Hacker News: sam345

New comment by sam345 in "Claude Opus 5"

sam345 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:50:53 +0000

Loser. Loose means opposite of tight.

New comment by sam345 in "Claude Opus 5"

sam345 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:49:26 +0000

Is this a bot? Sounds like ai

New comment by sam345 in "John C. Dvorak has died"

sam345 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:28:46 +0000

Legend. R.I.P. John.

New comment by sam345 in "Qwen 3.8"

sam345 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:24:19 +0000

Oh please. Yes it's what it is about. China stealing western technology and flooding the market with underpriced stolen ip to bolster dependency.

New comment by sam345 in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

sam345 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:24:12 +0000

Only if the CCP doesn't like you or decides that it doesn't like you because you are more valuable as an enemy. Otherwise it's no big deal because politics in a communist country does not get done without bribes in one form or another. Honest players are not to be found in a communist country. Government is like open source. The more open you are, the less likely there is going to be shenanigans.

New comment by sam345 in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

sam345 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:30:52 +0000

Incorrect. Maybe you familiar with the high cost of living areas. There are similar $5 deals in the United States. The US is a big place and has many, many businesses offering very similar deals.

New comment by sam345 in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

sam345 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:06:16 +0000

How are you defining monopolies? Companies that are successful? Because you seem to be defining most US companies that do business in Europe as monopolies. It seems that this is the kind of mindset that has kept Europe behind. Too bad. Regulation that keeps out competition or needlessly puts obstacles in place is bad for the consumer, bad for employment, and bad for the general standard of living. And If you think US companies are unregulated then you haven't seen the 20 ft of federal CFR regulations together with the regulations of 50 different states that US companies have to deal with everyday.

New comment by sam345 in "The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble"

sam345 — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:58:05 +0000

My thoughts exactly. At most you get a surplus of cheap third tier AI. Which may or may not be helpful. And or a bunch of unused unmaintained deteriorating data center buildings.

New comment by sam345 in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

sam345 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:24:35 +0000

Please explain. Your comment reveals your lack of understanding of corporate law and the benefits of one state versus the other. And smart companies are going to incorporate in Texas anyway and it has nothing to do with taxes. More to do with corporate governance.

To Beat China, Embrace Open-Source AI

sam345 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:28:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/to-beat-china-embrace-open-source-ai-a211bf59

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814739

Points: 2

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New comment by sam345 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

sam345 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:15:23 +0000

It has nothing to do with condoning. It has everything to do with stating what the law is And what is or is what is not required to comply. And what is and what is not permitted under the Constitution. Whether you like it or not has nothing to do with anything.

New comment by sam345 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

sam345 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:52:22 +0000

Shsh... It's an excellent reliable no frills service. People might flood it.

New comment by sam345 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

sam345 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:48:41 +0000

I don't think fastmail is going to help you. They are subject to legal requirements too and probably American jurisdiction also despite what their particular position is. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmails-servers-are-in-the-u.... People love to hate Google but they're just doing what any corporation subject to law is going to do.

New comment by sam345 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

sam345 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:37:45 +0000

Is that really what you're concerned about that somebody would ask a soft ball question about proposed solutions? Why is questioning the buildup of brush a crazy idea? It's been a mainstream concern for years. I really don't think it's healthy for any inquiry to propose a particular mindset and shut down alternative thinking. It doesn't seem very scientific or intelligent to me.

New comment by sam345 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

sam345 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:21:10 +0000

Knowing that Google will do what changes your calculation? Abide by the law? I would be surprised if Google's so-Called promise to notify the subject of the inquiry was not couched in terms of being subject to legal requirements. Companies are not activists, and they shouldn't be expected to act like activists.

New comment by sam345 in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

sam345 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:53:07 +0000

Some of them supported them because they were pressured into it. Grocery bans of bags and payment etc. are a PITA for customers. No business in it's right mind would force that on their customer unless they were required to. Passing the cost on to their customer is not an issue. Supporting laws requiring payment etc. are cost benefit analysis. Is it worth fighting the bad PR etc or go along. But obviously they wouldn't have provided the bags in the first place if it was not a competitive benefit to them.

New comment by sam345 in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

sam345 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:38:58 +0000

This is changing. 8 GB will be more normal given ram shortages. See apples neo..

New comment by sam345 in "Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks"

sam345 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:21:43 +0000

All the smart people said fossil fuels bad and renewables were the answer. Now not so much? Nuke is good but why not try lighter regulation, less central planning, and less trying to be smarter than the market and science. Stifling energy innovation and flexibility with central planning is never going to get efficient clean and sufficient energy to support a healthy growing economy that leads to growing standard of living for all.

New comment by sam345 in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

sam345 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:44:13 +0000

I for one am glad that WordPress has some competition. This sounds like a killer rewrite.

New comment by sam345 in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

sam345 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:14:45 +0000

Meaning it's supply. Overall dupply low because fossil fuels discouraged and penalized, demand high, price high.