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New comment by lazyasciiart in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

lazyasciiart — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:21:41 +0000

In Seattle the city is not allowed to take away park land without replacing it with the same area of new park land. No need to special case “if it was given by a citizen to be a park” - just make it park land at the time, and it’s permanent enough.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

lazyasciiart — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:38:04 +0000

Kids in college 20 years ago didn’t know that either. Some of them didn’t understand that they had a school email address.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

lazyasciiart — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:06:19 +0000

> Great; I’ve caught the mailman - now what?

Let him go so you can chase again. Give all the money away; or burn it if you’d rather. If you don’t want to do that because having unlimited cash does satisfy you, then make that a deliberate choice each day so you can remember why you like the life you’ve chosen.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

lazyasciiart — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:02:33 +0000

Don’t give up on all of them. My friend here is 6’5 and a pro strongman at the time https://70sbig.com/blog/2013/10/mike-interviews-pro-strongma...

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

lazyasciiart — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:28:06 +0000

Isn’t this suggesting that the majority of motorbike deaths are licensed, sober, safety-geared riders?

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

lazyasciiart — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:24:33 +0000

The US has consistently spied on allies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_espionage_in_Aus...

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

lazyasciiart — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:23:22 +0000

I hate that people will take “political blackmail is real” and jump to “the moon landing wasn’t real”

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

lazyasciiart — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:42:26 +0000

Just like they always have. There’s a reason religion is mostly inherited.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

lazyasciiart — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:41:07 +0000

I meet kids today who haven’t heard of Microsoft, who regularly play GTA and hand in assignments made in Powerpoint. 20 years ago I discovered that a friend didn’t know Xbox and Word were both from Microsoft. It’s really hard to understand what is common knowledge in different parts of society.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "You Can Run"

lazyasciiart — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:37:26 +0000

And as many adoptive parents know, that doesn’t go so easily.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

lazyasciiart — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:39:13 +0000

No it isn't. People spend time outdoors perfectly comfortably in Singapore. https://meteologix.com/sg/observations/wet-bulb-temperature....

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

lazyasciiart — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:53:51 +0000

The many possible cultures and attitudes doesn’t really seem directly relevant to a conversation that started by one user here, from one specific culture, saying that equating AI and humanity is debasing humanity.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

lazyasciiart — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:48:00 +0000

It seems very clear to me, yes.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

lazyasciiart — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:41:00 +0000

It’s worth noting that these guys also considered women and black people not to be actual people, and made no distinction between nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and a rifle, whenever we get the idea that they had great ideas that we should apply to society today.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

lazyasciiart — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:37:24 +0000

Teen suicide in households with a gun is a very interesting stat to bring up for this. Suicide in general is higher for gun owners, which can be handwaved away as “that’s my right”. But suicide is higher for children of gun owners? That seems like a tough risk to justify.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

lazyasciiart — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:33:16 +0000

Which is usually reasonable, because if you are describing “how x happens” you are claiming that x happens. It doesn’t make a real difference here.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

lazyasciiart — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:31:29 +0000

Not to anyone who is hoping to avoid catastrophic civil disorder and mass murder (revolution/civil war/government crackdowns, however you want to label it), but I think some people have stopped hoping for that.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

lazyasciiart — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:40:21 +0000

What makes it look like one? All their dead comments read pretty normal to me.

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

lazyasciiart — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:39:21 +0000

Is this inside knowledge, or speculation?

New comment by lazyasciiart in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

lazyasciiart — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:36:54 +0000

What are the reasons?