Hacker News: shitlord

New comment by shitlord in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

shitlord — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:39:39 +0000

When the music stops, this type of trade simply stops being profitable. It only works because of SpaceX's insane P/E.

New comment by shitlord in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

shitlord — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:01:37 +0000

A lot of people made money off the Iran war, through regular old publicly traded stocks.

New comment by shitlord in "New gas-powered data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than whole nations"

shitlord — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:43:19 +0000

A lot of environmentalists are just degrowthers and NIMBYs. During the Biden administration multiple groups sued to block high voltage transmission lines for clean energy.

New comment by shitlord in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

shitlord — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:17:29 +0000

Policies enacted elsewhere usually don't have the Brussels Effect.

New comment by shitlord in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

shitlord — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:32:41 +0000

The organization that publishes the WPFI also considers online harassment a major threat to press freedom and scores accordingly.

New comment by shitlord in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

shitlord — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:50:07 +0000

Sure, but fear has little basis in statistics. People still worry about plane crashes and instead opt to drive.

New comment by shitlord in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

shitlord — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:54:44 +0000

There’s a big difference between someone who happens to live in a city and someone who is reliant on public transit.

New comment by shitlord in "AWS Service Availability Updates"

shitlord — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:36:04 +0000

Ironically that's a domain where AI could be genuinely helpful and reduce MTTR.

New comment by shitlord in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

shitlord — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:32:28 +0000

That would not cross the line.

New comment by shitlord in "New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation"

shitlord — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:21:12 +0000

I don't think the union is corrupt. The union's job is to advocate for its members. The legislators' job is to say "no, you're asking for too much".

New comment by shitlord in "Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported"

shitlord — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:43:57 +0000

I set up Bitwarden for my dad who keeps forgetting his passwords. It seems to work well on his PC and Android phone.

New comment by shitlord in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

shitlord — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:35:20 +0000

That's not true. They also enrich the lawyers' preferred nonprofit organizations.

New comment by shitlord in "Updates to H-1B"

shitlord — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:45:49 +0000

I wonder why US citizens aren't regularly exploiting this. Subscribe to the newspaper, apply to the job, and sue the company when they ignore you.

New comment by shitlord in "The Onion buys Infowars"

shitlord — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:47:35 +0000

I miss the autistic reporter. That guy was my favorite.

New comment by shitlord in "I quit Google to work for myself (2018)"

shitlord — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:34:48 +0000

Google doesn't exactly pay top of market.

New comment by shitlord in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

shitlord — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:17:02 +0000

By that logic, Mark Zuckerberg is a poor leader and should resign. I think most investors would disagree with that assessment.

New comment by shitlord in "Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods"

shitlord — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:14:00 +0000

That quote is actually attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, one of Stalin's top goons.

New comment by shitlord in "US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward"

shitlord — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:17:05 +0000

That explains the random names, but what's with the upper case lettering?

New comment by shitlord in "US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward"

shitlord — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:46:31 +0000

Why is it so common for Chinese sellers on Amazon to have uppercase company names?

New comment by shitlord in "California fails to track its homelessness spending or results, a new audit says"

shitlord — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:30:23 +0000

The TSA isn't just annoying. Air travel is safer than driving, so by disincentivizing flight, they have arguably produced many traffic fatalities.