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New comment by oatmeal1 in "Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections"

oatmeal1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:42:55 +0000

Biden definitely won, but our election security should be a national scandal. Voting machines should never connect to the internet and shouldn't run closed source software.

John Oliver had a fun segment on it:

https://youtu.be/svEuG_ekNT0?si=DkVJ-z3ALD6B2GFk

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude"

oatmeal1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:17:45 +0000

90% of those cancer kills are elderly. The elderly indirectly kill many people and ruin society because they keep voting after their brains turn to mush.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

oatmeal1 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:55:55 +0000

Did the Golden Rule apply to women, gays, and slaves over the last 3000 years?

The definition of moral imperative is "an ethical principle, rule, or action that is strongly felt, urgent, and required because it is morally right." The Golden Rule is clearly not a strongly felt part of the human condition, or it would not be so ignored over ages and continents.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Tesla Roadster"

oatmeal1 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:23:20 +0000

> It's an incredible engineering achievement to build in massive fans and rocket engines into a high performance car. It's truly wild.

It's not a high performance car. It's a shell of a car.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study"

oatmeal1 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:57:45 +0000

Surprised to find anti-intellectualism like this on HN.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis"

oatmeal1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:38:13 +0000

The majority of the affordability crisis stems from car dependency and excessive need for infrastructure due to bad zoning policy.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

oatmeal1 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:43:10 +0000

That falls under deceptive advertising.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

oatmeal1 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:12:27 +0000

The pay for doctors does not matter for recruiting more doctors when the bottleneck is residencies.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers"

oatmeal1 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:38:39 +0000

The probability of it becoming a catastrophe was infinitesimally low with the existence of TCAS.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

oatmeal1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:15:35 +0000

It's basically a benevolent dictatorship due to one party being in charge for the last 67 years.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

oatmeal1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:32:31 +0000

I saw a DW Planet A documentary about decommissioning a nuclear plant in Germany. They walked around the plant in some safety gear, but with their faces fully exposed and no breathing apparatus. They said the project was decades behind schedule and it was costing ten times as much as expected. The decommissioning process involved spraying water and gels on slightly radioactive materials from the factory to reduce their radioactivity to effectively zero. The process created much more radioactive material than there was in the first place, which then itself had to be dealt with. The cost of decommissioning is determined by the lobbyists for the companies that do the decommissioning. Voters have no idea what decommissioning should cost, and no one will ever question going over budget. It's a great business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKIaRg3SdTw

New comment by oatmeal1 in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

oatmeal1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:42:04 +0000

The difference between you and Amazon is hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations and lobbying. Amazon certainly has the political connections to make defense of its datacenters a national security priority of the strongest military on earth if it made it a priority.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

oatmeal1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:52:25 +0000

Excluding war as force majeure in the Middle East is the same as excluding high tide as force majeure building a sandcastle at low tide.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here"

oatmeal1 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:42:52 +0000

Braess's/Pigou's Paradox that more car lanes cause more traffic was found in the 1920's. We massively overbuilt for the car regardless and keep getting worse traffic to this day.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

oatmeal1 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:11:33 +0000

What democratically established laws? This is America. Policy is determined 95% by monied interests over the preference of voters at large.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "iPhone Duo"

oatmeal1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:13:57 +0000

There are compromises to any proportion decision. A tall rectangle is much more natural to hold than a fat rectangle, especially at the size of this device. The user also has to relearn the location of on screen buttons that have always had a consistent location.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"

oatmeal1 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:34:07 +0000

High density development leaving as much pristine nature as possible is vastly superior to sprawl for the environment, but the comment you replied to didn't seem to describe a density issue.

New comment by oatmeal1 in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"

oatmeal1 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:29:45 +0000

There's more food, less energy wasted fighting excessively strong current, and more places to hide from predators. Water quality goes up downstream of a beaver(-ish) dam.

Marijuana Legalization Didn't Fill Emergency Rooms with Stoned Drivers

oatmeal1 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/video/2026/08/28/no-marijuana-legalization-didnt-fill-emergency-rooms-with-stoned-drivers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484083

Points: 16

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New comment by oatmeal1 in "Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk"

oatmeal1 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:19:54 +0000

Then get off HN.