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New comment by neaden in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

neaden — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:57:13 +0000

Man, that poem it made is terrible. Like just incredibly bad. Sure it's neat that software can make an incredibly bad poem but there is enough bad poetry in the world that we don't need it.

New comment by neaden in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

neaden — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:34:59 +0000

Yeah I think on say, a proper road the horse would win at any distance.

New comment by neaden in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

neaden — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:40:29 +0000

To your edit, it's because the commencement speakers are praising AI and probably not praising the Iran war, the wealth gap, or high housing prices. I would imagine if a commencement speaker did praise those things they would get boo-ed too.

New comment by neaden in "Colonization of Venus"

neaden — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:20:29 +0000

"Fairly Easy" Is doing a lot of work there. Theoretically possible yes.

Linguistic workaround allows Marco Rubio to travel to China

neaden — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:38:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/marco-rubio-china-visit-new-character-name-trump-summit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121754

Points: 2

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

neaden — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:37:02 +0000

Who do you think started the current war?

New comment by neaden in "Knitting bullshit"

neaden — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:47:41 +0000

Already the way I find out about new podcasts is from recommendations from people I know, positive reviews, or from them being associated with a podcast I listen to. For now all of those have meant I haven't been exposed to any AI ones.

New comment by neaden in "Knitting bullshit"

neaden — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:56:16 +0000

The simple answer is every single AI podcast is the chaff. Everything this company makes can just be ignored.

New comment by neaden in "Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2"

neaden — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:27:36 +0000

Yep, sorry fixed it.

New comment by neaden in "Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2"

neaden — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:13:48 +0000

Keep in mind this is also a study of Seventh Day Adventists who while not required to be vegetarians are encouraged to be and are going to have a low rate of meat consumption. edit: fixed wording

New comment by neaden in "[dead]"

neaden — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:46:11 +0000

So I hadn't heard of this dating app before and going to the FAQ it sounds like it is an invite only sugar daddy app? So not really generalizable beyond that.

New comment by neaden in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

neaden — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:00:43 +0000

I don't think this is true, because people are often willing to spend a bit of extra time to do something good, like make a donation, but wouldn't be willing to take that same time to make $10.

New comment by neaden in "Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year"

neaden — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:39:38 +0000

I'm not sure how true that is. Sure it's what we're seeing in Ukraine right now with both sides using them a lot, but my understanding is that has to due with the fact that neither side is able to get air superiority with conventional aircraft. The same reason Iran is using a lot of drones now. It doesn't seem like the US would be in a conflict where they don't have air superiority.

Now I would agree that the US military can still find uses for drones, and that many of the people it fights will have a large usage of drones, but I don't think it's fair to say all conflict will be based around them.

New comment by neaden in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

neaden — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:19:44 +0000

Ok so you're moving the goalposts here. What you said was a custodian (who I'm assuming did a lot more than just clean) and now you've switched to a head custodian and are comparing him to contract workers. So you're comparing two different jobs in two different school districts. Now is it possible that they've eliminated or reduced those positions? Sure, but you haven't actually shown that at all. Like I could easily counter with the fact that the school my wife teaches at still has a head custodian but I don't know what his family situation is and we'd just be trading anecdotes. So do you have any actual evidence for your initial claim? Because the overall stats with wages and prices are the opposite from what you claim.

New comment by neaden in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"

neaden — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:41:34 +0000

I'll be honest as someone who doesn't gamble my perception is the prediction markets are just people with inside information using that to con money out of people. I don't see the value in it.

New comment by neaden in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

neaden — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:02:54 +0000

I mean sure, in some places it might be hard to find a starter home. Do you think that wasn't true in the 80s and 90s as well? I can't find the data going back to the 80s with a quick search, but here is one that shows it's been going down since 2000 https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/08/who-is....

The narrative that millennials (of which I am one) are worse off economically than our parents is an attractive one to many people, but the fact is that it's not true, at least in the USA as a whole.

New comment by neaden in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

neaden — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:05:13 +0000

Let's take these one at at time

1. Households in 1980 spent a large share of their income on food then today, and CPI tracks food expenditure and it's below wage increases. So this one is a victory for today vs the past.

2. Shelter is difficult because we expect much more today than the past, houses have gotten much much larger. One big issue is interest rates, which were about twice as high in the 80s than in recent times. If you want to buy a small house without air conditioning and other amenities that are now standard you can do it cheaper than what you would have paid back then. So another victory for today.

3. Health is once again hard, because a lot of the increased cost is for things that weren't around back then. We can just call this one a draw

4. Education. This is the one that is most clearly an increase above inflation. Some of this is due to decreased funding by governments, some due to admin bloat, but mostly it's just that labor is getting more expensive and education is a very labor focused sector. So victory for the past.

So overall I have to say you are incorrect, the past was more expensive than now and less affordable for a middle class person. I also have to say I find this whole thing kind of odd, I was born in the 80s and remember what it was like, I would not want to switch places with my parents economically.

New comment by neaden in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

neaden — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:56:38 +0000

I don't get the satire then.

New comment by neaden in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

neaden — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:31:29 +0000

So you're making fun of people who think the past was more affordable?

New comment by neaden in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

neaden — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:31:03 +0000

"An elementary school custodian could afford a mortgage, a car, support a family of 4 and go on vacation on just that single income. " Can I ask what you are basing this off of? I'm fairly skeptical of this claim.