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New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:36:44 +0000

As opposed to future prejudices?

I agree: the trials are not speedy enough. None of us will live long enough to take advantage of the endgame version of this.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:27:07 +0000

I'm not convinced it existed before - not to the extent where it actually harmed people. But you know what will harm people for certain and a lot? "Ending H-1B ASAP". So why end it (let alone make it worse by making H-1B workers significantly more exploitable) instead of increasing the unemployment grace period, making travel less of a gamble, giving the worker more flexibility with work schedule and location?

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:47:37 +0000

So erase that worry for them of having to go back to their home countries instead of doing the opposite and kicking them out? Extend the unemployment grace period from 60 days to a year. Make travel easier. Make it so that companies can't exploit them. What does the admin do instead? Introduce an exorbitant fee, making

- travel a gamble on whether you'll be able to re-enter

- a layoff pretty much the end of your ability to stay and work in the US

... in other words, making the workers far, far more exploitable. Make that make sense.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:19:28 +0000

Also, why shouldn't those companies be forced to compete with US wages? Do only Americans get to have nice things and a strong purchasing power?

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:41:21 +0000

Do you think the European workers were in the right? Is the solution to kick out (let alone slaughter) the Chinese, or is it to make them less exploitable by companies?

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:39:22 +0000

I don't care about "every international company" or any company. Kicking out immigrants is cruel to people.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:35:42 +0000

Now, with the $100K fee which has turned H-1B workers into indentured servants, they could and will be used for that, sure. But prior to the EO, they had the freedom to leave the country and reenter whenever they'd like to, so long as they were employed or had an offer on hand. Getting laid off wasn't the end of the world. Travelling wasn't a huge risk. Switching employers was relatively stress-free. While still not on par with that of citizens, the leverage and the bargaining power was there, preventing the longer workweeks under worse conditions issue you're referring to. The concern trolls claiming otherwise had no concrete evidence to show for their claims.

I never said it's racist, unsure where you got that from, but it absolutely is scapegoating, when the issue isn't immigrants, who are powerless and cannot fight back, but the admin that's vilifying them while being the actual villain.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:05:12 +0000

Or it’s a way for the less fortunate (geographically) to seek a better future.

They more or less got rid of it last September, yet the job market has only worsened. Scapegoating minorities, whether it be trans people, brown people, Muslims or immigrants, doesn’t work. All it does is destroy lives.

> You give away your bias when it is the other way around.

How so?

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "We've made the world too complicated"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:21:42 +0000

lol at the guy calling out taking an imaginary book seriously getting downvoted, not the guy taking an imaginary book seriously.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

ycombinator_acc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:10:24 +0000

Really? Of the two, you chose to name Karp as the fascist, not Thiel?

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice"

ycombinator_acc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:30:48 +0000

It's not a scraper though, is it? Last time I checked it was API-based.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

ycombinator_acc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:08:49 +0000

Huawei’s CANN is fully open and supposedly a drop-in replacement for CUDA. The latter could make it a supеrior option to either AMD or Intel.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Demand for autism care is soaring"

ycombinator_acc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:47:10 +0000

I'm seeing the opposite happening.

The ability to focus to the point of obsession or find joy in boring repetitive tasks associated with autism helped before the rise of AI and automation. Now, interpersonal communication and creativity (not in the sense of art but a lack of rigidity in one's thinking) are far more valuable - the things people with autism famously lack.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:47:18 +0000

Are you a therapist?

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:36:02 +0000

Am I the only one with the opposite experience? I can’t remember the last time GPT told me I was right. It always finds something to nitpick (sometimes wrongly).

Maybe it’s OpenAI being aware of the “attachment” issue and combating it by overcompensating in the opposite direction.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:23:00 +0000

I got the impression they were kick-started by Anglo countries (the Five Eyes, whatever you wanna call them), then gradually picked up by the rest.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:21:08 +0000

They are initiated by the same people - the government - and pursue the same goal - mass surveillance. They should 100% be fought against and grouped together.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:17:38 +0000

There's an ocean of difference between your device changing behavior based on a flag set by individual sites and your device using a blacklist set by some list maintainer - the main difference being that the latter is utterly useless due to being an example of badness enumeration.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:49:14 +0000

Adversary? Unsure if you've been living under a rock, but the US and Europe are the ones starting wаrs and destabilizing half the world. They are the actual bad guys.

I'll get a Chinese company's phone over an American or Euro company's phone (is the latter ever a thing?) any day.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "MacBook Neo"

ycombinator_acc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:27:58 +0000

iPhone SoCs are very powerful. MacBook SoCs are built on them.

Memory is the bottleneck with all Apple products. I have zero issues in terms of compute with the iPhone 12 Mini and could use it for years to come if the SoC were the bottleneck, but it can't even hold two apps in memory.

This would be a very competent computer if it came with 16 GB.