Hacker News: smarf

New comment by smarf in "U.S. science is in chaos"

smarf — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:01:10 +0000

'just let the bully beat on you, otherwise they will be justified in escalating'

New comment by smarf in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

smarf — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:20:41 +0000

> more power to them

that seems to be the idea!

New comment by smarf in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

smarf — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:27:40 +0000

the implied suggestion that we should not seek to remedy anything that is not the worst thing that has ever happened to the species seems more like bait than the article

New comment by smarf in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

smarf — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:37:02 +0000

or, perhaps, they are wryly pushing back against the USA capturing a generic geographic term for themselves

New comment by smarf in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

smarf — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:41:07 +0000

could you provide some further information on this? it seems to contradict other studies, such as: - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11239739/

New comment by smarf in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

smarf — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:52:51 +0000

the suffering is mainly because of extreme wealth hoarding and profoundly selfish use of resources; overcrowding could be easily solved for all people if we as a species decided it was important

New comment by smarf in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

smarf — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:16:04 +0000

...did you skip human socialization?

New comment by smarf in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

smarf — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:44:52 +0000

"surveil me harder daddy"

New comment by smarf in "The Pentagon threatens Anthropic"

smarf — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:07:11 +0000

can you quote where they claimed the above was your statement?

New comment by smarf in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

smarf — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:26:31 +0000

> the only vice you don't have to ingest an outside substance for

to name a couple: gaming, prostitution (okay you might incidentally ingest an outside substance but YOU DON'T HAVE TO)

New comment by smarf in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

smarf — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:05:49 +0000

'stealing is fine if you lose money when reselling'