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New comment by skinnymuch in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

skinnymuch — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:35:03 +0000

This is HN where people using text files only is the best way to do things and being semi-Luddite is the way.

FSD is amazing. Any notion it takes more effort to use it than driving is made up.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields"

skinnymuch — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:47:24 +0000

(1) is written as if other forms of govt like a typical liberal democracy in the west or Europe give their citizens much of a choice.

New comment by skinnymuch in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

skinnymuch — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:00:33 +0000

Ukraine never really had nukes. Only technically.

NATO is bad for the world so any one fighting it are pretty cool. Which seems to be Russia and Korea.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:31:50 +0000

“destitution” I am not referring to this. I was referring to the political/economic meaning of the word. Not about not making a lot.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:03:16 +0000

I don’t get what you’re saying. There is a paused civil war due to outsiders (whites, UN, etc) interfering and still occupying half the country.

Not sure what you mean what crime did the current outsider occupiers commit after they did a genocide (and not using this lightly. There aren’t that many genocides)?

Sob stories are available against/for every major human conflict. The story you linked isn’t really relevant even to the severity of what we are talking about.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:59:13 +0000

Wage slavery doesn’t literally only refer to wages. I was referring to the political meaning. Not something you can go to the dictionary for.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:37:33 +0000

Those scholars are blowhards. Trump is basically the same as any other time. As you state the US is unipolar in how it treats Others. Aka authoritarian.

Blowback was great I should finish that season.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:35:12 +0000

Oh yeah you don’t know what you’re talking about haha. The west isn’t a dictatorship! Only the Others.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:33:22 +0000

I don’t think you know what “communist standards” means.

> “North Korea is economically isolated because they refuse to be normal even by communist standards.”

“Kim is isolated because she refuses to be normal like the other submissive housewives beaten by their husbands”

You are blaming the victim while acting like the aggressor oppressors actions are not their own responsibility.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:29:37 +0000

The US has been authoritarian for a long time. What else do you call a society that keeps on humming along while doing various genocides via a culturally embedded Monroe Doctrine mentality.

New comment by skinnymuch in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

skinnymuch — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:28:19 +0000

It is slavery. Chattel slavery is much more severe than what we normally consider slavery. Yet “slavery” and chattel slavery are both still slavery. The reason what you’re saying is so accepted is because we are currently living under a universal liberal world order that says wage slavery id freedom.

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

skinnymuch — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:41:21 +0000

I have the opposite problem. Spending time with people is difficult for a few years now. Even though I was born in the west and have only known this world. Now I will be leaving the west soon.

Something I’ve wanted to do for reasons for 1-2 years. I will usually say it’s because of my finances/possible recession. That is a helpful practical benefit. Reasons due to a series of life events that “broke” my worldview during and right after the pandemic causing this [purposeful] loner situation are the actual reasons.

I wish I didn’t feel this way. It sucks never wanting to talk or hang out with the remaining people I am in touch with.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

skinnymuch — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:34:08 +0000

Reminds me of all the Covid data trackers in mid 2020

New comment by skinnymuch in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

skinnymuch — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:59:56 +0000

Not sure what that letter said but open source^ isn’t good and I’m what people would incorrectly stereotype as someone who would love open source as a Marxist [sympathizer].

^outside of specific scenarios where it fights back against the status quo like open source AI models.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

skinnymuch — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:51:05 +0000

Still seems silly when meme stocks exist and the establishment (like entire media and news apparatus) can and do collude to mess with things (like “Black Monday” ~2021 when all the media and news lied and said wall street bets and meme stonk people had moved on to silver) and within days all the meme stock gains across over a dozen companies were entirely wiped out.

Not saying meme stocks should be a thing but no one gets investigated or in trouble. Nothing is done. If they cared about the average person something would be done.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

skinnymuch — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:34:52 +0000

I’m not the most well versed but isn’t that still insane to be 4x valuation of PayPal? Maybe it’s more PayPal valuation being crap vs Stripe being too high. Adyen is close to PayPal with a PE of 30 (vs PayPal’s sub-10) and Adyen like PayPal is close to being back to its IPO level.

PayPal seems crazy when it has acquired businesses like Honey (probably hasn’t helped) and Braintree/Venmo since then. Pretty funny PayPal was spun off as the better growth stock but eBay has tripled since then and their market caps are the same now.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

skinnymuch — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:54:16 +0000

“Used for a specific thing”. Democracy doesn’t mean liberalism. You can’t take a word and make up a meaning. Democracy is a govt that is the will of the people. China is quite literally democratic per that definition. While Europe and the west are not at all.

Also electoralism isn’t democracy. The west is not the entire world. What the west says does not make things so.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

skinnymuch — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:52:38 +0000

It obviously is how? Because they are yellow Asians and not white like you? Hilarious that Europe and the west’s govts are not liked by their people. China’s is. And yet these same westerners act like China is the non democratic and non free country.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

skinnymuch — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:51:37 +0000

How can they be democratically independent when the entire continent is controlled by NATO? Democracy means something. Democracy can’t exist while you’re a vassal state.

New comment by skinnymuch in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

skinnymuch — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:50:32 +0000

China existed 100 years ago. Hong Kong is Chinese. I have never come across a person who isn’t a bigot and raging chauvinist who tries to act like the Chinese civilization and the PRC are distinct things. Though not saying you are, you may be an exception