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New comment by eschulz in "The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes" Was Not in the Official Festival"

eschulz — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:42:46 +0000

Yes, this is exactly what I said to myself when I saw this claim the other day. Of course not, only a naive person would believe this claim.

New comment by eschulz in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

eschulz — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:32:14 +0000

Absolutely, great graduation speeches are unique and from the heart. They don't sound like a sales pitch for the latest trend or thing, and mentioning AI shows how clueless theses speakers are.

New comment by eschulz in "England Runestones"

eschulz — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:18:57 +0000

The voyages and sagas of the vikings are very interesting, but something I find to also be fascinating is the economic and cultural history that brought about the viking age and then several centuries later ended it. It does seem kind of sudden; there was a niche that suddenly caused vikings to travel everywhere, and then it was just over.

New comment by eschulz in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

eschulz — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:16:07 +0000

Cuba has received shipments of oil and humanitarian goods from Mexico and Russia just this year, and I don't believe that the US has done anything to stop that (although the US has heavily sanctioned Russia in general for years now). However, those good received this year appear to have been free of charge.

I'm wondering if the US is solely to blame for Cuba being completely unable to pay for the oil it needs. Obviously the US embargo on Cuba is devastating for its economy, but other states impacted by US sanctions in a similar manner seem to get by with essential good like food, oil, and medicine. Cuba is in a poor economic spot, but the US does not appear at all to be using its military to prevent them from trade with other nations.

New comment by eschulz in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for two-sided marketplace?"

eschulz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:57 +0000

Simply put, start with a niche market concept that helps solve very specific problems that people may have (such as delivering pet medicine to old or handicap people who live in villages or the countryside), and then to actually get started make an offer to those providing the solutions (the drivers) that is too good for them to refuse.

In this case I think you'd basically have to pay the drivers to make deliveries for yourself, and then work to show the value of this service to those whom need this service and are in a position to take over paying for it.

New comment by eschulz in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

eschulz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:06:32 +0000

I love this story. When I first read it online in college many years ago I was surprised, and disappointed, when I suddenly realized it was a short story. It's a great one to recommend to people.

New comment by eschulz in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

eschulz — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:30:44 +0000

Right, consider the personnel costs that are displayed here. They were already getting paid this past weekend either way (admittedly the military may have had to hire some last minute contractors to help with the operation).

New comment by eschulz in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

eschulz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:17:36 +0000

Well, there is an explanation here - he simply was misleading regarding his intentions.

New comment by eschulz in "A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)"

eschulz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:22:31 +0000

As a native of Northern Illinois, I was pleased to see Joseph Glidden mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Glidden

Edit: after reading about Claude Shannon, I too think it would have been nice if he was mentioned.

New comment by eschulz in "Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving"

eschulz — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:21:23 +0000

Absolutely. If I'm driving and using my cellphone (in a legal or illegal manner), and the network is suddenly screwed up, I'll probably be more distracted since I'm trying to solve the "problem" with my phone in addition to driving.

New comment by eschulz in "Dole Kemp 96 Web Site"

eschulz — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:46:14 +0000

Here's the page you were looking for: https://www.dolekemp96.org/about/cookies/cookies.html

New comment by eschulz in "Dole Kemp 96 Web Site"

eschulz — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:44:09 +0000

no problems right now

New comment by eschulz in "The hidden engineering of runways"

eschulz — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:46:23 +0000

Same, and I also just marvel at the airplanes. This video made me think of the several grass runways that are in my area. They're literally just maintained by some guy mowing them, and yet people land on them in tiny planes as well as two-engine aircraft.

New comment by eschulz in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

eschulz — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:56:49 +0000

I'm not from Canada, but my take is that given Canada's economic reliance on the US, any "divorce" would cost them more than anything they could find anywhere else. However, I also don't think the PM there can simply separate his country from the US by simply giving a speech, although he can work to foster closer ties with others while still trying to make it work with the US.

New comment by eschulz in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

eschulz — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:22:56 +0000

I'm probably the only person here who has been in a Walmart in the last year or two, but recently I found that my local Walmart offers a warm counter with freshly prepared small bites, and you can get a respectable chicken sandwich for $2. It's a decent small meal, and the same item would probably be $6-$12 at a fast foot joint. I guess each individual Walmart is big enough to offer these bites to their shoppers.

New comment by eschulz in "AI will kill all the lawyers"

eschulz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:43:18 +0000

You're right. Gold and golf are at the center of the legal world.

New comment by eschulz in "Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription"

eschulz — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:47:13 +0000

I consider the languages of Western European colonial powers to have achieved a sort of heightened mobility when they more or less mastered extensive sea travel.

Something that I've always found interesting is how the two large Polynesian areas of Hawaii and New Zealand and currently dominated by the English language, but this domination came to New Zealand from the British Empire as it traveled east, while it arrived in Hawaii from the United States traveling west.

The English language capturing the world is unlike anything else.

New comment by eschulz in "Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965"

eschulz — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:09:36 +0000

The the font for the title of the map meant to allude to the style of Arabic writing? It looks crazy.

New comment by eschulz in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

eschulz — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:06:25 +0000

who doesn't get free speech?

New comment by eschulz in "Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room"

eschulz — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:15:07 +0000

Before this happened to me, my first search returned an impressive SERP.