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New comment by mike_h in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

mike_h — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:47:16 +0000

It's more about how the buyers intend to use the media themselves.

The Ellisons are personal friends of Trump and Netanyahu. Netanyahu has spoken repeatedly about media as a weapon, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3tdrO8bA7rs. Ellison is the largest individual donor to the IDF. Trump handed Tiktok to Ellison.

The bid is backed by Kushner (i.e. Trump) and their Saudi allies.

New comment by mike_h in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

mike_h — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:15:37 +0000

He’s the largest individual donor to the IDF.

New comment by mike_h in "SDR42E1 modulates Vitamin D absorption and cancer pathogenesis"

mike_h — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:41:07 +0000

That happened in Frontiers in Endocrinology?

New comment by mike_h in "Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?"

mike_h — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 21:19:48 +0000

I know someone who was in a similar situation at your child’s age, in the Stanford CS program. He was able to pause his studies and secure some kind of agreement he could come back when he felt ready. He worked on his issues for about 15 years, barely making enough to pay rent. But then he went back and finished, subsequently got better jobs, and now he’s retired at age 49.

Just to share that option.

New comment by mike_h in "First blood test for dozens of hereditary cancers approved by FDA"

mike_h — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:46:18 +0000

It still matters for life and disability insurance.

Stack Overflow is a cacheless, 9-server on-prem monolith

mike_h — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:25:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34950843

Points: 160

# Comments: 118

New comment by mike_h in "LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night"

mike_h — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:36:19 +0000

There’s a full-color dimming filter in Accessibility -> Zoom -> Zoom Filter -> Low Light. You can assign it to the accessibility shortcut for quick access.

New comment by mike_h in "AI Music Generator"

mike_h — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:36:48 +0000

Not AI, at least not for the composition process. It algorithmically combines a library of loops using genre templates:

https://napolitano.de/2021/11/12/soundraw-ai-music-creation-...

The Speakeasy Economy of WeChat

mike_h — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:05:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/23298078/wechat-china-economy-indiana-messaging-commerce-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32425780

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by mike_h in "Ask HN: Advice for a Generalist Going Solo?"

mike_h — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 15:45:07 +0000

Agree on both points, and quite possible the “small financial firms” thing the OP has been doing is a targetable niche.

New comment by mike_h in "Ask HN: Advice for a Generalist Going Solo?"

mike_h — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 15:29:30 +0000

When I was younger I tried the generalist consultant thing. Did a bunch of interesting jobs and patted myself on the back for being able to tackle so many different types of problems, stacks, stages of the business, etc. It actually was really fun.

To my surprise though, as I got more and more general the rates I could demand got lower and lower, even though I had all these successful projects and good references etc. I finally picked up on the fact that the only companies who would consider a generalist either didn’t know what they were doing, or couldn’t afford an expert in the specific skills they needed.

Decided to specialize in something in-demand, and life got a lot easier.

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:43:54 +0000

I forgot which numbers I saw, but yeah their overall rate is high. The problem is that so many of the remaining unvaccinated are elderly, so if they start getting sick they’ll get it bad and overload the system.

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:28:16 +0000

That’s not how it works. Plenty of negative stuff shared online.

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:15:54 +0000

That’s the question a lot of people seem to have, but think about it: they’ve already bought themselves 2 extra years of vaccine + therapeutics development, and beefing up of medical infrastructure. There’s no way they can do lockdowns forever, and they’re open about that in all the media. But there’s a point in those other trends at which opening up becomes millions of times less dangerous, and we’re just not there yet.

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:13:15 +0000

Ok, so conspiracy theory logic.

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:11:16 +0000

Sounds like they’re only advocating incremental improvements to the current policy?

Compare China death rates over the pandemic to basically anywhere else. If saving 5-10 million lives (estimated based on % of US population lost to Covid) doesn’t count as working, what would?

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:06:17 +0000

Sadly that logic doesn’t work here, though it’s tempting. There’s a portion of the population that refused vaccines, due to a combination of factors including misinformation. Omicron going wild would put millions of elderly people into the hospitals, jamming up the healthcare system and leading to millions more excess deaths.

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:03:57 +0000

Where is the evidence that it didn’t work?

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:02:28 +0000

China is on Earth, not in some other solar system. If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it.

New comment by mike_h in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

mike_h — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 12:57:18 +0000

I’m in Shanghai too. It’s a city of 25+ million people: there will be some bad stories. But overall it is running remarkably and the vast majority of people aren’t thinking about how oppressed they are by having to eat fish. They’re helping each other and encouraging each other, because they know the cost of not doing this is millions of lives.