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maxerickson

38,715 karma · joined July 28, 2010

Same name @gmail.com.
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maxerickson··on How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
You should be ashamed of manipulating people for profit, not proud of it.
maxerickson··on Most of the US economy is in a recession
Federalism is the opposite of federal control, which I think you mean.

Also, you probably mean neutered.

maxerickson··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
What do you do about the modest amount I spend on blood pressure medicine making me feel better all the time, which probably makes me more productive at work?

I'm getting more benefit than the cost of that healthcare (I'm asserting that this is true, I feel a lot better with the medicine) and that ends up feeding into the economy.

maxerickson··on $800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales
It was like 700,000 vehicles. Enough to have an impact, but we buy like 15 million cars a year, it's gonna smooth out fairly quickly.
maxerickson··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
I mean, I've had quite some number of crashes that I can't correlate to anything.

Hardware problems are just as good a potential explanation for those as anything else.

maxerickson··on Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
B2B stuff will often have the tariff as surcharge rather than rolled into the price.
maxerickson··on No right to relicense this project
I was looking at it from the perspective of an owner who simply wants to discourage use outside of some particular license.

There's close enough to zero enforcement of infringement, it's all self policing or violation.

maxerickson··on Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign
I sort of thought success was implied in my comment about using impeachment to eliminate the current 3 highest people in the order of succession.
maxerickson··on Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign
It matters a little bit. Easier to not let Mike Johnson ever be president.
maxerickson··on Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign
You could maybe impeach them both fast enough to prevent it. We are no where close to the first step of that though (electing a Speaker of the House that has not partnered in the corruption).
maxerickson··on No right to relicense this project
So if I want to publish a project under some license and I put a comment in an AI generated file (never mind what I put in the comment), how do you go about proving which portion of that file is not protected under copyright?

If the AI code isn't copyrightable, I don't have any obligations to acknowledge it.

maxerickson··on Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
What does it mean to lose? Like we can, uh, transfer the technology and build at whatever cost we can build at. Good luck to China charging us more than that cost.
maxerickson··on I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
Burma Shave.
maxerickson··on Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
You are just ignoring their intended meaning. Boring.
maxerickson··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
We are currently in an ice age.
maxerickson··on Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion
People spend less of their income on basic needs than they did 50 years ago.

Housing breaks that somewhat, but on average people consume more of it (larger, higher quality spaces), so it isn't really apples to apples.

maxerickson··on Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion
Like they are gonna buy all the flour and tshirts at high prices?

The op didn't say that scarce goods would become something only the rich could afford, they said no one would buy anything.

maxerickson··on Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion
It doesn't make sense. If there is a collapse in demand, prices will follow.

It's also reasonable to expect prices to go down if there is a productivity boom.

maxerickson··on Poor Deming never stood a chance
Short cycling is bad, most residential systems will look like the second chart.

Especially older buildings where things like uneven sun loading have a bigger impact, and where things like outdoor reset are less common.

maxerickson··on Ask HN: Why is there a negative sentiment towards crypto?
Things like trust and exposure to the legal system are actually good.
maxerickson··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
I was responding to general the "how can you possibly regulate a corporation" attitude expressed in the comment, not the specific instance here.
maxerickson··on Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M
Maybe they have to take a bounty first.
maxerickson··on The wonder of modern drywall
I am sitting here in a 100+ year old stick frame house. The siding and shingles were replaced 10 years ago. There hasn't been any major structural work for at least 40 years.

What is your definition of "often"?

maxerickson··on US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
What's the market rate?
maxerickson··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
It's a corporation, it exists at society's leisure.

It might be necessary to create a legal basis, but it's just a matter of doing it. If the owners don't like it they can dissolve it.

maxerickson··on Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
I live in a small town in northern Michigan and while we do somewhat regularly have power outages during the winter, it's when we get freezing rain, snow isn't really a problem (and really, I haven't had issues here in town, I'm describing the issues that have hit the region).
maxerickson··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Maybe a being/creature that looked like a person when you concentrated on it and then was easily mistaken as something else when you weren't concentrating on it.
maxerickson··on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
They do not need a warrant if the owner of the camera voluntarily shares the evidence.
maxerickson··on The Contagious Taste of Cancer
Makes me wonder: Is the cancer "industry" searching for causes or just after-the-fact treatment?

Why brag that you are uninformed?

Some of the more successful interventions for cancer are preventative (for example removing polyps during colonoscopies) and genetic counseling is common.

maxerickson··on The Contagious Taste of Cancer
In the case of transmissible diseases like smallpox, controlled exposure ends up being protective. It was widely practiced prior to development of modern vaccines.
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