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New comment by pie420 in "EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Starlink"

pie420 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:20:41 +0000

what are you talking about? this is happening all the time in the US with Spacex+USGOV, Boeing+USGOV, etc.

New comment by pie420 in "EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Starlink"

pie420 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:19:45 +0000

I don't see anything wrong here. here's what could also happen, but has not:

> EU does thing the US hasn't

HN: OH SHIT USA NEEDS TO HURRY UP AND DO THING TOO

EU just needs to stop being behind technologically.

New comment by pie420 in "We all took the DVD boom era for granted"

pie420 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:58:48 +0000

shot-for-shot recreations are a waste of time. a robot or algorithm could copy. we watch adaptations to see a new perspective on an old tale. if you want a copy, just read the original.

New comment by pie420 in "We all took the DVD boom era for granted"

pie420 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:56:42 +0000

The retelling of a story can never damage the integrity of the original, and it is very foolish of you to even suggest that it could. The original is always the original, and is unimpacted by anything that comes after...

This is as silly as suggesting that Tolkien's work somehow tarnishes or damages nordic/germanic mythology. utterly ridiculous.

New comment by pie420 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

pie420 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:29:07 +0000

Usually illegal, not always wrong.

New comment by pie420 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

pie420 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:26:20 +0000

Why? I'm not in a gang or a mob, so i am safe from their silly little squabbles. I don't care how many gang members kill each other. I also don't care how many people die in DRC civil wars, because I am not in the DRC. I don't care about people dying on other planets and in different galaxies.

New comment by pie420 in "U.S. math scores drop on major international test"

pie420 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:59:40 +0000

18th out of 50 is not excellent for a HEGEMON country that essentially rules europe, south america, and half of asia. I imagine Britain was better than 18th out of 50 during the height of the british empire.

New comment by pie420 in "Kagi Teams"

pie420 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:26:08 +0000

product made by monopoly company worth $2T is better than small startups with less than 30 employees. shocker. the reason people are supporting Kagi is because we see the trend with google quality and we want alternatives, even if they are currently worse. it's called activist consumerism. it's why we supported AMD when they were at the brink of bankruptcy, and now look at their CPUs and look at intel.

New comment by pie420 in "Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals"

pie420 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:48:31 +0000

You're describing hypochondria

New comment by pie420 in "ChatGPT Pro"

pie420 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:55:26 +0000

ah yes, you must work at the company where you get paid per line of code. There's no way productivity is measured this accurately and you are rewarded directly in any job unless you are self-employed and get paid per website or something

New comment by pie420 in "ChatGPT Pro"

pie420 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:51:34 +0000

nothing chatgpt says is with maximum confidence. the EULA and terms of use are riddled with "no guarantee of accuracy" and "use at own risk"

New comment by pie420 in "Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine"

pie420 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:14:30 +0000

An institution of culture. something the new money tech elite dont seem to understand. modern society is desperately missing the concept of noblesse oblige

New comment by pie420 in "Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)"

pie420 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:17:38 +0000

You must be a super-taster. Some percentage of the population is super sensitive to taste, and think everything is overseasoned. You must be one of those people. Other people need 2-3x the flavor to match what you taste.

New comment by pie420 in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"

pie420 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:55:57 +0000

AMD had Lisa Su, who does intel have?

New comment by pie420 in "Facebook's Little Red Book"

pie420 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:30:59 +0000

i'm sure there's lots of tech optimists in absolute numbers, but my personal experience in the bay area has been that a vast majority of my friends in tech and tech adjacent have become highly pessimistic of the current tech landscape, AI, VR, etc.

New comment by pie420 in "Why are doctors wary of wearables?"

pie420 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:09:20 +0000

the answer, as always, is hypochondria. i used to be a hypochondriac and it is crazy how much more im seeing my peers have hypochondria

New comment by pie420 in "Google Plummets Nearly 6% as DOJ Targets Chrome, Android in Monopoly Crackdown"

pie420 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:20:34 +0000

good

New comment by pie420 in "To Cope with Extreme Heat, Paris Will Swap Parking Spaces for Trees"

pie420 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:15:01 +0000

It was shocking to see China last month. Every city I visited (Shanghai, Suzhou, Changshu) had tons of trees recently planted everywhere, and it made the cities amazing to be in. Besides being clean, trees everywhere made the cities feel green and cozier than they had any right to feel. Western countries need to plant as many trees as possible in big cities, it's such an easy way to make cities cooler, quieter, cozier, and obviously nicer and greener.

New comment by pie420 in "Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis"

pie420 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:18:09 +0000

let he who hasn't engaged in some ethnic cleansing cast the first stone

New comment by pie420 in "AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia"

pie420 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:14:16 +0000

layperson with no industry knowledge, but it seems like nvidia's CUDA moat will fall in the next 2-5 years. It seems impossible to sustain those margins without competition coming in and getting a decent slice of the pie