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New comment by p_j_w in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

p_j_w — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:25:28 +0000

>Consoles have been riding on their momentum of their brands

This is entirely wrong. Consoles have been riding consistency and ease of use. Sure, if you look just at the spec sheet consoles make no sense. But when you look at the whole experience combined with price, this is where consoles have always won. It's always been easier to hook my console up to the TV and start playing. The Steambox closes this gap with the overall experience, but still loses out on price.

If consoles continue to enshittify, this might change.

New comment by p_j_w in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

p_j_w — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:21:04 +0000

Ohioans need to elect better reps then, don't they?

New comment by p_j_w in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

p_j_w — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:28:46 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the question.

New comment by p_j_w in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

p_j_w — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:27:55 +0000

> In some states you have to click into the listing before learning that there's an extra $500 cleaning fee on top of the nightly rate :)

And the “house rules” still require you to clean the place before you leave.

New comment by p_j_w in "Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership"

p_j_w — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:14:07 +0000

First line in the article:

> Each figure is the shareholder wealth a founder’s company created, now held by index funds, pensions, employees and co-founders, minus what the founder kept.

New comment by p_j_w in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

p_j_w — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:09 +0000

>What's wrong with unpasteurized milk

A substantially increased risk of disease.

>What's wrong with [...] beef tallow?

A substantially increased risk of heart disease.

New comment by p_j_w in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

p_j_w — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:11:25 +0000

> telling people it's all "black magic" and "wizardry" (and worst of all, saying "even RF engineers don't understand RF") makes it seem like it's not worth studying.

I think the opposite is true. It being advertised as difficult to understand is one of the reasons I personally decided to study RF Engineering. The prospect of learning something so challenging pulled me in. The Smith Chart helped.

New comment by p_j_w in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

p_j_w — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:31:10 +0000

> Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

I wish I could say such behavior was shocking. Everything Springer touches turns to shit.

New comment by p_j_w in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

p_j_w — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:52:10 +0000

That’s a pittance compared to their revenue.

New comment by p_j_w in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

p_j_w — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:02:30 +0000

> values that people in the US might care about (freedom of speech, limited govt, etc).

The US federal government forced Paramount to take Colbert off the air. Seems that people in the US don’t actually value these things.

> What values specifically are you optimizing for here?

Probably not being fascist.

New comment by p_j_w in "Court Records Should Be Free"

p_j_w — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:57:19 +0000

So wealthy people can go ahead and violate your privacy interests, but not really anyone else? I’m sorry, but this is a bad answer to the problem. The solution is to fix the redaction process, not to go with some awkward indirect solution that creates its own set of problems WITHOUT solving the original stated problem.

New comment by p_j_w in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

p_j_w — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:26:53 +0000

> The Bolsheviks certainly were good at it, yet we don't learn about the 23+ million they massacred in US schools.

Those of us who paid attention certainly did.

New comment by p_j_w in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

p_j_w — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:30:54 +0000

I don’t need an AI to tell me about Tiananmen Square. I need it to do boring grunt work.

New comment by p_j_w in "Siri AI"

p_j_w — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:26:15 +0000

Is looking up nutrients a significant daily burden?

New comment by p_j_w in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

p_j_w — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:34:45 +0000

That’s the same MSRP as the Samsung foldable.

New comment by p_j_w in "Siri AI"

p_j_w — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:11:51 +0000

Why would having goals on fiber, protein, and vitamin intake be an eating disorder?

New comment by p_j_w in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

p_j_w — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:45:52 +0000

>The jokes about "5G gives you cancer" is probably not as funny, if you think about the sleep you miss while you doom scroll.

802.11g was good enough for that, no need for 5G.

New comment by p_j_w in "How liminalism became the defining aesthetic"

p_j_w — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:51:25 +0000

Where in this article do you feel that people are being looked down on?

New comment by p_j_w in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

p_j_w — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:38:36 +0000

The Chinese Communist Party and United Russia might say the same thing.

New comment by p_j_w in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

p_j_w — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:35:35 +0000

Indeed, but they do make a pretty compelling schadenfreude.