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New comment by hiddencost in "An American Privacy Emergency"

hiddencost — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:31:31 +0000

"Differential privacy" is the technology they are referring to. Their English is fine, you're the one missing something.

New comment by hiddencost in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

hiddencost — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:09:35 +0000

Companies will never price in externalities unless they are forced to.

New comment by hiddencost in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

hiddencost — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:57:30 +0000

This was just a long winded way of insulting Sandy but making it look professional, from what I can see. He is saying directly that Sandy was a bad designer with a poor sense of visual aesthetics.

Seems pretty gross and catty to me.

New comment by hiddencost in "The room the economy can't see"

hiddencost — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:33:08 +0000

IDK if you're familiar with Church, but that's the most heavily used third space. And we grant it tax exempt status which it abuses to push bad laws.

New comment by hiddencost in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

hiddencost — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:30:49 +0000

Defining opposition to genocide as antisemitic is a really bad idea.

New comment by hiddencost in "Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems"

hiddencost — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:55:09 +0000

Scott Aaronson has a really good explainer about complexity theory and physical computing:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf

(Doing my best to ignore his abysmal politics.)

New comment by hiddencost in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

hiddencost — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:14:28 +0000

... Police in the united states have more than a century of flagrant misconduct under their belts. They protect their own, they almost never face consequences for killing people, they are frequently corrupt, they are frequently biased.

Here's a couple fun examples:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-06-05/boston-law-enforc...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/la-is-investigating...

New comment by hiddencost in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

hiddencost — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:49:36 +0000

You really haven't ever encountered someone who believed in anything, have you?

New comment by hiddencost in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

hiddencost — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:54:45 +0000

Easy question with an easy answer that threatens a lot of bad people: immigrants are good.

New comment by hiddencost in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

hiddencost — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:15:21 +0000

There's another theory which says that if people have health care, food, shelter, education, and liberty, they won't commit crimes like this. Just a thought.

New comment by hiddencost in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

hiddencost — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:40:00 +0000

inflation

I suspect we'll have our first $10T company in the next 2-3 years. That's only doubling.

New comment by hiddencost in "New York Passes Tax on the Ultra-Wealthy"

hiddencost — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:26:07 +0000

Separate commercial and residential rates? The first $X dollars are not taxed?

We can and have done this.

New comment by hiddencost in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

hiddencost — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:13:42 +0000

On the countrary, nonprofits need unions more than for profits. They exploit their workers more. They have fewer resources and exploit their mission to get more work from their workers.

New comment by hiddencost in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"

hiddencost — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:13:05 +0000

> IBM is generally considered the leader

You must not talk to competent people. IBM is very experienced at this grift. I remember when I used to go to conferences in a different field and IBM would announce "state of the art" results that were very obviously done by cheating (making an ensemble model and tuning the weights on the test set). Everyone doing real work would ignore them, and then they'd go sell to clueless midcap companies on the basis of that announcement.

New comment by hiddencost in "The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails"

hiddencost — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:57:44 +0000

This sounds like US college / night life / young adult house party scene, too, fwiw.

New comment by hiddencost in "DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model"

hiddencost — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:23:20 +0000

Uh I regret to inform you that's all illegal now.

New comment by hiddencost in "Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly""

hiddencost — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:44:34 +0000

I can't get my roof replaced in less than a year. These things take time .

New comment by hiddencost in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

hiddencost — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:28:58 +0000

I think the parent is saying it's good because immigrants will go elsewhere and the US will continue to decline. Which will be good for humanity.

New comment by hiddencost in "Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit?"

hiddencost — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:04:48 +0000

... Like the University system, the national labs, NASA, ...

What are you talking about?

New comment by hiddencost in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

hiddencost — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:05:13 +0000

Wishful thinking...

I wonder how people like you end up so hostile to experts.