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New comment by duhast in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

duhast — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:46:52 +0000

Majority of Americans want stricter gun laws.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx

New comment by duhast in "After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS"

duhast — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:54:12 +0000

Phones, laptops, GPUs and many other modern highly integrated electronic products are repairable. Look it up, there are tons of videos on YouTube of people doing component level repairs. Leaked schematics make a huge difference here.

New comment by duhast in "Ukraine forced to cut military operations as foreign aid dries up"

duhast — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:34:13 +0000

Retaking of Kharkiv and Kherson is marginal diminishing returns?

New comment by duhast in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

duhast — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:14:52 +0000

You lost me at "can be coded in few days".

New comment by duhast in "FEC moves towards potentially regulating AI deepfakes in campaign ads"

duhast — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 02:02:43 +0000

They can levy fines on campaigns.

New comment by duhast in "Are you a late bloomer in work or love? Maybe you’re right on time"

duhast — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:37:12 +0000

Citation needed.

Meta to launch subscription service for Facebook and Instagram

duhast — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:30:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/9ffe32be-c739-47c3-a196-31dc410482df

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34867160

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options

duhast — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:58:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/25f67d89-2940-43b9-9a42-bfc34d262631

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422479

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by duhast in "Power struggles among nice people"

duhast — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 09:21:21 +0000

Care to elaborate?

New comment by duhast in "Power struggles among nice people"

duhast — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:50:53 +0000

Can you give me some examples of SpaceX innovations that disrupted the industry?

Here are some of my issues with SpaceX marketing:

  1) Cost to NASA/DoD seems to be similar to ULA.

  2) SpaceX continues to fly expandable boosters for missions above LEO and for heavier payloads. Reusable boosters have lower lift and range and require extensive refurbishment between missions. Upper stage is not reusable.

  3) SpaceX hasn't flown a single mission into deep space or Mars despite this being the stated goal of the company. In the same time, others have flown multiple rockets to Mars and to other planets. We have multiple rovers roaming the surface of Mars and satellites orbiting other planes all while SpaceX has contributed nothing to these efforts.

I personally see SpaceX contributions to the industry are mostly incremental:

  1) Booster reusability to LEO and for light payloads.

  3) Human rated capsule for space station resupply missions.

  3) High quality video content from launches.

  4) Increased interest in space exploration at the expense of unrealistic expectations in relation to cost and timelines.

New comment by duhast in "Twitter closes offices until Monday as employees quit in droves"

duhast — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:28:06 +0000

Twitter is private. There is no stock to drive down.

New comment by duhast in "Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week"

duhast — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:38:56 +0000

Is there any actual public evidence of Twitter being management heavy outside single statement made by Musk?

New comment by duhast in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"

duhast — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:23:08 +0000

His company X.com was acquired by PayPal.

New comment by duhast in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"

duhast — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:05:46 +0000

Entrepreneur, salesman, celebrity or populariser? Sure. Definitely not an engineer.

New comment by duhast in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"

duhast — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:55:27 +0000

Why do you think so?

New comment by duhast in "Minister criticises UN as inspectors denied access to NSW jails"

duhast — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:39:25 +0000

Here goes nothing to hide nothing to fear argument.

New comment by duhast in "H. R. 4346: The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022"

duhast — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:53:34 +0000

Can you please elaborate on this more? What are the major differences between SLS and SpaceX?

New comment by duhast in "H. R. 4346: The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022"

duhast — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:35:44 +0000

Why SLS should be cancelled?

New comment by duhast in "Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]"

duhast — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:04:50 +0000

House prices will adjust once air taxis take off (no pun intended).

New comment by duhast in "The technological case against Bitcoin and blockchain"

duhast — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 03:09:06 +0000

Bonds are a form of lending and pay coupons. Shares experience capital appreciation from business growth and pay dividends from profits. Houses bring rent. How does Bitcoin create wealth?