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New comment by partloyaldemon in "U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues"

partloyaldemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:45:15 +0000

You’re the only one in the thread that gets any of this right. But: Monetizing the debt is replacing one asset (treasuries eg) that pays interest with a nominally equal asset that doesn’t (US dollar). How does that spur inflation? It’s a reduction in income over time. How does paying back our debt IN FULL hurt our credit worthiness?

New comment by partloyaldemon in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

partloyaldemon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:35:18 +0000

I use the “natural” method for blocking Facebook ads.

New comment by partloyaldemon in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

partloyaldemon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:44:50 +0000

Ok. Now help me get spotlight to index my mirror-style Google Drive. Seems only this level of genius could accomplish it.

New comment by partloyaldemon in "AltTab is introducing a Pro version and staying open source"

partloyaldemon — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:41:45 +0000

the titular feature is still free and strong!

New comment by partloyaldemon in "AltTab is introducing a Pro version and staying open source"

partloyaldemon — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:39:45 +0000

the titular feature is still free and strong!

New comment by partloyaldemon in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

partloyaldemon — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:43:19 +0000

All the downsides of your cliched agi nightmares but with the “intelligence” of your bog standard national security functionary

New comment by partloyaldemon in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

partloyaldemon — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:29:45 +0000

You can be a greedy pig and be an idiot simultaneously. You can see how those two things might even be correlated, no?

New comment by partloyaldemon in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

partloyaldemon — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:51:37 +0000

I've had those times in swift in a terrestrial setting!

New comment by partloyaldemon in "Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink"

partloyaldemon — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:46:05 +0000

If he knew, why didn’t he tweet something that did not make him seem like an impulsive fool?

New comment by partloyaldemon in "VSCode's SSH agent is bananas"

partloyaldemon — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:44:48 +0000

what is the type of application that was hinted as being murid? I couldn't crack that one.

New comment by partloyaldemon in "The Google Willow Thing"

partloyaldemon — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:42:30 +0000

"except now with the PR blitz from Sundar Pichai on down"

I definitely read this first pass and thought 'damn the CEO is hitting its own quantum supercomputer with bug reports'. that's cold. It just came out.

New comment by partloyaldemon in "FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities"

partloyaldemon — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:43:18 +0000

I'd recommend a PNC checking account. Solves a lot of issues related to storing value without counterparty risk.

New comment by partloyaldemon in "FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities"

partloyaldemon — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:32:39 +0000

Not worthless! Just, you know, worthless right now.

New comment by partloyaldemon in "Show HN: I created a browser automation tool"

partloyaldemon — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:01:43 +0000

I'll check it out. Thanks!

New comment by partloyaldemon in "Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement"

partloyaldemon — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 06:20:41 +0000

Chancery courts will compel performance of this transaction absent a showing of an material adverse advent. Very, very high bar. The buyer is a highly sophisticated investor and the grounds that he is alleging form the basis of the breach of contract were and are public information that has not materially changed nor been alleged to have materially changed since the signing of the merger agreement. Moreover, and most critically, it is not being alleged that spam accounts have any substantial impact on the earnings of Twitter. Thus, the courts will obligate Musk to buy the business as he agreed to in April.

New comment by partloyaldemon in "Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement"

partloyaldemon — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 05:57:41 +0000

They are absolutely suing to compel performance at the accepted price.