<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: esotericimpl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=esotericimpl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:13:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=esotericimpl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esotericimpl in "How RSS beat Microsoft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is definitely false, see Facebook's pivot to video.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:25:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168702</link><dc:creator>esotericimpl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esotericimpl in "A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really baseless when he was caught with classified documents after he was selling them to the highest bidder.<p>Yes americas right wing courts blocked justice from being applied in this case but this would hardly be baseless.</p>
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<p>I love how this slop is something you think we should be looking forward to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:57:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092032</link><dc:creator>esotericimpl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esotericimpl in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are you using full self driving as part of your driving?<p>Weird ask imo.</p>
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<p>The cops lied about where the suspect was identified?<p>So the warrant was granted from false pretense.</p>
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<p>This is always the answer for anyone who thinks LLMs are capable of "intelligence".<p>It's good at answering questions that its trained on, I would suggest general intelligence are things you didnt want/train the AI to be good at answering.</p>
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<p>Amazing that it all actually accelerates in the early 80s with Reagan who kicks it into overdrive with the collapse of unions.<p>But yeah, it was the "gold standard" and not the collapse of the labor movement, there's nothing stopping us from taking back the value of labor except it comes out of the pockets of our oligarchs.</p>
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<p>777 as well, except for the fact that MH370 where the pilot deliberately brought down the plane and the other one was shot down by Russian Separatists in Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Except the research doesn't show this at all.<p>However, having wealth provides tutors, better schooling and teachers which lead to better outcomes from having better mentors, opportunities and education which leads to...<p>and so on and so on.</p>
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<p>So your solution is boots on the ground and regime change? it's gone so well in the past it definitely will in the future. /s<p>Maybe instead the US  should honor their commitments which would include the Iran Nuclear deal that was scrapped for no reason 5 years ago.</p>
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<p>Pretty sure the US requires planes to be maintained according to the manufacturers requirements in order to use US airports.<p>I suppose you can travel to your hearts content in africa and Asia, but you wont be able to land in Europe or NA.</p>
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<p>Check the orderbook for the A320 Neo<p>If you need single aisle planes, your only option would be to book the Max, the A320 is decades out on order.</p>
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<p>The best part of these stories is that nothing of value was ever created or lost.<p>Just a shell game in a casino, our previous generations built rockets with their best and brightest, now we build Ad Exchanges and High frequency trading bots.</p>
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<p>My only issue with the reviewer is the reviewer complaining about SBF's parents saying things like: "why didnt you start him in highschool earlier" or his quote:<p>"Seriously, what the actual f** was SBF doing in a high school? (Also, why would he want to read the Harry Potter books a second time, one of the deeper unsolved mysteries remaining?) He was doing philosophy better than philosophers, off the cuff. He was bored out of his mind."<p>However in the previous paragraph when commenting on how great Sam was at philosophy and having intellectuakl stimulating conversatyions with his parents he said: 
"This must have been so amazing. I can’t wait for this to happen to me with my kids."<p>The author seems to be pretending they know exactly what a perfect upbringing for a gifted child like Sam would have needed.<p>When In fact I can imagine raising sam would have been extremely difficult even with the best parents.</p>
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<p>I think hes getting rewarded for growing the company by 95x over the past 20 years.<p>As a shareholder since 1999 my cost basis for my shares in ATVI is about $1.11 - Exiting at 95.00.<p>Pretty good return TBH.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:35:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872458</link><dc:creator>esotericimpl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esotericimpl in "U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not even one mention of the 1 million Iraqis<p>My favorite memory was being on a college campus against the war and reading all the right wing shitheads talk about how great it was gonna be.<p>Meanwhile all the ghouls from the bush administration are walking free.<p>As an athiest i often think about if i'm wrong about there being a hell.<p>It's nice to think Bush and everyone involved will be there for eternity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:52:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782543</link><dc:creator>esotericimpl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esotericimpl in "U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.<p>This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.<p>It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.<p>This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.</p>
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<p>1. How do regulators expect Airlines to verify the real age of users (without further intrusions of privacy)?<p>2. How do the regulators expect Airline companies to verify the parents of child users?<p>3. Do regulators want airlines to collect every child's birth certificate?<p>See how silly this sounds when you compare to any other industry?<p>Oh but tech is different!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528754</link><dc:creator>esotericimpl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esotericimpl in "Tech workers demand high salaries despite hiring slowdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've found the issue isnt high performing engineers, they're gonna get paid.<p>The issue is middling engineers and junior engineers where before they would expect a 130k-150k salary in a tier 1 city, those offers are gone.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/september-11th-attacks-world-trade-center-rick-rescorla-the-real-heroes-are-dead" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/september-11th...</a><p>This is the greatest article written for an actual 9/11 hero.</p>
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