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New comment by heisgone in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

heisgone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:59:23 +0000

This looks somewhat similar to LINQ in how it order clauses.

New comment by heisgone in "A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law"

heisgone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:42:25 +0000

Is't heat accumulation over time already dumping heat in the 4th dimension?

New comment by heisgone in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

heisgone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:17:15 +0000

He was wrong about the timing of the bubble popping and might well still be too early, as passive investing might allow for the market to keep inflating for many years to come. Mike Green explaining it better, about how mathematically, there is an inflexion point where if x% of investment is passive, it could make the whole system unstable (I don't remember the specific number) and crash, but until then, it will keep rising.

New comment by heisgone in "Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years"

heisgone — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:30:28 +0000

Because the economy is un ponzi scheme and without young people to pay for old people and old debts, it fails.

New comment by heisgone in "Sam Altman: I was wrong, AI unlikely to lead to jobs apocalypse"

heisgone — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:56:25 +0000

This is the danger of a winner-take-all economy. They have no other but spend insane amount just to remains on top, even if it doesn't make economic sense short and medium term. There is no evidence AI will impact the GDP positively. To make things worse, so far, the use of ressources (electricity, chips) make it inflationary.

New comment by heisgone in "DOGE Track"

heisgone — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:20:29 +0000

It indeed sucks for the honest workers like your friends who are losing funding because the CIA can't help itself.

The Belt and Road Initiative is reputed to be 7 times bigger than the Marshall plan in today's dollar. It's getting hard for the US to compete with that.

New comment by heisgone in "DOGE Track"

heisgone — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:48:08 +0000

I'm not saying it's "better" in the moral sense, but from the point of view of the dominant, it's definitely more effective. The justification outlined for USAID is that it was "softpower". While this is true, we have to admit it's limitations. As you said, it was only 45B. You don't shape the world with such small amount of money. So, you do the next best thing which is to plant covert agents in NGOs. That's was the real purpose of USAID.

New comment by heisgone in "DOGE Track"

heisgone — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:17:22 +0000

>Increasingly, he found his cover work more engaging and important than his intelligence-gathering.

Your father was a great man.

New comment by heisgone in "DOGE Track"

heisgone — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:04:28 +0000

Very well put. As a Canadian, what I see is Trump's attitude gave the green card for Canadian politicians to take a stand, sacrifice short term goals for long terms strategies, and indeed, we end up seeing China as less dangerous comparatively, it being true or not. Trump made overt what was happening covertly (and also objectively hurt allied relationships).

New comment by heisgone in "DOGE Track"

heisgone — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:46:26 +0000

If you don't mind listening to right-wing adjacent commentators, Mike Benz document those links extensively on his podcast. For exemple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR09YYX-3fg

New comment by heisgone in "DOGE Track"

heisgone — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:28:47 +0000

The inability of the US to maintain soft power, or any power that isn't rooted in the use of force, will be its international demise. An American belt and road initiative would be politically impossible. So instead, you have those timid humanitarian aids program which largely served as intelligence and subvertion network. Those NGOs end up being so secretive that most of the money disapears in the pockets of the middleman.

Another problem is the US is broke. With a 6% of the GDP deficit, it can't invest abroad. This is the curse of being the reserve currency. Subversion is the only thing the U.S. can afford. Countries around the world knew that about the U.S. and USAID.

New comment by heisgone in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

heisgone — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:04:42 +0000

I invite you to watch Mike Green videos. In short, the current market rely on inflow of money to substain itself. P/E ratio can't increase forever. There will be a tipping point and if most of the money is invested based on an algorithm, it can unravel rapidly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL4oz8iEg4

New comment by heisgone in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

heisgone — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:11:25 +0000

Great! This, along with Webb, the other Epstein AI tool, are amazing effort to find documents. The way you link to files instead of just outputing an answer is amazing. Great works!

New comment by heisgone in "Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?"

heisgone — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:25:11 +0000

There will be consolidation has few players will have the revenues to justify training their own model. Google has enough cash and revenues to be one of the survivors of this race. Openai and Claude will survive in some form or another, at least as a brand. xAi will burn through SpaceX revenues and capital so it will stay around for a while. China will keep subsidizing models. Meta might keep a subpar model around. It still a race for relevance so not everyone will make the cut.

New comment by heisgone in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

heisgone — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:41:11 +0000

The biggest challenge is that it's a very slow process and most people don't have the patience for it. I have been practicing Vipassana for 14 years, including all day long body awareness (so, not only on cushion, but basically integrating Vipassana to normal activities like work) and it's took close to a decade to be satisfied by the results. That being said, permanent relaxation of muscle is really what you gain from it. There have been period with faster developpement but there are up liits to progress. Notably, the release of muscle release all sort of chemicals in the blood streams, which would make my body smell during intense practice and if we progress too fast, we get bizarre side effects. For instance, relaxation of some of my muscles meant that other muscles in my legs had to be "trained" when walking, or I would be in pain for a while, etc, etc.

New comment by heisgone in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

heisgone — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:55:24 +0000

23H2 was pretty close to being solid and stable but 24H2 has been a disaster.

New comment by heisgone in "How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity"

heisgone — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:41:20 +0000

>A third began using the word "liberal" as if it was a personality disorder rather than loose coalitions of sometimes contradictory beliefs.

I'm a long time Jon Stewart fan and if I'm being honest, looked at the "other side" as if it was a bunch of retarded people isn't new and predate 2016. No doubt Trump and social media got conservative to embrace condescending and extreme rhetoric and pushed it to another level but let's not pretend they invented anything.

New comment by heisgone in "Oracle's credit default swaps surge as Barclays downgrades its debt rating"

heisgone — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:43:05 +0000

I wonder if the way we have to look at the A.I. race is as a form of cold war. During the cold war, military expenses made no economic sense but we had to do it anyway to come on top. At this point, it's "who can borrow the most without bankrupting itself or can survive until a government bailout".

New comment by heisgone in "Neros has raised $121M to build military drones"

heisgone — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:48:31 +0000

At some point, we will have to realize that military might is highly dependant of manufacturing capability. If a war was to happen, China could turn their dildo factories into drones factories overnight, like the U.S. turned their car factories into airplane factories during WWII. Same things for boats, tanks, guns, etc.

New comment by heisgone in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

heisgone — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:58:17 +0000

I heard stories of incriminating stuff for higher-ups disappearing from archive.org.