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New comment by sdellis in "An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data)"

sdellis — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:43:35 +0000

What information correlates to an increase in number of homes for sale?

New comment by sdellis in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

sdellis — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:17:56 +0000

Expressing a preference between two choices is not how I would measure what listeners want. What they should have been testing is whether the listener ends up playing the track over and over and singing along to every word of the track. I think you would end up with a very different conclusion if you measured passion and not preference. This study merely reflects what the companies want to measure.

New comment by sdellis in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

sdellis — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:57:19 +0000

If they are fighting a PR war over the use of the word "genocide" to describe their actions, the ship has already sunk.

New comment by sdellis in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:10:19 +0000

I hate to tell you, but no generation is particularly interested in starting families at this moment in history. This is the closest thing the world has gotten to a general strike to force capitalism to slow its roll.

New comment by sdellis in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:43:05 +0000

Because AI cannot be trusted as a reliable source of information. Information is more trustworthy when it comes from from primary sources on the open web.

New comment by sdellis in "What Happened to Talenti?"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:31:37 +0000

If that's really how you feel about your customers, it may be time to get out of whatever business you're in. To get back to the point, Talenti's loss of quality is in no way related to consumer greed.

New comment by sdellis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:13:40 +0000

I am working on absolutely nothing. It feels great and I am making incredible progress. Highly recommend!

New comment by sdellis in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:47:26 +0000

If you read the article, he is not saying that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself. He's saying that Israel's right to defend itself has been a lie told to justify the genocide they are carrying out in Gaza.

New comment by sdellis in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:41:37 +0000

If you are looking for the "call to action," you are missing the entire point of the article. There have been millions of calls to action for over 50 years and they have not made any difference. The point is that we must sit with the fact that it is too late. We have made our death bed and now we must be prepared to deal with what comes next.

New comment by sdellis in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:35:16 +0000

AI is literally burning through vast amounts of fossil fuel, all so we can write more homogenous emails and vibe code useless things, and your proposal is moar AI?

New comment by sdellis in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:32:28 +0000

Over 70% of Americans oppose data centers being built in their local area, yet they continue to be built, even when local elected representatives publicly oppose it. It's easy to see who really has the power and how futile elections can be.

New comment by sdellis in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:28:48 +0000

It's a great idea if we subsidize it the way that fossil fuels are subsidized.

New comment by sdellis in "Taste Is All That's Left"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:22:11 +0000

You cannot separate "taste" from the question of "why do I make things at all?" because they are inextricably bound. The reason for your making something is where taste is expressed.

New comment by sdellis in "What Happened to Talenti?"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:50:27 +0000

Or you could just work hard and put your kids through college by making an honest living producing an honest product. Greed is what is destroying our world, and it is also the obvious one-word explanation for what happened to Talenti.

New comment by sdellis in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

sdellis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:42:06 +0000

For the accumulation of wealth and power. This is the natural consequence of unregulated capitalist incentives. Do you think the corporations care about the individuals?

New comment by sdellis in "Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself"

sdellis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:30:04 +0000

Blursed!

New comment by sdellis in "What Happened to Talenti?"

sdellis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:28:47 +0000

I scream, you scream, we all scream at AI!

New comment by sdellis in "What Happened to Talenti?"

sdellis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:26:37 +0000

The best solution for everyone is to come up with a quality product that people like, price it fairly, and then don't enshittify it. Win-win!

New comment by sdellis in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

sdellis — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:39:00 +0000

The use of imagination and creativity to solve real-world problems.

New comment by sdellis in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

sdellis — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:31:00 +0000

Social and political are very different, unless you are overly concerned with accumulating power within your social relationships.