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Donald Trump Jr-backed startup scores $600M US Federal government deal

throwaway4736 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:44:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/952f37ba-78b4-42a4-8d1b-2258de65f2c0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165440

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by throwaway4736 in "The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden"

throwaway4736 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:10:30 +0000

Ah, Sweden. Gave us “Enigma” by Phenomena and all of the music of Radix, Lizard King, Firefox, Mantronix, and Jogeir.

As good as it gets!

New comment by throwaway4736 in "The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras Is Not Unethical (2019)"

throwaway4736 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:12:23 +0000

That line jumped out at me too. It makes no sense and only serves to confirm a conclusion he had already made.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

throwaway4736 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:47:07 +0000

Why did you let the article that was posted about a16z and Daniel Penny get flag killed so many times?

It’s so lame and tiresome —- powerful tech people look like idiots, it gets killed on here.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "[dead]"

throwaway4736 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:57:47 +0000

That is as pathetic as it gets. Regardless of how you feel about Daniel Penny’s role in the death of Jordan Neely, he is wholly unqualified for that job and it is the exact kind of virtue-signaling nonsense that a16z and others have been braying about non-stop.

It’s just so tiring and so gross. Like, what are we doing right now? What is happening here?

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine"

throwaway4736 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:06:27 +0000

OpenRCT2 is amazing as well. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 was an absurdly entertaining game, and this wrapper makes it even better.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Lessons from Palantir Alums About Building a Tech Company"

throwaway4736 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:58:26 +0000

The hagiography of Palantir on here is so tiresome.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Learning not to trust the All-In podcast"

throwaway4736 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:18:22 +0000

[flagged]

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Learning not to trust the All-In podcast"

throwaway4736 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 23:18:56 +0000

Ha. Imagine believing this. Yeah, please let me know when Chamath corrects the record on the topic in question.

These guys are charlatans. These lying idiots have absolutely no shame in misleading you, and you are falling for it.

“Oh, it’s just entertainment. Oh, it’s just opinion. Oh, you shouldn’t take them seriously.”

No. Absolutely not. I refuse to give them a pass. We have to stop normalizing this behavior. Ethics matter. Character matters. The truth matters.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote"

throwaway4736 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:38:30 +0000

It absolutely is. Go look at the racial demographics of the neighborhoods where DMVs are being opened and closed. And then ask yourself which racial groups, at large, are more likely to have time in their day to sit at an inconveniently located DMV and what party they most often vote for.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike"

throwaway4736 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:13:26 +0000

Don’t do this.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser"

throwaway4736 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:43:14 +0000

I would have thought Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor would have had a hand in it.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

throwaway4736 — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:37:41 +0000

Enshittification.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "27 Years Ago, Nintendo Almost Revolutionized Digital Games with Nintendo Power"

throwaway4736 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:05:09 +0000

Sega Channel was very similar to this, and was completely awesome.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Ottertune.ai Is Shut Down"

throwaway4736 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:39:22 +0000

Huh. That looks like an insanely qualified founding team. Not a big enough market?

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Europe's biggest problem: It is falling way behind America's powerhouse economy"

throwaway4736 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:57:59 +0000

Huh. My understanding based on article after article talking to the average voter is that the American economy is garbage, that milk is now $37, and the only way to reverse it is to elect a convicted felon.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet"

throwaway4736 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:59:14 +0000

Gurbaksh is truly a world class piece of shit.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Suno, an AI music generator"

throwaway4736 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:24:18 +0000

This reads like paid placement to me. Gross.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Fortress Investment Group Decimated Newspapers Before Gutting Vice"

throwaway4736 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:10:40 +0000

Diana Moskovitz (and the team at Defector) is an absolute treasure. The absolute decimation of Deadspin at the hands of Gawker/Spanfeller is one of the biggest disappointments of my lifetime.

New comment by throwaway4736 in "Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)"

throwaway4736 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 04:44:32 +0000

The CEO who signed all of those term sheets is STILL crying, like five years later, about how badly he supposedly got hosed, as if someone else’s signature is on all of those documents. It’s pathetic.