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New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map"

whatgoodisaroad — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:34:39 +0000

are you contending that every battle where someone is killed by an army counts as genocide?

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map"

whatgoodisaroad — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:25:45 +0000

the linked article describes military campaigns between state armies, not genocide

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Waymo in Portland"

whatgoodisaroad — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:19:35 +0000

once we've refactored humans out of driving, the speed limits can go way up

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "When do we become adults, really?"

whatgoodisaroad — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:30:07 +0000

it's a dynamic system where we feel less able to see ourselves as adults each time we gain therapy language to articulate trauma. something is gained with this language, but something is lost too

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

whatgoodisaroad — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:05:34 +0000

it could be fun to make a toy compiler that takes an arbitrary literate prompt as input and uses an LLM to output a machine code executable (no intermediate structured language). could call it llmllvm. perhaps it would be tremendously dangerous

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

whatgoodisaroad — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:56:09 +0000

i love Linnea Sterte books, stages of rot is also excellent

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "210 IQ Is Not Enough"

whatgoodisaroad — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:34:47 +0000

intelligence is an abstract concept, and sure, iq is a lossy way to measure it. but the idea that you could quantify intelligence into a scalar is absurd on its face and impossible to take seriously

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

whatgoodisaroad — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:15:58 +0000

i would argue that when you say "alphabetical order" you mean "lexicographic order"

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return"

whatgoodisaroad — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:27:27 +0000

there's a really interesting book called "When Prophecy Fails" that documents a doomesday cult. the cult had predicted a huge flood sometime in the 1950s and some sociologists infiltrated the group posing as believers to document their psychological response to the calamity not occuring

one of the core theses of the book is that adherents to a prophecy paradoxically believe in it much more strongly AFTER it's been disproven

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules"

whatgoodisaroad — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:46:47 +0000

Java is an Oracle product

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Pierogi in Space"

whatgoodisaroad — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:24:52 +0000

If we're being pendantic it should say "Pierogi in low earth orbit"

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?"

whatgoodisaroad — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:40:14 +0000

at the end of the day, if you run it on an iPhone, it's iOS that renders the text, and apple is routinely subpoenaed

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Türkiye Bans Roblox"

whatgoodisaroad — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:55:24 +0000

In fact there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical...

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "North Korea's post-modern cityscapes"

whatgoodisaroad — Sun, 19 May 2024 22:36:05 +0000

I have no first hand experience of Pyongyang, so I have no way to say what's typical, but I really enjoyed this YouTube video of a morning commute

https://youtu.be/CDcfiEX__cA?si=tqSHZp2tsK_viRnA

Pyongyang by Guy Delislse also paints a charming if twisted picture of commuting in the city on foot.

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners"

whatgoodisaroad — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:16:36 +0000

Keep in mind, in the really malicious cases where an extension has changed hands, they often just sell the credentials to the Google developer account, so this won't detect those cases.

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Astronomical Data Used for Litigation (FAQ)"

whatgoodisaroad — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:11:45 +0000

Lunar illumination was once used by Abraham Lincoln to defend a murder suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Armstrong#Murder_trial

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Don't Say Velcro (2017)"

whatgoodisaroad — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:42:43 +0000

There's a straussian dynamic at work here where the company wants to informally encourage generic use of their brand, but must also formally defend proper use of their brand for legal reasons. Courts need to see you at least appear to defend yourself.

A Better Internet for Readers

whatgoodisaroad — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://read.substack.com/p/a-better-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077873

Points: 2

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New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "Sweden Sans"

whatgoodisaroad — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:21:11 +0000

this story does more to persuade me to switch to 1.1.1.1

New comment by whatgoodisaroad in "S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’"

whatgoodisaroad — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:44:27 +0000

This isn’t an example of shooting the messenger because you dislike the message. The SF Chronicle just has a track record of anti SF bias, then turning around and complaining about the effects of their own reporting https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/sf-downtown-doom-l...

It’s sadly not a trustworthy source on these matters