Hacker News: etiennebausson

New comment by etiennebausson in "Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment"

etiennebausson — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:05:33 +0000

Another demonstration of why depending on any American service is not worth the cost.

Use no U.S. part, and you can sell to the whole world. Use U.S. part, and you might ne restricted to the U.S.

No way this can backfire in any way.

New comment by etiennebausson in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

etiennebausson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:49:09 +0000

>> (generous exemption for those who didn't vote for the orange dildo).

Those who could but didn't vote aren't blameless either.

New comment by etiennebausson in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

etiennebausson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:23:48 +0000

Of course, huge investment need to be paid for somehow.

Still a worthwhile investment in most case.

New comment by etiennebausson in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

etiennebausson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:34:33 +0000

Wouldn't it change the hash, making push requests conflict in many case?

New comment by etiennebausson in "Just Put It on a Map"

etiennebausson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:26:23 +0000

I mean higher yeah, my bad, and too late to edit now.

New comment by etiennebausson in "Car Seats as Contraception"

etiennebausson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:10:42 +0000

Wasn't WW1 basically finished when U.S. troops reached the front line?

New comment by etiennebausson in "Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war"

etiennebausson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:55:01 +0000

The US is very much an outlier.

This give a very different picture:

https://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees/

New comment by etiennebausson in "Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war"

etiennebausson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:59:10 +0000

As disgusted as I am with Israel's action over the last 80 years, put the blame where it belong.

5k is far from nothing, it is more than enough in any country than subsidize higher education.

Which is most of the world at this point.

New comment by etiennebausson in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

etiennebausson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:27:22 +0000

No, it is a tool.

My IDE doesn't pretend to be a cohauthor of my work, neither should an LLM.

New comment by etiennebausson in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

etiennebausson — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:57:12 +0000

He isn't blaming React (or Copilot), but those who used them in context they had no place in.

New comment by etiennebausson in "Just Put It on a Map"

etiennebausson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:32:40 +0000

How much the land is worth is only one of the parameters.

Notoriously, the maintenance cost for suburbs and their infrastructure is significantly lower than the tax they bring. Shouldn't that be a major point un tax decisions?

New comment by etiennebausson in "“Your frustration is the product”"

etiennebausson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:01:19 +0000

Is it possible that he was paid to play such add to his passengers?

New comment by etiennebausson in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

etiennebausson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:32:23 +0000

There two main mobile OS in the space, one moron-proof but limited, the other a bit more permissive, but slightly less secure for it.

The problem is that most apps target only those two, and the second is trying to moron-proof, loosing most of it value to part of its users, while the apps are still locked in.

New comment by etiennebausson in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

etiennebausson — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:23:43 +0000

They are the same people, they just converted to another religion since the diaspora that saw some of the population leave 2000 years ago.

New comment by etiennebausson in "Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage"

etiennebausson — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:48:34 +0000

> A simpler answer would simply be that, if you lay someone off on the basis that an AI can replace their entire job functionality, you have to keep paying their salary dollar for dollar until they find something else to do.

This just incentivize them to find different official reason for firing. Like missed deadlines (that sudently became shorter) or in computing job code quality (due to reduced deadlines).

> This incentivizes companies to try and figure out creative ways to continue using their existing workforce to maximize the value they get out of AI systems.

This doesnothing for the current issue of job market entry positions, where there is the most pressure from AI. Only help people only in position.

New comment by etiennebausson in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

etiennebausson — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:20:50 +0000

That extra step mean selling what remains at low cost might be more financially interesting than if they could destroy it 'on site'. Not a perfect solution, but it push the incentives in the right direction.

New comment by etiennebausson in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

etiennebausson — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:18:27 +0000

Nowadays, "Free Market" mostly means its actors are free of the consequences of their externalities.

New comment by etiennebausson in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

etiennebausson — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:01:31 +0000

You seems to mistake a corruption/grift problem for a wealth redistribution scheme issue.

They do not need to be linked, they generally aren't, in the EU at least.

New comment by etiennebausson in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

etiennebausson — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:54:08 +0000

If the money is use to pay local developer, who reinvest most of it in a taxed local economy, it would need a HUGE amount of devs to match up the government's current MS license cost.

New comment by etiennebausson in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

etiennebausson — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:29:18 +0000

And nuclear fuel is also imported (but refined locally), so not sure it should be counted as 'local' in this case.