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New comment by llbbdd in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:17:45 +0000

See my other comment. I want my doctor/plumber/etc to be able to recall faster, type faster, work better under pressure. If you're better at those things you should get better grades and be paid more.

New comment by llbbdd in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:16:11 +0000

Those are all proxies for "is smarter". They have better memories, perform better under pressure, etc. Universities are meant to prepare students for the real world where these things matter.

New comment by llbbdd in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:05:51 +0000

Fast students are smarter. Why avoid grading on that?

EDIT: Rate limited so: "smarter" here means how well the student will perform in a career in their chosen field. Fast + accurate is the ideal.

New comment by llbbdd in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:52:11 +0000

Agreed. A lot of my countrymen have forgotten that America generally kicks ass, it's sad to see.

New comment by llbbdd in "5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:24:11 +0000

This might explain my confusion. I went to the inflation calculator to see that $60 scallops in 1917 would be $1700 now and was a bit taken aback.

New comment by llbbdd in "Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js"

llbbdd — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:58:13 +0000

I had a lot of very good times with CoffeeScript but I'll never forgive it for having implicit returns. So many subtle event-bubbling bugs caused by that.

New comment by llbbdd in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

llbbdd — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:24:51 +0000

My bad, I meant for this to come off more funny than snarky. Appreciate the check.

EDIT: Upon finishing reading the other comments on this article though...I feel a bit singled out. :)

New comment by llbbdd in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

llbbdd — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:07:29 +0000

I think, therefore I am seeking 2.5m total comp

New comment by llbbdd in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

llbbdd — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:37:24 +0000

Same here. Every time a thread like this comes up it brings out that a surprising number of paranoid helicopter parents browse HN, which is a contradiction in perspective that I can't really emphasize with.

New comment by llbbdd in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

llbbdd — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:31:43 +0000

Let's ban books and skateboards too

New comment by llbbdd in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

llbbdd — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:14:27 +0000

If they're not building reactors on the land allocated to native tribes, why should they?

New comment by llbbdd in "Renting a sewing machine from the library"

llbbdd — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:35:41 +0000

Indistinguishable from a joke

New comment by llbbdd in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

llbbdd — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:17:21 +0000

What is vibe coding?

New comment by llbbdd in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

llbbdd — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:13:34 +0000

Check in in 20 years. The gap between the US and whoever is in second place is enormous. I don't spend enough time on Reddit to think it's close or declining.

New comment by llbbdd in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

llbbdd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:42:35 +0000

Then touching grass remains a good recommendation for you and the person I replied to. Only hard to hear because I wish more of my countrymen were connected to reality.

New comment by llbbdd in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

llbbdd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:20:34 +0000

It is, because of the time component of money. Money is a way of storing the value of labor in a manner less affected by time. If you sell it all at once, its value is greatly reduced. All investments include that time component. Point-in-time net worth doesn't have much value as a measurement in part because of this.

New comment by llbbdd in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

llbbdd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:17:52 +0000

Gold is value, you cannot take it to a grocer and buy food.

New comment by llbbdd in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

llbbdd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:16:53 +0000

I have no idea why the adjusted net worth of people who died centuries ago would have anything to do with money in the modern day. And at a glance, neither of your examples had billions of dollars in cash, which is the point I was making. They may have had a lot of value tied up in illiquid investments, which is exactly like Musk's valuation.

New comment by llbbdd in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

llbbdd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:14:59 +0000

You sound like you don't live in the US. Maybe read less reactionary news.

New comment by llbbdd in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

llbbdd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:14:21 +0000

So pool your money with other poors and enter the infinite money game