back
user profile
andsoitis
29,378karma·9,781submissions·May 6, 2022
about
be the change you want to see
remember that you could be wrong
recent activity (9,781 total)
comment
”Other European countries are shaking up their intelligence operations. Germany is seeking to free its foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, from strict privacy rules that restri…
comment
Existential issues?
comment
I’m more than happy for the utility I get from the $10k I spent. 5hr road trips are a breeze and you’re relaxed on the other side. Sitting in gridlock is also much less taxing. Driving around in less …
comment
That’s an indictment on them. You should know where you’re putting your money and why. If you delegate this to a professional or influencer, you do not get to blame them. After all, you could just buy…
comment
Ah so sounds like your logic is: ban advertising -> less costs -> less revenue & lower patient costs -> same profit. I think I can spot a flaw in that logic.
comment
I did click through and saw it was one person’s commentary on the same tipis we discussed here a week ago. It is probably nicer if all the commentary on a story live together.
comment
Have you been a director of engineering before?
comment
Dupe. Prior discussion 7 days ago and 77pts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956153
comment
Don’t you think drug companies would be doing that (not advertise) if it would increase their profit?
comment
So?
comment
Drug companies have a portfolio of compounds they research. Most don’t pay off, so R&D costs make their way into the pricing of those superstar and other drugs that do work. Also, timelines are pr…
comment
Short term thinking (quarterly earnings) has been a poor incentive for how to run public companies.
comment
OpenRouter is a marketplace (“OpenRouter, a fast-growing marketplace that enables developers to route traffic across various artificial intelligence models”). Market places mean payments. Stripe does …
comment
You hired someone for a programming role who could not write a FOR loop? Oh dear.
comment
> when there's nothing to back up the existence of the phenomenon? What do you mean?
comment
earth is looking beautiful
comment
Goosebumps. And the visuals from Starlink for the entire journey is freakin' awesome.
comment
> they have plans to elongate the stack further Elon gate the stack.
comment
You can also track the progress in text: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/science/live-news/spacex-star... …
comment
Congratulations!
comment
> why are the second kinds of things here not "criteria" or "heuristics"? I think you're asking why I call the heuristics for navigating the world "principles"? P…