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New comment by shlant in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

shlant — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:17:24 +0000

you didn't answer the question. A shovel in this case is the equipment + energy needed to mine (GPU's etc.)

New comment by shlant in "Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists"

shlant — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:24:17 +0000

> You could also reduce heart attack and stroke risks by not eating crap and going for a walk every so often.

Oh wow it's so simple! why has nobody thought of this before??

New comment by shlant in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

shlant — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:15:36 +0000

> Airpods didn't invent noise cancelling, Bose has been selling them since 2000

I didn't say they did but the Airpods are essentially best in class for this

> Unless you need wireless, get something wired

Them being wireless is a huge part of the "convenience" side of the equation

New comment by shlant in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

shlant — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:36:37 +0000

> AirPods became popular because they were fashionable and now they’re unfashionable.

You don't think a significant number of people use Airpods because they are good value and convenient? I know that's why I got them. The noise cancelling alone is worth it

New comment by shlant in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

shlant — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:51:54 +0000

you think humans don't like being alone because they are conditioned to feel that way? And you can just be ok with being alone when you realize this?

New comment by shlant in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

shlant — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:07:59 +0000

free as in beer is clearly what they mean. They are a non-profit talking about pricing.

New comment by shlant in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

shlant — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:20:34 +0000

> I don't really think LLMs have done that much to change the actual situation around ability/outcomes

from my own experiences and many others I have seen on this site and elsewhere, I'm not sure how anyone could conclude this.

> it doesn't seem to me like it's actually leveling up mediocre programmers to "very good" ones

Oh well then if this is your metric then maybe your take is correct, but not relevant? From the top level comment I thought we were talking about the bar being lowered for building something thanks to AI and you don't need to become any better at being a programmer to do so.

New comment by shlant in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

shlant — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:47:45 +0000

a touchpad malfunction that only happens after an OSX update?

New comment by shlant in "ChatGPT Health"

shlant — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:02:56 +0000

"besides obvious things like being discriminated against for insurance"

New comment by shlant in "ChatGPT Health"

shlant — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:44:40 +0000

you think ChatGPT was purposefully and maliciously prompted to tell someone they had ADHD?

and your reasoning for this is what?

New comment by shlant in "Eat Real Food"

shlant — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:28:02 +0000

> I think cows get to much blame

I think that incredibly biased channel and extensively criticized video gets too much credit

New comment by shlant in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

shlant — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:15:44 +0000

> People forgot or simply don't realize how much better life was just 3-4 decades ago

Are you just saying this thinking no one will ask you to back it up with data? Care to quantify what "so much better" actually means?

New comment by shlant in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

shlant — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:01:38 +0000

yea that's not normal for LSD at all. NBOMe?

New comment by shlant in "The suck is why we're here"

shlant — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:48:22 +0000

I know "try this other tool" is probably an eye-roll-worthy response, but as someone who's not a programmer but is in IT and has to write some scripts every once in a while and has a lot of AI-heavy dev friends - all I've ever heard about Copilot is that it's one of the worst.

I recently used Claude for a personal project and it was a fairly smooth process. Everyone I know who does a lot of programming with AI uses Claude mostly.

New comment by shlant in "The battle to stop clever people betting"

shlant — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:51:09 +0000

> Isn’t the point to let all players have a fairly equal chance?

Do you genuinely think this is why clever players are banned?

> Someone’s going to win the money regardless, so it’s not like you’re saving money.

What? banning people who have a better edge vs. the house won't save money?

New comment by shlant in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

shlant — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:45:04 +0000

yea people in this thread saying 8-12 for psilocybin and 12 is short for LSD tells me these are either heroic doses or hyperbolizing.

New comment by shlant in "Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level"

shlant — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:28:19 +0000

salt was always advised to be limited, especially for those with high blood pressure. This hasn't changed, there are just vocal diet ideologues (mostly carnivore/keto) that are trying to post-hoc rationalize otherwise.

New comment by shlant in "How getting richer made teenagers less free"

shlant — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:06:58 +0000

> Your peers are now way more aware of child abuse, kidnappings, murders, than your parents were

does being more aware of these things mean you necessarily make better decisions overall for you children? Are humans good at translating news they see into accurate risk assessments?

New comment by shlant in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

shlant — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:08:33 +0000

> We should just start shooting down anything big enough to need a transponder that is not using one. Doesn't matter who's in it, doesn't matter what it's for.

indistinguishable from what someone in the current administration would come up with

New comment by shlant in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

shlant — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:27:01 +0000

can't tell if this is sarcasm