Hacker News: throwaway29812

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial"

throwaway29812 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:38:46 +0000

You didn't define evil, which I think was on purpose. The United States does a lot of things with its military. But it does not jail elderly political opponents and sentence them to death for being a threat to the regime.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

throwaway29812 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:32:52 +0000

This seems to be the overall trend in AI. If you're an expert in something, you can see where it's wrong. If you're not, you can't.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign"

throwaway29812 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:13:24 +0000

> infidelity scandal

Seems quaint these days.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says"

throwaway29812 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:56:39 +0000

I seem to recall a vague statement about AI doing half of his company's work, which was never really defined either.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies"

throwaway29812 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:12:39 +0000

That's the one question I had over and over when Twitter was slowly dying. Do we really need another Twitter?

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America"

throwaway29812 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:58:29 +0000

Dictatorships do they best to make everyone convinced of this.

That way their way of doing business isn't questioned.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "The San Francisco stadium that fog killed"

throwaway29812 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:16:35 +0000

I thought that was what this was about.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "All political ads running on Google in the US"

throwaway29812 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:47:41 +0000

Here's one from X via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russia-f...

New comment by throwaway29812 in "DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says"

throwaway29812 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:08:02 +0000

Could they...employ their own services?

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AI–and Remote Work Is Why"

throwaway29812 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:00:43 +0000

Eric Schmidt works remotely.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Do quests, not goals"

throwaway29812 — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:50:08 +0000

> Scott Adams (before he went a bit cuckoo)

Apropo of nothing his book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" was excellent, I remember seeing when he first joined Twitter. I was one of his first few followers, even said "welcome" and he said "thanks".

Then he got divorced and angry and red pilled. Happens far too often..

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process"

throwaway29812 — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:36:22 +0000

> Are they just banking on people not caring enough or knowing about the refund process?

This seems to be the official policy for many retailers, insurance companies, etc. Hide the process, make it difficult, so you don't have to pay out as much.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI and Sky"

throwaway29812 — Tue, 21 May 2024 16:07:20 +0000

"she didn't want to accept credit for just happening to sound like the correct voice"

Are you being serious?

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI and Sky"

throwaway29812 — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:03:25 +0000

She very much did not. And the point is Sam said "we had no idea that voice sounded like her" when in reality they built it with that in mind.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI and Sky"

throwaway29812 — Mon, 20 May 2024 23:48:30 +0000

Dude can't tell the truth about anything.

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal"

throwaway29812 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:19:13 +0000

I don't think i'm going to hear "Are we calling all software updates recalls now?" anymore

New comment by throwaway29812 in "Ancient counterfeiters and their fake coins"

throwaway29812 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:03:32 +0000

neoclassical architecture !

New comment by throwaway29812 in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

throwaway29812 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:48:11 +0000

That game was so, so good. Do you know any others that feel the same way? (doesn't have to be about hacking)

New comment by throwaway29812 in "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better"

throwaway29812 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:47:06 +0000

If his point was "most things are getting better than they used to be, going from awful to still not good", what's wrong with that?

If the criticism against him is "he's picking the wrong data" and Berggren then picks his own data to make his point, it's that a bit of a carousel?

New comment by throwaway29812 in "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better"

throwaway29812 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:34:13 +0000

What is a summary of the criticism? Is the data wrong or in some way misrepresented? It seems like the author doesn't like the attention Hans received.