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New comment by mjhay in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

mjhay — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:49:54 +0000

The onus is you to show it makes children safer - you’re the one advocating these privacy-harming rules.

New comment by mjhay in "GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks"

mjhay — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:28:48 +0000

There’s no way Anthropic can keep jacking up the prices like this for every marginally better model. I think even tokenmaxxing companies are going to soon balk at $50/million output tokens.

New comment by mjhay in "What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice"

mjhay — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:32:26 +0000

Recipes were the province of the wealthy. The average person would have had a very repetitive, bland, and potentially malnourishing diet. They might have had some herbs or even foraged like you say, that still is very bland and boring compared to what we’re used to.

New comment by mjhay in "Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed"

mjhay — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:23:43 +0000

Ironically enough, the thing that really did Roman Italy it was Justinian’s reconquest. The Gothic War was absolutely devastating. Yersinia pestis didn’t help either, of course.

New comment by mjhay in "The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers"

mjhay — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:18:14 +0000

It’s not so well-paying anymore, especially given the onerous education requirements. The exception is for the few who get hired in biglaw firms

New comment by mjhay in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

mjhay — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:49:28 +0000

An export ban wouldn’t really help much: US oil production is (now) predominantly light crude, while US refinery capacity is oriented towards heavy crude from the gulf or Venezuela.

We produce more oil than we use, but we can’t refine it all.

New comment by mjhay in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

mjhay — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:58:57 +0000

How do you do that when the ruling class has a vested interest in preventing it?

New comment by mjhay in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

mjhay — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:27:19 +0000

The kind of consumer thrift stores want to sell to. They don’t have to be real.

New comment by mjhay in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

mjhay — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:22:50 +0000

Coulda fooled me. From what I’ve seen, it seemed like they were dragged to electric kicking and screaming after other options didn’t pan out - even with assistance from regulators. Germany has a severe problem with rational consideration of energy issues.

New comment by mjhay in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

mjhay — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:42:14 +0000

Thrift and vintage stores have been pivoting to the premium consumer as well.

New comment by mjhay in "Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected"

mjhay — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:19:55 +0000

The impact hypothesis for Younger Dryas isn’t really tenable. Among other things, the climate effects of a large bolide impact would be global, whereas Antarctica actually warmed during YD. This “Polar See-saw” pattern is easily explained by a northerly meltwater pulse hypothesis, but not a bolide.

New comment by mjhay in "The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki"

mjhay — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:53:55 +0000

There’s so much magic, for lack of a better word, in those illustrations. Miyazaki is really one of a kind.

New comment by mjhay in "Stackoverflow launches a new AI-first experience (Beta)"

mjhay — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:10:19 +0000

I think they’re just trying to do anything to survive, since they’re getting their lunch eaten by LLMs trained in stack overflow posts.

New comment by mjhay in "South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection"

mjhay — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:35:44 +0000

I forgot that satire was dead.

New comment by mjhay in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

mjhay — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:33:03 +0000

wow, egg on my face!

New comment by mjhay in "South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection"

mjhay — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:30:48 +0000

I suggest you re-read the Constitution. The First Amendment protects people from any negative repercussions whatsoever resulting from their free exercise of certain kinds of speech.

New comment by mjhay in "Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way"

mjhay — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:16:21 +0000

It’s also probably the best single method of inferring ice sheet mass balance over wide areas.

New comment by mjhay in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

mjhay — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:30:30 +0000

Alcohol also reduces awareness of heart attacks.

https://theonion.com/report-aspirin-taken-daily-with-bottle-...

New comment by mjhay in "AI-First Company Memos"

mjhay — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:14:52 +0000

Yes.

New comment by mjhay in "AI-First Company Memos"

mjhay — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:27:08 +0000

lol