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New comment by justacrow in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

justacrow — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:33:16 +0000

Isn't that mainly because the T-1000 had broken in and killed his foster parents at that point?

New comment by justacrow in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

justacrow — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:18:17 +0000

By this reasoning, abstinence-only sex education is a sure way to stop teen pregnancies and spread of STDs.

New comment by justacrow in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

justacrow — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:31:19 +0000

That they should be so lucky to have such a present CEO! Why ours sits on the board of multiple companies in unrelated industries, and manages some entirely unrelated business side of another conglomerate all by himself. Thankfully he's been promised several 10s to 100s of millions of dollars to make our company better now

New comment by justacrow in "Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding"

justacrow — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:43:20 +0000

Ah, so it's okay to copy and distill all human-produced works evee, except for reinforcment-learning data generated by OpenAI/Anthropic etc

Trump says the US controls the Strait of Hormuz and should get paid for it

justacrow — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:54:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-us-will-control-strait-hormuz-get-paid-it-2026-07-13/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893671

Points: 23

# Comments: 23

New comment by justacrow in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

justacrow — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:44:38 +0000

Any $200k+ SW engineering jobs?

New comment by justacrow in "Microsoft Fires 4800 as Xbox Division Undergoes Major Reorganization"

justacrow — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:25:02 +0000

Thanks, that link is a lot better

Microsoft Fires 4800 as Xbox Division Undergoes Major Reorganization

justacrow — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:22:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ibtimes.com/microsoft-sheds-more-2-its-staff-xbox-division-undergoes-major-reorganization-3804970

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805070

Points: 41

# Comments: 11

New comment by justacrow in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

justacrow — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:50:25 +0000

Seems weird to dismiss stuff as "nonsense" just because you're "pretty sure". Hikaru Nakamura (who's been the world #2 in classical rating) did an IQ test on stream and ended up with 102. I've not seen any other results for top players.

The first study of it I found (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...) notes that, while there is some correlation, "Full-scale IQ explained < 1% of the variance in chess skill."

New comment by justacrow in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

justacrow — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:59:36 +0000

And if you are a state agency who'd like to keep the undisclosed zero-days you rely on secret, spamming maintainers with reports makes sense.

As a bonus if you find any actual zero-days in your mass-generated ones you don't report it and get a new one to play with.

Flesh-eating screwworm confirmed in Texas as parasite crosses Mexican border

justacrow — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:38:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/unconfirmed-us-case-flesh-eating-screwworm-rattles-cattle-markets-traders-say-2026-06-03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395429

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by justacrow in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

justacrow — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Look, I have exactly two options:

1) Me and my entire family starves to death

2) I make 600k per year building surveillance systems for whoever wants them (as long as they're aligned with Peter Thiels and/or government interests)

New comment by justacrow in "Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices"

justacrow — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:11:54 +0000

Yes, all those people Meta just laid off due to whistleblowing on the Glass privacy violations, and their content moderators and data labelers and so on have my full support.

No sympathies for anyone doing SW engineering or similar. Anyone working there can definitely get a different programming gig. It likely doesn't pay as much but that's how it goes when you sell your soul.

New comment by justacrow in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

justacrow — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:29:43 +0000

Do you think if there was a mass movement of students moving off Spotify and downloading MP3s, they would _not_ be charged today?

The hypocrisy is what has at least me upset

New comment by justacrow in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

justacrow — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:49:26 +0000

Philip K Dick wrote a short story similar to this, "The Defenders".

New comment by justacrow in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

justacrow — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:47:50 +0000

> workers should show more solidarity to one another, not because of “deserving it” or not, but simply because it’s the only way out of the pit they put us in.

In the same way we shouldn't have any solidarity with scabs, we should have no solidarity with the people who happily built the pit-pushing tools.

New comment by justacrow in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

justacrow — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:02:37 +0000

What do you mean "achieve very little"? A lot of American oligarchs made boatloads of money!

New comment by justacrow in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

justacrow — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:05:20 +0000

It's been a while since I saw that movie, how many sons, daughters and neighbours of those people does he kill, maim and abuse?

Assuming he kills several, how many hospital workers trying to help them and journalists documenting his rampage does he kill?

I would feel sorry for all of those people.

New comment by justacrow in "Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU"

justacrow — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:11:39 +0000

That's great, only like a generation of people having to suffer and struggle from say age 20 to 40 so that their masters can attempt to be a superpower.

New comment by justacrow in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

justacrow — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:33:12 +0000

I'm all for banning social media as well as tracking in general, and will also happily work to those effects.

It's also prudent to shame those who allocate and greedily take that capital.