<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: esseph</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=esseph</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:49:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=esseph" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esseph in "How to earn a billion dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> On the point of democracy, none of the candidates who spend the most on major elections seem to be winning much lately,<p>Thomas Massie was just ousted in the most expensive house primary in US history.<p>The difference between 1-2 mil that is normally spent and the $30+ million spent on that election alone.</p>
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<p>Trump said they would sign something today.<p>An hour later, now they're not signing anything until Friday.</p>
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<p>This is absolutely correct in my experience. It's solely finger pointing insurance.</p>
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<p>You act like anybody is actually following that.</p>
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<p>It is probably not a baseline for what they're selling.<p><a href="https://www.census.gov/about/history/bureau-history/agency-history-timeline/title-13.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.census.gov/about/history/bureau-history/agency-h...</a><p>> Title 13 provides the following protections to individuals and businesses:<p>> Private information is never published. It is against the law to disclose or publish any private information that identifies an individual or business such, including names, addresses (including GPS coordinates), Social Security Numbers, and telephone numbers.<p>> The Census Bureau collects information to produce statistics. Personal information cannot be used against respondents by any government agency or court.<p>> Census Bureau employees are sworn to protect confidentiality. People sworn to uphold Title 13 are legally required to maintain the confidentiality of your data. Every person with access to your data is sworn for life to protect your information and understands that the penalties for violating this law are applicable for a lifetime.
Violating the law is a serious federal crime. Anyone who violates this law will face severe penalties, including a federal prison sentence of up to five years, a fine of up to $250,000, or both.</p>
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<p>> Does anyone actually believe this crap?<p>> You think the census is what the government would use to mass identify and imprison people, not the NSA database(s)?<p>I think, and history shows, they would use the tools at their disposal.<p>Example: <a href="https://stateline.org/2026/01/20/ice-is-using-medicaid-data-to-find-out-where-immigrants-live/" rel="nofollow">https://stateline.org/2026/01/20/ice-is-using-medicaid-data-...</a></p>
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<p>And some IPs stick to users for over a decade, and over time the data pieces add up and connect the dots.</p>
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<p>The United States government isn't, capital is. That capital can come from outside the US and much of it is.<p>That said:
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-09/china-prepares-295-billion-plan-to-fund-nationwide-ai-buildout" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-09/china-pre...</a></p>
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<p>Can you show me a world power that is <i>not</i> trying to use cutting edge AI for military purposes?</p>
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<p>> it’s just a useful tool for non-critical areas. That’s all it is.<p>Okay. Let's say I agreed with you.<p>If you look at all technology and break down the total market for Critical Workloads vs non-critical workloads, what do you think that works out too, percentage wise? 12% critical? 18%? What if it was 30%! That would still mean 70% of the world's software could possibly be handled by an LLM. If that happens, the 30% of the Critical Workloads stuff is gonna get very, very competitive.</p>
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<p>There are sooooo many exfil methods, including with air gapped systems that are off-network.<p>Not at all beyond the capabilities of any of the top ~9 or so best State actors.<p>Edit: To answer your question, <i>very easily</i> on the 20TB.<p>One crude method with a simple device in particular works well if you just clone the monitor data and then use HDMI and pass through. Then just cat dir in encrypted chunks to something like a USB key connected to the passthrough. 4TB USB keys are out there. A week of that gets you 20TB.</p>
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<p>> Anthropic got the most rewarding hype ever in the history of mankind.<p>Nah, SpaceX just IPO'd.</p>
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<p>I'm so glad none of those US credit cards have never been stolen.<p>Can you imagine the disaster???</p>
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<p>How many companies with say 50k+ employees? VDI is pretty standard and often even required by some cyber security insurance.</p>
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<p>Or <i>shudder</i> BMC Remedy</p>
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<p>> Why would I build my little web-apps and backends in the cloud when I can run things faster locally?<p>Because in a lot of companies, your machine is actually just a portal to a remote desktop.</p>
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<p>> This guy is way out of his depth.<p>He does that a lot, tbf</p>
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<p>Even on a blank profile.<p>A lot of web devs simply do not test on anything else, even for billion and trillion dollar companies, I've seen it first hand.<p>This includes a lot of state and federal government websites.<p>Note: I have said nothing about nebula, I don't even know what that is if it's not the network overlay.<p><a href="https://nebula.defined.net/docs/" rel="nofollow">https://nebula.defined.net/docs/</a></p>
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<p>> It varies site to site, but keep in mind that ads have to be fetched and then displayed. That’s not free.<p>Move your ad blocking to a different layer. Like say, network level.</p>
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<p>Fox years with no changes,  seemingly.</p>
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