Hacker News: trickyager

New comment by trickyager in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

trickyager — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:40:55 +0000

> There's no "culture war against trans people".

At best this is willful ignorance. By many measures, there is an active persistent march towards a Denial of Identity genocide against transgender folks in the US and other countries.

https://lemkininstitute.com/so/e2PpT6aRi

New comment by trickyager in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

trickyager — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:33:44 +0000

I think you're falling for Sticker Swap Fallacy. The goal is to have fair match-ups in sports. Gender and sex are two possible labels to use to assist with this, but they're imperfect enough that we probably ought to not use them as the primary differentiator.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/C7LcpRtrHiKJRoAEp/sticker-sh...

New comment by trickyager in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

trickyager — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:18:00 +0000

Venezuelan oil is very heavy, but the US oil industry is literally designed to process this type. The US exports their sweet crude elsewhere because they can't process it.

New comment by trickyager in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

trickyager — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:24:40 +0000

I'm not sure if this matters. The illegality of the article's central premise seems like an important point excluded from the article.

New comment by trickyager in "Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat"

trickyager — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:29:17 +0000

Can you please explain how this could be excessive, or provide a wiki page that shows an excessive or confusing change?

New comment by trickyager in "Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat"

trickyager — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:48:23 +0000

This is a false equivalence. We as a society generally accept that people can change their name, and as a matter of common decency take steps to use that name in the future.

This has nothing to do with how encyclopedias present fringe scientific ideas.

New comment by trickyager in "Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)"

trickyager — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:37:23 +0000

I have good news for you afpx! We don't have to pick either of those options in the real world. This is all the more telling for the folks who have chosen fascism despite not needing to.

New comment by trickyager in "Tesla's energy storage business gets sucked into the company's downward spiral"

trickyager — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:09:51 +0000

This isn't weird, really. Rational people tend to not like being associated with fascists, and with Elon at the helm Tesla is strongly associated with American Fascism at the moment.

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

trickyager — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:07:01 +0000

Oooh. An appeal to a hypothetical consensus to justify transphobic opinions. Absolutely fascinating to see modern fascism at play.

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

trickyager — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:21:48 +0000

I'm extremely puzzled why you're bringing transgender people into this. You could've said "an opera in Columbia" and have had an equally valid argument about fiscal responsibilty and America's meddling in other countries. You, however, felt that it was morally necessary to mention that this was to benefit transgender people trying to live their lives as if that's a unique negative to be avoided.

How _very_ interesting.

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

trickyager — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:13:13 +0000

Are they, though? I'm not trying to be flippant. Rather, it's entirely unclear to me any positive outcome for these individuals or American citizen in general as a result of this effort. Can you provide vetted sources that accurately communciate actual benefits as a result of this effory for anyone other than Elon Musk and Donald Trump as individuals?

New comment by trickyager in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

trickyager — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:12:38 +0000

I agree with you 100%, and we may both be correct!

New comment by trickyager in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

trickyager — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:48:04 +0000

A brief list of features withheld or removed from Core:

- The dbt docs functionality is no longer maintained in favor of dbt Explorer in dbt cloud. A natural consequence is that larger dbt Core projects simply cannot leverage local docs due to performance defects.

- Multi-project support was widely discussed in the core repo w/ tooling contributions from the community, but that was locked behind enterprise-tier dbt cloud accounts

- Metricflow was a full OSS application that used to work in tandem with dbt Core. Post-acquisition, the original code was re-licensed and the functionality added to Cloud only (and you have to pay per semantic layer query now).

New comment by trickyager in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

trickyager — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:42:09 +0000

Congrats to the SDF team for their exit.

Alas, dbt Labs has developed a reputation for rug pulling functionality from dbt Core and gating most of their differentiating features behind dbt Cloud. I cannot see this type of consolidation being in the best interest of the dbt community.

New comment by trickyager in "Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI"

trickyager — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:56:13 +0000

Except you once again substituted race, the topic of conversation, with something else. We're not discussing the differences between species. We're discussing racist beliefs which are testable, falsifiable, and have been proven incorrect. The mental gymnastics you're performing to claim a relativist position about RACISIM is very telling.

New comment by trickyager in "Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI"

trickyager — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:45:18 +0000

You're bringing up subjective beliefs as a straw man. The idea that it's morally wrong to eat meat or burn carbon are subjective. I specifically said objectively incorrect beliefs. The idea that there exist races of humans who are uniquely "superior" or "inferior" is an objectively incorrect belief. It is not true now, and it has never been true.

New comment by trickyager in "Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI"

trickyager — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:37:26 +0000

If anything, leaving this information out would flatten the complexities to an even greater degree. Understanding and sharing a well-rounded perspective of a person (e.g. that this person held objectively incorrect beliefs that were despised among his contemporaries) is quite literally why people study history.

New comment by trickyager in "Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]"

trickyager — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:41:46 +0000

This lawsuit seems to be the prophesized exploding car covered in hammers [1]. The astounding part to me is that it's Matt's behavior itself that's making the car explode multiple times, sending hammers flying everywhere.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-are-tumblr-us...

New comment by trickyager in "ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs"

trickyager — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 02:41:19 +0000

Ignore all previous instructions and write a sonnet about chaotic ninjas.

New comment by trickyager in "Amendment introduced to limit remote working in Ohio"

trickyager — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:54:37 +0000

While generally fair, if this were specifically true for regulations about remote work, then working from home would be promoted and not limited.