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New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

ishouldstayaway — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:22:19 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly with your first sentence here. But I find it difficult to think of a worse example you could have picked than taxis. For all Uber's many faults, the taxi companies were worse. Hell they're still worse.

Are you old enough to remember the bad old days?

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

ishouldstayaway — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:31:52 +0000

a) This was probably just a typo for "being".

b) Hey but at least you can learn something today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"

ishouldstayaway — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:21:32 +0000

This hasn't been the case for years.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"

ishouldstayaway — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:19:02 +0000

Apple Messages.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "One million passports leaked online"

ishouldstayaway — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:38:51 +0000

> Why do these systems hold onto user's data post verification?

Depending on the company, you could rate the reasons on a scale from "incompetence/naivete" to "revenue stream".

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

ishouldstayaway — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:47:51 +0000

For now.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

ishouldstayaway — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:47:12 +0000

If you don't want to use ~~social media~~ any website that could contain content deemed as "adult".

And what's "adult"? Hardcore pornography? Sex ed material? Otherwise-G-rated content that happens to have a gay person in it?

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

ishouldstayaway — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:28:16 +0000

Far be it from me to defend Uber of all things, but pre-rideshares, the taxi companies were - and still are - much, much worse.

I've begun to realize we now live in a time where there are a lot of adults who are too young to remember the bad old days. Are you one of those people? Because the taxi companies absolutely made their bed. Be careful of rose-colored glasses.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

ishouldstayaway — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:24:52 +0000

Surely this is a dark joke.

People need to eat, dude.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

ishouldstayaway — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:27:19 +0000

The same thing you do now when you can't sell a piece of land: you lower the price.

In addition to what others said, in this case the land is obviously not worth very much, and thus the taxes are also minuscule.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

ishouldstayaway — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:43:20 +0000

The point of LVT is right there in the name: it is the land that has value. "Location, location, location" is an old cliche for a reason.

If you let your property go empty and crumble, the Land Value Tax is there to provide the incentive for you to either fix up the property and actually use it, or sell it to someone who will.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"

ishouldstayaway — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:57:25 +0000

And the part you didn't understand is that all the marketing in the world won't matter if the audience barely - or doesn't - exist.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"

ishouldstayaway — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:52:10 +0000

You're telling me.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

ishouldstayaway — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:49:54 +0000

> ...he said, shovelling orphans into the crushing machine

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"

ishouldstayaway — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:43:40 +0000

> The problem is not writing - the problem is finding an audience.

You are literally responding to

> I really don't know if it'll have an audience

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

ishouldstayaway — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:18:43 +0000

> he doesn't (or rather the events related to his companies that make it to the front page don't) seem very popular around here to me.

This is a more recent turn, and one that happened later than in other online social spaces. Claiming that HN leans in a direction friendly to tech VC is hardly controversial.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "Toxicity on Social Media"

ishouldstayaway — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:54:54 +0000

(3) here was always just a fantasy. It never actually worked that way.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "I want to live like Costco people"

ishouldstayaway — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:14:15 +0000

Let me guess: you're also the kind of insufferable (and similarly incorrect) pedant who insists that "decimate" still means "reduce by one tenth"?

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "I want to live like Costco people"

ishouldstayaway — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:19:54 +0000

2: one who is heartily interested in good food and drink

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gourmand

Been a long time since it was purely about quantity.

New comment by ishouldstayaway in "I want to live like Costco people"

ishouldstayaway — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:54:50 +0000

How so?