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New comment by edmundsauto in "Asus Bike Booster"

edmundsauto — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:20:06 +0000

Are you elderly, differently able, live in extremely hilly or hot terrain, or only willing to bike if it’s half the current effort?

That plus “already has a bike” is a massive market.

New comment by edmundsauto in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

edmundsauto — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:22:45 +0000

It’s interesting how you zero in on skin color rather than culture. Many of the other dog whistles at least try to focus on culture and religion, but you went right ahead to equate skin color as being the issue. Bravo!

New comment by edmundsauto in "Grocery prices are Americans' top affordability challenge, report finds"

edmundsauto — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:33:46 +0000

What people see is all there is. Mediated by their biases. If you are disappointed because people as a whole are not rational…

New comment by edmundsauto in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"

edmundsauto — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:56:03 +0000

I’m not sure the definition matters here. Either you are doing business and this regulation makes certain things now illegal; or you are not doing business and it’s unsolicited and spam.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data"

edmundsauto — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:39:37 +0000

Tell the story of what’s happened in the last 15 years, not just the 2000s under Bush 2.

In 2015, the JCPOA was signed to address some of these shortcomings. It especially enhanced verification and started discussions between Iran and the rest of the world. But rather than build on it, the 45th administration decided to cut it up without alternatives in place.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

edmundsauto — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:33:03 +0000

Famously, America has shown to be exceptionally skilled at getting the rich to help pay for society they sit on top of.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Communities turn to barter-style crop swaps to combat cost-of-living crisis"

edmundsauto — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:45:14 +0000

My read is that money changes transactions that are antithetical to the goals of this community. Money is such a concrete way to keep score that it warps interactions, making “winners” and “losers” apparent. It attracts people whose sole objective is to make more money at any cost.

Barter is like an intentional bit of friction, plus it obfuscates winners and loser scoring. Those are both beneficial in some ways that make sense to relationship based communities.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

edmundsauto — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:50:48 +0000

It also presupposes that open models will bridge that gap towards opus4.5, which was really when I drank the AI coding koolaid

New comment by edmundsauto in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

edmundsauto — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:20:56 +0000

The second option also incentivizes the seller, who is often a local real estate magnate, to pressure local officials to issue the permits.

New comment by edmundsauto in "The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)"

edmundsauto — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:56:36 +0000

Here’s my steel man. Wall Street hates the entitlement that they perceive from soft coders. They don’t like companies not constantly putting downward pressure on costs, which is why those other companies do it. Notice how these benefit reductions get a lot of coverage? It sends a signal to Wall Street that the company can control costs.

And Zuck doesn’t care about the stock price from quarter to quarter, except that a low stock price will cause a Dead Sea effect of the best and brightest. That in turn will cause a talent spiral.

So they make symbolic cuts so Wall Street keeps the stock juiced so the RSU incentivized employees stay.

New comment by edmundsauto in "ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App"

edmundsauto — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:38:18 +0000

Police are responsible for violations of the law, not immigration. This also requires due process.

And frankly, the per capita rates for crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants is much lower than for citizens. If these violations and murders are what we really care about, we should have an armed enforcement groups that only focuses on citizens.

But if that sounds absurd to you, then you’re starting to get it.

New comment by edmundsauto in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

edmundsauto — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:45:39 +0000

Isn’t it more dependent on how Trump is feeling? That makes it much more depressing for the leader of the country to be messing with our largest economy like this.

New comment by edmundsauto in "The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards"

edmundsauto — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:31:31 +0000

I have always heard that dopers are consistently ahead of testing regimes. I don’t think it is easier to tell than AI, which always seems pretty obvious to me.

New comment by edmundsauto in "The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards"

edmundsauto — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:29:46 +0000

It doesn’t always have to have consequences when it’s a curated access club like the Oscars. It’s ok to have cultural norms that aren’t enforced by consequences, at the very least some of the ethical participants will follow them. I know that I try to follow the spirit of the clubs I participate in, and if they don’t have these types of statements often I just don’t know what the community thinks is ok.

It breaks down when assholes join, or the overly self-interested. This mindset permeates America today, but there are still many collective organizations that don’t need punitive measures. These are less common but when you find them, it’s often a positive signal.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

edmundsauto — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:07:59 +0000

Or we could acknowledge that everyone is pathfinding.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

edmundsauto — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:49:08 +0000

YMMV. I would still be very happy with Claude if it hard failed on 20% of tasks. You can always come back to it.

I say this as someone working for a tech company who does not have to foot the bill (in the >$1k per month bracket)

I also experienced and accept the 1990s levels of unreliability, which is my “internet generation”. My first access was lifting a handset and placing on a speaker/mic cradle.

Programmers these days are fucking spoiled. If it’s $220 worth of value for $200 - I get it. But I’m getting $100k of value for $10k and so I’ll put up with some shit.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

edmundsauto — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:15:52 +0000

It’s almost as if a group of 80,000 dynamic humans in a wild uncharted environment might mean decisions are made that have to be re-evaluated in a year!

New comment by edmundsauto in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

edmundsauto — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:51:23 +0000

This is demonstrably false. In the case of removing migrants, the court ordered the practice halt and flights get turned around. The court also found evidence of contempt from the federal government due to noncompliance, although another appeals court stopped the contempt investigation.

In the Kiyemba decision, the court identified a pattern of 96 violations across 75 or so cases. Detainees were held despite release orders

In family separation cases, courts have required legal representation reinstated and the government refused to comply.

In the case of NY vs Trump, courts ordered funds to be unfrozen and the administration refused to comply.

New comment by edmundsauto in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

edmundsauto — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:20:34 +0000

Ahh but intent to harm doesn’t mean thy aren’t doing harm. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”

New comment by edmundsauto in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

edmundsauto — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:46:39 +0000

I can see a world where energy costs rise at a rate faster than overall inflation, or are a leading indicator. In that scenario then yes I could see LLM token costs going up.