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New comment by orange_joe in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

orange_joe — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:18:25 +0000

I'm not being prescriptive, just observing the likely consequences of gendered policy.

New comment by orange_joe in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

orange_joe — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:47:58 +0000

I am wondering if the affected men will demand preferential treatment as a consequence of service. Women currently benefit from disproportionate employment in the social safety net, affirmative action in German government hiring, etc. I would imagine that this would be essentially offensive to the men who are required to stay in the country, or face (potential future) conscription. I suspect the demands of European governments will increase as countries continue to age.

New comment by orange_joe in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

orange_joe — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:38:16 +0000

How does feminism survive if this becomes the norm? If young men feel like they're expected to give more to their society it's natural to expect renumeration financial, socially or politically. Nordic countries don't seem to have this problem, but their conscription laws are quite relaxed compared to what the future will likely hold. A declining youth population almost certainly means greater youth repression (higher taxes for pensions, conscription, etc.)

New comment by orange_joe in "We are losing our ability to understand the world"

orange_joe — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:20:11 +0000

the modern world emerged of rationalism, the end goal of AI & automated thinking is necessarily at odds with rationalism (systems will be increasingly illegible as AI accelerates progress). I believe this will fundamentally unmoor our civilization

We are losing our ability to understand the world

orange_joe — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:17:49 +0000

Article URL: https://chinatowntyler.substack.com/p/the-closing-range

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502974

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by orange_joe in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

orange_joe — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:32:52 +0000

America clearly has an EV industry (Tesla, Rivian) but its adoption is pretty limited by infrastructure.

New comment by orange_joe in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

orange_joe — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:51:53 +0000

This doesn't really pay attention to token costs. If I'm making a series of statically dependent calls I want to avoid blowing up the context with information on the intermediary states. Also, I don't really want to send my users skill.md files on how to do X,Y & Z.

New comment by orange_joe in "Proof of Corn"

orange_joe — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:08:20 +0000

contra-pessimism: My parents run a small organic farm on the east coast — (greenhouses, not row crops) and they extensively use chatgpt for decision making They obviously haven’t built out agentic data gathering, but can easily prompt it with the required information. they’re quite happy with everything.

I’m guessing this will screw up in assuming infinite labor & equipment liqudity.

New comment by orange_joe in "How corrupt will it get before we notice?"

orange_joe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:57:02 +0000

I don't know how to really accept the fact that America is becoming a dramatically more corrupt country at the population and political level. It reminds me of growing up in the third world where the line between cop & bandit was blurred.

How corrupt will it get before we notice?

orange_joe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@downtowntyler/p-181000587

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276125

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by orange_joe in "Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse"

orange_joe — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:51:17 +0000

The entire piece keeps telling you to ignore the people in question, their statements and their preferences. It wants to push this doomer narrative of left behind people, while ignoring that communities are putting these banks together & the government is actively supporting them.

New comment by orange_joe in "Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse"

orange_joe — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:50:04 +0000

this seems overly polemic. My parents live on a small farm and heat their home with firewood. My dad likes splitting wood, and it’s marginally cheaper since they own a plot of woodland. Although, they have a brand new heat pump they prefer to use their wood burning stove. It’s fairly common but in my experience it’s primarily a lifestyle choice not economic . People who chose to live out their also like the resiliency given their libertarian/prepper tendencies. it’s annoying because this entire piece is predicated on ignoring everything locals actually say.

New comment by orange_joe in "States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option"

orange_joe — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:41:17 +0000

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both the poor and the rich from living in dorms past college.

New comment by orange_joe in "Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities"

orange_joe — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:38:11 +0000

they rolled this out to NYC a month or two ago. They were airport shuttles with an initial price of $10 and will go to $25. It was dramatically more comfortable than taking the subway and then transferring to the air train and the normal price is honestly fairly competitive against the subway + air train (~$12).

New comment by orange_joe in "Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo"

orange_joe — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:54:43 +0000

1. I’m being descriptive not prescriptive. property taxes being used to drive urbanization and development is a standard urban planning practice and was used to be used in LA during they heyday of its growth.

2. Your issue with what I said seems very dependent on something you chose to “add in” — Why am I being asked to defend something I never said?

New comment by orange_joe in "Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo"

orange_joe — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:16:41 +0000

the extremely unpopular but logical next step in managing change would be to induce development by increasing property taxes. Basically compel people to move and sell their land to developers who build up the land.

New comment by orange_joe in "The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay"

orange_joe — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:18:02 +0000

Without trying to start a flame war...

There's likely an element that's certainly cultural, or a biologically based differences, but it seems like there are some very straight forward explanations for this.

There's significant governmental and private assistance to young women not available to young men (educational scholarships, grants, support groups, etc.). Any field in which men continue to do well is considered a problem, whereas the converse is accepted as a natural order (have you seen any pushes to get straight men into HR?).

There is also significant difficulty in even articulating these issues as its been broadly taboo to discuss biases that advantage women, such as a positive bias toward women in education[1]. That being said, the mere fact that this is now a publicly discussable issue seems to imply our standards for discussion are changing.

[1]. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2022.2...

New comment by orange_joe in "Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII"

orange_joe — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:45:38 +0000

couldn’t you just ignore them?

New comment by orange_joe in "Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO"

orange_joe — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:02:54 +0000

He's speaking rhetorically, most of the time the company setups you up with options that expire worthless.

New comment by orange_joe in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

orange_joe — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:12:51 +0000

worse, you’ll be paying to bail them out in the name of solidarity.