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New comment by soniman in "Police Across the US Welcomed Cop Show "The First 48." Then Relationships Soured"

soniman — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:13:35 +0000

Those cities don't want to be associated with crime. The show is not exactly flattering to Memphis, Atlanta, etc

New comment by soniman in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

soniman — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:32:29 +0000

HN just had a "Whoops we undercounted plant C02 absorption by 40% for the last 40 years" post so I would say the errors mostly go in one direction.

New comment by soniman in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

soniman — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:49:49 +0000

38 seems young to quit. Is there another story here?

New comment by soniman in "Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?"

soniman — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:44:57 +0000

It's the marginal dollar that contributes profit so the marginal employees are actually the most profitable.

New comment by soniman in "I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral"

soniman — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:48:49 +0000

They're complaining because they run human written sites but they've been deranked because Google can no longer tell human content from AI. Google is now privileging sites like Forbes, USA Today and Reddit. Google wants to rank their sites but it can't distinguish their content from the ocean of AI content. They have a legitimate gripe, that Google is no longer favoring niche content sites.

New comment by soniman in "Insider trader had all the answers"

soniman — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:03:58 +0000

Wow. I didn't think anyone was actually doing it but now I think it must be going on.

New comment by soniman in "Insider trader had all the answers"

soniman — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:40:13 +0000

Maybe "ad targeting info" is more accurate

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad...

New comment by soniman in "Insider trader had all the answers"

soniman — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:30:02 +0000

Wouldn't it be easier to get mobile tracking info about M&A bankers and figure out which companies and websites they're visiting?

New comment by soniman in "Comedy Theory (2022)"

soniman — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:59:26 +0000

If you are going to make a video about how comedy works you have to begin it with a joke and then use your theory to explain that joke. I don't want to hear your theory unless you give me something to think about first.

New comment by soniman in "How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)"

soniman — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:18:02 +0000

Brownlee is such a mystery to me. The #1 rule of Youtube is show energy, show enthusiasm. Brownlee is like if Urkel were given a sedative and told to review the latest iPhone

New comment by soniman in "Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?"

soniman — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:10:33 +0000

Of course it does. Do you think Nvidia likes being dependent on TSMC?

New comment by soniman in "Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?"

soniman — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:56:09 +0000

Microsoft bought shares of Apple when it was on its knees. The foundry business doesn't compete with Nvidia.

New comment by soniman in "Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?"

soniman — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:48:23 +0000

If Intel is critical to the US industrial base, why aren't Nvidia and Apple stepping up to support Intel? What is the point of $3T national champions like Apple and Nvidia if they ship the industrial base overseas.

New comment by soniman in "They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket"

soniman — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:32:03 +0000

Does anyone else use a cheap MP3 player and RSS feeds or am I the last dinosaur?

New comment by soniman in "Don't use "enshittification" use "platform decay""

soniman — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:35:54 +0000

The wikipedia article for enshittification is only about platforms because the word applies specifically to how networks grow and are monetized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Don't use "enshittification" use "platform decay"

soniman — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:02:06 +0000

Cory Doctorow's attempt to brand "platform decay" as "enshittification" is polluting the english language with an ugly and coarsening word. Instead of the self-exemplifying "enshittifying" use "platform decay" which is immediately intelligible.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41366616

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New comment by soniman in "The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim"

soniman — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:55:27 +0000

Platform decay is more accurate becasue it's not about general worsification, it's about platforms specifically. I realise that "platform decay" doesn't sell books but it's perfectly usable in ordinary speech .

New comment by soniman in "We found North Korean engineers in our application pile"

soniman — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:08:30 +0000

THe NK developer will think, wait, I'm making a fraction of what I'm actually earning, I will smuggle in a Starlink receiver and set up a bank account in China and work for myself. This is how Communist regimes end.

New comment by soniman in "EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution"

soniman — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:56:21 +0000

How much faster / smaller is this than a minimal Linux distro like Xubuntu?

New comment by soniman in "Elon Teases Tesla Telephone After Apple AI Announcement"

soniman — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:28:36 +0000

A Grok phone would be cheap to develop, would generate lots of data for his AI, and would fit with his strategy at X (everything app). It's not that far fetched.