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New comment by dfadsadsf in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

dfadsadsf — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:11:36 +0000

>BAM would have become the successor to all liabilities upon taking over the store (in the U.S., at least).

Not necessarily and highly depended on how it was structured and state law. It's possible that BAM only took over entity and then all liabilities stays with the same entity (that was bankrupted later). Another option it was only asset sale without liabilities, etc.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities"

dfadsadsf — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:56:28 +0000

It's game theory. You start developing nukes and risk US bombing you to stone age while killing your personally. But the moment you develop nukes, US will likely leave you alone. Choices.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

dfadsadsf — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:34:36 +0000

That math breaks down if you have kids and need 4bdrm house commutable distance to work in good school district - prohibitively expensive in Bay Area and affordable on engineer salary in most tier 2 cities. If you do not have kids, Bay Area clearly wins, especially if you are ok with studio/1bdrm.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

dfadsadsf — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:54:25 +0000

Most petitions are filed over the summer, so the numbers so far in this financial year are not super relevant to anything. You will see a spike pretty soon after petitions for lottery winners this year are filed.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "US Job Market Visualizer"

dfadsadsf — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:27:28 +0000

Every year US absorbs 120k+ H1B+L1+OPT new visa holders. Considering there are 1.9M software engineers, market has to grow by 5% every year just to stand still. Add US graduates and you are talking about 10% growth required just to maintain employment. It's not realistic long term.

Congress/president should pause H1B visas or hike up fee to 200-500K so that only truly exceptional talent are allowed in. Right now it's just give away to corporations that are laying off people by tens of thousands.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day"

dfadsadsf — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:32:14 +0000

Do not mistake leadership and regular people. Afghanistan president Ghani handed over sovereignty to US too but Afghans disagreed. I am confident that there is significant minority in Kuwait wishing for Iran victory. As a datapoint, there were videos from Bahrain with people cheering for Iranian rockets hitting American bases.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

dfadsadsf — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:05:51 +0000

Iraq right now is in roughly the same position as it was when Saddam Hussein was there but in the meantime a few million people died and the country went through a pretty traumatic period.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Layoffs at Block"

dfadsadsf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:20:44 +0000

Not really. I expect with AI and increased productivity allure of outsourcing will diminish. You want super productive engineers to be close to product and customers.

Besides if you are looking for work there is very little difference between foreigner on H1B taking the role and role being outsourced to India. Either way you do not have the job.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Layoffs at Block"

dfadsadsf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:17:48 +0000

Lots of people laid off by Block are on H1B Visas. With transfer they have 60 days to find new role. If they could not find new job in 60 days, they "fake" transfer to "bodyshop" company while they are looking for real work so status does not lapse.

With transfer you have 4k people looking and eligible for new role. With no H1B transfer, less people are looking for work and citizens and green card holders have higher chance to land roles in a few companies still hiring.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Layoffs at Block"

dfadsadsf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:29:14 +0000

If we unionize, will I still be paid $500k with four years of experience?

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Layoffs at Block"

dfadsadsf — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:10:47 +0000

Right now is exactly the time when we need to pause issuing new or transferring existing H1B/L1/other work visas for least a year until we know full impact of AI on economy and employment.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

dfadsadsf — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:08:47 +0000

Coca Cola stopped officially selling in Russia but Coca Cola products are widely available due to grey import from other countries (it's present in literally every store - though prices are higher than for local brands).

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

dfadsadsf — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:42:58 +0000

Coca Cola actually have to run ads to stay relevant. War in Ukraine provided nice experiment - Coca Cola stopped all advertisement in Russia in 2022 and results are in.

- Feb–Mar 2022 (before full production/marketing stoppage): RosIndex reported that 94.3% knew the Coca-Cola brand.

- 2023 (roughly a year after global brands stopped producing in Russia): 88.6% of consumers knew the Coca-Cola brand.

5.7% drop in recognition in one year translates to billions of losses if scaled to US market. So yes, Coca Cola has to constantly run ads.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

dfadsadsf — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:32:22 +0000

Money are stolen electronically every day - we do not know how to build secure systems. Considering the stakes for national elections (civil war or government instability) good enough is not good enough.

I agree with you on local elections - electronic voting is good enough for town or even state level elections. The stakes are dramatically lower.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source"

dfadsadsf — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:25:56 +0000

Just use Amnezia VPN - it can masquerade as https.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

dfadsadsf — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:10:39 +0000

Given the relatively low inflation in 2025, I’m skeptical of the claim that consumers bore 96% of the tariff burden. With CPI inflation at 2.7% and roughly $18,000 in goods consumption per person in US, total price increase in goods work out to ~160B. A $200 billion increase in customs revenues would exceed the total price increases attributable to inflation - which makes little sense if 96% of that was paid by consumers. Essentially tariffs did not increase inflation in any meaningful sense which means that somebody else paid the bill - not consumers.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)"

dfadsadsf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:41:21 +0000

At the time it was not clear that GLP-1 solves obesity problem so effectively - many drugs suppress hunger (eg amphetamines), it's just that GLP-1 works long term and does not have significant side effects. Hard to predict without hindsight.

Insulin is injectable so GLP-1 was thought to be at best marginal improvement over already existing protocol - so likely profitable product but not excessively so. Company has limited resources so decisions on cuts have to be made and some of those decisions are naturally wrong - drugs are unpredictable.

On regret - they missed on 30B+ of profits so of cause they regret it.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks"

dfadsadsf — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:23:12 +0000

30% of NYC public school students are functionally illiterate in high school. There is zero chance you will be able to teach them analog clock in a day and forget about an hour.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]"

dfadsadsf — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:40:40 +0000

This comes down to realism versus wishful thinking. In the real world, force is used to resolve geopolitical problems - as we’re seeing in Venezuela now and saw previously in Iraq, Serbia, Grenada and countless other countries with US. The alternative is pretending that every country can act however it wants without repercussions. Ukraine deliberately instigated conflict with hope that Russia does not react militarily instead of playing both sides like Kazakhstan, etc.

On no one was out to attack Russia - that's probably true today but Ukraine and broader Eastern Europe realignment is more of 50-100 years project and nobody knows what happens in 20-30 years. US is on a brink of invading Venezuela and blockade is already borderline act of war (that was casus belly for US declaring war on Germany in WW1) so it's not like NATO/US are some peaceful paradise.

And on “not formally planning to”: Ukraine literally wrote its intention to join NATO into its constitution. That doesn’t get more formal than that.

New comment by dfadsadsf in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

dfadsadsf — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:03:23 +0000

Main reason normal people do not use public transport is this attitude and police giving up on enforcing basic public order on transport. Personally I am voting against any public transport funding until all homeless/druggies are kicked off public transport (even if they are willing to pay). You have to pass certain very low behavior bar to use public transport (no intoxication, no aggression to other passengers, no smell, no shouting random things).

It's not rocket science and other countries figured out how to do it.