Hacker News: genericone

New comment by genericone in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

genericone — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:42:37 +0000

And to all a good tax-writeoff.

New comment by genericone in "Oil is near a price that hurts the economy"

genericone — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:05:58 +0000

The accounting only works if you assume the counterfactual is "same industrial civilization, minus fossil fuels." But there's a strong path-dependency argument that cheap hydrocarbons were the bootstrap not just for energy, but for the plastics, fertilizers, and chemical feedstocks that made modern manufacturing and agriculture possible in the first place. Renewables are downstream of that industrial base. You can't net out the externalities against a baseline that wouldn't exist without them.

New comment by genericone in "Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests"

genericone — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:20:51 +0000

Excessive speeders in the absence of speed-limit enforcement just creates neighbors that don't mind their neighborhood being consumed by speed bumps/dips, I think there's an analogy here in residential areas. And if you have a lot of children in your neighborhood, there IS a 'xx-phobia' for speeders. But speed bumps and dips are an absolute nuisance and sometimes dangerous, so just having cameras identify and a system willing to punish speeders would absolutely be the preference.

New comment by genericone in "Long live American Science and Surplus"

genericone — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:46:31 +0000

May 30th, just a few more days!

New comment by genericone in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

genericone — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:59:14 +0000

"Why don't you just read my mind and do what I wanted you to do in the first place?"

Rule by law rather than rule of law?

New comment by genericone in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

genericone — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:06:02 +0000

Thinking of it in terms of vector similarity does seem appropriate, and then definition of similarity suddenly comes into debate: If you don't get Harrison Ford, but a different well-known actor along with everything else Indiana-Jones, what is that? Do you flatten the vector similarity matrix to a single infringement-scale?

New comment by genericone in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"

genericone — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:59:34 +0000

I struck a column in a multilevel garage while reversing out of a parking spot, my mistake completely, resulting in damage to the driver door, door hinge, mirror, and front quarter panel. Progressive considered the car totaled due to the cost/availability/labor to fix it. Unsure what the cost would be for a toyota or honda, but I was perplexed at the total loss of my still drivable car.

New comment by genericone in "WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States"

genericone — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 05:00:46 +0000

These topic-adjacent expert responses just reek of point harvesting by an LLM, I didn't do any such downvoting, but in the last year I've changed to this viewpoint.

New comment by genericone in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

genericone — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:48:59 +0000

Yeah, especially if this breaks Chrome Remote Desktop in any way, seems like that capability would be tied into the Google ecosystem... I wonder how long we will have to say goodbye to the simplest remote desktop that has ever existed.

New comment by genericone in "US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023"

genericone — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:57:37 +0000

Since the statistic applies to the whole US, it's biased towards urban population centers.

E.g. the lack of K-12 kids in SF almost caused the shutdown of 11 schools due to the lack of funding that comes primarily from the number of enrolled students, they halted the closures in lieu of other cost saving approaches due to the political pressures of shutting down schools, but the truth remains that there are fewer kids in population centers.

New comment by genericone in "'A fatal miscalculation': masculinity researcher on why Democrats lost young men"

genericone — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:14:32 +0000

Interpreting that to mean that the person said 'it's not for white guys' and parent thinks they meant 'not "just" for white guys'. But the damage had been done regardless of original intent behind the words.

New comment by genericone in "Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor"

genericone — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:36:38 +0000

For the absolute worst case, see: Bodies: The Exhibition

"Concerns have been raised by human rights advocates that the bodies are those of executed Chinese prisoners, and that the families of the victims have not consented."

In one case, it's suspected the government killed the pregnant mistress of a cheating government official and her and the fetus are now a display item.

New comment by genericone in "Maker Skill Trees"

genericone — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:47:10 +0000

a la eagle scouts? https://www.scouting.org/skills/merit-badges/eagle-required/

New comment by genericone in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

genericone — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 05:44:04 +0000

Keurig for microgreens. A system whereby the user provides power, water, and proprietary seed cartridges to a device to manage scheduling, succession, water, light, and other environmental factors to successfully grow microgreens as easily as possible.

New comment by genericone in "Baijiu Meets Binary: Why Moutai is Investing in Semiconductors"

genericone — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 05:31:44 +0000

Asianometry video on Moutai, I recall it being quite informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOIKAEDv9I&vl=en-US

New comment by genericone in "How to build a $20B semiconductor fab"

genericone — Sun, 05 May 2024 05:19:49 +0000

First, attempt to build a $10 billion dollar fab.

New comment by genericone in "How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet"

genericone — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:08:49 +0000

C'mon HN, I'm counting on you...

New comment by genericone in "Abstrusegoose.com Is Gone for Good"

genericone — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:49:12 +0000

Whatever it is, its down now with "This page can't be displayed".

New comment by genericone in "Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027"

genericone — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:04:54 +0000

A commoditize your complements strategy that worked!

New comment by genericone in "X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Latest Free Speech Massacre"

genericone — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:35:06 +0000

"not-negative" ?