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New comment by seanicus in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

seanicus — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:23:19 +0000

Not sure how things work on the backend but we're missing "alcohol" or "vodka" in the headline on HN, as it is on the page.

New comment by seanicus in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

seanicus — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:00:23 +0000

CHIRP radio https://chirpradio.org/ in Chicago is so, so good. Very very eclectic.

New comment by seanicus in "Why are Flock employees watching our children?"

seanicus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:03:52 +0000

I think at this point we have to accept the fact that SV and tech founders in gernal are 60%+ p##os and 39% p##o enablers.

New comment by seanicus in "Why are Flock employees watching our children?"

seanicus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:57:10 +0000

>>Great use of tax dollars.

I get the sentiment but just note that if you discuss this in public your answer to the problem of staff watching video of kids is... less regulation?

New comment by seanicus in "Turns out the DOGE bros who killed humanities grants are sensitive about it"

seanicus — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:09:07 +0000

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

I'm an anti-imperialist so I do appreciate America's efforts to paint the international stage with it's brains. Not sure if what comes next will be better but I'm optimistic.

New comment by seanicus in "$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents"

seanicus — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:16:58 +0000

Any recommendations for how to approach K-12 math teaching? Got some (very) little ones and doing our best but both parents are definitely more humanities-brained

New comment by seanicus in "Who sets the Doomsday Clock?"

seanicus — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:28:15 +0000

The Doomsday Clock really strains credulity; I'd love to see a case for how we're closer to (as defined in this article) total nuclear annihilation or even a limited exchange than we were at any point in the cold war. The case is not convincingly made by any of the subjects in the article.

Nuclear proliferation is still something to be taken with deadly seriousness but the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences needs to cut the hyperbole and present their case more convincingly.

New comment by seanicus in "The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough"

seanicus — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:21:53 +0000

In the universe of the Butlerian Jihad are you SURE that replacing "program" with "pogrom" was a mistake?

New comment by seanicus in "Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban"

seanicus — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:58:52 +0000

>>In China, the govt is more authoritarian

Gonna need a citation on that one

New comment by seanicus in "Larry Ellison wants the U.S. to 'unify all the national data and then feed to AI"

seanicus — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:31:27 +0000

Yeah, but it's going to require a lot of thoughtcrime persecution before the rest of the US comes to that conclusion.

New comment by seanicus in "Accenture to 'exit' staff that cannot be retrained for age of AI"

seanicus — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:59:32 +0000

"Former" CIA

New comment by seanicus in "The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer"

seanicus — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:39:06 +0000

Lived in SE Asia fora few years and my understanding is that tan skin = outdoor labor = lower caste.

My spouse is asian and I'm N Euro - I would kill to have skin that just tans no matter how much sun you get. I think I've seen her get burns twice in over a decade and we do a lot of beach time.

New comment by seanicus in "China is eating the world"

seanicus — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:27:24 +0000

I love the threat of displacing billionaires out of our economy whenever taxing the wealthy comes up like the monied class aren't already incredibly sophisticated tax cheats

New comment by seanicus in "China is eating the world"

seanicus — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:24:23 +0000

That firewall isn't going away anytime soon. Americans are inundated with a deluge of foreign influence campaigns from a variety of foreign powers and no way China wants that pain revisited upon themselves.

New comment by seanicus in "China is eating the world"

seanicus — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:21:46 +0000

It's hard to imagine what could even constitute a modern Sputnik moment, but it's an interesting thought experiment. I just don't think that Americans care enough, and both countries are way more dependent on each other than the US and USSR ever were.

Caveat I've been wrong on pretty much every political prognostication I've ever made, so buy some defense industry stocks.

Maybe US gets really good at maglev trains and in reprisal China goes full throttle on inventing teleportation/hyperdrive tech?

New comment by seanicus in "Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers"

seanicus — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:22:51 +0000

Same admin that opposes any real reporting on what they're doing except for entities that report glowingly on them. Trump Admin has loudly clashed with any and all legit journalistic entities (bad news: Newsnation and Zero Hedge are conservative hacks) so no reporting can be believed except ones approved by the state/Trump admin.

New comment by seanicus in "Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers"

seanicus — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:58:18 +0000

If one wants to be called a nazi, one should not be surprised by their results.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

New comment by seanicus in "US retail giants raise prices due to tariffs"

seanicus — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:23:01 +0000

Lol wait wait... RRSP is equivalent to US 401K, right? You can't contribute to your 401K the entire year when you buy a house?

Agree w/ everything you said and have similar feelings. My SO is from Toronto and we've always considered moving but mix of job market/housing prices have continually convinced us otherwise.

New comment by seanicus in "How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes"

seanicus — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:17:00 +0000

Well Actually I think you mean corporations exercising their right to free speech

New comment by seanicus in "How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes"

seanicus — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:16:20 +0000

There might be a little more going on with Spain's (and the US's) economy than just Wealth Tax.