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New comment by georgeplusplus in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

georgeplusplus — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:40:38 +0000

It’s disingenuous to consider one’s total income when weighing the fairness of a tax like sales tax. The thought that a sales tax is somehow benefiting one group over the other is ridiculous far left extreme thinking.

You pay for a service and that service has a rate. To think that the only good kind of taxation are those that are progressive is the dumbest thing I ever heard.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "AI is propping up the US economy"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:41:42 +0000

I can already see the campaign message for the Donald trump of 2125,

Make teachers great again.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "AI is propping up the US economy"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:39:50 +0000

What percentage of that capacity is being put towards useful things and what is being put towards entertainment? The products main selling point is to make us more efficient at our job and if it’s being primarily used as entertainment which everyone I know who uses an LLM besides programmers falls into that category, then I’d say the expected profit from them is a bubble.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "AI is propping up the US economy"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:35:43 +0000

It seems AI or AGI has become the divider between technology that is needed, vs a nice to have.

I can’t think of one reason anyone really wants this right now. I prefer to deal with a human in 99% of my interactions.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Teacher AI use is already out of control and it's not ok"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:22:49 +0000

Normal product release cycles bring testable quality measures before the product is released. Do LLMs go through such tests?

If there are serious societal issues that it can cause at the moment I wonder why it was released before being perfected, but then, what does perfected even look like? The product is darn good at the moment.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Are we witnessing the final days of Mozilla?"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:03:03 +0000

“They are now a “global crew of activists” focused on Marxist causes.”

What Marxist causes are the people at Firefox supporting? Maybe stop using the money for these causes to support your product.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "I'm betting against AI agents, despite building them"

georgeplusplus — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:12:49 +0000

For instance cyber security toolsets like mde capture a lot of data. That data is made meaningless unless someone is looking through it, at my org there isn’t enough manpower to do that, so one solution is using an agent to help characterize that network log data into suspicious or what’s worthy of a human to follow up on.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production"

georgeplusplus — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:35:18 +0000

Maybe you are in a job where it’s not a good use case but there are fields that are handling massive amounts of data or have a huge amount of time waiting for processing data before moving to the next step that I think handing it off to an AI agent to solve then a human puts the pieces together based on its own logic and experiences would work quite nice.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:34:40 +0000

>>>In my first week on the job, I was told, explicitly, that if I shared Classified or Controlled Unclassified information over unapproved channels, I would be reprimanded—likely fired, or less likely, prosecuted.

Now, I’m not replying to you about the morality of what happened or to tell my opinion of what is right and what is wrong.

But do you honestly believe the president is held to the same standard as you?

Would it shock you that they aren’t?

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Show HN: I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game"

georgeplusplus — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:12:04 +0000

Looks and plays awesome. I would love to do something similar. Do you have anything to share that documents your accomplishment that could help myself and others to get started into multiplayer gaming?

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem"

georgeplusplus — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:16:58 +0000

>>> That line of thinking doesn't get us towards no gum on the floor

Sure it does.

We can collectively shame people who spit gum on the floor. We could also enact something like singapore that carries hefty penalities.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died"

georgeplusplus — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:49:54 +0000

So glad you pointed this out. people are numb to these sort of news now a days.

Reminds me of George Carlins words, “ It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got.”

New comment by georgeplusplus in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

georgeplusplus — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:15:32 +0000

I dont want to have ww3 for ukraine joining nato.

Im glad tbe adults are in charge.

New comment by georgeplusplus in ""Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order"

georgeplusplus — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:25:53 +0000

I still don’t see how this changes anything.

I think trumps legal strategy is basically, putting the quiet part into writing. It’s as you already said, what has been the norm

If trump doesn’t like how the departments are executing his policy he has the power to steer it. It makes sense he is the ultimate authority for the executive branch.

Blame congress for ceding their oversight duties to departments. Which IMO is the root of the issue.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Show HN: Mandarin Word Segmenter with Translation"

georgeplusplus — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:14:50 +0000

Have you used the app Pleco?

That app has been invaluable as someone learning Chinese.

that app breaks down mandarin sentences into individual characters. I believe it’s made by a Taiwanese developer too.

I tried your app with a few sentences and it works really well!

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Google scraps diversity-based hiring targets"

georgeplusplus — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:04:41 +0000

The counter argument I’ve seen presented is that merit based systems favor a white centric system because they have more access to resources like higher education and thus it’s easier for them to compete at a higher level and misrepresent the actual competition.

Vivek Ramiswamy debated Mark Cuban on YouTube and they spoke about this and that was my takeaway.

Couldn’t find the original so here is a snippet it’s a good debate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHTeDbIjTbQ

Cuban also mentioned that what they lack in aptitude for the job they provide other value through there experiences.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again (2023)"

georgeplusplus — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:55:52 +0000

getting my attention came at the cost of starting with a very low value opinion of the author based on how utterly classless the title was and if your goal is to inform or change minds of readers that’s not a good way to go about it.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:39:26 +0000

Came to say exactly this. Headline is extremely disingenuous and meant to provoke a reaction.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

georgeplusplus — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:56:20 +0000

I don’t believe that’s true. A pardon does not excuse a crime.

New comment by georgeplusplus in "Apple says it's following the law by removing TikTok from the App Store"

georgeplusplus — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:34:15 +0000

How comfortable will the normie iphone user to load custom apps from .ipa files though.