Hacker News: enoint

New comment by enoint in "Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia"

enoint — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:09:16 +0000

The enlistment bonuses tell that story: from St Petersburg, you get 10x the bonus compared to Dagestan.

New comment by enoint in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

enoint — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:22:58 +0000

It’s regex based. They’re looking for 8647, or the sum, 25. 25 cents is a quarter, so anything with George Washington’s profile is suspect. And 25 cents in old time slang is two bits (a Spanish dollar was 8 bits, or a piece of 8). Some younger people abbreviated two bits into 2b, so we now have some divisive terminology, “2b or not 2b”. Short list of regexes.

New comment by enoint in "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released"

enoint — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:00:20 +0000

I feel like it’s just as likely that China and MAGA mutually censor each others sensitive answers. Who in MAGA benefits from a Tiananmen focus? Who under Xi benefits from calling Jan 6 a failed coup?

New comment by enoint in "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released"

enoint — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:54:33 +0000

Only MAIGA approved models are permitted to resolve bets on US prediction markets.

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:55:15 +0000

Sure, I can ask around. It's a drought here, so we're looking for things to talk about.

It's not really about the numbers, though, is it? The red button future is now a mix of game theoreticians, Objectivists, and people who like the color red. The proportion of parasites is up.

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:18:19 +0000

So that Galt's Gulch could source a short order cook, Ayn Rank explained that a renown philosopher gave up his career to become one.

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:56:36 +0000

Red does have risk: you’d be left in a world without things produced by the blue pressers. I suspect that’s red's food, water and shelter.

edit: specified who

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:52:38 +0000

I thought about the ternary choice. Unconscious people, conscientious objectors, etc. The wording is that blue needs to exceed 50%, so the doomsday machine defaults to red.

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:45:05 +0000

I think this is already baked in. A world of red pressers must know they’ll adapt to a shortage of things produced by blue pressers. Many red pressers won’t survive.

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:32:48 +0000

The variation I like is: regardless of the outcome, red choosers are forbidden from performing manual labor. You can tell a lot about someone who chooses that button.

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:31:02 +0000

Crosstabbing the results into a state-by-state table would be interesting.

New comment by enoint in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

enoint — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:28:14 +0000

Yes and yes. Without the core of blue workers, red people will need to open Atlas Shrugged about how to assign short order cook duty.

New comment by enoint in "Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing red or blue"

enoint — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:11:20 +0000

Should be clear that, when faced with a power capable of doing this, humanity should cooperate to entirely choose red.

Becomes more interesting if, whatever the outcome, choosing red somehow removes the ability to perform manual labor.

New comment by enoint in "Investors lost billions on Trump's memecoin. Another gala won't fix that"

enoint — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:54:38 +0000

Tony Robbins is also announced!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/25/trump-cry...

New comment by enoint in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

enoint — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:34:17 +0000

I think 3 and 4 are frauds on others in the prediction market agreement. As in, it’s fraud against the terms of the market.

New comment by enoint in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

enoint — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:02:34 +0000

Yeah the DoJ proclaims,

“Our Office will continue to hold accountable those who misuse confidential or classified information in a way that undermines and exploits our national security.”

But isn’t wire fraud harder to prove than leaking classified facts?

New comment by enoint in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

enoint — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:25:39 +0000

Or, your brigade’s master sergeant needs the invasion to hit on the 28th rather than Mar 1st.

New comment by enoint in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

enoint — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:22:55 +0000

If that happened, could they retroactively classify it?

New comment by enoint in "Scammer used an AI-generated MAGA girl to grift men"

enoint — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:14:51 +0000

> a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash

We can say this in a less-judgmental way: everyone has known since the 60s what it means to target that list.

New comment by enoint in "Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering"

enoint — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:21:14 +0000

I predict that a settlement includes the following demands:

SPLC destroy all information it has about the Fred Trump lawsuit. Especially the records of Fred Trump arrested for punching a cop during a KKK rally in Queens.

Proud Boys, Oath Keepers etc. removed from the database as Jan 6 is rewritten.

And the grand jury testimony likely includes discussion about why SPLC shell companies are fraud but other shell companies are respectable. I predict this testimony was immediately sealed.