Hacker News: pirate787

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.

New comment by pirate787 in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

pirate787 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:06:34 +0000

EV have far more tire wear because they are heavier and also probably from regenerative braking

New comment by pirate787 in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

pirate787 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:31:44 +0000

That was Best store in the 1980s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products

New comment by pirate787 in "Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard"

pirate787 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:55:03 +0000

I agree but the argument is better framed as Mary Beard is a modern scholar with a rigid intersectional world view that is highly moralistic and highly judgmental from the perspective of modern norms around violence, feminism and racism. She sneers down on Roman notions of virtue and patriarchy.

New comment by pirate787 in "SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia"

pirate787 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:15:55 +0000

I doubled my bitcoin profit and got out at $1,000!

New comment by pirate787 in "South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility"

pirate787 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:32:04 +0000

The US military physically occupied and restructured the governments of Japan and Germany. A better example might be Vietnam, which has become a US partner but it took a couple generations.

New comment by pirate787 in "Hiroshima (1946)"

pirate787 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:36:40 +0000

That may be the greatest understatement ever written!

New comment by pirate787 in "The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League"

pirate787 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:30:03 +0000

Both Russia and Germany engaged in scorched earth destruction when on the retreat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCGhqhKK-8

New comment by pirate787 in "Donate to the Treasury to help pay down the $36.7T public debt"

pirate787 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:10:56 +0000

The intergovernmental holdings are accounting placeholders representing the Congressional raid on past Social Security surpluses. It's absolutely meaningful because those obligations are coming due as the program runs increasingly in the red. As legal obligations, they aren't binding the way public debt is, but current Social Security retirees have been promised these funds, and the government is already borrowing more from capital markets to meet these obligations. The current pace is $4.1 trillion in new borrowing by 2033 according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Basically the intergovernmental holdings are getting converted to more public debt.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/social-security-trust-f...