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New comment by throwaway132448 in "Houses are for living, not for speculation"

throwaway132448 — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:14:05 +0000

Unaffordable housing turns entrepreneurship into a rare privilege.

Whether you think that’s a good thing or not depends on whether you _actually_ believe in meritocracy or not. I’ve found most people don’t believe in it as much as they say they do.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber"

throwaway132448 — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:53:18 +0000

2007 called they want their free-market philosophy back.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

throwaway132448 — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:44:17 +0000

Google loves this pattern. It's what pushed me away from them.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

throwaway132448 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:04:39 +0000

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. I miss actual capitalism with actual competition and anti-trust enforcement, not the oligopolies, regulatory capture and government-picked survivors we have now.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

throwaway132448 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:00:30 +0000

The same reason Palantir does: Its their brand - it’s just marketing.

Glad people are finally catching on.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

throwaway132448 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:06:00 +0000

Why did the title get editorialized from the original to omit key facts? That’s some sleazy modding HN.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

throwaway132448 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:02:51 +0000

This is pseudo-intellectual drivel. Creating value and then charging for it is not creating “artificial scarcity”, any more than doing nothing is creating “artificial scarcity” by absence of value. There was no “infinite resource” that just happened to exist before the work was put in to create it. And creating value is - almost by definition - completely orthogonal to zero sum games.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

throwaway132448 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:31:24 +0000

Congrats you just invented someone for you to be mad at. Maybe lay off the rage bait for a little bit?

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

throwaway132448 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:41:42 +0000

Talking about South America as a homogeneous unit is… weird. Even neighbouring countries speaking the same language can be entirely different in this regard.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

throwaway132448 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:58:15 +0000

It’s funny how much people on X resent the freedom for alternatives to exist.

As always it’s because it’s never actually about free speech, just freedom of consequences from their own choices and behaviour.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

throwaway132448 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:56:22 +0000

Are you proud of this comment? Is this the person you wanted to be when you were a kid? Disputing whether a Nazi salute was actually a Nazi salute because the executor of the Nazi salute doesn’t have the skill to execute it correctly?

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

throwaway132448 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:44:40 +0000

Ok, so remove “these articles” and replace with “this” and my point still stands.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

throwaway132448 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:38:34 +0000

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New comment by throwaway132448 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

throwaway132448 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:41:23 +0000

There are over 8 billion people on earth.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

throwaway132448 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:39:56 +0000

Hopefully this time we can keep going for what we can do for engineering instead of what we can do for science.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

throwaway132448 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:48:47 +0000

The stupidity that makes depriving one of your senses seem like a sensible thing to do in a busy chaotic environment.

I don’t actually mind people doing that though. What is annoying is the entitled attitude that there should be no consequence for that choice, and everyone else should orbit/compensate around their lack of situational awareness.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

throwaway132448 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:12:22 +0000

I don’t know what this means.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

throwaway132448 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:03:36 +0000

Literally PR.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

throwaway132448 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:53:01 +0000

There’s been enough divergence between words and actions from Amodei for me to also consider him deceitful, if that’s really the low bar you want to set. I’m not saying he’s worse than Altman, just to be clear.

New comment by throwaway132448 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

throwaway132448 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:54:16 +0000

I don’t need to convince you, we’ve been through enough cults of personality, time will tell. But I’ve been right enough times to back myself. Maybe it’s because I grew up around a lot of people like them? They can’t hide that they would say whatever they think you want to hear.

Actually it’s funny: Their lack of empathy/emotional intelligence would also make them susceptible to thinking that talking to an LLM is like talking to a person, so maybe they really did think AGI was around the corner!