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New comment by frmersdog in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

frmersdog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:09:12 +0000

And this is almost certainly the direct cause of the Dot Com Bubble bursting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcv0600V5q4

We were bamboozled on a massive scale.

New comment by frmersdog in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

frmersdog — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:21:01 +0000

You need to have a, "Okay, I've tried 10 times, it's not working, what's the answer?" button. That will help not just us rubes who can't understand, but also in the off chance something is broken and even "correct" answers are being rejected.

New comment by frmersdog in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

frmersdog — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:13:37 +0000

We had a deal and we tore it up. More than once, if you include the inciting incident of undermining a democratically-elected leader who was bringing the central player in the Middle East into the mainstream economic and political global order that America had set for everyone. "Not like that!"

Frankly, it's hubris all the way down. Kalief Browder.

New comment by frmersdog in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

frmersdog — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:11:19 +0000

I dunno about that. At a previous job, we temporarily relocated to a building that featured a series of identical classrooms that were accessible by connecting doors in the back (it was really one long room with heavy dividers that did a good job of looking like regular walls).

You could look from one end to the other, seeing a series of doorways, and then walk through them all; every time I walked from one room to another, by brain would do a little power cycle as it tried to deal with the sensation of having walked into the room I'd just exited.

The deeper-in I got, the more I couldn't shake the feeling that something was "off" about the whole set-up; there were windows, but looking out them, the view felt... fake? It's hard to describe.

This was a few years after SCP became popular, but before the Backrooms - which was why I immediately understood the appeal.

New comment by frmersdog in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

frmersdog — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:59:32 +0000

I don't think it's too far to include Earthbound. After all,

  You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!

New comment by frmersdog in "SpaceX Targets More Than $2 Trillion Valuation in IPO"

frmersdog — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:51:04 +0000

https://archive.is/iioaU

SpaceX Targets More Than $2 Trillion Valuation in IPO

frmersdog — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:49:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-02/spacex-is-said-to-target-more-than-2-trillion-valuation-in-ipo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619314

Points: 5

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New comment by frmersdog in "Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)"

frmersdog — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:30:49 +0000

There's a business lesson in the longest lived creatures being the ones that move slow, abide small insults, and make themselves generally unappetizing.

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

frmersdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:16:41 +0000

>When the temporary url dies, it becomes a referral link to cryptocrap.

Huh. Good to know. Please don't click it anymore, thanks.

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

frmersdog — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:36:38 +0000

IIUC this is how ads on 4chan work. I learned this during my brief foray into targeted merchandising (https://www.temporary-url.com/9CBFE). Everyone on a given board at a given time was seeing the same ads.

New comment by frmersdog in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

frmersdog — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:46:22 +0000

Situational training is a joke (based in part on tactics developed in Israel/Occupied Palestine, i.e., for a literal military occupation), load-outs aren't designed around need but as a hand-out to our arms manufacturing industry (laundered through the military), and the cops involved in these sorts of raids are literally chosen to not be intellectually curious enough to question it.

I used to operate a firearms training system. To this day, I wish I'd stolen the videos that they use so that I can prove how ridiculously unprofessional and biased they are.

New comment by frmersdog in "Deal to stop algorithmic price-fixing of apartment rentals leaves out renters"

frmersdog — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:51:24 +0000

Our rent has been ~$300 more than it should be for 5 years. Across just the 2 communities we've lived in since the pandemic started (around 260 units total), that's already about $6 million in extra revenue for our landlords.

What is this even. I'm having a hard time processing the amount of corruption that must be involved to come to this outcome with such an open-and-shut situation. I'm sure that what they were looking at was such an exceptional level of fraud that the companies involved couldn't survive a just outcome. So... dissolve them and pass the rights to the property to the victims (the tenants).

Deal to stop algorithmic price-fixing of apartment rentals leaves out renters

frmersdog — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.courthousenews.com/greystar-agrees-to-stop-price-fixing-but-renters-left-out-of-deal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430246

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by frmersdog in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

frmersdog — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:19:32 +0000

They're trying to avoid thinking (or at least talking) about it because they don't control it. They're hoping that the next downturn (which will almost certainly include a partial collapse of the game industry as we know it) will present an opportunity to scoop up incumbents. At that point, they'll be open about their relationship to, and ambitions, for gaming. Until then, the most you'll hear is A24 stuff, Kojima stuff, and tut-tutting about Ubisoft (almost certainly their first target).

New comment by frmersdog in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

frmersdog — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:25:23 +0000

Tent-pole black movies? Basically anything Ryan Coogler or Jordan Peele are involved in. They're a case where the unfortunate stereotype might work out in your favor, if you're looking for a group experience that heightens with shared energy and a visual-and-sonic spectacle. (Well, assuming it's true.)

Or maybe it's just a horror/Marvel thing. Weapons and Endgame had a similar audience feel to Sinners and Black Panther.

Definitely not during Chris Nolan films. It's hard enough to hear his dialogue when it's dead silent.

New comment by frmersdog in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

frmersdog — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:34:51 +0000

Go read /r/LawyerTalk and enjoy the horror of the dawning realization that this is a lot of professionals. I think it's an issue that stems from getting too deep into the minutiae of the technical and cultural matters of one's field; you become a really good scientist, or lawyer, or SWE (by the standards of scientists and lawyers and SWEs), and end up coming to conclusions that everyone outside the bubble looks at and says, "That's absolutely asinine." Well, laymen just don't understand the details, you know? (Even though the whole point of these professions is to provide services to laymen, fix problems laymen come to them with, and guide laymen to make practical and logical decisions when a $500/hr appointment isn't called for.)

These people take themselves too seriously, and other people only take them seriously when there are material ramifications for not doing so. Otherwise, they're viewed as pompous busy-bodies and don't do themselves any favors by playing to the role.

New comment by frmersdog in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

frmersdog — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:40:06 +0000

Israel's a democracy the way the 3/5ths compromise promoted democracy.

New comment by frmersdog in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

frmersdog — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:35:11 +0000

Agreed.

http://lifegoesonintehran.com/

New comment by frmersdog in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

frmersdog — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:36:52 +0000

Well, we're certainly not collaborating with West Africa to bomb France. Not even the Philippines, Taiwan, and Uyghur and Hong Kong dissidents to bomb China.

I mean, it could just be the evangelicals hoping to start a holy war that heralds the End of Days. And now that I type that out, I have to agree with your implicit position that it's definitely the more rational catalyst.

New comment by frmersdog in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

frmersdog — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:46:32 +0000

I believed these sorts of statements a few years ago, but not anymore. Results were hit-and-miss enough to give the benefit-of-the-doubt. They're now so bad that I assume bad faith, either on the part of the speaker or Google.