Hacker News: hotpotatoe

New comment by hotpotatoe in "Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship"

hotpotatoe — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:45:08 +0000

This is putting the cart before the horse in the most literal sense, SpaceX can’t even get a Starship into space without it breaking apart.

New comment by hotpotatoe in "EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program"

hotpotatoe — Wed, 07 May 2025 09:40:07 +0000

You should really look up how much the program costs vs how much it saves consumers each year.

New comment by hotpotatoe in "EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program"

hotpotatoe — Wed, 07 May 2025 03:33:03 +0000

Here is a bright idea, keep the existing program that works and therefore we wouldn’t need some mythical private certification program that doesn’t exist and probably be a scam if it did.

New comment by hotpotatoe in "Cuts to US national parks and forests met with backlash"

hotpotatoe — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:16:11 +0000

Yeah real tricky, cut the budget of a department that is already underfunded that protects our public lands and does honest work serving the public, while cutting taxes on corporations and the ultra rich. Only a bootlicker would find anything tricky about this.

New comment by hotpotatoe in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

hotpotatoe — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:05:08 +0000

It’s not surprising the CEO of YC supports this, he also supports the idea of the network state. This community is now primarily exists to launder Curtis Yarvins galaxy brain ideas.

New comment by hotpotatoe in "Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks"

hotpotatoe — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:27:45 +0000

So? We trade a terrestrial based monopoly for a space based one?

New comment by hotpotatoe in "John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism"

hotpotatoe — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:54:39 +0000

Where and when? And how is allowing capitalists horde wealth and power incompatible with democracy? I’d say having workers in more control is more democratic than the top down power structure of capitalism

New comment by hotpotatoe in "John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism"

hotpotatoe — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:44:03 +0000

Why not Marxism and democracy?

New comment by hotpotatoe in "Recent FSD Supervised highlights from our owners"

hotpotatoe — Tue, 28 May 2024 00:28:01 +0000

I’m not sure Tesla knows what full self driving means

New comment by hotpotatoe in "How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?"

hotpotatoe — Mon, 27 May 2024 23:45:35 +0000

Which would still cause traffic issues, wasting public land on building more roads and wasting energy and resources. Plus propping up the auto industry that caused the problem in the first place.

New comment by hotpotatoe in "How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?"

hotpotatoe — Mon, 27 May 2024 21:47:49 +0000

Doesn’t solve the underlying problems that are caused by having car-centric cities. Walkable cities where most people’s needs are meet within walking distance and the mass transit for times you need to further is the real solution.

New comment by hotpotatoe in "T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs"

hotpotatoe — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:41:44 +0000

This isn’t limited to T-Mobile employees, I work for a T-Mobile MVNO and received the offer