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New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Beware Management Consultants"

oh_my_goodness — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:26:16 +0000

I've also seen public information (from SEC filings) being sold by a consulting firm as competitive intel. Which I guess it kind of is competitive intel, but you can download it for free.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Beware Management Consultants"

oh_my_goodness — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:34:39 +0000

1. When I was 8, my mom told me that people got paid what their work was worth to society. When I was 12 she told me not necessarily. She said this: "You were only 8. I was trying to make it simple for you."

2. Management consultants get paid by shareholders to outsource blame for decisions made by management.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers"

oh_my_goodness — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:32:35 +0000

Please understand that the goal of these policies is to weaken scientific research in the US. The people who push this stuff acknowledge openly that they oppose science, experts, and accurate information. This isn't a misunderstanding or a fumble.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

oh_my_goodness — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:26:54 +0000

I think it's just shouting. The 'netiquette' nerds [1] noticed that all-caps comes across as shouting. For once they got something right.

[1] bless their hearts

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Saying No"

oh_my_goodness — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:20:34 +0000

Find a temperature that both sides can accept. Also, the dozen other people affected by the air conditioning? Do they pay rent too?

This feels like a story from someone who just crossed the threshold into adulthood and thinks that makes him the "dad" now.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel"

oh_my_goodness — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:42:46 +0000

Stalker vibes bro.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

oh_my_goodness — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:03:32 +0000

Kagi search works much better than Google search for me. But I don't use it for news, so I dunno.

I have nothing to do with Kagi. I've been a user for a few months.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"

oh_my_goodness — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:47:09 +0000

Yeah, I think the peak expectation for AI is that the user gets to be the manager of a very smart team. But we've all seen that. If the manager is clueless about the technology, the results are disappointing.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "My falling-out with the rationalist community"

oh_my_goodness — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:14:19 +0000

Yes. It's almost as if the author felt that long, long, long chains of explanations might be somehow undesirable.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

oh_my_goodness — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:19:09 +0000

There are graphics, it's real-time, but you type commands to control the drones.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"

oh_my_goodness — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:51:19 +0000

Has anybody worked out quantitatively whether the total dot-com boom was a decent investment in hindsight?

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"

oh_my_goodness — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:41:21 +0000

Does anybody know how much AI is earning?

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"

oh_my_goodness — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:36:27 +0000

How are the earnings different this time? Can you add any color to that?

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"

oh_my_goodness — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:43:31 +0000

Financial news tends to be written for people who can fill in a lot of blanks themselves.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016)"

oh_my_goodness — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:40:08 +0000

How has CPR (or CPR data) changed since 2011? What type of medicine do you practice?

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

oh_my_goodness — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:05:43 +0000

The subject in chemistry isn't theory. It's what actually happens in nature. Even immense levels of theory just don't close the gap.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

oh_my_goodness — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:21:02 +0000

>NOBODY IS ATTACKING YOU

Somehow this captures a lot of the culture for me.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

oh_my_goodness — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:51:24 +0000

"Hostility as a feature" has been tried many times, from the old newsgroups of the late 80s to Quora and Stack Overflow. It tends to herald the death of the platform.

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt"

oh_my_goodness — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:59:33 +0000

Spotify is even worse now. Now it keeps automatically playing stuff I dislike. Even though I'm paying them. (Wait, let me go fix that last problem at least.)

New comment by oh_my_goodness in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

oh_my_goodness — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:34:37 +0000

It needs votes. It is better than dealing directly with the corporations, which don't need votes.