Hacker News: pirate787

New comment by pirate787 in "Challenging the Narrative of European Decline"

pirate787 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:13:41 +0000

Krugman so badly wants this to be true. But handwaving away massive difference in IT innovation and in practical data like housing size and vastly greater American consumption does not make it true. Just 20% of European homes even have air conditioning. European industrial energy costs are more than 2x the U.S. Don't ignore the data. Europe is behind and falling behind at an ever-faster clip. And the strategic issues of continued vast unskilled migration into Europe and the need to re-arm in a post-NATO world are further economic burdens that will tip most of Europe into middle-income status.

New comment by pirate787 in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

pirate787 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:11:00 +0000

Piketty is just a marxist flailing around, backfilling data to fit his belief that communism is the solution for every problem. He's been spectacularly wrong in his predictions so far, for example he said Milei would be "devastating" for Argentina and the opposite is the case.

New comment by pirate787 in "Waymo Premier"

pirate787 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:09:11 +0000

This is the real issue:

"Uber received over 400,000 sexual assault and misconduct reports between 2017 and 2022"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/uber-liable-pay-8-5-million-...

New comment by pirate787 in "Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began"

pirate787 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:53:17 +0000

Also interesting is that the US didn't need the base and was able to operate command and control from South Carolina.

New comment by pirate787 in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

pirate787 — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:07:54 +0000

In the UK the establishment is generally unsettled by the display of the English flag.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/uk/st-george-flag-england...

New comment by pirate787 in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

pirate787 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:52:06 +0000

Mississippi is one of the recent education success stories though.

New comment by pirate787 in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

pirate787 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:50:19 +0000

The change was in fact designed to make the scores jump. The purpose is compressing the top scores to allow universities to be more subjective and still have high averages

New comment by pirate787 in "EFF is leaving X"

pirate787 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:41:45 +0000

Part of the replacement is declaring white Americans don't have a culture. Would you say the same about black Americans?

New comment by pirate787 in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

pirate787 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:17:45 +0000

The center has already shifted to Musk, SpaceX is 83% of global lift capacity. Artemis is flying an obsolete rocket at insane cost, and higher risk.

New comment by pirate787 in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

pirate787 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:57:05 +0000

Maybe more people should listen to Musk's political message. The Biden Administration was playing nasty games, blocking progress on both SpaceX and AI generally.

New comment by pirate787 in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

pirate787 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:42:54 +0000

No the downvote is from smearing an individual for the political activities of his grandfather.

New comment by pirate787 in "1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak"

pirate787 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:18:19 +0000

While this leak may or may not have happened, for this type of exposure there should be criminal liability for developers and executives. Criminal negligence and prison time.

New comment by pirate787 in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

pirate787 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:28:43 +0000

either you allow a democratically elected government to do everything they want that is legal, or you insert private corporate decision-making into every government decision which is untenable

New comment by pirate787 in "We Will Not Be Divided"

pirate787 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:10:10 +0000

Your take is a call for civil war. You're obviously wrong about "treason" since even larger majorities voted for Trump in 2024.

New comment by pirate787 in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

pirate787 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:37:37 +0000

It's almost like the democratically elected government gets to decide the name, not Google!

New comment by pirate787 in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

pirate787 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:36:29 +0000

Don't deadname the Gulf!

New comment by pirate787 in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

pirate787 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:08:05 +0000

He also elected the guy who did a 180 on AI regulations and stopped FAA harassment of SpaceX.

New comment by pirate787 in "Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions"

pirate787 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:18:56 +0000

A big driver in increasing entrepreneurs in the US has been DEI and H1-B driven racism against white men. For example in 2021 only 6% of all the people hired by major US companies were white. An entire generation was locked out of traditional corporate career paths, and turned to startups and crypto.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/major-us-companies-g...

New comment by pirate787 in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

pirate787 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:33:41 +0000

Plenty of Americans are ready and able to do the work if the conditions and wages are at the market rate. We're addicted to abusing the illegal immigrant underclass. Returning undocumented people to their homes is the moral issue of our time; Trump is ending a system of neo-slavery.

New comment by pirate787 in "EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push"

pirate787 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:36:24 +0000

Import substitution has failed consistently as an economic strategy.