Hacker News: laretluval

New comment by laretluval in "H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022"

laretluval — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:43:16 +0000

While I disagree with GP’s premise, there’s no sense in which H1B visa holders are American. It’s a nonimmigrant visa. They are required to specifically disavow any intention of becoming Americans or else the visa can be revoked.

New comment by laretluval in "FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado"

laretluval — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:17:46 +0000

Is there a news article about the spy at your kid’s school?

New comment by laretluval in "I built an ROV to solve missing person cases"

laretluval — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:21:30 +0000

I built an RV to increase missing person cases

New comment by laretluval in "The Chinese Civil Examinations"

laretluval — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:02:41 +0000

> but there is much precedence for rebel leaders who took on dynasties to be of millenarian, even foreign beliefs.

The modern Chinese government’s suppression of Falun Gong makes sense from this perspective.

New comment by laretluval in "Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination"

laretluval — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:29:41 +0000

I predict they’ll love the opportunity to indulge in theatrical ethnomasochism, just like high status whites do.

New comment by laretluval in "Robert Jordan, the Man Who Connecticut Police Said Was ‘Too Smart to Be a Cop’"

laretluval — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:53:00 +0000

I also thought that, based on his books

New comment by laretluval in "The Silence Is Deafening (2020)"

laretluval — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:32:15 +0000

> A huge part of the problem is that digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare.

It's interesting to see that people are now arguing in favor of public shaming and peer pressure as ways to control behavior, and lamenting that these are now harder to implement at scale. A generation ago the internet was seen as a way to escape pressure for conformity.

New comment by laretluval in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

laretluval — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:32:02 +0000

Thanks for the rec! This looks like something I'll be adding to the list of Substacks I check regularly.

New comment by laretluval in "Cannabis and Male Fertility: A Systematic Review"

laretluval — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:23:39 +0000

Good, fewer stoners in the next generation

New comment by laretluval in "The Normalization of Violence in Commercial Kitchens Through Food Media"

laretluval — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 16:32:47 +0000

https://youtu.be/dTaUliCxN_o

New comment by laretluval in "Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)"

laretluval — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:53:30 +0000

Is it bad to want state institutions to act in a way that benefits you? Isn't that "government for the people"?

New comment by laretluval in "Where to see the oldest living things on Earth (2019)"

laretluval — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:44:36 +0000

Congress

New comment by laretluval in "The Human Eye Webcam [video]"

laretluval — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:51:38 +0000

New comment by laretluval in "List of Proposed Etymologies of OK"

laretluval — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 04:48:40 +0000

"Oll korrect" is the only one the stands up to scrutiny.

New comment by laretluval in "Ask HN: How advanced is military AI?"

laretluval — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 04:38:51 +0000

My conversations with military people (mostly Navy) suggest that they don't really know what they're doing with AI.

New comment by laretluval in "‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos"

laretluval — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 01:52:49 +0000

It's a dream created using information from many other scenes you saw of the person.

The AI "dream" is based only on the single image.

New comment by laretluval in "Global debt soars to 356% of GDP"

laretluval — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:59:09 +0000

> Most economists agree once you take into account retaliatory tariffs they're bad for the economy.

How much real predictive signal is there in economists' consensus?

New comment by laretluval in "Our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines"

laretluval — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:04:37 +0000

> stop rewarding "I wrote the grant" With authorships.

How could this work? If you have more grant money you have more resources to write papers.

New comment by laretluval in "Silicon Valley’s Safe Space"

laretluval — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:57:28 +0000

> I just don't understand why his preferences bind on anyone else.

His preferences bind on the NYT in that as Scott can take actions which are adverse to the NYT in order to maintain his preferences. Such as deleting the blog and having his fans sign a petition and cancel their subscriptions. None of those actions are unreasonable: he is free to delete his blog for any reason or no reason, and anyone can make in a petition. What is the problem here?

New comment by laretluval in "Silicon Valley’s Safe Space"

laretluval — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:38:34 +0000

UBI (your second point) is a common idea advocated by many people other than Bill Murray.

This is the first time I've heard it described as white supremacy and eugenics although I'm sure it won't be the last.