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New comment by throwaway20222 in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

throwaway20222 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:52:48 +0000

Listening to the heads of the American and European car companies say the same and driving in them in china. I know that is different than personally disassembling one and reviewing it, but I am not sure the incentive for the other companies to say they have inferior products, unless it was a play for subsidies or deregulation of some form.

Personally I feel that the rest of the world continues to dramatically under estimate China’s progress and technological advancement at our own peril. Is there fluff and are their lots of untrue claims, of course, but that is certainly not something they have a monopoly on.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Claude Fable 5"

throwaway20222 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:08:58 +0000

I wonder if this letter has anything to do with why anything even remotely related to biology is getting flagged.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-anthropic-letter-ai-biolo...

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

throwaway20222 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:58:21 +0000

If you are so outright against using AI, why would he care if you read his article about AI?

New comment by throwaway20222 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

throwaway20222 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:22:03 +0000

Even HN is astroturfed to heck and filled with bots. The ratio of good faith informed dialog to Reddit like slop in these threads is wild. The old HN would never have such “obvious” black and white answers.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

throwaway20222 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:46:44 +0000

My guess is you are right for some properties that WB owns outright, but legacy IP that has rights shared, especially pre-streaming rights will still have a lot of barriers/untangling to do.

I think Netflix is the most well run media company today by a mile, but also on the spectrum of quality/art -vs- straight money/tech domination they fall into the latter category, and they are the among the least friendly to creators as far as contract/rights.

We will see.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)"

throwaway20222 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:36:58 +0000

Why the down votes? Should I not believe my own eyes?

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Argentina's midterm election hands landslide win to Milei's libertarian overhaul"

throwaway20222 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:40:11 +0000

If not us tax dollars, how are they funded? Are the backed with full faith of credit of the us government? It’s hard to search for answers on this one.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?"

throwaway20222 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:21:00 +0000

Would you happen to have a stack ranked list of favorites off the top of your head?

New comment by throwaway20222 in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

throwaway20222 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:01:53 +0000

Can you explain your comment a bit more please?

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Long live American Science and Surplus"

throwaway20222 — Thu, 29 May 2025 03:48:20 +0000

In person you could also see their supplies of sodium and potassium in sealed glass containers. I always wanted to get my hands on those.

Like you said, so many motors and switches; likely a big part of the reason I do what I do for a living today.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

throwaway20222 — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:25:34 +0000

First comment. No submissions. This is the first and only reply that you had enough motivation to make?

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens"

throwaway20222 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:20:14 +0000

We are working directly with the Notebook team from the outside, and while they have lost the original product lead, the team in general is seemingly really well supported, staffed with talented folks, and actively trying to understand what the end user wants from the product. Hardly a day goes by that they are not actively trying to get more feedback and share where they are heading.

I do think it is fair to say they had been caught off guard by the success of the program and are trying to catch up. Maybe this is just a bit of drift as they are figuring it all out? Or maybe I am too charitable.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "The AI Investment Boom"

throwaway20222 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:23:59 +0000

There were hundreds of failed automotive companies and parts suppliers though. I think the argument is that many will die, some will survive and take all (most)

New comment by throwaway20222 in "A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)"

throwaway20222 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:26:46 +0000

I kept my dishwashing job on my resume for far too long under the title “hydro ceramics engineer.”

It was grueling work, but I met a lot of interesting people, one in particular turned me on to studying Chinese which changed the whole path of my life. Also gave me entre into bussing then waitstaff. Paid my way through high school car insurance and college surviving. Definitely under appreciated and under paid, but I learned a ton about working for a living.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google"

throwaway20222 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 02:07:30 +0000

From my experience crossing eras; the tools have improved, and there are still some amazingly brilliant people, but the amount of overhead and the ratio of top level, passionate builders has dropped meaningfully. I have had a priority project stuck in legal hell for six months because it’s just a morass of logistics. The project is benign but it doesn’t matter. We are ossified.

I look at it as somewhat inevitable considering the path the company has taken, but it is certainly different. We are cranking out money and that’s fine, but it is a change.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"

throwaway20222 — Sat, 11 May 2024 00:37:39 +0000

Small nit - coffee beans are often times better after 10-14 days of roasting and have had some time for degassing when making espresso. Earlier than that and you will get a lot more creme than you really want if you are going for a balanced shot. But in the end it’s all taste so I can also be wrong for your personal situation.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "The darker side of being a doctor (2017)"

throwaway20222 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:45:10 +0000

One of my friends I grew up with was “that kid;” smartest in the community, funny, played a mean guitar. Everyone loved him. Top of class. Harvard. Harvard med. Top placement for residency. Something happened during that time and he killed himself. It was absolutely unexpected from all of his friends. Shocking to say the least. Apparently it turned out to be stress from work, his hours, his fear of failing. Who will ever know, but it has been many years and it still stings.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)"

throwaway20222 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:15:43 +0000

I used to be into Olympic weightlifting and worked out at a gym of people that also took it very seriously. They were for the most part the farthest thing from “meat heads” as one could imagine. Except the one guy…

He found a container of powdered caffeine someone had brought and decided that he didn’t have to follow the instructions like normal humans. Not only that, he mixed up the measurements. In the end he took what very well could have been a fatal dose. Even with a visit to the hospital his heart rate was above 200 resting for over a day. They had to work to flush his system and whatever but he said it took weeks to sleep normally again.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "The cancer that some doctors don't want to call cancer"

throwaway20222 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 05:42:33 +0000

When my wife was diagnosed with thyroid cancer our doctor said the same thing was being discussed about reclassifying her diagnosis as well. His assertion was that a lot of thyroid cancers aren’t even discovered until post mortem from another cause of death. Also that the standard treatments are so effective, and in some ways unique to thyroid cancer (radioactive iodine treatment specifically) that the cure rate was very high.

This was a decade ago and while I remember reading up on it at the time, I don’t have any primary research to back this up so take it with a grain of salt.

New comment by throwaway20222 in "Dana-Farberications at Harvard University"

throwaway20222 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:02:21 +0000

Can you clarify what you mean please? And what evidence you have to support the social dynamics whichever way you are saying they are being swayed?

This is a genuine question because I may be the one with the religious beliefs, but I am not beyond them being questioned.