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New comment by loxodrome in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

loxodrome — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:47:55 +0000

Bicycles and automobiles should not share the same roads at all.

New comment by loxodrome in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"

loxodrome — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:34:11 +0000

The introduction of self-driving technology at scale will inevitably result in a few accidents no matter how many sensors are used. It's the same with every new technology deployed in high-risk situations, including motor vehicles themselves. Even malfunctioning airbags have caused fatalities. The important thing is to identify the issue early so the company can address it before more people get hurt, which the ODI in this case is thankfully doing.

New comment by loxodrome in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

loxodrome — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:02:45 +0000

Do people actually take papers in "management science" seriously?

New comment by loxodrome in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

loxodrome — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:47:21 +0000

Thanks for the info. Tricky situation because we have a kid who has dual citizenship, and we are not in the US, but want to move back.

New comment by loxodrome in "Why we built Lightpanda in Zig"

loxodrome — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:14:33 +0000

I just want Zig with classes, Zig++. :(

New comment by loxodrome in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

loxodrome — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:00:36 +0000

Can a US citizen with a foreign spouse bring the spouse to the US on a tourist VISA and adjust status? What if they already filed the i-130 with consular processing?

New comment by loxodrome in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

loxodrome — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:12:21 +0000

Thanks for the link. This line in particular is concerning.

"This identified vulnerability could lead in the worst case scenario to an uncommanded elevator movement that may result in exceeding the aircraft structural capability."

New comment by loxodrome in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

loxodrome — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:02:07 +0000

I totally get it Yann LeCun and FAIR want to focus on next gen research, but they seem almost proud of their distance from product development at Meta. Isn't that a convenient way to avoid accountability? Meta has published a ton of great work, but appears to be losing economically in AI. It's understandable that the executive team wants change.

New comment by loxodrome in "Populism and economic prosperity"

loxodrome — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:05:07 +0000

This article is a classic example of bogus and misleading statistical analysis published by a leftist academic.

New comment by loxodrome in "Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]"

loxodrome — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:29:23 +0000

Median disposable income is a key statistic describing the distribution of wealth… half the population makes more and half makes less, so it tells you the central tendency, that is, how the middle class is doing.

New comment by loxodrome in "Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]"

loxodrome — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:52:46 +0000

By that logic it’d be okay to have everyone making the minimum wage if it was high enough. Do you realize what a communist distopia that would be?

New comment by loxodrome in "Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]"

loxodrome — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:46:05 +0000

Look at this table

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per...

The USA has the highest median disposable income (purchasing power) per household.

How could you possibly believe that capitalism is making Americans and other capitalist countries worse off?

There’s a reason practically everyone wants to move to those places!

New comment by loxodrome in "Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]"

loxodrome — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:00:49 +0000

This paper seems based on the premise that inequality is bad, which is completely false. Inequality is absolutely necessary so that resources go to where they are used most effectively. This maximizes overall wealth/value creation, which is better for everyone, even if it is unequally shared. USA has highest median income in the world by a large margin for this very reason.

New comment by loxodrome in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

loxodrome — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:16:28 +0000

Bullshit. All the big VC firms in the USA are funded by private investors (rich people). They fund risky tech startups because big, fast gains are possible and the marginal capital gains tax rate is 20%. In the UK it's 39%! But 24% for residential property, hence the focus on real-estate that you mention.

Tax less, and prosperity follows!

New comment by loxodrome in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

loxodrome — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:05:05 +0000

Amen, I should frame this on my wall.

New comment by loxodrome in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

loxodrome — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:23:10 +0000

Wow it’s so refreshing to know that other people can see this.

There is simply not enough private capital investment in Europe. The public money is inevitably passed through academic hands or other public sector bureaucrats. And it is simply an ineffective way to allocate capital. The money should be returned to private hands where it belongs and those individuals should be the ones to decide how to invest their own capital.

Why do so few Europeans get this? It’s like they just can’t stand the idea of a wealthy person investing their own money.

New comment by loxodrome in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

loxodrome — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:25:38 +0000

Great answers! Couldn’t agree more.

New comment by loxodrome in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

loxodrome — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:23:52 +0000

The academic establishment has done a pretty good job of excluding and discrediting anyone without a PhD from actively participating in research.

New comment by loxodrome in "Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)"

loxodrome — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:57:13 +0000

Nice explanation of zig's dereferencing operator. Thanks!

New comment by loxodrome in "Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva Research Initiative"

loxodrome — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:06:52 +0000

Something tells me wheel survive with a smaller budget for social science studies.