Hacker News: dtjb

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

dtjb — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:04:50 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924878

Points: 1

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New comment by dtjb in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

dtjb — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:58:54 +0000

They're not being held back by anti-progress haters, they're just straight-up ignoring the environmental agreement they voluntarily signed.

When companies have complete disregard for public welfare and dump the cost onto everyone else, that damage needs to be part of their value equation.

FTA -

>That agreement, signed by a Boring executive in 2022, was intended to compel the company to comply with state water pollution laws. Instead, state inspectors documented nearly 100 alleged new violations of the agreement.

New comment by dtjb in "How do you choose a name for your scientific company?"

dtjb — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:53:31 +0000

https://archive.is/DfOPg

How do you choose a name for your scientific company?

dtjb — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:53:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02894-z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348771

Points: 3

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New comment by dtjb in "South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home"

dtjb — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:26:32 +0000

I fail to see how the percentage of foreign born citizens is a problem in any way.

New comment by dtjb in "South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home"

dtjb — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:23:42 +0000

Americans don’t want economic growth, or don’t want foreigners in the country?

I feel like we should be honest - Americans are perfectly comfortable picking and choosing when laws get enforced. We do it all the time. We don’t treat every law as sacred. Enforcement is selective in a million other areas, from antitrust to wage theft to pollution. Nobody insists those must be pursued to the letter every single time.

So why single out immigration as the one area where “the law is the law” trumps any rational or humane appeal? It starts to look less like a principled stand on legal consistency and more like a cultural preference. One that just happens to line up with race and class anxieties rather than some universal devotion to the rule of law.

New comment by dtjb in "South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home"

dtjb — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:52:43 +0000

Norms and goalposts aside, what’s the value in adopting a formal policy of harassment against non-criminal, non-violent workers?

Congress can debate immigration laws on the books, but this cultural shift seems to be something else entirely. Instead of measured enforcement, it appears to be the normalization of cruelty. We're punishing people who are part of the workforce contributing to our country's economic output.

Seems like the real question is, what do we get out of this? Because it doesn't appear to be aligned with security or prosperity. It's just needless suffering, bureaucracy, and wasted resources.

New comment by dtjb in "The tech fantasy that powers AI is running on fumes"

dtjb — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:41:50 +0000

https://archive.is/6rEAl

New comment by dtjb in "A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system"

dtjb — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:03:22 +0000

Maybe Musk should have done that review before firing all of those FAA employees last month. Maybe those jobs were important.

New comment by dtjb in "A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system"

dtjb — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:53:29 +0000

Compared to what, just rolling the dice? SpaceX isn't the only shop that can deliver against requirements.

Procurement bids should be transparent and avoid the illusion of conflict. This is the complete opposite of that. It's hard to take Musk's campaign against "fraud and waste" serious when he's awarding the contracts to himself.

New comment by dtjb in "A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system"

dtjb — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:23:25 +0000

The quote from Duffy indicates that the SpaceX team doesn't have any real knowledge about or experience with the FAA systems. Seems like they're being brought in just because they're a Musk company.

New comment by dtjb in "Hit men aren't what you think"

dtjb — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:10:15 +0000

seems like we're ok crossing the line of "some people need killing," we just have rules on who's allowed to do it and the paperwork needed.

New comment by dtjb in "Hit men aren't what you think"

dtjb — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:08:44 +0000

In the last 50 years, over 1600 murderers have been murdered by the state. It's a question of authority, not justification, and I think that's a much less meaningful distinction.

The fact that there's so little sympathy for the death of a CEO who, in their view, callously discards human life tells us the authority is a much smaller dealbreaker than the justification.

New comment by dtjb in "Sophos' 5-Year War with the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices"

dtjb — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:28:29 +0000

https://archive.is/Z0yFU

New comment by dtjb in "I'm Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is"

dtjb — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:41:59 +0000

It's animating outwards. The article highlights how they're interfering with FEMA, sending death threats to meteorologists, and generally making things harder for disaster responders.

New comment by dtjb in "Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts"

dtjb — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:41:13 +0000

Blocks are (were) an easy line of defense for most of the lazy trolling. People could get around it but few bothered.

It might have not been ideologically consistent but it was effective.

The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight

dtjb — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:51:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-did-a-landslide-shake-the-earth-for-nine-days-20240912/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41540179

Points: 1

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New comment by dtjb in "Marijuana Is Too Strong Now"

dtjb — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:41:07 +0000

I feel like The Atlantic has really declined. Every once in a while they'll put out something interesting, but for the most part their entire model appears to be writing for an aging population who is scared of change in the world.

New comment by dtjb in "Putin seizes $100M from Google to fund Russia's war machine"

dtjb — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:05:25 +0000

https://archive.is/AXsHD

I Am Not My Animal's Owner. So What Am I?

dtjb — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:47:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thecut.com/article/pet-animal-owner-companion.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41258599

Points: 4

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