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New comment by thruway516 in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

thruway516 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:28:23 +0000

'Class','taste' etc these are all very subjective. One could argue that Mr Beast built all of his fame from scratch and didnt have it handed to him or having to sleep with some powerful gatekeeper - something you can't say about all your 'classy' hollywood stars. If you go back a century you can probably find people kvetching about the lack of class of these new fangled movie people compared to the theater stars of their day (who actually had to know how to act)

New comment by thruway516 in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

thruway516 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 03:30:35 +0000

Steal from the public not powerful well-connected financial institutions

New comment by thruway516 in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

thruway516 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 03:14:42 +0000

I dont think they had to lie to Yahoo to do it though. Everyone believed in the froth of dot-com and plenty of dumb money just there for the taking from the likes of Yahoo. Kinda like today with all the AI froth.

New comment by thruway516 in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

thruway516 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 03:00:13 +0000

> After all is said and done, Charlie Javice will be hanging out at a prison camp—probably down there with Holmes and Maxwell, because it's cushy—and do no more than 4 years

I don't mind that outcome. She did not knowingly sell a product that could harm the public or abuse and traffic children, so it wouldn't be unfair or a travesty of justice like with those other two (especially that last one)

New comment by thruway516 in "Ask HN: Why No Crypto / Web3 links?"

thruway516 — Wed, 28 May 2025 03:27:57 +0000

Im curious about what you're building and what techical challenges you're facing/solving? Does it involve a token, nft, or getting rich quick? If yes my curiosity will probably be very very low since it sounds like 99% of crypto projects.

New comment by thruway516 in "A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy"

thruway516 — Sun, 04 May 2025 20:25:00 +0000

and they are friends and like minded. Even more impressive when you consider that is close to half the population of Vermont

New comment by thruway516 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

thruway516 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:13:03 +0000

This will work for a while, before thieves know to check for multiple airtags. Better to not detect any in the first place

New comment by thruway516 in "Tarpit ideas: What they are and how to avoid them (2023) [video]"

thruway516 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:48:11 +0000

> Smart users will see TikTok doesn't really have a good recommendation engine, just good content, bite sized so lots can be produced.

This. Nobody has invented a Recommendation engines that really works, the ones that seem to work just have lots of content they can throw at you. I really think tiktok would be no less succesful with an engine that simply threw a random video at you. Recommendations is a really hard problem and anyone that solves it had essentially solved AGI

New comment by thruway516 in "Tarpit ideas: What are tarpit ideas and how to avoid them (2023) [video]"

thruway516 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:34:18 +0000

Not AI but Ive seen a lot of social startup apps in my time all trying to be the next facebook with a twist. They all end up in the same place. If you have any idea along the lines of "Do/share X with your friends" it has probably been tried a million times before so just don't. Another one is dating apps. Everyone thinks they all suck and everyone thinks they have the new twist that will make it not suck. End result is so many shitty 'ghost town' dating apps that end up looking and functioning like the other 99%. Once in a while a Snapchat or Tindr will break out with a genuinely fresh idea but for every one of those there are a million carcasses of failed startup ideas

New comment by thruway516 in "Candidate uses AI to ace job interview, can't perform job"

thruway516 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:49:15 +0000

Lol, I was thinking this exactly

New comment by thruway516 in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

thruway516 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:50:40 +0000

You're merely reinforcing their point. Its so out of fashion it would be considered a bold or even edgy choice just as dressing casually once would.

New comment by thruway516 in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

thruway516 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:35:54 +0000

I don't know where you live but for most tech jobs here even outside of sv its almost as bad as putting your photo on a resume. Even for very senior non-technical roles you're better off showing up in slacks and a blazer than the whole enchilada

New comment by thruway516 in "The April Fools joke that might have got me fired"

thruway516 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:48:12 +0000

This was the most hilarious part to me:

  That went wrong also, because my retraction said that campus administration was not considering charging per-page fees when in fact they actually were, so I had to retract it and send a new retraction that didn't call attention to that fact

New comment by thruway516 in "Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

thruway516 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:06:32 +0000

Build startup and exit for +$20m before you can unlock your apps for the extra motivated

New comment by thruway516 in "Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

thruway516 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:59:40 +0000

But when we had fart app everyone said civilization was coming to an end

New comment by thruway516 in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

thruway516 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:14:27 +0000

I'm sorry. Your argument sounds like it's reasonable but I can't accept it and it is full of strawmen. Very few people confuse 'good people that have crossed the line ... in defense of loved ones or strangers' with killers and murderers. Obviously killing is wrong but most people make moral allowances for such cases where it seems necessary or even for cases where it is mistaken or a so called 'crime of passion'. These are apples and oranges and not the same thing. As for standing on an easy moral high ground, uh yes, I'm reasonably certain that I will never reach the level of ordering a hit on an associate to protect my drug business so I will stand on that moral high ground, as will probably a very large majority of people. I have certainly entertained the thought of strangling quite a few people - past co-workers, strangers to death, and some of them I could even make a reasonable case at least in my mind, that they would've deserved it, but it has never crossed beyond a thought - and that is the case with most people in society, thankfully or we would live in a world of murderous chaos. As for the FBI possibly cooking up most of it or manipulating it to look worse than it is, maybe. But from the transcripts of DPR's emails and online conversations regarding the allegations, it doesn't look very good for DPR either. In fact I think those transcripts was what soured the general public on DPR when many people like myself at first thought (and still think) the punishment seemed really excessive for what he was charged and tried for. That said I do think he has served reasonable time and the pardon at this time is not a bad thing.

New comment by thruway516 in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

thruway516 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:16:12 +0000

I think if you've committed to having someone killed to the point that you have pulled the trigger so to speak, you have crossed a line that most humans do not. I sure hope you have not crossed that line before

New comment by thruway516 in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

thruway516 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 03:48:01 +0000

>DPR went over to the dark side a bit in that entrapment racket

It has to start somewhere

New comment by thruway516 in "Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers"

thruway516 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:35:51 +0000

The 21st century script kiddy

New comment by thruway516 in "The Origins of Wokeness"

thruway516 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:45:08 +0000

'success','democracy', 'capitalism', 'free market' what is the correct interpretation of the constitution, who is the GOAT of [insert pursuit] and what qualities do they have to have, 'democracy', 'socialism' ...shall I go on?