Hacker News: ericjmorey

New comment by ericjmorey in "Talk like caveman"

ericjmorey — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:07:12 +0000

I don't consider these researchers luddites.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01191

New comment by ericjmorey in "BYD's bet on EVs is paying off as drivers ditch gas amid rising oil prices"

ericjmorey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:01:57 +0000

Who is this a problem for?

New comment by ericjmorey in "Chuck Norris has died"

ericjmorey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:54:44 +0000

Who are you granting grace to? Who are you denying it to?

We know the answers to these questions for Norris.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Chuck Norris has died"

ericjmorey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:51:41 +0000

If you look at the wider context, it's harder to deny the racism.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

ericjmorey — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:48:23 +0000

You should reconsider it.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

ericjmorey — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:47:18 +0000

You just said that he entered legally. Then you said the opposite.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

ericjmorey — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:44:16 +0000

WTF are you talking about? Next time you fail to obey a yellow light signal, you'd be rightfully distraught if you were put in prison and someone were to say that you deserved it because you should have thought about stopping at the yellow as the law prescribed.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties"

ericjmorey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:45:56 +0000

You're going to need to explain how all of the unethical actions of Tech companies don't count for your statement to make sense.

New comment by ericjmorey in "After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news"

ericjmorey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:29:41 +0000

Seems like he's recommending secondary sources over Wikipedia as a tertiary source.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

ericjmorey — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:12:05 +0000

The line cook is relatively as valuable as they were in the past, they're just being out leveraged by people asserting a self-centered entitlement mentality.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

ericjmorey — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:09:05 +0000

Your unwillingness to read the primary sources linked in the Wikipedia article because they show how you're flat out wrong indicates that your entire thought process can be disregarded at no cost.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/29/us-freeze-on-foreign-aid...

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-foreign-aid-does-the-u...

New comment by ericjmorey in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

ericjmorey — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:42:31 +0000

The Department of State switching to a less accessible font is not a nothing burger to all the people who now have more difficulty reading the documents. It reinforces the tone of international relations being put forward by the administration to the detriment of everyone in the country.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

ericjmorey — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:34:01 +0000

If it's legible, the terms of a lease are way more important than the typeface. Anyone wasting time on the typeface of the contract would worry me more than comfort me with regard to knowing what's important.

New comment by ericjmorey in "USPS announces changes to the postmark date system"

ericjmorey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:34:58 +0000

Civics is still taught in schools

New comment by ericjmorey in "USPS announces changes to the postmark date system"

ericjmorey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:32:35 +0000

Why wouldn't they want to increase their likelihood of winning in the future?

New comment by ericjmorey in "USPS announces changes to the postmark date system"

ericjmorey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:31:26 +0000

Why not make it as easy and convenient as possible to let people vote?

New comment by ericjmorey in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

ericjmorey — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:54:25 +0000

Did you make all of this up or just so credulous that you repeated what someone else made up?

New comment by ericjmorey in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

ericjmorey — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:21:11 +0000

Trump didn't even get a majority of votes cast.

Over 77 million people voted against Trump.

About 73 million were not old enough to vote.

New comment by ericjmorey in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

ericjmorey — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:40:12 +0000

If I buy a book, I'm not required to read any part of it. I'm allowed to control what I read.

New comment by ericjmorey in "All it takes is for one to work out"

ericjmorey — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:13:24 +0000

Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Musk all had enough hunger to beat out literally everyone else