internet connection, US dollar stablecoins give them property rights which can't be voided through an act of the corrupt ruling class.

Before the tether truthers come out, update your priors. This industry is very different than it was in 2015. It has grown up substantially. The GENIUS act is the largest banking and financial reform of the last 100 years, and the consequences will shape the 21st century and local currencies globally.

New comment by delabay in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

delabay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:21:06 +0000

Stablecoins are now a regulated industry with laws in place to address this very concern. Tether is currently not compliant, but as the largest player in the space, has a great incentive to maintain its dominance.

New comment by delabay in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

delabay — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:32:40 +0000

What's your source?

New comment by delabay in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

delabay — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:02:56 +0000

By my estimate (GPT5) Tesla has up to 17% of all front and behind the meter battery storage in CA, and is also the vendor growing the fastest in CA. The California battery storage story is also a Tesla story, but based on the positive tone of the article, it clearly made more sense to leave Tesla out of it.

New comment by delabay in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

delabay — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 22:59:34 +0000

LG Energy Solution supplied the lithium-ion battery racks/modules (TR1300 using LG JH4 NMC cells) for Vistra’s initial 300 MW/1,200 MWh Moss Landing system; Fluence was the system integrator/GC.

New comment by delabay in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

delabay — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 22:58:06 +0000

Interesting how they never mention that these are Tesla Megapack 2 XL units (LFP chemistry) manufactured at Tesla’s Lathrop, CA “Megafactory.”

New comment by delabay in "$19B Wiped Out in Crypto's Biggest Liquidation"

delabay — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:58:23 +0000

A company actively navigating a huge regulatory change is not the same as a flagrant scam hiding in plain sight.

I don't know why I'm bothering to reply. Tether truthers are modern day financial luddites, willingly blind and ignorant of the sea change taking place in plain sight after the passing of GENIUS.