Hacker News: ehvatum

New comment by ehvatum in "Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion"

ehvatum — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:19:04 +0000

Everybody forgets about tardigrades, but they will be here when we are long passed from all memory.

New comment by ehvatum in "How America's universities became debt factories"

ehvatum — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:17:32 +0000

The profit motive reliably exposes brokenness. What changed to make loans for useless activity profitable? Normally, a loan for useless activity wouldn’t be issued, because of the expectation that it wouldn’t be repaid.

New comment by ehvatum in "Starliner astronaut: We found things that we just could not get comfortable with"

ehvatum — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:50:29 +0000

This is one of those rare times I’ll agree we could use a gulag.

New comment by ehvatum in "Linux Pipes Are Slow"

ehvatum — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:12:31 +0000

A dream that pays $35k/yr

New comment by ehvatum in "Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach"

ehvatum — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 05:47:43 +0000

I mean, if we’re not allowed to know that we’re not allowed to surveil the shit out of you, it seems like something we can’t worry about

New comment by ehvatum in "Burning Man is struggling to sell tickets"

ehvatum — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:33:27 +0000

I feel the same way about the Barkley Marathons. What was once a soulful, austere and obscure contest against time and nature is now become a Roman orgy of decadence with contestants hauled about on opulent palanquins and all manner of one-wheeled contraption. It used to be special. If drugs were taken, they were not enjoyed. Hacker News became aware of the marathons, and now it’s only a matter of time until old Lazarus Lake is blowing that conch shell on stage with Taylor Swift, I tell you.

New comment by ehvatum in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

ehvatum — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:41:31 +0000

Some kind of lotto system

New comment by ehvatum in "How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip"

ehvatum — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:51:55 +0000

Nuclear power derives its energy from the binding energy of ultra-heavy atomic nuclei, not fossil fuels. This energy can then be used to power electric cars, avoiding fossil fuel consumption. Furthermore, unlike wind and solar energy, nuclear power generation is not tied to the vagaries of weather, meaning that it doesn’t require burning millions of cubic meters of natural gas every overcast, calm day. For this reason, Russia historically was the largest single benefactor of Germany’s green euphoria: it prolongs fossil fuel reliance.

So often, emotional thinking leads to conclusions that are opposed to reality. You really have to watch out for it, if you want good results.

New comment by ehvatum in "US Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps"

ehvatum — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 18:38:44 +0000

You’re not going to be any happier with the circumstances of people living in enormous urban housing projects.

You should want a society where we are all rewarded for looking after each other, in the ways we are each best at. Nothing else can work.

New comment by ehvatum in "US Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps"

ehvatum — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:38:04 +0000

Yeah, a shelter is only truly a shelter if you don’t pay for it. Paying for a home is the very definition of homelessness, after all.

New comment by ehvatum in "ShotSpotter does not reduce gun violence or increase clearance rates"

ehvatum — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:32:00 +0000

Oh, it is if you’re on the right side of history.

New comment by ehvatum in "Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial"

ehvatum — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:36:14 +0000

He’s making the point that poor governance delivering poor outcomes will eventually by replaced by its ideological opposition, no matter how distasteful.

New comment by ehvatum in "The Nissan GT-R Is Dead"

ehvatum — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:13:34 +0000

Very clearly, you haven’t been to a NASCAR race or monster truck rally in at least a decade. Not many oligarchs. Lots of kids.

New comment by ehvatum in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

ehvatum — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:04:46 +0000

Your implied point that prices will drop with the introduction of interstate competition and access to finance and interest by mega-corps is well taken. You are certainly correct, there.

Notwithstanding grey-market limitations, people have their motives for accepting the inefficiency of starting or staying small. Potential, for example.

New comment by ehvatum in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

ehvatum — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:25:27 +0000

What SMB has the luxury of being notoriously unproductive? Economies of scale are very real and tend to make larger businesses more efficient, it's true, but you'll find that causes SMBs to be lean and mean to remain competitive.

New comment by ehvatum in "Elon Musk and X to fight Australian order to remove Sydney stabbing content"

ehvatum — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:06:55 +0000

The old twitter had a vigorous compliance team that slavishly obeyed government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped out in the first round of layoffs. The new Twitter has no such team nor impulse and ignores censorship requests, fighting them only when the courts get involved.

New comment by ehvatum in "Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from $8M renewal to $100M"

ehvatum — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:27:10 +0000

> All that matters is purchasing committees are ok

Large enterprise purchasing committees are foremost concerned with risk, you absolute dolt.

The risk that price will jump 12x, requiring all kinds of scrambling, is fucking awful.

I don’t know what planet you’re from, but you gotta stop acting like it’s this one.

New comment by ehvatum in "Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI""

ehvatum — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:06:55 +0000

Because monoculture is unhealthy.

New comment by ehvatum in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

ehvatum — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:24:56 +0000

For my part, certainly. It's an important part of how I keep emotional liabilities out of the company.

New comment by ehvatum in "Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger: I hope to build chips for Lisa Su and AMD"

ehvatum — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:31:58 +0000

“ That raises the question of how the company would deal with competitors that are armed with its very own technology - and perhaps beating Intel's own internal product teams with better processor designs. While Gelsinger didn't answer my entire question, he certainly gave us plenty to ponder.”

Oh, I can tell you: by slow-walking the production of superior competition and demanding ever more money for the privilege, until the competition gets the message and gets lost. Then, Intel sues to stop 3rd party production, because it’s using Intel’s IP.

If you expect anything else, I have a bridge to sell you.