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New comment by mathgradthrow in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

mathgradthrow — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:15:58 +0000

Did you not vote?

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

mathgradthrow — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:54:43 +0000

Does this question need asking?

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

mathgradthrow — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:54:02 +0000

This is the dumbest thing that has ever been posted on this site.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

mathgradthrow — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:45:09 +0000

You don't have to agree to a disparagement clause... She accepted a lot of money to agree to it.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

mathgradthrow — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:10:51 +0000

Putin can barely fight his own war, and how are you proposing that China supply Iran? You can't rebuild capability in a day.

Do you want to give odds to your proposition that this is going to turn around in the IRGC's favor?

New comment by mathgradthrow in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

mathgradthrow — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:04:00 +0000

I don't know if any have completed runs yet, but supposedly we're using B-52s...

New comment by mathgradthrow in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

mathgradthrow — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:47:06 +0000

1) The US has run 13,000 missions over Iran in the last month. Thats a lot of targets.

2) The initial US degradation of Iraqi capabilities was much much greater in gulf war 1.

3) F15s are not stealth fighters.

4) This is 35 years later.

5) "strategic bombing" of air defenses is mostly accomplished with our cruise missiles. We'll take out any air defenses we find, but you don't fly non-stealth planes over SAM batteries intentionally.

We haven't even started a ground campaign. If one plane is downed per 13000 missions, I think we're doing ok.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mathgradthrow — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:16:25 +0000

I don't believe you understand how modern bombs work.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mathgradthrow — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:15:50 +0000

You think the pentagon was like "shit, Iran is bigger than we thought"?

New comment by mathgradthrow in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

mathgradthrow — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:48:33 +0000

I'm not really sure that's any of their business.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Apple Just Lost Me"

mathgradthrow — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:24:45 +0000

wasn't that about when the iphone came out?

New comment by mathgradthrow in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

mathgradthrow — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:40:03 +0000

> try tweaking the description of a widely-known algorithm just a little bit and see how good the generated code follows the spec.

this works well for me

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

mathgradthrow — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:41:46 +0000

No, because of the fundamental limitation of DRM. Content must be delivered as plaintext.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics"

mathgradthrow — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:21:17 +0000

Equality is defined on sets. Everything is a set. Equality means equalty as sets. That's how math aorks unless you're doing type theory shit.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

mathgradthrow — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:19:23 +0000

localization? Why would you oppose LLMs doing localization?

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

mathgradthrow — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:26:43 +0000

never let philosophers do math

New comment by mathgradthrow in "What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics"

mathgradthrow — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:01:33 +0000

No. Equality is defined on sets, with exactly one exception, this stupid fucking notation.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

mathgradthrow — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:37:55 +0000

What do you consider "absolutely true" or "in general" to mean?

New comment by mathgradthrow in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

mathgradthrow — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:50:25 +0000

That's not an aside. The quote is pernicious because of its attribution to Ben. People invoke it without ever asking themselves if its true because they think of it as the hard won wisdom of a great man.

New comment by mathgradthrow in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

mathgradthrow — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:21:37 +0000

A tariff can only cost as much to the consumer as an embargo.