Hacker News: oldjim798

New comment by oldjim798 in "Uber Faces Growing Pressure over Sexual Assault Record"

oldjim798 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:51:06 +0000

Uber was a mistake. Shut it down.

New comment by oldjim798 in "West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination"

oldjim798 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:00:23 +0000

Yes

New comment by oldjim798 in "West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination"

oldjim798 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:55:37 +0000

The police should be banned from using AI in any form

New comment by oldjim798 in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"

oldjim798 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:52:18 +0000

What nuance is missing? The above comment is a list of facts.

New comment by oldjim798 in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"

oldjim798 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:09:34 +0000

Do their boots taste good?

Just because you are nice to the oppressors, doesn't mean they won't come for you too.

New comment by oldjim798 in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

oldjim798 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:45:04 +0000

I think they know exactly what they were doing with the naming. They were and are absolutely ok with the evil connotations and uses

New comment by oldjim798 in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

oldjim798 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:45:33 +0000

Because this is what capital has told us. Capital always wants to reduce the labour cost to $0.

New comment by oldjim798 in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

oldjim798 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:12:43 +0000

I'm not sure there is much worth in imitating a Roman Emperor. They were violent megalomaniacal psychopaths to a man. There is little, about Marcus as a human being, I would consider "successful". Just because he was a good Emperor doesn't mean he was a morally successful person.

To me, successful "mind hacks" help us become more success at being better people; not enabling a horrible empire.

Of course the final word on Marcus should go to Mary Beard, the best classist of her generation:

--->“I have never understood what people get out of him. It’s a bad book. It’s hard to argue about it — it’s so evidently garbage that it’s hard to sit down with somebody who doesn’t think it’s garbage and fight it out. He’s a terrible writer."

New comment by oldjim798 in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

oldjim798 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:05:54 +0000

Given the documented behavior of ICE that is clearly false. They arrest people here legally all the time, torturing them.

New comment by oldjim798 in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

oldjim798 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:34:44 +0000

ICE should be disbanded and most of its leadership jailed for their crimes.

New comment by oldjim798 in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

oldjim798 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:07:37 +0000

Anything bad for Wall Street is generally good for the rest of us.

New comment by oldjim798 in "ChatGPT Health"

oldjim798 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:07:11 +0000

Completely agree. It is deeply irresponsible for OpenAI to release this product.

They should held liable for malpractice for every incorrect statement and advice provided by it.

New comment by oldjim798 in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

oldjim798 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:57:48 +0000

Beyond the ad driven internet, ad driven content has been at least 150 years old. Ever seen a photo of a pre-WW1 baseball stadium? Or soccer stand? Covered in ads. Old newspapers are awash in ads. Day time TV soap operas are so named because they were sponsored by soap companies.

All a giant waste. Just propaganda blasted at our eyes and ears all day, a drum beat of distraction attacks on our attention. Almost all forms of advertising should be banned or regulated till they are as quiet and unobtrusive as possible.

New comment by oldjim798 in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

oldjim798 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:52:43 +0000

Then a new regulation is needed; one that caps the ratio of seconds of ads to minute watched.

New comment by oldjim798 in "Why do Americans hate A.I.?"

oldjim798 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:53:46 +0000

A much better question is why anyone likes AI or see any value in it

New comment by oldjim798 in "Wall Street sees AI bubble coming and is betting on what pops it"

oldjim798 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:47:36 +0000

I have yet to see any value generated from AI. Just as useful as NFTs

New comment by oldjim798 in "Wall Street sees AI bubble coming and is betting on what pops it"

oldjim798 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:40:46 +0000

This can't happen soon enough. AI is a vacuum sucking up a lot of capital and attention that could and should be put to much much better uses

New comment by oldjim798 in "How private equity is changing housing"

oldjim798 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:49:27 +0000

No such thing as a non-ruthless corporation, it is inherent with the legal structure.

New comment by oldjim798 in "How private equity is changing housing"

oldjim798 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:14:36 +0000

I never said homeownership. Just a place to live thats not owned by a ruthless corporation that spends every day trying to squeeze every penny possible out of the tenant

New comment by oldjim798 in "How private equity is changing housing"

oldjim798 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:59:38 +0000

Yes, the natural state of every resident is to live in their own home. To be clear by home I don't mean "single family detached house on a suburban street", I mean a place to live with water, electricity, and a roof.

Landlords provide no 'service'; they are merely an existence tax.

The market already does not build dense multifamily; what is there to halt?