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New comment by lif in "Waze built the largest crowdsourced surveillance system"

lif — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:39:44 +0000

nothing to see here, move along /s

wiki: The software was originally developed in Israel by Waze Mobile, a company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine, who are also veterans of Unit 8200

New comment by lif in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

lif — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:31:15 +0000

What about the many, many thousands of homes that have already been bought up?

New comment by lif in "Imagine 130M Washing Machines"

lif — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:55:44 +0000

Have you looked around? We actually have plenty of "housing", however most do not meet the qualities/criteria that make them desirable enough to be "homes".

Lower density, family and pet friendly. You know, the kinds of places that landlords live in. Not the places they are trying to force on others as "inevitable".

New comment by lif in "Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone"

lif — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:01:34 +0000

can someone explain how a subscription-based product is a great option for privacy?

or how being locked in to a black box vpn instills a sense of having gained reliable true privacy?

New comment by lif in "Pichai: Google will soon begin construction of AI data centers in space"

lif — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:41:05 +0000

New comment by lif in "You are the scariest monster in the woods"

lif — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:22:06 +0000

yes, and:

ruthlessness + strength + WMD =/= intelligence

Boosting Birth Rates

lif — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:10:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.governance.fyi/p/miyazaki-might-be-right

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594732

Points: 4

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New comment by lif in "Note to My Present Self"

lif — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:48:02 +0000

"the best things don't scale"

may be worth pondering

New comment by lif in "Pianos Rumble With the Sound of '11,000 Strings'"

lif — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:50:48 +0000

https://archive.ph/iIa5I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJVgd_Khlk

New comment by lif in "A 102-Year-Old Yoga Teacher's Simple Approach to Aging Well"

lif — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:16:50 +0000

https://archive.ph/YW4zn

New comment by lif in "Textile Encoding via Elastically Graded Embroidered Tessellations"

lif — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:33:35 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242858

New comment by lif in "Why Humanoid Robots Are Silicon Valley's Most Dangerous Bet"

lif — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:24:20 +0000

"With lithium-ion batteries offering energy density of 0.8 megajoules per kilogram versus human body fat at 38 MJ/kg, robots face a 47-fold disadvantage that better engineering can't solve. Most platforms operate for just 90 minutes to four hours between charges."

New comment by lif in "Venus has lava tubes, and they're weird"

lif — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:51:12 +0000

https://archive.ph/n6ZGS

New comment by lif in "EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel"

lif — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:53:30 +0000

Why would anyone accept Thiel of all people as an arbiter of what is Christian/Anti-christian?

New comment by lif in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

lif — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:31:05 +0000

PNAC (Project for the New American Century) published an interesting 'report' in 2000

New comment by lif in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

lif — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:26:33 +0000

17th iteration in less than 20 years, billions produced. About a billion already 'obsolete'.

Seems fair to ask: what's the expected lifespan of an iPhone these days?

Does anyone here have insight as to what percent of materials used to make them is actually recycled?

New comment by lif in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

lif — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:19:12 +0000

umm, you raise a valid concern, afaict, however, e-waste is kind of a taboo word around here, or? Or maybe just another part of the 'inevitable' belief system.

Like, how about that _planned obsolescence_ of a vast majority of consumer electronics hardware? (If that ain't the case, would be happen to learn otherwise from someone with better knowledge.)

New comment by lif in "Sandia team creates X-ray images of the future"

lif — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:57:07 +0000

that title tho:

anyone else read it as some kind of future-oriented chrono-vision?

New comment by lif in "The Fisherman and His Wife (1857)"

lif — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:37:31 +0000

aka the fisherman and Gordon Gecko ;)

New comment by lif in "Amazon Is Developing AR Glasses in Challenge to Meta"

lif — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:49:50 +0000

https://archive.ph/JekL1