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New comment by txcwg002 in "Grokipedia by xAI"

txcwg002 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:10:57 +0000

Definitely not an encyclopedia that is supposed to be objective.

New comment by txcwg002 in "Grokipedia by xAI"

txcwg002 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:09:46 +0000

"All of their money pays for real expenses"

Not true, nearly 30% of their budget goes to partisan activism with DEI related initiatives.

"Supporting equity represents the second largest part of our programmatic work"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

New comment by txcwg002 in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

txcwg002 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:52:17 +0000

What do you think of this counterpoint from Balaji?

"CZ deserves his pardon.

His show trial of a prosecution was a combination of regulatory railroading and ethnic persecution for being Chinese-Canadian.

Imagine if Macron was held personally responsible for every crime committed by the 67M citizens of France, and you'll get the absurdity of holding CZ personally responsible for the actions of a few of the 250M+ Binance users.

Indeed, if the bureaucrats who went after CZ were similarly held accountable for every violent crime committed in their home states, they'd be in prison for eternity! But there was an insane double standard. In the physical world, the Biden admin gleefully abolished the police. Meanwhile, in the digital world they demanded that CEOs achieve impossible levels of probity.

The ethnic dimension to CZ's persecution was similarly execrable. In reality, he helped many millions of Chinese people get into Bitcoin and thereby get to freedom. And also helped millions of poor people from around the globe get out of failed currencies, and into cryptocurrency.

So he did more for practical human rights and civil liberties than most. CZ did nothing wrong, and did so many things right.

Of course, my friends at Coinbase and I were competitors of Binance. But I always respected CZ, and I congratulate him on his accomplishments, and I congratulate him on his pardon today. Well deserved."

https://x.com/balajis/status/1981423831572238856

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI, now rejected from 800 jobs

txcwg002 — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:56:48 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2025/05/14/software-engineer-replaced-by-ai-lost-six-figure-salary-800-job-applications-doordash-living-in-rv-trailer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054910

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

AI Is a Nothingburger [video]

txcwg002 — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:54:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E31KuUJmqCU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44037011

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by txcwg002 in "Redis is open source again"

txcwg002 — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:47:04 +0000

I believe it. There are companies that invested hundreds of engineering hours to rename master to main.

New comment by txcwg002 in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

txcwg002 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:35:46 +0000

What's scary is how many people seem to actually want this.

What happens when hundreds of millions of people have an AI that affirms most of what they say?

New comment by txcwg002 in "Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm"

txcwg002 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:15:35 +0000

It's naive and dismissive of the corruption to think it's not both sides. You're literally only seeing half the picture.

New comment by txcwg002 in "Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm"

txcwg002 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:09:18 +0000

It's not new and it's far more broad than that. The staggering government corruption and incompetence has been ignored for decades. You can't just pretend that this is suddenly new and one sided if you want to solve the problem.

Yale faculty call for admin hiring freeze and independent audit

txcwg002 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:17:01 +0000

Article URL: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/04/24/yale-faculty-call-for-admin-hiring-freeze-independent-audit-amid-concerns-over-bureaucratic-expansion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43800896

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by txcwg002 in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

txcwg002 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:14:44 +0000

According to its cofounder, Wikipedia abandoned truth long ago.

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/