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New comment by ggggffggggg in "US Job Market Visualizer"

ggggffggggg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:50:01 +0000

Yes it is.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Gulf Countries' Frustration with the US Grows as War Wears On"

ggggffggggg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:58:05 +0000

1. Every vote counts but in my jurisdiction the people I would like to win generally do. I’m not _changing_ anything with my vote.

2. It’s not clear to me that these protests are effective. Do you have evidence that they are?

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Gulf Countries' Frustration with the US Grows as War Wears On"

ggggffggggg — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:41:43 +0000

Plenty of Americans do. The structure of the US government means that I have no meaningful influence through my vote, and it’s unclear how to protest effectively from a the exurbs of a flyover state. So what the hell can any of us do?

New comment by ggggffggggg in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

ggggffggggg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:20:37 +0000

But if you are hiring people that have had that luxury, and yet have chosen immoral paths, what does that say about them and about you?

New comment by ggggffggggg in "US Job Market Visualizer"

ggggffggggg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:23:43 +0000

You’re playing chess. You see that you have a forced mate in several moves. You’ve already won, but it will happen in 2, or 5, or 10 moves.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

ggggffggggg — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:31:12 +0000

Didn’t your momma teach you that two wrongs don’t make a right??

If someone is a jerk to you, and then you’re a jerk to them… you’re still a jerk.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "IMG_0416 (2024)"

ggggffggggg — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:35:26 +0000

Stupid for us, but I bet people enable it just to get the empty page to go away.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"

ggggffggggg — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:11:06 +0000

As someone living in SF since before it was implemented, getting the causality right and excluding cofounders seems VERY hard. Things have changed so much here since the early 00s.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

ggggffggggg — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:35:58 +0000

Don’t you think they thought this was self-interest?

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

ggggffggggg — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:21:14 +0000

At scale no group is against its own personal interests. It sucks and it’s hypocritical and annoying, but that’s humans.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare"

ggggffggggg — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:35:44 +0000

If you pick 3% you need 800k/yr! Oh no!

Sadly most of us pay far more than 7%. Fortunately mostly that’s ok and it all works out.

(Except we will work until we die, but hey! Capitalism!)

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI"

ggggffggggg — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:51:03 +0000

But “making lots of bets” is a measure of your appetite for risk, not your acumen. So unless you are filthy rich (in which case, kudos!) I think you are more proving parent’s point.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

ggggffggggg — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:49:10 +0000

How killer would FSD have to be for it to count as the killer app?

I’d pay at least double for a car with FSD. More if the car’s longevity could be established. Is that killer enough? (Real question).

New comment by ggggffggggg in "ai;dr"

ggggffggggg — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:27:58 +0000

To be fair, if they don’t know that they probably run Android, and are you even writing for them?

I bet their bubbles are… green. The horror!

New comment by ggggffggggg in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

ggggffggggg — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:51:13 +0000

It won’t and believing it will is part of ensuring nothing changes. All energy you spend on personally changing should be instead spent lobbying, organizing, and otherwise working politically to effect systemic change. There is no value in individual change. It’s worse than doing nothing.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations"

ggggffggggg — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:18:56 +0000

And the emergency docket is exactly where one should look for these very recent very blatantly illegal actions and lawsuits aiming to counter them.

So yes the data is in, and yes it’s bad, and emphatically yes it’s exactly what this thread is saying. In case anyone reading in good faith was wondering.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Colorectal cancer is now the top cause of cancer death in younger people"

ggggffggggg — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:57:11 +0000

Lol. “Most” is doing a lot of work there.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

ggggffggggg — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:15:27 +0000

I think the point is that’s not “gaming” that’s just how voting works. Gaming would be getting your preference by voting against it.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)"

ggggffggggg — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:23:13 +0000

Thank you for this. I think Niehues has been incredibly prolific and successful, but also his marketing of himself as sort of the originator and one true purveyor of this style has been even more successful.

New comment by ggggffggggg in "LLVM: The bad parts"

ggggffggggg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:00:01 +0000

> This is somewhat unsurprising, as code review … may not provide immediate value to the person reviewing (or their employer).

If you get “credit” for contributing when you review, maybe people (and even employers, though that is perhaps less likely) would find doing reviews to be more valuable.

Not sure what that looks like; maybe whatever shows up in GitHub is already enough.