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Kalshi Becomes CNN's Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B

meragrin_ — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:07:30 +0000

Article URL: https://cryptonews.com/news/kalshi-becomes-cnns-official-prediction-market-partner-after-raising-1b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143355

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New comment by meragrin_ in "Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil"

meragrin_ — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:49:14 +0000

Background: TSMC Arizona was announced in May 2020.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201020184623/https://www.anand...

New comment by meragrin_ in "Funding Open Source like public infrastructure"

meragrin_ — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:15:54 +0000

> fight the rise of fascism.

Where?

New comment by meragrin_ in "US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief"

meragrin_ — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:28:25 +0000

> The only telecom in America to resist turning on a domestic eavesdropping firehose tap for the government, was pounded to the edge of bankruptcy.

How so? There was no mention of the government taking action against the company to cause the company to fail. If a company is failing without government contracts, that is on them and not the government.

New comment by meragrin_ in "A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention"

meragrin_ — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:00:23 +0000

How so? Please give very specific answers which don't include the normal business practices afforded to every other business or incalculable garbage.

New comment by meragrin_ in "Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles"

meragrin_ — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:46:57 +0000

Or maybe you are just blind to the realities of normal people. Most people are not hell-bent on burning fossil fuels. There are numerous valid reasons for people to continue to choose ICE. I want an EV. I want to dump every piece of outdoor equipment with an ICE for something with an electric motor. I very much prefer the pieces I have switched to electric. I've been wanting to make the switch for years. It just does not make sense for me at this time.

New comment by meragrin_ in "U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications"

meragrin_ — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:10:48 +0000

> It only takes a friend to send a photo or meme through WhatsApp to get you in trouble.

Does it? The particular meme which was claimed to be the issue is something the administration and people on the right enjoy. I can't see anyone on the side of the administration being vindictive for having that meme.

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1898372454235451694

https://youtu.be/ejIPG8-rm7k?si=0nsvoalAz6XvLFE3&t=240

https://youtu.be/pmM6N1XxHjc?si=JO5teQIikHXfXnEW&t=80

New comment by meragrin_ in "U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications"

meragrin_ — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:13:24 +0000

> Recently, there was news about a visitor rejected because of a JD Vance meme, so this is not hypothetical.

Everything I've seen indicates the administration and the right love those JD Vance memes. Why would they reject "one of their own"?

New comment by meragrin_ in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

meragrin_ — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:11:01 +0000

> Meanwhile, I'm going to download the app right now. Thanks, Streisand effect!

You know they could be going for the Streisand effect. I'm sure there are plenty of people willing to add false incidents to reduce the effectiveness of the app. Nothing will get those people riled up like a court ruling in favor of the app. In the end, it could work to the administration's favor to have the app up and running. Nothing like acting all offended in public then celebrating privately as unnecessary fear and confusion sets in with false reports.

New comment by meragrin_ in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

meragrin_ — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:53:45 +0000

> If there was an ice raid near me i'd like to know so i can avoid the traffic.

So a traffic app?

New comment by meragrin_ in "Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Has a Long Way to Go"

meragrin_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:01:32 +0000

Bureaucrats write what falls under the CFR. Congress writes the US Code. Unless there is something in the US Code which specifies the period in which the licensee must have 50% of the satellites in place, the bureaucrats can change the rules in the CFR. Somehow I doubt Congress was that detailed. They likely just passed the buck to let the bureaucrats specify the details.

New comment by meragrin_ in "The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California"

meragrin_ — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:46:12 +0000

> after all, it will turn your $1M into $2.5M, no?

Um, no. The graphic intends to show money spent by all parties on housing. The original party pays $1M and receives $300k for the plots of land. The subplot parties then spend $500k to build houses. There is nothing magically turning a $1M home into multiple homes without additional capital.

New comment by meragrin_ in "The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California"

meragrin_ — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:41:29 +0000

> if it's a 2.5x investment cheat code for the fastest actors

It isn't a 2.5x investment cheat code. You're spending $1M for the original home. You're spending $500k on the construction of each new home. That's $2.5M invested. They would need to sell each house for more than $1.5M each for a "2.5x investment cheat code". If the original house cost $1M, how are they going to sell 4 houses with less land at a higher asking price? Even if they somehow managed that, do you honestly think sellers in the area aren't going to catch on?

New comment by meragrin_ in "The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California"

meragrin_ — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:24:16 +0000

I think you missed the actual point of the graphic. It is to point out that the laws enable cheaper housing. Instead of people having to pay $1M for a single home, you're enabling 4 homes at $700k or less each.

New comment by meragrin_ in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

meragrin_ — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:02:08 +0000

Quoting the whole bloody thing is meaningless when the added bit adds nothing to the context. Nothing about the "added context" says they won't sell the data. If anything it just improves the case that they are going to sell the data.

New comment by meragrin_ in "IPv6 Is Hard"

meragrin_ — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:37:36 +0000

In the US, Metronet uses CGNAT. There's another local ISP which uses it. They use it because they're small, growing, and cannot afford enough v4 IPs. They also have no plan to switch to IPv6.

New comment by meragrin_ in "IPv6 Is Hard"

meragrin_ — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:19:45 +0000

> we're still not even at 50% IPv6 usage

Partially due to companies like Metronet whose focus is on growing rather than doing what it should be doing.

New comment by meragrin_ in "Intel's Battlemage Architecture"

meragrin_ — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:26:49 +0000

Dungeon architecture? What's that?

New comment by meragrin_ in "Job trends of HN Who Is Hiring?"

meragrin_ — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:13:04 +0000

How many developer jobs are due to startups? I can't imagine enough to really affect the job market all that much. There's a lot of people out there looking.

>> It may not be caused by AI, but it is going to affect hiring numbers from now on.

> That remains to be seen. I can say with high confidence that we did not have tech that was capable of reducing the need for engineers from 2022 to 2024. It's hard to predict the future.

If I can run some small models locally which helps me significantly right now, I don't really think it is hard to make the jump to needing fewer engineers overall. I've seen people paying for the big models do even more.

New comment by meragrin_ in "Job trends of HN Who Is Hiring?"

meragrin_ — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 06:55:27 +0000

> If anything, AI hype is actually helping keep many of us employed.

AI is also going to keep many of us unemployed. I'm running a small version of Deepseek R1 locally and it does an extremely good job of predicting of where I'm going in a number of situations. I went to pull out some code into another function. As soon as I finished typing the name of the new function, it immediately suggested the exact code I was planning to move into the new function. All I had to do was hit tab. I didn't have to do the copy and paste myself. This was thirty lines of code and it chose the correct starting line and ending line.