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New comment by stevenally in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

stevenally — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:37:30 +0000

Depends how the farming is done....

https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertif...

New comment by stevenally in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

stevenally — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:05:39 +0000

"But then how can the former category continue to fulfill their obligations?".

They can't. Just like the steel workers who lost their jobs in the 1970's.

New comment by stevenally in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

stevenally — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:48:58 +0000

Good point. There is a difference between using AI as a translator and using AI to write comments from scratch... Maybe the HN guide lines could reflect this.

New comment by stevenally in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

stevenally — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:23:43 +0000

"then I am hopefully helping decrease the return advertisers get by using personal information".

Arguably, clicking on the ad but never buying would have a stronger negative affect. The advertiser pays for your click but gets no return...

I use an adblocker too.

New comment by stevenally in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

stevenally — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:54:20 +0000

In the USA California, Texas, Delaware etc all have different company registration and compliance processes. This has not damaged the business environment.

It should be left to each EU country to decide how to manage their company compliance processes. Those companies can then easily trade all over the EU.

You can easily set up a company in Ireland.

The EU does not to over reach with one-size-fits-all regulations. That will eventually lead to it's dissolution. It needs to concentrate on maintaining a free trade area.

New comment by stevenally in "The Post-American Internet"

stevenally — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:29:20 +0000

Crappification is a better word.

New comment by stevenally in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

stevenally — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:41:44 +0000

"I think it continues to be under-appreciated how much of a lead Tesla still has in EVs".

As long as you don't compare them to BYD etc.

New comment by stevenally in "Most of What We Call Progress"

stevenally — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:09:09 +0000

This is a really excellent essay. Deserves to be widely read.

New comment by stevenally in "Why doesn't anything work anymore?"

stevenally — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:54:07 +0000

Exactly. Occasionally a really good well designed reliable product comes along. But then over time time it gets crappified. The only exception seems to be some open source software.

New comment by stevenally in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

stevenally — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:12:22 +0000

NVidia only owns 4% of Intel. They won't be able to dictate it's direction.

New comment by stevenally in "Cursed, a genz programming language made by Claude in a 3-month loop"

stevenally — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:24:09 +0000

Finally AGI is here......

US Pulls TSMC China Waiver

stevenally — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:37:12 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-pulls-tsmc-waiver-china-203406976.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111343

Points: 8

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New comment by stevenally in "95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report"

stevenally — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:56:58 +0000

"Because the customer wasn't the user - it was their boss and shareholders".

Previous management fads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_fad

Obviously in the right contexts, these methods provided value. But they became widely misapplied, causing a lot of harm.

And the Wikipedia list is far from exhaustive.