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New comment by watwut in "Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute"

watwut — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:44:56 +0000

> Many small software companies have gone out of business due to piracy. I've seen this countless times in my career.

Surely you will be able to name some of them.

> I knew many artists that basically lost their entire business due to piracy within a year.

So, you know many small companies and many musicians? Sounds honestly made up.

New comment by watwut in "Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute"

watwut — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:19:22 +0000

Who is that supposed to be?

New comment by watwut in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

watwut — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:08:18 +0000

But then again, American soldiers are not dying in that war the way Russian do. That would be different in war against neighbhood nation where you cant hide purely behind technology.

New comment by watwut in "Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?"

watwut — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:29:26 +0000

Hilda comic series, Bone comic series. Also, depending on kids personality comics from Telemaiger.

New comment by watwut in "Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?"

watwut — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:24:04 +0000

Whatever you like reading out loud. They dont understand yet. It can be economic theory at that age, really.

New comment by watwut in "Lobbying is corruption"

watwut — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:29:17 +0000

They had also deals behind closed door. The public thing is on top of it and enables them to do a lot more. There are no additional poaitive incentives.

And practically, corruption got much worst after supreme court legalized more of it.

New comment by watwut in "FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:25:25 +0000

> RFK Jr's stated goals and values and his actions in practice.

His long term goals and opinions are 100% consistent with his current actions and decisions.

> would really like to see more policy (from whomever: local, state, federal, judiciary, legislative, executive, red, blue, green, black) that actually accomplishes some of the things that RFK Jr says that he wants to accomplish.

You are getting that and seeing that. Including measles and sick people dying more.

New comment by watwut in "My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:12:29 +0000

That creates incentives to lie, A/B test your lies and when they finally work, blaming everyone but the liar.

New comment by watwut in "My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:05:41 +0000

Not so much prompting as network restrictions.

New comment by watwut in "Lobbying is corruption"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:16:52 +0000

It is still done behind closed door, as much as it would be without lobbying. Lobbying is on top of that.

New comment by watwut in "Lobbying is corruption"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:14:32 +0000

Somehow it does not lead to good lawmaking. It leads to lawmaking biased towards those able to pay a lot of money for what amounts to legal bribes.

New comment by watwut in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:06:59 +0000

Just dont complain about loss of relationships and community while also advocating for policies that make lasting community ties impossible.

New comment by watwut in "Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:03:08 +0000

This was not roque agent.

New comment by watwut in "Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:14:50 +0000

How was that a roque agent? Christ.

New comment by watwut in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:29:08 +0000

The people respomsible for actions of republicans are republicans. There is no natural law tgat says "republicans must be immoral psychopaths". They became one through own choices.

And the only way to win over them is to stop centrist two sides nonsense and blame them, later prosecute them.

New comment by watwut in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:25:04 +0000

That is not steelmanning. Nor a feature.

New comment by watwut in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder"

watwut — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:19:46 +0000

That is not steelman. That is obvious bullshit.

New comment by watwut in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

watwut — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:23:56 +0000

She genuinely fcked that one tho. Despite having skin in the game, that was one big loosing move.

New comment by watwut in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

watwut — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:11:20 +0000

No. It is fault of conservatives, republicans and their supporters. Primary and absolitely. And same everywhere. AfD rise is on the AfD and those voters. The person doing the bad things is the culpable one.

Blaming everyone except those who worked hard to achieve this is absurd.

New comment by watwut in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

watwut — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:09:21 +0000

Bullshit. She was centrist. It did not mattered, because lies from the right.

Most likely, they needed someone actually radical, actually more on the left to actually put up the fight.