Hacker News: verzali

New comment by verzali in "Who Is America's Homer?"

verzali — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:26:14 +0000

Poetry morphed into rap.

New comment by verzali in "SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month"

verzali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:26:12 +0000

Curious that Tesla stock fell in price at the moment of the Starship abort.

For what possible reason would a failed rocket launch affect the fortunes of an electric car company?

New comment by verzali in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

verzali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:54:22 +0000

Can I bet you 437 billion dollars?

New comment by verzali in "Starship's Thirteenth Flight Test"

verzali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:00:45 +0000

So about $25bn for Mr Musk. Expensive.

New comment by verzali in "SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock"

verzali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:32:34 +0000

Down quite sharply in response to the aborted launch.

New comment by verzali in "SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock"

verzali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:26:16 +0000

Down to $124 already today...

New comment by verzali in "Starlink from 1984"

verzali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:24:27 +0000

I honestly thought this would be about Teledesic!

New comment by verzali in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

verzali — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:27:36 +0000

I don't think Mr Musk cares, do u?

New comment by verzali in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

verzali — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:58:07 +0000

Whats the point of taking passengers if they aren't going to be paying attention. Leave them on the ground and take someone who actually enjoys the experience.

New comment by verzali in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

verzali — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:56:10 +0000

There are quite a few providers of inflight wifi via satellite (or even cellular towers). Speeds are not usually as high as Starlink but it is ridiculous to say they have zero competition.

You also have Amazon building a constellation, OneWeb with one already in place (though not available for retail customers), and a Chinese one under construction.

New comment by verzali in "If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic"

verzali — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:43:20 +0000

Claude kind of sucks, to be honest.

New comment by verzali in "SpaceX stock sinks below $135 IPO price for the first time"

verzali — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:42:23 +0000

Plenty of room to keep falling.

New comment by verzali in "No Spanish reading crisis?"

verzali — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:42:36 +0000

Okay, but listening to a book is not the same as reading a book.

New comment by verzali in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

verzali — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:53:56 +0000

Some of us are, yes.

I've noticed it when interviewing interns. A surprising number seem unable to think on their feet or solve problems without immediately reaching for chatgpt. I don't necessarily expect you to be able to solve a problem entirely without tools, but you should be able to give me the outline of how to go about something and why you would go that way.

After all, if you are just going to spit out AI, I will just get AI to do your job...

New comment by verzali in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

verzali — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:46:01 +0000

That's really not correct, simply based on where their satellites will be and the orbits they must follow. Do you work there or something? The whole thing is an obvious scam. None of what you say is realistically possible in practice.

New comment by verzali in "Trump says the US controls the Strait of Hormuz and should get paid for it"

verzali — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:31:59 +0000

The US has already killed a few Indian sailors, I am not sure they would blink at causing an oil slick.

New comment by verzali in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

verzali — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:21:29 +0000

It still would only work close to sunrise or sunset. You cannot get hours of extra light this way.

New comment by verzali in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

verzali — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:11:56 +0000

Absolutely impossible to do that in any viable sense.

New comment by verzali in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

verzali — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:10:35 +0000

You could turn the mirrors around and reflect sunlight away from the planet. That might be useful. Imagine using it during a heatwave.

New comment by verzali in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

verzali — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:08:04 +0000

Its obviously just a way to separate investors from their cash.