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New comment by wat10000 in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

wat10000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:06:07 +0000

I'm specifically thinking of the primaries here, where you often have more than two candidates and it's not a 51/49 split. I think it's very likely that the people who currently sit out the primaries would vote differently from the people who show up. It's a pretty small minority who vote in primaries, and those who do will tend to be a lot more politically active than average.

Far too many people complain about the bad candidates in the general, and don't do the most basic thing to influence that.

New comment by wat10000 in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

wat10000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:01:46 +0000

I don't think you realize the creativity and variety we humans have put to use when oppressing conquered peoples if you think resisting an invasion with every means available is the incorrect choice because it kills people.

New comment by wat10000 in "Waymo Premier"

wat10000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:37:49 +0000

Your used cars are only so cheap because most people don't buy old used cars. If they did as you suggest, then it would no longer be such a good deal.

New comment by wat10000 in "Waymo Premier"

wat10000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:16:41 +0000

The problem is that they'll keep advertising it to you. I'm already giving them money, but they'll still push me to subscribe while I'm in the middle of trying to give them my money, because that's not enough for them.

New comment by wat10000 in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

wat10000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:59:43 +0000

More specifically, it solves the problem of verifying that the data received was not accidentally corrupted somehow. Unlike cryptographic hashes, CRC32 does not do much to defend against deliberate, malicious modification. It's too easy to craft some different data that matches a given CRC32 value.

New comment by wat10000 in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

wat10000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:28:20 +0000

The lesser of two evils is still lesser.

New comment by wat10000 in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

wat10000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:25:00 +0000

Voting works fine, people just don't do it very much.

People complain about their choices. Meanwhile, there's atrocious turnout in the primaries which determine those choices.

New comment by wat10000 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:55:13 +0000

Society's elites have forgotten that civil institutions exist to be an alternative to resolving disputes through violence. If they completely bend those institutions to their will and leave the common people out in the cold, the result isn't acquiescence, it's revolt.

I, too, worry that they're going to rediscover this the hard way at some point.

New comment by wat10000 in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:40:42 +0000

Right, and add controls to limit the damage they can do where possible. Avoiding prompt injection looks to require superhuman intelligence.

New comment by wat10000 in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:39:18 +0000

I said "tend to," not "guarantee."

You'd expect this to happen with a couple of reasonable assumptions, like stock prices being somewhat based on real value most of the time, no wide-scale long-term economic collapse, and new companies replacing incumbents over many years rather than very quickly. If the real value of a company stays constant, then the stock price should, on average over the long term, rise at a pace that matches inflation.

New comment by wat10000 in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:48:02 +0000

You’re talking about a company that removed the rain sensor and made their automatic wipers use neural nets and cameras instead.

New comment by wat10000 in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:34:23 +0000

Humans are vulnerable to prompt injection as well. We usually call it something like "social engineering."

New comment by wat10000 in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:45:36 +0000

Stock market returns will tend to exceed inflation. Salary may not. It's quite possible for inflation to make your salary shrink in real terms, making it no longer worth working if you can afford to retire.

New comment by wat10000 in "ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:35:31 +0000

The EU really wants all members to be in Schengen. The UK was allowed to opt out because its membership was so desirable. After the Brexit fiasco it's unlikely that the EU would want them back in so badly that they'd accept another opt-out.

New comment by wat10000 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:47:05 +0000

How is this an example of trying to impose rules globally? Google is operating in Germany. Their German operations have to follow German laws. That's how every country operates.

New comment by wat10000 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:44:16 +0000

This is even worse, since the defamation in question is against a third party. This would be more like: by reading this comment, you transfer all of Bob's property to me.

New comment by wat10000 in "ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:24:18 +0000

Trumpers refuse to believe that the issue is not the deportations themselves, but the abuses and murders that accompany them.

New comment by wat10000 in "ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:22:56 +0000

What's the connection between Schengen and Brexit?

New comment by wat10000 in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

wat10000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:33:39 +0000

As far as their desirability as neighbors, I have no idea how it correlates to church membership. I mostly don’t know what churches, if any, my neighbors go to. The old Trump-loving Catholics who used to live next door were fine neighbors. I don’t know the religious proclivities of anyone else in the neighborhood that I can think of.

New comment by wat10000 in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

wat10000 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:24:37 +0000

And nobody does that on Vision Pro despite it including the same browsing capabilities, apparently.