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

hiddencost — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:31:42 +0000

Immigration makes the whole country wealthier. An immigrant's success doesn't harm you. Making America an undesirable country to work in harms you. A rising tide raises all boats.

New comment by hiddencost in "Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026"

hiddencost — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:25:06 +0000

Your loss. One of the most beautiful works of literature and short. Is the depiction of gay people that distressing to you? I read books about straights all the time.

New comment by hiddencost in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

hiddencost — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:11:53 +0000

Partially because organizations like Facebook spend heavily to ensure they're not taxed fairly.

New comment by hiddencost in "Gemini 4 Argon"

hiddencost — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:13:22 +0000

28 years. It's been 28 years that they were on the frontier. Search was the precursor to all of this.

New comment by hiddencost in "Energy Timelines Photovoltaic"

hiddencost — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:06:02 +0000

I think the story is even rosier than that. Coal power is dying, quickly.

New comment by hiddencost in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

hiddencost — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:54:09 +0000

There is a technical definition of genocide. There's no ambiguity as to what Israel is doing, only people like you who are probably concern trolling.

New comment by hiddencost in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

hiddencost — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:52:34 +0000

Bruh it's literally text book.

New comment by hiddencost in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

hiddencost — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:21:01 +0000

Who is giving you the idea that trade makes things more expensive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

New comment by hiddencost in "A New Experiment Meta-Strategy"

hiddencost — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:58:35 +0000

The blog post lost a bunch of text in the middle due to bad copy/paste, I think.

New comment by hiddencost in "When did Google get so weird?"

hiddencost — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:24:57 +0000

It's not about shorter vs longer.

Many people who learned to search the Internet in early 2000s learned "boolean search queries" (terms connected with AND or OR). They're talking about the difference between boolean search queries and natural language search queries.

New comment by hiddencost in "Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave"

hiddencost — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:38:54 +0000

... You still are supposed to act in the best interests of your share holders.

"Obviously the CEO was going to break the law, anyone who thought otherwise was a fool." is not grounds for voiding the legal obligations that CEO has to his shareholders.

New comment by hiddencost in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

hiddencost — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:34:25 +0000

Those protests were anti Genocide and anti land theft, calling them anti Israel is misleading.

New comment by hiddencost in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:41:15 +0000

No, they would simply not buy it.

New comment by hiddencost in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:40:28 +0000

No. They can do that with an order covering the specific parameters under which they care about it. Supply chain risk definition is about adversaries and sabotage, not companies dictating contract terms.

New comment by hiddencost in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:39:34 +0000

Supply chain risk is a technical definition not a vibes based one.

And companies absolutely have the right to dictate terms. The idea that the DoD has the unilateral authority to do whatever it wants is literal textbook fascism. It's never been the law in the US and it should not be now.

New comment by hiddencost in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:36:34 +0000

??? What are you talking about. Anthropic isn't an adversary and they're not required to sell for purposes they don't want to. It's not sabotage and it's not malicious.

This is a designation reserved for terrorists and the link.

New comment by hiddencost in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:57:49 +0000

Using Claude for working on the refrigerators at the commissary is not a supply chain risk. You're just making stuff up.

New comment by hiddencost in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:43:10 +0000

This is straight up fascism. The DoD could have simply used a different provider but instead they're trying to destroy anthropic as a company.

New comment by hiddencost in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:41:28 +0000

No. This also means that no companies that work with th DoD can use anthropic models for any purpose.

New comment by hiddencost in "Goodbye Google"

hiddencost — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:52:51 +0000

IDK man, have you read the Bible? I don't think that's really the Jesus model laid out there.