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New comment by spencerflem in "I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) and Author of New Book "Incorruptible" - AMA"

spencerflem — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:08:08 +0000

Yeah, the bio in About specifically mentions that they are not the famous one

New comment by spencerflem in "I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet"

spencerflem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:51:53 +0000

I don’t understand the vision in the blog post, but I’m very excited to try out the Arcan-net as described in http://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2026/01/26/a12web/

New comment by spencerflem in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

spencerflem — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:17:20 +0000

Haha, good catch- we’re not.

New comment by spencerflem in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

spencerflem — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:29:31 +0000

This is my experience as well.

New comment by spencerflem in "Google changes its search box"

spencerflem — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:46:58 +0000

I think the idea is the google is the bot

New comment by spencerflem in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

spencerflem — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:57:44 +0000

They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.

I’m not talking about the network itself but the servers on the other end.

I guess my point is that while Google is definitely malicious, I don’t think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative.

New comment by spencerflem in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

spencerflem — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:48:56 +0000

I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.

I hear ‘web of trust’ pretty often and I like the idea but that’s not anonymous or accessible either

New comment by spencerflem in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

spencerflem — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:49:13 +0000

Delivering mail is meaningful for sure! So is teaching, people want to do these things and sometimes it lines up that there’s a market for it too.

The premium is that stuff like my job where I’m fiddling on Azure is to the benefit of no one and making four times as much.

If you want something meaningful you have to accept worse conditions because all the wonderful lovely people of the world who care and want to make a difference want to work there and not somewhere else.

And it’s interesting you picked mail as an example, when at least in the USA it’s run by the state ;p

I don’t really think it’s horrible that it’s not possible to mooch off your community and give back nothing forever but I don’t think ‘a little incentive’ is the right way of putting it, especially for all the people that hate their jobs for reasonable reasons but stay at it because of the alternative.

New comment by spencerflem in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

spencerflem — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:06:35 +0000

The ‘little incentive’ that it you don’t do it you starve to death.

There’s tons of work being done because it feels meaningful, later today I’m cooking a meal for a potluck, etc. but if you want your Job to be meaningful that comes at a huge premium.

New comment by spencerflem in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

spencerflem — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:44:11 +0000

I don’t think being anti-capitalist necessitates being anti “perform a skilled role or responsibility that's useful for your tribe”. To me, that’s the big benefit- under capitalism you’re not working for your tribe, you’re working for a tiny few shareholders.

I’m pretty sure the world overall and certainly “my tribe” would be better off if the job I’m working just never got done

New comment by spencerflem in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

spencerflem — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:18:40 +0000

They’re the ones doing it lol

New comment by spencerflem in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

spencerflem — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:21:47 +0000

I still like the name Bard

New comment by spencerflem in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

spencerflem — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:30:24 +0000

In my experience games crash a lot less often than the windows file explorer

I feel like we give what’s some pretty impressive engineering short shrift because it’s just for entertainment

New comment by spencerflem in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

spencerflem — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:04:10 +0000

Not to stand up for Claude Code in any way, I don’t like the company or use the product. This is just a related tangent-

one of my favorite software projects, Arcan, is built on the idea that there’s a lot of similarities between Game Engines, Desktop Environments, Web Browsers, and Multimedia Players. https://speakerdeck.com/letoram/arcan?slide=2

They have a really cool TUI setup that is kinda in a real sense made with a small game engine :)

https://arcan-fe.com/2022/04/02/the-day-of-a-new-command-lin...

New comment by spencerflem in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

spencerflem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:53:26 +0000

Why do you think they’re jealous of future fraudsters?

But like genuinely, this sort of take confuses me so much. It’s like, if someone made fun of Putin and the consensus was that they’re just jealous they don’t have a country of their own to run.

New comment by spencerflem in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

spencerflem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:45:36 +0000

Why do you think they’re jealous of fraudsters?

New comment by spencerflem in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

spencerflem — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:09:25 +0000

USA tried this with the CHIPS act

New comment by spencerflem in "Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine?"

spencerflem — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:42:05 +0000

Yeah I’m with you. Hate to assume such things but with how much AI spam is out there on programmer blogs these days I kinda just give up reading the blog post once something becomes confusing. Most of the time there’s not any insight to be learned by investigating deeper.

This one also has a lot of Its not X, its Y type phrasing

New comment by spencerflem in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

spencerflem — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:07:13 +0000

Cool! Thank you

New comment by spencerflem in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

spencerflem — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:47:59 +0000

Maybe if most people would agree the corporation is big and bad and should have penalties, it’s more democratic to go with that decision that the decision nine unelected philosopher kings come up with.