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ghtbircshotbe··on The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
You could buy something when you think it's a good value, but it might go down a lot or stay low for a while before it goes up. One of the advantages individual investors have is that they can wait, rather than chasing short term gains
ghtbircshotbe··on The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
Maybe that's true if you sell too early, but if you buy too early then wait you'll generally do okay
ghtbircshotbe··on AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks
No, I think the unlimited money in politics is corrosive to democracy
ghtbircshotbe··on AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks
Musk: "Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time"

Joking about how you just spent half a billion dollars trying to undermine American democracy (no less as someone with citizenship in 3 countries) is not a great look

ghtbircshotbe··on AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks
Not sure exactly what your point is. Off the top of my head Peltola is a gun rights Democrat and Collins is a pro choice Republican. Do you mean in non US style governments this can't happen?
ghtbircshotbe··on Democrats win control of the House of Representatives
The good old days of hanging chads and presidents being picked by the supreme court
ghtbircshotbe··on The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public
Investing on IPOs is almost always a bad idea. They are timed for the most expensive moment, and when earnings appear highest.
ghtbircshotbe··on Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands
You don't need to learn anything - you can create your own shortcuts. The thing I like about vi vs emacs is the separation between normal/insert/command modes.
ghtbircshotbe··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
It's also written in a game-like way - the world has a set of simple and understandable rules and the main character completes a series of challenges to progress forward. It reminds me of a lot of military fiction like Bernard Cornwell and WEB Griffith where in each book the main character gets a new promotion. It's sort of a childish view of life, like getting merit badges or something.
ghtbircshotbe··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
I listened to the first audio book. It consists entirely of descriptions of the main character making coffee and hawking belt buckles. It is pretty tedious, maybe a more optimistic version of something like the game cart life
ghtbircshotbe··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Some states have really nice rest stops along the freeway. I think it's variable
ghtbircshotbe··on Patrick Stewart has died
He was good at comedy too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M
ghtbircshotbe··on Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook
They also had guidance of negative cash flow for 2027. This is not what people like to hear. This is the same as Gelsinger betting the farm on 18a/foundry/etc. I think it's the right decision for the business but the numbers were never going to look good.
ghtbircshotbe··on Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook
It's worth remembering that 5 years ago Intel was making close to 100b revenue at over 20% net margin. Whether they can again achieve this (or better) is the question, and depends on how much the total capex costs, how fast they can ramp up production, how long the data center capex spending lasts etc. It's possible their margins will never be that high again if they were the result of irresponsibly milking the business and not reinvesting. Tsmc has much better margins, though that may also not last if it's a result of lack of competition.
ghtbircshotbe··on 'Forced out': HOA fees to rise to $2,500 a month
I love it when the listing says "includes covenants to protect your investment". Hahaha not a chance
ghtbircshotbe··on Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash
Reminds me of megabus, a discount greyhound type bus. The last time I used it it didn't show up, with no refund, and an obnoxious runaround on the phone. I was amazed anyone would run a business like that; not surprised to see they went bankrupt in 2024. I've since given up on buses entirely. Greyhound shows up on schedule but is still a thoroughly unpleasant experience
ghtbircshotbe··on Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc
No kidding. Having a separate app store is the default for pc gaming.
ghtbircshotbe··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
It certainly goes back further than that. The protagonist in the silent movie Greed was a "dentist" working without a license.
ghtbircshotbe··on In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
I saw Mad God not too long ago. I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped, but I did enjoy some of the animation.
ghtbircshotbe··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
If I remember correctly, using nvm on Debian to install the newest version of node silently appended lines to my bashrc. Friends don't silently append lines to my bashrc.
ghtbircshotbe··on In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
No one will attack North Korea because they are backed by China. I'm not sure how nuclear weapons helps them unless they split from China. Maybe they make money selling the tech to others.
ghtbircshotbe··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
That was 8 years ago, and the result of altria massively overpaying to acquire juul, a deal which went spectacularly bad.
ghtbircshotbe··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
I'd be surprised if any one selling tobacco products were swimming in cash. Single use vapes are expensive compared to cost but there are tons of sellers. If you buy vape juice you can get something like the equivalent of 100 packs of cigarettes for $15. Vape shops jack up all the prices but there are 5 shops on every street and they always seem empty and I'm convinced they are mostly just laundering money.
ghtbircshotbe··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
I recently ordered something on eBay, which when looking up tracking on usps said that it used counterfeit postage. The seller didn't want to give my money back right away, saying it happens all the time and they think it actually was still going to arrive. Then they gave my money back. eBay is full of scammy sellers and seems not to care
ghtbircshotbe··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
Neovim is advertised as being a plug in replacement for vim, which is 100% not true. Many things are different, including undo files and :!. I can't remember the feature that made me give up, but at some point the switch became more work than it was worth, considering my vim setup already works. I'm not sure what I would do if I were starting out today.
ghtbircshotbe··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
If so they're going to be massively tariffed in the US. Chips are a national security sector.
ghtbircshotbe··on Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
I agree with you but for a different reason. When the ai generates exactly what I asked it to but it isn't working, I need to think and figure out what I really want rather than what I previously thought I wanted.
ghtbircshotbe··on What will TV look like in three years?
Here's a fun quote:

> Anjali Sud, Tubi CEO: I think you’ll see ads get way more useful and relevant the same way they have on social media. If you think about the experience today on television, it still largely feels like the ads are not personalized, and you can imagine a world where you can see such hyper-personalization that really — it gets to a place where what you see as an ad doesn’t even feel interruptive or like friction. It actually just feels like, wow, that was really helpful and useful, because you know me so well.

ghtbircshotbe··on Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout
It's really not clear to me from the announcement what exactly this is. The PR about treating GPUs as an "investable asset" makes my skin crawl, and the participation of 5 giant banks really doesn't help.
ghtbircshotbe··on Taste Is All That's Left
It looks like it's only 15 pages and I do like camp, so I think I may have a go at it
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