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outside1234··on Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
At the most fundamental level, men’s soccer doesn’t get the best athletes. Those go to football, basketball, and baseball.

In women’s soccer they do get the best atheletes. We’ve won half of the world cups and Olympics.

outside1234··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
We are all fooling ourselves if we don't consider that Israel is interfering in our elections too.
outside1234··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
0.3% for SpaceX, 0.3% for Sam Altman’s OpenAI garbage, 0.3% for Anthropic, 0.3% for whatever Elon’s next scam is, and … pretty soon you are talking about big numbers.
outside1234··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Probably an international fund like VEA that is much more diversified.
outside1234··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
The S&P 500 has had these requirements for decades and the approach has worked. This is really a statement that they aren’t going to change what worked so that a few billionaires can manipulate it.
outside1234··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
After 12 months the market will have sorted it out. They can’t fake it with investment banker tricks for that long.
outside1234··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Great. When the market floats it down to a fair valuation of $70B it will be a great add to the S&P 500.
outside1234··on Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
You aren't the only one. There are many people using Github Copilot.

Github Copilot CLI is for automation. For example, in a Rust project, I use it to audit for security, documentation gaps, and test issues crate by crate. This can take an hour and I look at the suggested stories it writes afterwards to triage for implementation.

outside1234··on Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform
Probably because it is wildly expensive to have a government directly run any tech project.
outside1234··on What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
First generation immigrants to the EU do not have higher rates of crime vs. natively born citizens. (Go ahead, google it). This is a far right talking point, but it simply not true.*

* https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/20635-eu-research-dispro...

outside1234··on What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
This will be easy to say up until there isn’t enough money for retired folks.
outside1234··on Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
Only because they couldn't figure out how to sell ads doing it tho
outside1234··on Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
Trump is going to end up being the best thing that ever happened to EVs too.
outside1234··on Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
Ah, THAT's what that is. They really need to shift the message from the BROWSER is trying to find devices to the WEBSITE is trying to find devices.
outside1234··on Sagrada Família Lego set
What they really should have done is sell the kit in 7 stages, each for $99 each, such that you can slowly build it as you can budget money for the construction. :)

(This is how the Sagrada Família was built in case folks don't know its history)

outside1234··on In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
Fox News is funded by fossil. They literally ship a 24x7 feed of why fossil is good and renewables are bad. It is their business model: money for placed content to shape opinions.

So someone watching that has strong opinions about renewables that is hard to overcome.

outside1234··on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
You need to include batteries in the equation: solar, wind, water and batteries.

What California and others have shown is that you can replace natural gas peaker plants (literally - tear out natural gas turbines) with batteries and get both superior cost dynamics and "dispatchability" (aka turning them on and off). Batteries have millisecond level dispatch, peaker plants have hours level dispatch.

outside1234··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
I suggest they opt out of the whole 24 hours
outside1234··on HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C
My HP-42S is still running strong 30 years later
outside1234··on HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C
This is cool, but I am a HP-42S forever person
outside1234··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Yes, and in this case, it means that SpaceX will only be approximately 0.1% of the SP500.
outside1234··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
The only good news here is that the SP500 and wide market index funds like VTI are "float weighted", meaning they will only buy based on the dollar value of SpaceX stock sold to the public. The latest numbers are something like $75B for SpaceX, which is only something like 3% of the $2T valuation, so they will only buy a small amount of this (0.1% of the SP500 fund) because the total float for the SP500 is $45-50 trillion.

Still criminal, and also, anyone buying this individually is a fool.

outside1234··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
I am questioning the experience level of the TA if they think that AGENTS.md is going to work.
outside1234··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
But only the amount the company floats for many index funds. So in the case of SpaceX, they are only floating 5% of the company. So the number of shares something like VTI has to buy is much smaller than the total market cap (5% of it).
outside1234··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
What this means it that it won't survive scrutiny, so better hide it so that there is only a small amount of time to do it.
outside1234··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Got to dump this on everyone's SP 500 index fund before people figure out that there is a 95% drop in token usage when they are metered.
outside1234··on Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz
The craziest thing to me is that the conventional wisdom is that this will be over by July.

We will be lucky if any ships get through the straight by December.

outside1234··on Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz
Can't wait for Trump to offer them $300B of our money for this to go away so he can get back to golfing with our money.
outside1234··on Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
CEQA is basically a weapon for the rich to stop anything. It needs massive reform.
outside1234··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Someone needs to explain to me how the name of a Bluetooth device has any bearing on anything. Isn’t the real security not letting a bomb on the plane?

Also, now anyone who wants to disrupt a flight can switch their WiFi or Bluetooth name to Bomb or “Free Palestine” and the flight gets disrupted? Get out of here.

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