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New comment by mayneack in "They are looting your life savings"

mayneack — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:58:30 +0000

> And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") magically makes them eligible for inclusion in the S&P500.

> Americans, they are looting your life savings, the ones you earned through labour that they are gleefully replacing. Your descendants will never have the chance you had.

> https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920...

Trump administration, OpenAI discussing possible government stake in the startup

mayneack — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:58:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open-ai-altman-stake.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418910

Points: 6

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New comment by mayneack in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

mayneack — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:23:17 +0000

Daniel has been posting for months (years?) about how much scrutiny he gets from security researchers and various automated tools. I wouldn't expect curl to be the average case for mythos.

New comment by mayneack in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

mayneack — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:35:14 +0000

> It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even though that's mathematically the same thing. [2]

This is the wrong way of thinking about it. It's not adding 20% to an already taxed entity, it's adding taxes where there weren't before. Adding 20% on top of the income tax would indeed be controversial. In his framing the rate of return is effectively untaxed income, so it would be more accurate to say that this is like adding income tax to a currently untaxed income stream.

New comment by mayneack in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

mayneack — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:34:43 +0000

Arguing over implementation details is a pretty common thing for laws to do. Maybe it would weaken the logical consistency of their laws, but that's not really a thing that matters.

Why do states allow hunting some animals and not others? Why do states distinguish between different forms of income to tax? It's all implementation details.

New comment by mayneack in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

mayneack — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:55:49 +0000

I think the "black box" framing that it uses neatly applies the same theory to organizations and ais. It doesn't matter whether there's technological or organizational reasons inside the black box to dodge accountability, the outcome is the same.

New comment by mayneack in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

mayneack — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:17:38 +0000

There's a whole industry of hiking gear that has been steadily trading weight for durability. I only hike in running shoes (altras) which only last me 400 or so miles. It's way less durable than my old boots.

I doubt this sort of thing will translate, but I wouldn't put it past hikers to opt for something less durable to shave a few grams.

New comment by mayneack in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

mayneack — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:01:44 +0000

Why stop there. Why not deny them modern medicine or nutrition?

New comment by mayneack in "OpenAI Privacy Filter"

mayneack — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:13:07 +0000

Curious how this compares to presidio which mixes regex with a model: https://microsoft.github.io/presidio/

New comment by mayneack in "Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'"

mayneack — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:34:27 +0000

A16Z was (is?) up to their eyeballs in crypto as well.

New comment by mayneack in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

mayneack — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:28:19 +0000

Pretty sure it does https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=34.026608&lon=-118.3...

New comment by mayneack in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

mayneack — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:54:45 +0000

This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:02:16 +0000

Neither of those controls their ecosystem. Truth Social runs on Activity Pub.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:30 +0000

Yes. If you're just making arbitrary choices on each instance you're not a free speech zealot you're just making judgement calls like everyone else.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:29:07 +0000

In what world is twitter the least censored site? The big 3 federated sites are much more open if you want it to be and X is a walled garden.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:28:57 +0000

How is twitter more of a free speech platform than the three open federated options (activity pub, at protocol, and nostr)?

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:23:50 +0000

Half this post is about how few people they're reaching on X.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:20:50 +0000

Bluesky might have be niche in terms of users but it's an open platform like activity pub so it's at least quite aligned with the EFF mission.

New comment by mayneack in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

mayneack — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:14:43 +0000

I promise there are thousands to millions of people just as ruthless. Most of them just end up as petty criminals.

New comment by mayneack in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

mayneack — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:24:08 +0000

That may or may not be true in aggregate, but for extreme outliers it's impossible to separate from survivorship bias. Are Musk and Andreeson really the most skilled entrepreneurs in the world or are they just good enough for luck to propel them to stratospheric success?