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New comment by incognition in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

incognition — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:55:17 +0000

Use a faraday pouch

New comment by incognition in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

incognition — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:56:34 +0000

You nailed it. It's algos and noise trading

New comment by incognition in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

incognition — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:43:53 +0000

You better take it up with Gemini then. This is just a straight fact check.

New comment by incognition in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

incognition — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:31:10 +0000

This is a Keynesian argument, which has largely been disproved. Keynes famously said if you just paid people to dig holes and fill them back up again, that this would be net stimulative to the government. It works until it doesn't work, because digging holes, as you can reason from common sense, does not actually create value.

This U.S. operation is meant to bomb the Iranians into the Stone Age, so presumably THAAD-level air defense wouldn't be needed again. The Qataris, Saudis would have sold off to South Korea, Taiwan if they wanted.

New comment by incognition in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

incognition — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:00:23 +0000

Analysts from the Penn Wharton Budget Model and other experts suggest the total drain on the U.S. economy could reach $210 billion due to supply chain disruptions and energy spikes if the conflict is not resolved within the month.

Ukraine has been $200bn over 2+ years

New comment by incognition in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

incognition — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:57:41 +0000

New comment by incognition in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

incognition — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:55:16 +0000

Demographics: Approximately 70% of the 70k verified fatalities are women and children. International observers, including the OHCHR, have noted that children alone account for roughly 33-44% of the death toll.

New comment by incognition in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

incognition — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:19:23 +0000

this compiles on my machine

New comment by incognition in "China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains"

incognition — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:28:57 +0000

Engineering hard

New comment by incognition in "Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025"

incognition — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:33:43 +0000

Wait till you learn about how the Fed creates money

New comment by incognition in "The Beauty of Programming (2001)"

incognition — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 05:59:25 +0000

If you want to kill passion for anything make it your job

New comment by incognition in "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes"

incognition — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:30:19 +0000

1. Yeah, they weren’t good at reigning in spending in the 70s either.

New comment by incognition in "After layoffs, Meta rewards top executives with a substantial bonus increase"

incognition — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:08:21 +0000

The major shareholder is Mark so doing double dirty

New comment by incognition in "The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs"

incognition — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:11:12 +0000

At the imminent level. The tariff rate can and likely will go up.

New comment by incognition in "The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs"

incognition — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:06:36 +0000

Just say spelling

New comment by incognition in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

incognition — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:12:27 +0000

Let me introduce you to Andrew Jackson

New comment by incognition in "Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep"

incognition — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:52:00 +0000

You aren’t overclocking your system?

New comment by incognition in "Nordstrom family to take company private"

incognition — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:14:56 +0000

You’re a common shareholder

New comment by incognition in "A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit"

incognition — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:47:35 +0000

Deffo several startups and incumbents doing this for legal discovery nowadays..

New comment by incognition in "Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017)"

incognition — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 07:20:12 +0000

This time for Africa