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New comment by staplers in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

staplers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:48:08 +0000

They had to make it cool to make it palatable and not a slog for entertainment purposes. Without that it's just a depressing read of reality.

New comment by staplers in "Protopia"

staplers — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:21:14 +0000

It saddens me that these 2 simple things would go so far to fix so many problems. Knowing they are so far out of reach in current reality

New comment by staplers in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

staplers — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:14:57 +0000

  i have yet to bump into a story where an actually great game goes undiscovered.

By the very nature of it, you wouldn't...

New comment by staplers in "Discovery Loop"

staplers — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:51:38 +0000

Yea with my new Tree 2. Pre-order and VC funding accepted now.

New comment by staplers in "Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]"

staplers — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:50:18 +0000

All its mass is already on the water so it's not displacing anything. It probably made some splashes but it seems like a fairly round object rotating rather than smashing into anything

New comment by staplers in "Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains"

staplers — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:36:56 +0000

I've been to this area and being close to a road does not mean human contact. I drove on that road for nine hours and saw a handful of people/buildings.

"Towns" on a map might literally be a single home up there. It's as remote as can be even alongside utility roads.

New comment by staplers in "Discovery Loop"

staplers — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:50:50 +0000

  3. Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods

If only we could invent a solar-powered, self-replicating, carbon-stacking, habitat-building machine..

New comment by staplers in "Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?"

staplers — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:20:48 +0000

I think this highlights most how separated actual os' are from practical ai today (even while terminal apps live in them). If apple owned CC I could do this right in the macos gui. Instead apple ai is half baked and claude code gui is half baked.

It's similar to needing aol to get online in the 90s/00s. Eventually this will become built in and become invisible in a sense.

I'm glad someone is working on this because it's been annoying having to sacrifice process to gain capability.

New comment by staplers in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

staplers — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:26:32 +0000

That and they dont want butt dialing 911 to be easy

New comment by staplers in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

staplers — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:57:18 +0000

It's not "don't tread on us"

New comment by staplers in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

staplers — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:56:17 +0000

  do not have the money to invest in developing a camera system that is sovereignly owned by the city

That would render the city liable for handling the data which is already politically volatile. In America, if it's a commercial entity doing it then there is no liability and you can just fold the company if something bad happens.

New comment by staplers in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

staplers — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:11:39 +0000

Nimbyism is generally against a public good (low income housing, powerlines, etc)but there is nothing public or good about this.

Calling this nimbyism is billionaire psyop lol

New comment by staplers in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

staplers — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:40:39 +0000

Slavery isn't a single mechanism, rather a system of many things that keep it all running smoothly

New comment by staplers in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

staplers — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:39:32 +0000

Unfortunately not when convincing a large populace..

New comment by staplers in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

staplers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:06:54 +0000

https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-t...

New comment by staplers in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

staplers — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:19:07 +0000

  those would imply inflation was nearly 100% between the end of GFC and before the pandemic

... yes? There's many things I'm paying double for at this point from 10-20 years ago. Maybe you haven't noticed?

Streaming services, diapers, energy, etc. the list is long if you look deep enough

New comment by staplers in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

staplers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:52:35 +0000

That's done quietly behind the scenes so leaders can blame something else for inflation.

See "M2SL" or "TOTBKCR" on tradingview if you want to see inflation live.

New comment by staplers in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

staplers — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:21:08 +0000

  How does creating wealth hurt others?

Inflation. If i print $1 trillion dollars, i buy up all the resources you need to live and dangle them in front of you and control every aspect of your life.

New comment by staplers in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

staplers — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:50:44 +0000

A good doc on this subject: https://machines.cargo.site/

New comment by staplers in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

staplers — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:27:03 +0000

Dupont, WA is another