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New comment by spamizbad in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

spamizbad — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:46:44 +0000

I think the ultra-wealthy are just operating under what they think they need to tell people in order to get the outcomes they want. You're only going to hear the truth - or something correct - if its to their benefit.

New comment by spamizbad in "Iran's South Pars Gas Field Is Attacked by Israel, Sending Energy Prices Soaring"

spamizbad — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:53:51 +0000

Sorry but this is on the United States. Israel's government has been wanting a show down with Iran for a while but we've typically functioned as the adult in the room to keep the piece - obviously that changed with Biden and now Trump, but Americans own this one.

New comment by spamizbad in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

spamizbad — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:47:23 +0000

Banks have zero appetite for taking any operating responsibility for these firms and will work tirelessly to get them off their books ASAP.

New comment by spamizbad in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

spamizbad — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:05:09 +0000

You don't need a crystal ball to understand a conservative supreme court would require the government to refund what amounts to an illegal tax on American businesses. If you stick your hand into a fire you don't need to speculate as to whether you'll get burned.

New comment by spamizbad in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

spamizbad — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Also: They've figured out they can "force" AI adoption top-down at many workplaces. They don't need to convince you or even your boss - they just need the C-suite to mandate it.

New comment by spamizbad in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

spamizbad — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:09:45 +0000

I'll say: You made the right call striking while the iron is hot. My employer did one of those "Didn't need to but did it anyway" rounds and it was critical for a successful exit that came years later.

New comment by spamizbad in "Vibe coding kills open source"

spamizbad — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:39:11 +0000

> AI's / LLM's have already been trained on best practices for most domains.

I've been at this long enough to see that today's best practices are tomorrow's anti-patterns. We have not, in fact, perfected the creation of software. And the your practices will evolve not just with the technology you use but the problem domains you're in.

I don't mean this as an argument against LLMs or vibe coding. Just that you're always going to need a fresh corpus to train them on to keep them current... and if the pool of expertly written code dries up, models will begin to stagnate.

New comment by spamizbad in "DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online"

spamizbad — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:35:55 +0000

Given ICE's unpopularity this is like trying a find a very specific piece of hay in a hay stack.

New comment by spamizbad in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

spamizbad — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:32:43 +0000

You're counting the entire US military budget as "NATO spending" which is not a useful way to look at things. We only contribute roughly $800M to NATO's shared budget (about 16%)[1]

[1]https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/us-contributes-16-nato-an...

New comment by spamizbad in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

spamizbad — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:15:44 +0000

> There's no chance US will default on its debts

Until Trump says he's going to, then his boosters will declare its a genius maneuver and actually its Joe Biden's fault (Joe made him do it!)

New comment by spamizbad in "[dead]"

spamizbad — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:11:21 +0000

ICE was going door-to-door asking people for information about their Asian (Hmong) neighbors.

New comment by spamizbad in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

spamizbad — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:19:05 +0000

Jerome Powell is not a Democrat.

New comment by spamizbad in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

spamizbad — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:18:20 +0000

It's also for very stupid reasons: The fed dropping rates to the degree that would satisfy Donald Trump would greatly accelerate inflation which in turn would further upset voters, who would in turn blame Donald Trump (just like they did Biden before).

New comment by spamizbad in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"

spamizbad — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:44:22 +0000

If my choice is jail or relocate and find a new job and home in a city with passable public transit (even if its just the bus) I know which one I'd pick.

New comment by spamizbad in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"

spamizbad — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:37:43 +0000

Yeah I feel like the United States could dramatically improve its road safety if it kept maybe 1-3% of its drivers off the road permanently.

New comment by spamizbad in "The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat"

spamizbad — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:12:27 +0000

They still do this. The difference is, in my experience, is that parents are totally cool with their kids cheating. I've overheard parents openly mention it at line-up at school.

Hate to say "back in my day" but even as a millennial raised by laid-back parents I'd have been in deep shit if I cheated.

New comment by spamizbad in "Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban"

spamizbad — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:46:44 +0000

The good news is Emmanuel, although a media gadfly, isn't well liked by Democratic voters so he won't make it out of a Democratic primary.

New comment by spamizbad in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

spamizbad — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:06:17 +0000

Well that's capital's problem. Don't make it mine!

New comment by spamizbad in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

spamizbad — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:46:49 +0000

> To me, any software engineer who tries an LLM, shrugs and says “huh, that’s interesting” and then “gets back to work” is completely failing at their actual job,

I don't understand why people seem so impatient about AI adoption.

AI is the future, but many AI products aren't fully mature yet. That lack of maturity is probably what is dampening the adoption curve. To unseat incumbent tools and practices you either need to do so seamlessly OR be 5-10x better (Only true for a subset of tasks). In areas where either of these cases apply, you'll see some really impressive AI adoption. In areas where AI's value requires more effort, you'll see far less adoption. This seems perfectly natural to me and isn't some conspiracy - AI needs to be a better product and good products take time.

New comment by spamizbad in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

spamizbad — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:52:19 +0000

What’s funny is as I get older this feeling of relief turns more like a feeling of dread. The nice thing about problems that you cause is that you have considerable autonomy to fix them. Cloudflare goes down you’re sitting and waiting for a 3 party to fix something.