Hacker News: esbranson

New comment by esbranson in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

esbranson — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:12:45 +0000

What does the AMA have to do with the Clinton-era cap on federal DGME and IME residency payments? New York spends billions every year, California spends none. These are choices that Congress and California make every year, not the AMA.

New comment by esbranson in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

esbranson — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:27:21 +0000

> spent 2 hours, had my blood pressure taken 4 times ... cost me $2,000.

I'd hate to see what they billed your insurer.

New comment by esbranson in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

esbranson — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:51:37 +0000

> legal

> don’t tell you

As a Wikipedian who has edited primarily on US legal systems but also Germany's ... I seriously doubt more than a handful of non-attorneys have any clue about the actual workings of the German legal systems.

The biggest issue is of course the lack of codified laws and regulations. (Note that collections like the Gesetze im Internet are more like US Statute Compilations. If you don't know what the Statute Compilations are and have never heard anyone mention them, case in point.) The Swiss SR is odd man out of course, even though it's unofficial it's still usable. US states and states like Germany do however follow similar court reporting practices, e.g. court case decisions are only selectively published, so we have similarly little insight into how laws are actually implemented in practice. (The US federal government is better, but its impact on everyday people is incomparable.)

New comment by esbranson in "What it would take to rebuild U.S. manufacturing might"

esbranson — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:49:33 +0000

Pity the kids getting jobs in the ol' Argo Mill. Exactly what the article and OP are lamenting: trillions of dollars of investment in 1800s-era mining for gold, that rare earth metal vital to national security. No sane person would ever want to live in the Rockies.

New comment by esbranson in "What it would take to rebuild U.S. manufacturing might"

esbranson — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:06:12 +0000

> contaminated drinking water, poor air quality, acid rain that ruins your cars paint, noise and light pollution etc, etc,

Ah yes, who can forget everyone's experience at the Denver, Colorado zoo, a 10 minute drive (or 30-40 minute bike ride) from a massive oil refinery operating since the 1930s. Same with the Rocky Mountains, totally polluted and gross by the likes of factories like Coors. Definitely stay away from those places. Sundance Film Festival in Boulder, CO? With so many factories up there and everywhere around, what's going to get them first, Colorado's water, air, or rain?

New comment by esbranson in "The TTY Demystified (2008)"

esbranson — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:20:57 +0000

N_DEVELOPMENT is a line discipline number for testing, first supported in Linux v5.18-rc1 from 2022, so you don't have to overload an actual discipline like SLIP or PPP when hacking.

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

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:39:08 +0000

I believe your point is that, despite the resources thrown at the instant situation, you are admitting they are not resolved as of now, but the resolution will happen and be benign.

> assuming that anything released that is not resolved has to have gone through intense rigorous investigation, such that it means there is no known explanation for it

Yes.

> therefore it must be something truly anomalous

No, that is false. You are missing my point that, in the instant cases, presuming your point is true, is that this is a failure of the combined capacity of the US government. Nothing to do with cabals or aliens. Those are particular to your arguments.

Assuming your argument is true, my argument is strengthened. My argument is what your argument implies but does not make explicit because it wants the argument to be about cabals and aliens.

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

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:42:41 +0000

You are discussing IAP/IFOs. That's good they were able to identify light and released videos of it. And yeah I get why conspiracy theories of military parabnormal cabals is exciting, but also beside the point. This is about UFOs/UAP and not about whether AARO can identify light but whether the US combatant commands, the alphabet agencies, and the White House together can.

New comment by esbranson in "GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094"

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:13:25 +0000

IDK I do find it funny the linked project readme is dunking on this thread.

And I am again going to mention the book Linkers and Loaders by John R. Levine from 1999, I'm not sure if there's anything comparable to it. How else does anyone know anything about this stuff?

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

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:04:56 +0000

No, these releases are UFOs as of now, after extensive cross-agency review. Your premise of "one person didn’t know what it was" is demonstrably false. This is not a release of identified anomalous phenomena or IAP or IFOs.

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

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:58:13 +0000

The Pentagon, White House, &c are not unusual or unique observation conditions. These are not just UFOs at the time, they are UFOs now after going through extensive review regimes.

New comment by esbranson in "U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops"

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:32:17 +0000

Wishcasting. The US could let in tens of millions of immigrants in a single year.

New comment by esbranson in "U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops"

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:24:00 +0000

Areas and institutions that lean Democratic politically. Plus a few GOP areas with long-running demographic decline.

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

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:55:41 +0000

> balloons and birds

> missiles

> diffraction+aperture artifact

Uh if the US military cannot identify birds, balloons, light, and more importantly missiles after thorough cross-agency review, I think you're not seeing the forest for the trees.

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

esbranson — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:49:50 +0000

I do wonder what percent of government actions meet this definition.

New comment by esbranson in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

esbranson — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:03:30 +0000

Because they suck at it, would by guess. And other countries are honed in on in other HN topics (even within this one), this is one of the few for the Russian SFSR/F.

New comment by esbranson in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

esbranson — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:46:04 +0000

Too bad they can't really remove entrenched information about their government systems, which are becoming easier to gain understanding of, often with official assistance. It is only going to increase despair in their country and without as knowledge of its formal descriptions get more detached from knowledge of actual federal subject governance, with no democratic outlets for change. Though I'm sure in the central okrug, and even in the Pecherskyi raion, they don't realize this.

New comment by esbranson in "At Protocol: Building the Social Internet"

esbranson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:27:19 +0000

The W3C equivalent PDS efforts are in the LWS WG.[1][2] And of course other W3C standards like DIDs, VCs, and ActivityStreams/ActivityPub. W3C is still missing standards around data replication and a global indexing / feed layer.

[1] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/lws-ucs/

New comment by esbranson in "FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger"

esbranson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:54:33 +0000

What does majority US control of a US company have to do with US government "America First" policy?

And I don't think de-prioritizing foreign investments is part of that policy.

New comment by esbranson in "Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year"

esbranson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:40:21 +0000

I'd rather the system start managing models rather than each app doing their own thing. Whether that's engineering for and supporting KServe and inference snaps, an Ollama systemd service, or something else I don't care. But it's time to get serious about system tooling around AI.