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New comment by thegreatpeter in "Why Japan has such good railways"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:49:59 +0000

most of the japanese railway system is private. their 2 largest companies are some of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.

New comment by thegreatpeter in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

thegreatpeter — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:55:21 +0000

what are the dodgy meds? it provides a discount at the pharmacy if you pay cash and skip insurance. are you from here?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

thegreatpeter — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:53:48 +0000

have you seen some of the websites they've developed? they're actually quite nice. maybe joe hasn't gotten to mobile yet

edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/

New comment by thegreatpeter in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

thegreatpeter — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:29:14 +0000

You’re doing gods work sir, thank you!

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:18:05 +0000

“I absolutely agree that consumers and wage earners should not be exploited by the use of their data,” he said. “But it’s still overly broad and it’s still overly vague in very important parts. And I believe it’s overly simplistic in its definition of wage setting.”

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:36:16 +0000

Tesla’s manuals are all online and many of the parts sell for cost plus. You may be thinking of Ford and Toyota

New comment by thegreatpeter in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:23:53 +0000

There’s controlling competition in your own country and dominating global markets. Nothing wrong with either. It’s not like it’s not happening anywhere else in the world.

New comment by thegreatpeter in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:28:33 +0000

Definitely not bc these brands are being propped up by their government in order to flood world markets.

Everyone should be able to make a luxury 30k vehicle sustainably

New comment by thegreatpeter in "A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source"

thegreatpeter — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:02:09 +0000

It should be monetized to support the long term commitment

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find"

thegreatpeter — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:01:03 +0000

You also have the option of buying low and increasing your share of the market

New comment by thegreatpeter in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

thegreatpeter — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:43:03 +0000

Retail investors do just fine fleecing themselves on their own

The term fleecing means „there’s nothing left here, jump ship”. Do you really believe they’re going public to cash out this early in the game?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

thegreatpeter — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:41:48 +0000

If any of this were true they’d be doing much better and not pivoting

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

thegreatpeter — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:44:35 +0000

What are some examples of a tool the military wanted but the company refused to allow them to use it and getting away with it?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:13:25 +0000

So you believe Microsoft will start opening up coal plants again and not nuclear?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:10:40 +0000

So what’s the solution? No data center? Let the current landscape of power companies operate as is?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:05:22 +0000

Didn’t they choose Anthropic first and then all of this happened so they were forced to go with Grok?

Not adding up

New comment by thegreatpeter in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

thegreatpeter — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:28:49 +0000

Just practice. You will inevitably run into ppl that don’t want to talk. Don’t take it personally, don’t push it and try again

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

thegreatpeter — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:48:25 +0000

But why only demonstrate power over 12 people and not the alleged 1200+ that work there?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

thegreatpeter — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:01:04 +0000

where did you move your blog to? hetzner?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Over 65? Congratulations, You Own the Economy"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:45:03 +0000

All US billionaires make up like 8 trillion