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New comment by meyum33 in "Musk, the Movie"

meyum33 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:02:19 +0000

I guess the fact its called “the movie” not “the documentary” explains the intended provocative nature hence such choices

New comment by meyum33 in "Musk, the Movie"

meyum33 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:59:10 +0000

I wanted to say it could be argued his support for pro fossil fuel political candidate is hugely detrimental to the cause but then the war hiked oil price so much that this morning I saw a stat that shows global CO2 emission started to fall…

New comment by meyum33 in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

meyum33 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:38:01 +0000

It seems to me you’re talking about a range extender, which lots of Chinese EV makers use. Many do buy them but sometimes you get the worst of both worlds: weighty like an EV and the heat, vibration, exhaust of a petro car. For most people the extended range is only needed very occasionally but you have to carry the ICE system the whole time.

New comment by meyum33 in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

meyum33 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:41:35 +0000

I would actually go one step further and claim that typing has not come back to the speed and accuracy of Blackberry and Nokia phones with physical keyboard. It's taking so long that we may actually destroy humanity with AI before we have fast and accurate keyboards again.

New comment by meyum33 in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

meyum33 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:46:01 +0000

Sounds like what humans do under pressure. One example came to my mind is VW’s diesel gate, which many say is a result of trying too hard to get into the US market and compete with hybrid in economy.

New comment by meyum33 in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

meyum33 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:35:53 +0000

The non-max 18 Pro getting 17 Pro Max battery is quite a great leap, no? This is actually the most surprising announcement today, given how Duo was anticipated.

New comment by meyum33 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

meyum33 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:36:21 +0000

Yeah. Even the AirPods are expected to be pricier. This all seems a bit crazy to me.

New comment by meyum33 in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

meyum33 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:59:52 +0000

I guess this mentality makes sense if your products’ failures may lead to actual people dying. And in VW’s case it’s the correct culture working as it is supposed to? My Toyota sometimes feels like it was designed by a lawyer. But I somewhat understand given their history of being badly sued. That being said, at this day and age they probably need to evolve to accommodate some UE principles from the consumer electronics industry. Especially given how cars are getting more computer centric. Hitting a good balance between the old compliance/safety mentality and UE mentality will be hard.

New comment by meyum33 in "Chuwi Minibook X"

meyum33 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:25:06 +0000

I have a Chuwi Lark Box from a few years ago. The volume less than my fist, it's great for doing occasional Windows stuff.

New comment by meyum33 in "Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights"

meyum33 — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:02:35 +0000

These EV makers will soon find out they have to set up a team to censor the stuff they can project.

Berkshire Has a Website from the '90s and Buffett Fans Say Don't Mess with It

meyum33 — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:56:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/berkshire-hathaway-shareholder-meeting-warren-buffett-greg-abel-d9670c30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974250

Points: 3

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New comment by meyum33 in "Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock"

meyum33 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:48:34 +0000

My first visit to the Berkshire Hathaway website a few years ago literally changed my life. I was immediately attracted. I went to search Buffett and went down the rabbit hole of shareholder meetings clips and value investing and index investing. I am so much richer mentally and financially now thanks to the random visit to this website.

New comment by meyum33 in "Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)"

meyum33 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:30:08 +0000

I've always thought that the American individualist/China familial is looking at things absolutely upside down. For the Chinese, the family mimics the tyrannical nature of the government (and/or the other way around). The keyboard social observer of me find the American family value of equality, respect for autonomy, unconditional love and support more conducive to forming stronger bonds. Anyone who's lived in a typical Chinese family should wonder why the hell there's the stereotype that Americans are more individualistic?

New comment by meyum33 in "Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)"

meyum33 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:36:16 +0000

Eastern culture seems too big a term. What do you think is cooperative in Chinese culture? The whole point of the Chinese imperial ruling system post-Qin is to make sure people don’t cooperate to secure the emperor’s rule. It worked wonders for two millennia. Then the totalitarian Leninist system perfected it with modern technology, party organization and propaganda. The modern mainland Chinese people cooperate because there is a powerful central government pushing. Random people have minimal trust towards one another for cooperation. Yes we build power plants and highspeed rails. But we also quarantine cities and abort fetuses en mass and engineer famines with the same system. It’s cooperation with totalitarian characteristics.

New comment by meyum33 in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

meyum33 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:03:27 +0000

Over the years it feels like Federighi’s pleasantness and enthusiasm in those fun videos just don’t translate into the work he oversees. The software mostly work fine but they don’t make me feel “aha” or “this is how it should be done” anymore.

New comment by meyum33 in "A small collection of text-only websites"

meyum33 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:04:09 +0000

berkshirehathaway.com is a great text-only site, containing troves of buffett's letters with much wisdom. though the actual text mostly end up in pdf formats.

New comment by meyum33 in "Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave"

meyum33 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:42:02 +0000

This has been said of the internet itself in China. But even with such heavy censorship, there seem to have been many more internet heavy weights in China than even Europe?

New comment by meyum33 in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

meyum33 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:59:38 +0000

I don’t get how YouTube advertises. Because we use VPN in China, YouTube simply pushes ads in whatever local language my proxy server happens to be. Which baffles me quite a lot since even the most basic tracking and use history (I have two decades in Google) would tell them at least the language I can understand.

New comment by meyum33 in "Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover"

meyum33 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:07:24 +0000

That was a good film. I always remembered del Toro’s recommendation about bulling more lighted fields for kids. Chinese society could learn a lot about how gaming is actually not that addictive when you look deeper into the problem.

New comment by meyum33 in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

meyum33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:10:00 +0000

Maybe Yahoo owns TechCrunch. Perhaps they’re detecting access from China based on more than just IP address. Since Yahoo was grilled for handing over dissidents’ info to the Party they really went the extra mile to distance itself from China. They even blocked Engadget from China.