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New comment by jamiequint in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

jamiequint — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:33:00 +0000

Single example is worthless. Is there a pattern of this happening far more often? Overall, do fewer people get incorrectly arrested or detained as a result of this technology, or more.

New comment by jamiequint in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

jamiequint — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:29:39 +0000

By this same argument ANY police makes life hard for regular people because they sometimes fuck up, so let's just get rid of police too. What's the worst that could happen.

New comment by jamiequint in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

jamiequint — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:40:14 +0000

Untrue at a population level, just compare anxiety disorders and self-reported anxiety between USA and China.

New comment by jamiequint in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

jamiequint — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:37:23 +0000

"This just looks like a pitch to investors"

The goal of public companies is generally to generate profit for their investors.

New comment by jamiequint in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

jamiequint — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:19:02 +0000

"Cameras don't fix homelessness or addiction or underfunded services. They just make life harder for regular people."

In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people? If anything rampant crime (and progressive legal systems' unwillingness to lock up repeat offenders for a long time or at all) makes life much harder for regular people than a camera just sitting there.

New comment by jamiequint in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jamiequint — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:03:27 +0000

What is an "obvious reason" one might not want to log into X? I can't think of any rational reason.

New comment by jamiequint in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jamiequint — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:09:17 +0000

Yes? It's the data source, not a third-party. How is this even a question?

New comment by jamiequint in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jamiequint — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:19:55 +0000

Here is the actual link, not a link to some weird third-party site that can't be trusted.

https://x.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532

New comment by jamiequint in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

jamiequint — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:03:57 +0000

If you become massively rich from working somewhere, then suddenly discover your conscience when you're fired, you're bitter, not principled.

New comment by jamiequint in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

jamiequint — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:46:15 +0000

No, principled would be refusing to sign the exit agreement and forefeiting the money, then writing the book.

New comment by jamiequint in "Cursor 3"

jamiequint — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:53:48 +0000

Better paying, way higher leverage.

New comment by jamiequint in "Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files"

jamiequint — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:25:20 +0000

This is cool, like qmd as a service with real-time integrations where it matters?

How do you handle more structured data like csv/xlsx/json? Would be cool if it were possible to auto-process links to markdown (e.g. youtube, podcast, arbitrary websites, etc) a la https://github.com/steipete/summarize (which can pull full text in addition to summarizing).

New comment by jamiequint in "We Will Not Be Divided"

jamiequint — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:38:03 +0000

WTF is this garbage site?

New comment by jamiequint in "Be Like Clippy"

jamiequint — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:54:09 +0000

The reality is until the median consumer cares about how their data is used (aka probably never) that your only choice is to not use products who use data in a way you don't like.

New comment by jamiequint in "Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon"

jamiequint — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:43:31 +0000

Wrong. The problems come from regulation itself. From bureaucracies that freeze innovation, protect incumbents, and smother experimentation under compliance costs, etc.

New comment by jamiequint in "Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon"

jamiequint — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:38:44 +0000

The author clearly hates Thiel and spends most of the essay mocking Thiel and his ideas without actually engaging with the ideas. The author’s essay is itself meandering, dense with digressions and snide parentheticals. He faults Thiel for grandstanding and over-referencing but indulges in the same. Waste of time.

New comment by jamiequint in "[dead]"

jamiequint — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:48:13 +0000

Why is this on HN? Did you get lost on the way to /r/politics?

New comment by jamiequint in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

jamiequint — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:22:14 +0000

Under what circumtances is the US allowed to pull out of a war they didn't start, which does not directly involve any US interests, in which we have already invested $110bn? Never? Not until we spend another $500bn we don't have?

New comment by jamiequint in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

jamiequint — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:17:59 +0000

It is an absurd position that the US should be on the hook to indefinitely pay for any war anywhere in the world forever, and if they attempt to negotiate peace while pulling out of that war that they are siding with the opposition.

New comment by jamiequint in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

jamiequint — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:35:35 +0000

There's a difference between "siding with Russia" and siding with negotiated peace.

Many people seem to think that the US, and to a lesser extent the EU, should fund this war indefinitely. However, the US clearly does not benefit from a direct war with Russia, and while we may gain from a proxy war, choosing not to fund it does not equate to “siding with Russia.”