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New comment by sbayg in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

sbayg — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:48:41 +0000

I could sort of imagine plausible reasons for that, but not allowing sim pin seems… nonobvious.

New comment by sbayg in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

sbayg — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:45:28 +0000

MDM is the worst part of iOS. It undermines all of apple’s security claims, basically making iOS windows. Devices should not be able to be remotely controlled.

New comment by sbayg in "GPT-5.6"

sbayg — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:36:25 +0000

History moves left to right.

New comment by sbayg in "DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat"

sbayg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:44:34 +0000

Wait, are you saying leadership at those institutions (say the Washington post) secretly want to help Trump while appearing to be aligned against him, because of say the Zionism angle or like maybe Bezos wants a president that will lower his taxes? If so, that’s not a thing many ears would be able to hear here. More parsimoniously, perhaps the journos and pundits crying wolf (to discredit Trump’s critics) are acting alone. It only takes a few, because real idiots on the internet will latch on to the farcical nonsense and amplify it further. It doesn’t mean NYT/WAPO stand for false flags, it just means they have some political actors within them using plausibly deniable attacks on Trump to help him because they are for lower taxes/zionism/etc…

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

sbayg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:06:37 +0000

I wish there was an investigation but the CCP blockaded any inquiries, going so far as removing the computers and not cooperating with international authorities. /s

New comment by sbayg in "DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat"

sbayg — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:05:55 +0000

False flag farcical comments will always be a thing.

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

sbayg — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:04:25 +0000

COVID19

New comment by sbayg in "DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat"

sbayg — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:44:23 +0000

Just because most of critics are brain dead morons doesn’t mean Trump is a great guy or above the same level of scrutiny shown to previous presidents.

New comment by sbayg in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

sbayg — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:26:48 +0000

What people deem to be subjective is very often subjective. You disagreeing simply proves the point.

New comment by sbayg in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

sbayg — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:32:40 +0000

Ever had a CTA or other plaque study done? Athletes have plaque often, but so do stoners. Supposedly stoned plaque is stickier and thus more deadly.

New comment by sbayg in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

sbayg — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:03:02 +0000

Subjective being subjective

New comment by sbayg in "My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?"

sbayg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:29:58 +0000

Why don’t you go elsewhere?

New comment by sbayg in "OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’"

sbayg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:47:12 +0000

Strange conclusion to reach. Taxes are generally assessed periodically (annually for income, property taxes, etc…). Time is money. The tax assessor always comes back for more, as long as there is more to tax.

New comment by sbayg in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

sbayg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:44:05 +0000

Courts do award higher damages, specifically punitive damages, to punish and deter wealthy or large corporate defendants. In civil law, the defendant's net worth is a recognized legal factor because a small penalty on a massive corporation wouldn't incentivize them to change their illegal behavior.

New comment by sbayg in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

sbayg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:14:27 +0000

I feel you but are you possibly conflating civil and criminal justice? Tickets don’t scale with net worth of defendants, but class action penalties often do.

New comment by sbayg in "U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators"

sbayg — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:54:11 +0000

When we killed Kennedy. That was the point we should have admitted being the bad gays.

New comment by sbayg in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

sbayg — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:46:24 +0000

Maybe Spain has people on the inside (of Huawei.)

New comment by sbayg in "OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’"

sbayg — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:26:51 +0000

Why assume it wouldn’t sell shares? If the state can take 5% ownership, it can sell that 5% for profit, and come back for another 5% next year. Ideally the rules on when to sell would be systematic, or made by a neutral bipartisan committee of advisors, but I suspect maybe it would be just be up to the treasury (like the crypto it now holds).

New comment by sbayg in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

sbayg — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:14:16 +0000

But we have AI now to guide us and it will help ensure we prevent most major ecological miscalculations. The context is different now, given the change in the cost of planning and research into ecological side effects, unlike anything we had in the past.

New comment by sbayg in "Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?"

sbayg — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:00:25 +0000

> patriotism and pride

You realize nationalism is the source of all evil in the world, right? Is Brin even a citizen?