Hacker News: foogazi

New comment by foogazi in "The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It"

foogazi — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:36:56 +0000

> The first is the fear of job loss, and I feel like this is the most straightforward to deal with. Personally, I think the solution should be to share the productivity of AI with society at large, in particular since AI owes most of its abilities to training on the works of society. The easiest way would be a straight tax on AI usage, and using that tax to pay a universal basic income.

How much UBI you want from this AI tax ?

I don’t think they’d give me what I want

New comment by foogazi in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

foogazi — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:05:37 +0000

> Current world events

Let’s kill animals AND people to make oil expensive

New comment by foogazi in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

foogazi — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:03:51 +0000

> Don’t say US. They don’t speak for us all. Only 49.8% of voters.

E pluribus unum

New comment by foogazi in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

foogazi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:23:56 +0000

And that is to hold off an invasion against a nuclear superpower neighbor

New comment by foogazi in "Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war"

foogazi — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:21:34 +0000

They can’t take your license away if you don’t have one

New comment by foogazi in "X is selling existing users' handles"

foogazi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:19:42 +0000

> but it's a reasonable need too. > Putting the name on a marketplace is weird.

These two ideas are in direct contradiction to each other.

Why would a site care about vanity handles if not to monetize them ?

New comment by foogazi in "Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams"

foogazi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:44:13 +0000

Pound wise - penny foolish

New comment by foogazi in "The Banality of Surveillance"

foogazi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:50:42 +0000

> The Banality of Surveillance

Posted on Substack

New comment by foogazi in "The Banality of Surveillance"

foogazi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:47:44 +0000

Not your fault but another lesson here is lying to border guards is ok if they say it is.

Which proves how much theater there is in security and that laws are not there to be blindly followed, but to enable the state to pursue its perceived enemies

New comment by foogazi in "Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities"

foogazi — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:59:12 +0000

They didn’t say that

New comment by foogazi in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

foogazi — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:55:44 +0000

I will say graciously that seeing this question asked here is absolutely stunning to me

If I ask a question about vehicles it know what cars I have and what I like in cars

If I ask for a question about vacation spots it know my parties composition or preferences

Things like that

New comment by foogazi in "The whole thing was a scam"

foogazi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:32:34 +0000

> I don't see how any rational investor could still see US companies as a secure investment.

It’s the best investment - just bribe your way to contracts

New comment by foogazi in "How will OpenAI compete?"

foogazi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:47:20 +0000

My wife uses Google AI overview - as an extension of search - on a daily basis and then jumps to Gemini

New comment by foogazi in "The Pentagon threatens Anthropic"

foogazi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:46:27 +0000

> It isn't in private.

We don’t know this

New comment by foogazi in "Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss"

foogazi — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:30:55 +0000

Most-Wanted Cartel Boss so far

New comment by foogazi in "U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974"

foogazi — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:20:06 +0000

All sticks no carrots

New comment by foogazi in "Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat"

foogazi — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:16:12 +0000

> which would completely negate their structural advantage.

You think it’s going to be enforced against their side ?

Read the room

My favorite dictator quote:

> To my friends everything, to my enemies the law

New comment by foogazi in "H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation"

foogazi — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:11:44 +0000

> Most people want to stay in their own country with their own culture and close to their friends and family.

But not all people otherwise we would all live in one giant city. Some are willing to greave the frontier in search of better outcomes: the early American Colonists, those that expanded west-ward into California, even the early Silicon Valley workers were all willing to move

H1Bs and international workers are not most people

New comment by foogazi in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

foogazi — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:23:01 +0000

I was on team CarPlay/AndroidAuto too. But I’m willing to give Rivian the benefit of the doubt

The challenge for them is can they integrate a better in-car experience

New comment by foogazi in "TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma"

foogazi — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:46:09 +0000

> It's actually called the ACA (Affordable Care Act). Obama was only attributed to it because people were so happy with what it did for them.

Obamacare is a pejorative derisively applied to sink it - it’s not an official name