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New comment by guywithahat in "Tesla Roadster"

guywithahat — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:24:31 +0000

The business is doing fine, they’re profitable and regularly beating various targets. Honestly I think Elon is more level headed than people give him credit for, his companies are consistently profitable and generally produce competitive products.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/earnings/

New comment by guywithahat in "The Death of Amazon's Writing Culture"

guywithahat — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:31:48 +0000

I ran into this trying to find a good book on modern python. There are tons of releases on very specific python versions, and when I dug into it they were all written by AI and reviewed poorly. It's honestly just getting hard to find good technical books in certain areas because there's so much nonsense going on in the space.

New comment by guywithahat in "Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military"

guywithahat — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:14:28 +0000

It's possible, I don't know for sure, but just the way the article described it this sounds like a quality of service issue, which would suggest technical difficulties. Starlink has a button to turn off service, but they probably don't have a button to indeterminately flicker internet speeds down and up with randomly high latency.

New comment by guywithahat in "Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military"

guywithahat — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:12:20 +0000

Shame on Elon for saving the world from nuclear holocaust.

For what its worth though he denied extending their network into Russian territory due to a threat of a nuclear attack. Not only did Ukraine know about it, but it was a stop on internet service. The disruption described in the article sounds more like the quality of service issues the way they continued to operate on reduced speeds and flaky service.

New comment by guywithahat in "ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam"

guywithahat — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:13:46 +0000

People forget the fact there may not be enough capital in the world to invest in AI, and so while some companies will go under the market could grow for literal decades. I don't know the future, but this is not a guaranteed bubble.

New comment by guywithahat in "Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military"

guywithahat — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:10:25 +0000

As the article states there's no reason to think Starlink temporarily slowed down their internet service deliberately. Elon has been a strong supporter of the Ukrainian side, donating hundreds of millions to them and risking retaliation from Russia against their satellites. I understand why they're upset, people can die when their internet is disrupted, but the article seems especially hostile for what is likely a bugged update or Russian interference on their military-grade service.

New comment by guywithahat in "Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)"

guywithahat — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:21:11 +0000

What would be nice too is if it lowers the bar for entry, then people closer to the real problem can work on it. There are a lot of mediocre or overpriced products due to the fact a team of software engineers don't understand the problem well

New comment by guywithahat in "Tesla Rebrands Full Self-Driving as Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe"

guywithahat — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:51:58 +0000

I wonder if we’ll see a reduced feature set in Europe as well, especially when it’s first released. Honestly it’s incredible it’s taken this long for it to come out

New comment by guywithahat in "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court"

guywithahat — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:05:36 +0000

That's neat but it's clearly not why the US imposed sanctions against the ICC, why would the US care? It's because they put out an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and some other high-ranking government officials. Neither the US or Israel is part of the ICC and yet they're attempting to threaten them with arrest/capture

New comment by guywithahat in "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court"

guywithahat — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:10:02 +0000

I think those are the sactions; the US is upset the ICC put out arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Regardless of what you think about Israel, it's easy to see how they might interpret the ICC's actions as a threat.

New comment by guywithahat in "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court"

guywithahat — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:07:19 +0000

> For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike rejected the idea that the International Criminal Court had the power to prosecute American citizens, military servicemembers, or political leaders. America never joined the court. We don’t need it. And we don’t want it.

I mean this is your answer. Regardless of what you think about Israel and their actions, the ICC has no real authority, and there is no government authority above the US that can criminally charge people. Creating fake arrest warrants for people who aren't in your organization is easily interpreted as a threat, and it would be silly to think the US and/or Israel would want to retaliate to the ICC's threats.

Really the moral thing to do would be for the ICC to not try and charge or convict people who aren't part of their organization, since they don't have fair trials, but I suppose that's never how these international organizations work.

New comment by guywithahat in "Our $445M Series D"

guywithahat — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:37:04 +0000

One has to hope they're not actually burning through their money every 6 months, but I've been disappointed before

New comment by guywithahat in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

guywithahat — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:47:04 +0000

When they were first created they were very explicitly temporary. It's dual-intent in the sense that in the 90's they updated it so you could pursue citizenship while on an H1B, but the visa is really designed for temporary work. When you apply for an H1B they ask questions making sure you have ties to your home country, and there are time limits to send people back if you're on one for too long.

New comment by guywithahat in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

guywithahat — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:23:54 +0000

H1B's are temporary visas and they make it very clear in the application process; there shouldn't be a path to citizenship through an H1B. I like the tax idea though

New comment by guywithahat in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

guywithahat — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:22:47 +0000

> “They’ll put an advertisement in a small-town newspaper. They’ll go out there and say that ‘We have advertised for a position with our company, and nobody is responding to it.’ And they will use that lack of response to then go and replace American workers with what is effectively foreign indentured servants,” Vance said. “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has used this system more than Microsoft.”

> ... Microsoft last year laid off 6,000 American workers but also obtained 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards.

I'm glad someone is finally taking this more seriously. There are a lot of big tech teams where you can't even get a job there unless you're Indian. H1B's should be for unique, foreign talent, not senior software engineers.

New comment by guywithahat in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

guywithahat — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:42:10 +0000

Neither of us fully understand the entire context of the legal battle, since there is a gag order and neither of us are Cody Detwiler. Certainly though registering luxury vehicles like this under an LLC is common thing to do, and the Cody case is particularly silly because the vehicles were for his company.

New comment by guywithahat in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

guywithahat — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:56:32 +0000

He didn't break the law. The company was registered in Montana, and he bought the Ferrari in Texas where it was also destroyed in his "durability" test. Why should he pay taxes there? It's not a loophole it's just the law

New comment by guywithahat in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

guywithahat — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:50:10 +0000

It's really not a loophole, it's just how vehicle registration is done. That vehicle never drove into the state of Tennessee and was used for his business, why should it be registered where he lived and not where the company is set up?

New comment by guywithahat in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

guywithahat — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:57:05 +0000

Not enough people are prepared if this isn't a bubble. I think he's betting on this being a bubble which would imply building more supply would be a mistake, because they'll end up with a factory and no more customers.

It's starting to look more and more like we will always need more memory.

New comment by guywithahat in "Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin"

guywithahat — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:53:11 +0000

Well if you gave three billion dollars to a normal school it would turn into a prestigious university (think Michael Bloomberg donating billions to Hopkins to turn it from a decent second rate university to a world class university).

That said they're building a new campus so they'll be able to admit more students.