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New comment by zarathustreal in "Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice"

zarathustreal — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:51:01 +0000

Because “trying” to be different and actually being different are not the same thing

New comment by zarathustreal in "How to earn a billion dollars"

zarathustreal — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:04:59 +0000

The counter-examples are so obvious it makes me feel that pointing them out wouldn’t actually help you understand reality

New comment by zarathustreal in "How to earn a billion dollars"

zarathustreal — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:00:26 +0000

Not giving everyone equal % is exploitation?

Interesting, by that logic every participant in the economy should also be required to bail out any startup that fails otherwise we’re exploiting the founders! They’re taking all the risk and we’re getting all the benefit of the services and goods they create!

New comment by zarathustreal in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

zarathustreal — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:03:00 +0000

Do you think “work” means literally “manual labor”?

New comment by zarathustreal in "Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem"

zarathustreal — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:41:08 +0000

Zawinski’s Law in action

New comment by zarathustreal in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

zarathustreal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:22:01 +0000

You’re significantly worse off assuming your government is adversarial than cooperative, regardless of what reality may be, and the majority of us know that. It’s why the chaos psyops aren’t working. We’re not happy with our government but apes together strong

New comment by zarathustreal in "No evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

zarathustreal — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:43:32 +0000

These dismissals based on the source rather than the material are getting really annoying. We’re supposed to be intellectuals here, we can do better than that.

New comment by zarathustreal in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

zarathustreal — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:17:58 +0000

(Ad-hominem is not a counter-example btw)

New comment by zarathustreal in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"

zarathustreal — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:42:10 +0000

You’ve never heard it before because explicitly signaling “I know basic set theory” is kind of cringy

New comment by zarathustreal in "US Tech Force"

zarathustreal — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:03:06 +0000

Is the implication that they are in fact the same thing or that you don’t like Elon?

New comment by zarathustreal in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

zarathustreal — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:59:32 +0000

Internet points demand obscure references these days. My system prompt has its own area code

New comment by zarathustreal in "Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence"

zarathustreal — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:55:48 +0000

Suppose you've managed to get a job as an editor at Communications of the ACM. As "Editor, Communications of the ACM" what do you think your job is?

New comment by zarathustreal in "US cities pay too much for buses"

zarathustreal — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:34:24 +0000

This may explain the phenomenon but it certainly doesn’t excuse it - just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s smart or morally correct

New comment by zarathustreal in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

zarathustreal — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:04:34 +0000

They’re not being paid, at least not directly. They don’t need to be. “Educational” “content” is a play to increase the personal profile as a “thought leader.” This turns into invitations to conferences and ultimately funnels into sales of courses and other financial opportunities

New comment by zarathustreal in "Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia"

zarathustreal — Sat, 31 May 2025 01:12:25 +0000

Amen brother

New comment by zarathustreal in "Build API integrations with SQL and YAML – no SaaS lock-in, no drag-and-drop UIs"

zarathustreal — Sat, 31 May 2025 01:10:59 +0000

I think you’re misunderstanding. This product doesn’t make sense because the problem itself is not solvable under your given constraints.

New comment by zarathustreal in "Claude 4"

zarathustreal — Fri, 23 May 2025 16:33:01 +0000

“Your model has memorized all knowledge, how do you know it’s smart?”

New comment by zarathustreal in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

zarathustreal — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:51:21 +0000

I like to call this “lazy altruism”

New comment by zarathustreal in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

zarathustreal — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:49:28 +0000

Criticism isn’t necessarily condescending. “You should be doing x because y” is just a plain assertion, it doesn’t imply any moral judgement or opinion of the author.

New comment by zarathustreal in "I'd rather read the prompt"

zarathustreal — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:37:24 +0000

Universities do not provide knowledge, this is a romanticization of an ideal. They are about getting a passing grade and a certificate so that you can enter the workforce. The idea that you go to college to get an education is just a polite fiction to appease students and their parents