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New comment by thesis in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

thesis — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:25:34 +0000

Humans do this too though. I have close friends that ask for advice. Sometimes if I know there’s risk in touchy subjects I will preface with “do you want my actual advice, or just looking for a sounding board”

I’ve seen firsthand people have lost friends over honesty and telling them something they don’t want to hear.

It’s sad really. I don’t want friends that just smile to my face and are “yes-men” either.

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

thesis — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:09:19 +0000

FYI most beyond burgers have more in sodium not less and beyond uses coconut oil which is still fairly high in saturated fat.

If those 2 things are your barometer for healthy… it’s not a clear win.

Egypt's Giza pyramids: Radar finds underground structures

thesis — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:59:48 +0000

Article URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/egypts-giza-pyramids-mystery-deepens-radar-finds-underground-structures-twice-as-deep-as-the-eiffel-tower-stretching-across-2-km/articleshow/119335918.cms?from=mdr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448973

Points: 2

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New comment by thesis in "Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid"

thesis — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:55:57 +0000

Texas has these free electricity nights. Anyone know of a battery system that can fill the batteries at night (from the grid) and use them during the day? And then recharge at night again. Due to location solar isn’t an option but still interested in batteries due to free nights.

New comment by thesis in "Artificial intelligence gives weather forecasters a new edge"

thesis — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:10:06 +0000

Ah yes. The old 0% chance of rain today when it’s currently raining.

New comment by thesis in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

thesis — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:49:17 +0000

It's a weird vibe going on in this post. A lot of people are cheering the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I wonder how many know that the Taliban has all biometric/financial data that the US left behind enabling them to round up anyone who ever helped the US.

New comment by thesis in "Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts"

thesis — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:50:05 +0000

Sell it back at night when there's already a surplus of electricity? This is exactly why they want EV's charging at night, because there's less demand.

New comment by thesis in "Engineering household robots to have a little common sense"

thesis — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:38:23 +0000

I like my Roborock. YMMV though.

New comment by thesis in "FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals"

thesis — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:40:38 +0000

Isn't fraud already illegal?

New comment by thesis in "Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger"

thesis — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 23:36:34 +0000

The really cool part about this is The Campaign Registry who manages 10dlc registrations... is now owned by Tata Communications. A company based in India.

New comment by thesis in "Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency"

thesis — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 17:35:21 +0000

A crime? Not sure I agree in a isolated incident.

But I feel like it should be a crime to ignore a known issue like this.

New comment by thesis in "Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America"

thesis — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:11:51 +0000

I really don’t remember. But I kept getting people creating different accounts that I wouldnt know about until it went to collections and dinged my credit. Took me a couple years to finally get it locked down. After 5ish police reports and ftc identity theft reports that all these energy/cell phone companies require for you to dispute.

It’s maddening that these companies give out service with wrong variations of my name and no ID but then want me to jump through hours of hoops to get it removed from collections.

Luckily I got it all resolved prior to rates shooting up so I was able to refi at all time low rates or this would have cost me a lot of money.

New comment by thesis in "Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America"

thesis — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:31:39 +0000

Many people don’t know this but you also need to set up a freeze at https://nctue.com/consumers/

I had to deal fraudsters getting cell phones and also electricity to their apartment.

Setting a freeze up here solved it.

New comment by thesis in "Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?"

thesis — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:53:27 +0000

Anytime soon is one thing, but "If at all"? It's been happening for millions of years, and it sure seems like there still "activity" there.

Not sure what kind of scientist could say they don't expect it to ever erupt again?

New comment by thesis in "FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages"

thesis — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:56:25 +0000

Great until the hospital or police or your kids friends parents are trying to contact you.

New comment by thesis in "FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages"

thesis — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:20:52 +0000

You're not wrong. It's horrible. Want to hear something even more funny?

Twilio is forcing Tollfree Number registation and their current timeline is 6 weeks to approve. Well a week or 2 ago they decided that they wanted more data than what was currently submitted. So everyone is currently being denied and having to resubmit their registrations.

10DLC / Local numbers is madness in and of itself too. Forcing businesses to pay quarterly fees so these poor ol' carriers can have more recurring rev.

New comment by thesis in "Elon Musk Owns Twitter; CEO and CFO have left"

thesis — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:56:56 +0000

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/22815824658

New comment by thesis in "Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)"

thesis — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:21:59 +0000

Just a guess, but this likely has something to do with 10DLC and/or Toll Free Verification and all of the complexities that are being pushed by the carriers for users to register their numbers and even pay to use if you want to use 10DLC.

New comment by thesis in "Science is political, and that's a bad thing"

thesis — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:54:11 +0000

This is an interesting take. A fairly elitist take at that. You do realize that generally the people who live in the non-“better sections” (as you put it) of large cities generally vote in line with how the super highly educated elite people that live in Silicon Valley vote.

New comment by thesis in "Wealthy Americans moving to Florida at 4 times the rate of other states"

thesis — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:45:49 +0000

Because you're sick of their politics they shouldn't get federal help? Geez. That seems pretty extreme.

Forest fires in California, freezes in Texas, hurricanes in Florida, even hurricanes (Sandy) in the North East. Natural disasters happen in both (typically) democrat and republican states.

Are you sick and tired of the government allowing us to eat fast food, smoke cigarettes, and drink alcohol too? After all a large percentage of your tax dollars are going towards medicare and health.