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yet PayPal was (is still?) notorious for freezing accounts for monts without any communication, and since they had no branch offices, all anyone could do was wait or sue them (which is a very expensive form of waiting).

Laws and regulations should exist to make efficient markets. But obviously there are serious problems today in housing and transportation (and banking too), and in large part due to very suboptimal laws and regulations.

reasonable suspicion is a pretty well established concept. importing controlled substances would get an arrest warrant easily anywhere if law enforcement decides to pursue the case.

the administive pretrial detention is also pretty common, especially nowadays with the ICE craze.

nobody should be treated like this, agreed, but that doesn't mean that the process has no correlation to the level of guilt established and the certainty of it.

(the real problem is that it's way too many bullshit laws.)

it's not blocked by Cloudflare, but by ISPs (as far as I understand)

conservative (as in old school, football friendly) judges are not exactly new

half the stuff currently in clinical trials is not targeting amyloids.

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trc...

oh, the weird stuff is amazing

reminds me of the Lizardman's constant

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

there's Prefix Delegation support since Android 11 (so there's some DHCPv6 support, but of course in a fucking worse way with the mandatory "we know better" attitude)

https://blog.ipspace.net/2025/09/android-dhcpv6-prefix-deleg...

VCs don't manage public money, and they also have their own filters to pick who gets to play the lottery. (And the VC ecosystem has its own set of impact metrics. the sacred KPIs! CLV, CAC, YoY! and of course just scientists know which grant organization wants which buzzwords, just as founders know which VC loves which overhyped contemporary meme.)

None of these spheres of life are, uhm, perfect, but this PR problem is completely the fault of academia, that they cannot sell this lottery model as well as the biz world. (Though I think maybe we should take a minute to consider how well loved investors and capitalists are nowadays!)

Employer (the capitalist) also takes the risks, blablabla.

Probably a better framework would be to look at the power imbalance in the respective labor market. Is the employer incentivized to hire people even at a relatively high wage, because there's competitive pressure from other employers? Do people have enough savings (and unemployment payments or other safety nets) to be able to find a good job? (Even relocate if necessary.)

Company towns were bad, and small rural towns with only one big employer also exhibit similar problems.

Where are scientists in this model? Do they have ample of opportunities? Are they simply settling for a low pay because they really really like their niche work?

The obvious compromise seems to be to limit the duration of confidentiality to something reasonable. Let's say 1-2 years.

Furthermore the initial draft talked about aggregate data anyway. The EU really shouldn't care about individual DCs anyway.

As long as they keep the water clean (and pay for the relevant environmental load quotas) and have the permits who the fuck cares? It's idiotic anti-AI hysteria.

The quote about "ramping up their lobbying efforts" is also absurd, it's just a few lines after the paragraph that describes that the commission asked for feedback from the industry as part of some standard consultative process.

The most crazy part seems to be the commission's "we have always been at war with Eastasia" behavior regarding the confidentiality.

While the precedent is clearly bad individual DCs don't matter, as long as the actual consumption and environmental load correctly shows up in regional stats.

As long as they pay the quotas it doesn't matter. DCs don't eat the water, people can go and take samples, measure temperature. Heck, how complicated it will be to put out a solar panel powered thermometer with a SIM card? Or set up a drone with a IR camera to fly around a DC each day? If someone wants to carry out a crusade against DCs, sure, there's plenty of precedent for that too! (see Cervantes 1605 and 1615) And of course if hedge funds want to know when to short the AI bubble they'll be doing the same anyway, so the commission should ask them to publish their data with a few months lag.

Both can be true at the same time. There's no(t enough) transparency about this.

Though I reckon even if the HN crowd is a loud minority Anthropic has no problem with traction, and even if eventually it will the enterprise market doesn't care much about HN threads.

A really big unknown in all of these anecdotes is what skills people have installed (and what's in their CLAUDE.md, and ...)

the obvious problem with any such scheme is that things are already priced in.

if it would be so easy to build personal passive income businesses hedge funds would be going around recruiting people and funding them. or the government. or the Effrctive Altruist.

but most small business are bad, inefficient, hard to scale them, etc.

(that doesn't mean there are no way to make money this way, but economically those boil down to bets. sure, sure, the aforementioned fancy investment funds also do bets, usually more sophisticated ones, and who doesn't, right? unless you are actively building a bunker somewhere around the Darién gap and recruiting people to your doomsday cult you are betting on the global economy chugging along.

but! eventually one has to price in risks-weighted return, and usually "passive income" is pretty poor compared to a boring job that pays really well.)

the robotaxi-ification of any and all movable capital goods is coming... ([insert intense Helms deep music!])

so some guy with a robot, Elon Mows, of course initially it will be just kids from India remote controlling the robots, but ... the AI is coming!

(okay, it's likely about leads and advertising, the negative sum game, and OpenAI wants to have an ad-supported free tier)

a very entertaining, highly-recommended, and intense gonzo video essay on the topic of the courses scams

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

local small business should offer local specialty, if it's doing the exact same thing as the big business but with higher overhead, then why not find something much more productive for the folks there?

small local economies that are stagnating already for decades are not great for anyone. people who live there are struggling, no upward mobility, anyone a bit more successful leaves, the usual urban rural polarization intensifies, yadda yadda.

obviously one of the big drivers of this is the completely fucked up housing policy. (which itself is driven by public safety and public transit issues.)

education is a close second. then the return to office mandates. the all the discontinuities and disincentives of the braindead wrong implementation of welfare (and other social support/payments).

the real economy deadweight loss is easily 2-3% of GDP (per year of course)

in some sense yes, as long as there are sources of good enough cheaper alternatives millions of people won't ever pay for Spotify (or even use the free version with ads, but the free-with-ads version is in itself a good enough for many many many people), but of course in a vacuum with only Spotify people would probably pay for it!

though the determination of damages is usually completely all over the map (and usually skews high to serve a punitive purpose, though I doubt it has any real deterrent effect).

I base my claims on this review of the 2015 Musk biography by Ashlee Vance:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk

people's character also changes over time, and everyone's work is built on other people's (of course usually people try to make sure those people are credited correctly)

he is more of an extremely driven and singularly lucky workaholic asshole with sufficient capacity to cram a lot of technical details (or drugs) into his head, which impressed and motivated technical staff (and investors), who then morphed into this Nazi creep as he got more populare he simply began to ignore negative feedback more and more (and obviously got addicted to the far-right echochamber)

the larger plan people are not the historians, IMHO that's clearly a description of people who spent a bit too much time reading about conspiracy theories (and generally are too partisanal)

but yes, including this snark seems unnecessary

facebook.com does this as a first party site, shit sites trying to squeeze eyeball time from visitors should be put on Google's malware sites list, but apparently those are the best sites nowadays... :/

if the project already has positive revenue then arguably the ability to capture new users is worth a lot, which requires acceptable performance even when a big traffic surge is happening (like a HN hug of attention)

if the scalability is in the number of "zero cost" projects to start, then 5 vs 15 is a 3x factor.

people love solving problems, but most solutions are not VC fundable (fortunately/unfortunately)

sometimes it's just wait until your kid grows up and learns to put the LEGO away

there's a lot of people working on hard problems that are pretty far from software

being cynical about early stage software (and any company that is overpromising like Theranos, Nikola, etc..) is warranted, but also money as a reward motivates a lot of innovation (PV panels, batteries, EUV lithography)

Thanks for the details! I assumed he had at least some access, control or leverage.

(But losing keys is very easy, especially if the feds take your devices and your means of buying new ones, and freely accessing potential backups.)

if he has the key he could buy security (move the money to a multisig, etc)

if he doesn't have the key then of course he's motivated to make sure bad people don't think otherwise (but the usual thing about bad people is they don't really have a habit of giving up without a fight, so if someone really thinks he has the keys he cannot do shit to convince them otherwise, so he's again back to hiring security)

it seems he pursued Theranos when it was hot, but he had not much to do with the background work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698933

Le Roux was not in prison before 2020, it makes no sense to me that he was spending his time trafficking drugs when he was sitting on billions.

Of course at this point the only "sane" reasons for someone to not touch the wallet is that they are sitting on so much BTC anyway, they don't want to cause the price to drop, or the keys are lost (but the person is alive), or the person is dead.

If someone has access they can hire security for a few billion dollars and still have some change.

If we count "insane" reasons then of course there are quite a few more. Such as ideological motivations.

can you give some examples? I'm very interested in this. (after all we had about a decade of crying "fake news" - and as far as I understand the verdict was that big traditional outlets get the basic facts right - who what where when - but are absolutely clueless about or intentionally spin the "why".)

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