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The Inflation Gamble

toomuchtodo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:38:40 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5039068

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579990

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by toomuchtodo in "US adult cigarette smoking rate hits another all-time low"

toomuchtodo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:29:13 +0000

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/a-first-e...

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero

toomuchtodo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:36:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/17/hpv-jabs-reduce-risk-dying-cervical-cancer-before-30-zero-study-finds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579013

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:08:47 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Ginzburg

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Ask HN: Do you know anyone at Meta?"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:07:28 +0000

My apologies, good luck.

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:59:08 +0000

I was referring to voters.

New comment by toomuchtodo in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:18:47 +0000

BYD continues to expand faster than Tesla. If you’re focused on anything other than rate of change, you’ve missed the mark. They intend to be the biggest global automaker in five years, and their trajectory to get there is clear.

Tesla isn’t going away, but it isn’t ever going to be a giant in the industry anymore. Their maximum output is ~2M/units/year, which BYD already easily exceeds while continuing to scale. Is Tesla building any more vehicle assembly lines? They are not.

Citations:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69905157/tesla-sales-down...

https://www.statista.com/chart/33709/tesla-byd-electric-vehi...

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/byd-ma...

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/byd-gl...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-tesla-and-byd-...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/10/china-byd-c...

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Ask HN: Do you know anyone at Meta?"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:14:55 +0000

Have you filed a police report? This is a criminal complaint in every state, and some states allow for an injunction against the platform to remove the content. Federal statue also appears to apply.

File a police report as soon as possible. I’d also recommend filing a complaint with your states’ Attorney General if Meta is ignoring the report. Resources below.

https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/EPIC-revenge-por...

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11314

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/146

> S.146 - Take It Down Act

> Violators are subject to mandatory restitution and criminal penalties, including prison, a fine, or both. Threats to publish intimate visual depictions of a subject are similarly prohibited and subject to criminal penalties.

> Separately, covered platforms must establish a process through which subjects of intimate visual depictions may notify the platform of the existence of, and request removal of, an intimate visual depiction including the subject that was published without the subject’s consent. Covered platforms must remove such depictions within 48 hours of notification. Under the act, covered platforms are defined as public websites, online services, or applications that primarily provide a forum for user-generated content.

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:59:24 +0000

Trump Administration Abandons Fight Against Wind Energy as Clean Energy Output Surges - https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15062026/trump-administra... - June 15th, 2026

> Do we survive this decade? Are you SURE?

Yes. We simply took our foot of the accelerator pedal for a bit. Regrettable, but that is all. Hopefully a lesson has been learned, but perhaps not. Humans are tricky.

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:45:28 +0000

Solar and battery projects in the CAISO interconnect queue:

https://www.interconnection.fyi/?market=CAISO&status=Active&...

New comment by toomuchtodo in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:35:34 +0000

China electrified the auto industry [1] [2] [3], not Tesla (mostly BYD). SpaceX is appreciated for proving that reusable vehicles are possible, which other nation states are building [4].

Musk is the management huckster who slaps his name on it, sells it, and reaps the benefits as opposed to the person grinding creating the actual results and innovation. "It is what it is."

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/china-car-exports-jump-73...

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-byd-overtakes-ford-glo...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/another-falcon-9-looka...

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:45:29 +0000

There are some grim desires these people have today they’d still have even with robots. I will not enumerate, out of decorum.

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:32:02 +0000

Superhuman abilities for the wealthy tech oligarchs, economic indentured servitude and slums for the rest of us.

Tens of millions of people in the US alone cannot obtain basic healthcare today, how would this outcome change for them because AI solved it? The only solid paths are regulation or prying the machine from the hands of those who hold it. GLP-1s are only widely available globally affordably because the patent expired, for example.

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Trump administration considers $300B fund for Iran if deal is upheld"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0000

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/read-full-us-iran-deal-memo...

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Farm Bankruptcies Hit Six-Year High in April"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:57:12 +0000

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/26/minnesota-led-the-n...

https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/business-input...

Farm Bankruptcies Hit Six-Year High in April

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:49:54 +0000

Article URL: https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/05/farm-bankruptcies-hit-six-year-high-in-april/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573086

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:45:14 +0000

If you push systems to failure by squeezing workers, continually rolling layoffs, and disregarding quality (because consumers are sticky and will put up with a lot, especially if there are no other options), systems eventually fail. Money is expensive now [1], labor supply will decline into the future [2], its a fight for profits and growth versus labor in an unfavorable macro. "Productivity."

(also seeing similar failures, both as a consumer and inside clients pushing their organizations as systems to failure, "how few people or inexpensive talent can we operate this business with?")

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680794 (citations)

New comment by toomuchtodo in "Trump administration considers $300B fund for Iran if deal is upheld"

toomuchtodo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:37:52 +0000

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-16/read-the-...

New comment by toomuchtodo in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

toomuchtodo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:46:43 +0000

https://www.project2025.observer/

New comment by toomuchtodo in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

toomuchtodo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:46:03 +0000

If we do not have objective facts and data, the truth is whatever the loudest person says it is.