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New comment by kowabungalow in "Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse"

kowabungalow — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:21:32 +0000

Yes and no.. Slashing the problem completely is no worse than not fixing it since a climb into the stratosphere also has to burst.. I.e. with a new generation rejecting traditional lifestyles.

I think the solution is to artificially build new cities with ideal logistics. Distant cities inevitably draw away housing consumers but by least influential first and are outside each others influence for NIMBYs.

New comment by kowabungalow in "U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law"

kowabungalow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:56:38 +0000

I'm no state judge, but I think the states do have jurisdiction on kidnappings where the crime doesn't cross state lines.

New comment by kowabungalow in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

kowabungalow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:16:18 +0000

> So let's not pretend these institutions are noble

If only the noble deserve a reasonable state then welcome to hell.

New comment by kowabungalow in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

kowabungalow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:08:11 +0000

Let's not pretend that was the topic.

New comment by kowabungalow in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

kowabungalow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:06:12 +0000

Foreign students interested in a US education have diverse motivations and Universities in/of other countries have done well selling programs that compete with the US' institutions for students that don't have that motivation. Soon that may also be almost all of them.

New comment by kowabungalow in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

kowabungalow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:44:18 +0000

Trump is a disease, the tools he uses are the opportunities given to adapt Putin's template for the American Empire.

New comment by kowabungalow in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

kowabungalow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:41:44 +0000

Universities had better hurry up with opening up their foreign campuses.

New comment by kowabungalow in "Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain"

kowabungalow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:05:02 +0000

Hence 'for .us'. The trouble with this form of pedantic is that the nicer way to interpret the misunderstanding is that the pedant is ignorant either of language or the structure of dns.

"He runs the Internet routers for our company." -> "Your company doesn't run the Internet" -> wtf?

New comment by kowabungalow in "ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt"

kowabungalow — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:29:45 +0000

I think the question of why it works triggers some kind of stroke in some people like when a child swears and the only rational interpretation says something about the environment that they don't want to hear.

New comment by kowabungalow in "ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt"

kowabungalow — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:19:28 +0000

An LLM is applying a statistical model.. If 4chan has fren with right wing rhetoric in hundreds of thousands of threads and other sites like HN use these only in occasional discussions of 4chan, you are hinting an LLM to generate content like a right wing diatribe.

New comment by kowabungalow in "Decline in European Travelers to U.S."

kowabungalow — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:23:42 +0000

The US has been fucking Latin America for decades, you just mean that it isn't El Salvador..

New comment by kowabungalow in "Decline in European Travelers to U.S."

kowabungalow — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:17:45 +0000

It is fucking El Salvador, I think you meant it isn't El Salvador.

New comment by kowabungalow in "Decline in European Travelers to U.S."

kowabungalow — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:37:45 +0000

I've talked to plenty of people who regret having future tickets for travel to the US. I assume they were aware of the costs and considered them in their itinerary just as people have always had to for NYC, etc.

New comment by kowabungalow in "Tesla rival BYD launches five-minute battery in $30k model"

kowabungalow — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:14:08 +0000

One has to make a lot of capacity decisions around how well the unreplaced battery is going to perform years out if they are complex to replace, lugging around all that extra is also not good for (the environment or) a consumer who may be better served by half capacity batteries replaced twice as often, etc.

New comment by kowabungalow in "Tesla rival BYD launches five-minute battery in $30k model"

kowabungalow — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:09:26 +0000

Perhaps the streets of the US will start to look more like Cuba to the rest of the world.

New comment by kowabungalow in ""Adulting" courses in America"

kowabungalow — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:30:02 +0000

The world changes so parental advice may need some adaptation, but the general idea is that they show their child when they make decisions. This may have been more about what job they took for what pension it came with and what car they bought for which labor price and now it is which car to never buy.

This kind of thread bothers me with it's hand wringing. Parents and teachers often spoke of their lives in casual conversation when I was growing up and it was pretty clear to me that, aside from it being a response to having no adult around to make a more useful conversation with for them, there was an element of educational intent.

New comment by kowabungalow in "Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a"

kowabungalow — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:16:47 +0000

Also, this is the first pixel after this announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485950

New comment by kowabungalow in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

kowabungalow — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 21:26:12 +0000

The goals are petty profit, some extortion, some illegal trading. Destroying 80% of the value of the US isn't meaningful if he gets to own a lot more of the remainder. Everything is profit for the broke real estate conman of 2015.

New comment by kowabungalow in "Palantir Is Helping Doge with a Massive IRS Data Project"

kowabungalow — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:13:09 +0000

Government overreach was endangering America thanks to the tireless work to conspire by government employees who barely want to do their own job, but an organization legally aligned on gaining independent financial advantage can provide oversight that won't misuse access?

New comment by kowabungalow in "America's financial system came close to the brink"

kowabungalow — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:36:26 +0000

I think the biggest issue is that you have to put the assets somewhere and usually that meant a relationship to US currency. China has to go further with a proposal for how it is going to do a US proof global system. Telling the EU to stand up in unity will only work when the proposal makes the same kind of sense to the EU in the longterm as whatever the US is doing makes sense to the Republicans.