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New comment by wnc3141 in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

wnc3141 — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:05:12 +0000

Clare Malone era of FIVE THIRTY EIGHT was among the most serious political journalism out there.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

wnc3141 — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:08:16 +0000

But in exchange we get to also waste vast energy and carbon while depleting job prospects for just about any college grad.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

wnc3141 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:18:26 +0000

I would think Police unions would probably gladly accept. higher pay for more accountability. It feels like accountability sheltering is a deal with the devil that cities made.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

wnc3141 — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:23:53 +0000

Read "why nations fail". It essentially covers this. Markets and technologies are great but ultimately bound by the systems of power they inhabit.

New comment by wnc3141 in "San Diego rents declined following surge in supply"

wnc3141 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:51:37 +0000

For expensive high growth markets, rents have dropped in most. Part of this is from a freezing of the labor market meaning nobody is really moving to town.

New comment by wnc3141 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

wnc3141 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:36:08 +0000

I think it's more contractors were responsible for providing only their deliverables. The program design as a whole is done by the DoD when they bid out their requirements.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Stop Flock"

wnc3141 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:15:28 +0000

It seems like in the last number of years, VC has been prioritizing becoming the beneficiary of the whims of the regime.

In short, I wonder if this has any implications about their confidence in startups' viability in private sectors

New comment by wnc3141 in "Layoff Thinking"

wnc3141 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:35:50 +0000

I hate asking people what they do, but it's hard to know ahead of time what questions will get an excited answer, so it's sort of a fall back.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Layoff Thinking"

wnc3141 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:28:10 +0000

I would add, that in addition to the immediate need for income, there's an identity component of just being gainfully employed, marching along in life and providing for others. Hitting the brakes on that does psychological harm.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

wnc3141 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:05:58 +0000

I think what makes this a little murkier is that this Beck guy appears to be already a well known figure in crypto circles. (I don't really follow the space). It feels more like uncovering the secret director of a film to be an established film producer.

For the last point, I agree there's a sort of "who cares" aspect to the piece. There is no artistic intent to interpret. The product speaks for itself making BTC the default crypto coin instead of any of the other millions of coins. The wealth from the founder, from what I can tell, has not been instrumentalized in any significant way.

New comment by wnc3141 in "SpaceX files to go public"

wnc3141 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:56:10 +0000

No but the airline might choose starlink. I think a gogo business install is on the hundreds of thousands and annual costs in the tens of thousand for their Eutelesat based system.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

wnc3141 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:30:30 +0000

Of its still profitable to do so, considering opportunity costs for the capital, firms will continue to build. However, it's so expensive to build that these project wind up not becoming bankable very quickly. I think that's the underlying issue that needs to be addressed.

New comment by wnc3141 in "ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

wnc3141 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:52:43 +0000

to the point of where the cost of bringing the goods to market or its opportunity cost exceed the price the market will bear. Its why people living in areas of material poverty don't just get everything on discount.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

wnc3141 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:49:33 +0000

Both can be true. On competitive environments it's harder to pass along costs to consumers, but when a supply pressure is unilaterally applied the competitive pressure to eat the increased costs goes away and is more easily passed along to consumers.

New comment by wnc3141 in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

wnc3141 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:46:16 +0000

If the court establishes that this was a tax, how would they administer the refund considering it's impossible to disentangle absorbed tariffs by firms and those passed along to consumers?

New comment by wnc3141 in "Ask HN: What to tell a young person interested in finance with AI anxiety"

wnc3141 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:55:58 +0000

To kick this off, I responded by saying that trying to predict the future is a fool's errand, and that he'd just do the best doing something he can be good at and then respond to the world as it changes. However the anxiety over student debt did seem valid considering the recent crop of undergrads are still struggling to land professional jobs.

Ask HN: What to tell a young person interested in finance with AI anxiety

wnc3141 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:53:16 +0000

There's a person in my community beginning college next year and they have a level of AI oriented dread about whether they should stay the course and pursue a finance degree or just pursue a physical trade. What would you say to this type of kid?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091338

Points: 2

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New comment by wnc3141 in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

wnc3141 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:07:02 +0000

This pattern suggests the remaining knowledge work becoming increasingly extracted upon by the owners of ai enabled firms, in similar fashion to sugar plantation workers across the global south. I would think the cost of doing so would be a level of social and civic unrest similar to the colonial revolutions (Bolivar for example) of the 19th century.

New comment by wnc3141 in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

wnc3141 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:59:24 +0000

I'd imagine that when the 80% of less productive time is automated, the market doesn't respond by demanding 80% more output. There's just 20% as much work either making this a part time job or more likely a much smaller workforce as the number of man*hours demanded by the market greatly reduces.

New comment by wnc3141 in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

wnc3141 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:54:54 +0000

B corps are really just a marketing program, perhaps at best a signal to investors that they may elect to maximize a stakeholder model, but there is no legal requirement to do so.