Ancalagon (u/Ancalagon)

Ancalagon commented on US Government to purchase 10% stake in Intel, according to report windowscentral.com/hardwa... · Posted by u/01-_-

Ancalagon · 3 days ago

Are there many examples of the U.S. government purchasing companies in high-tech industries and running and growing them successfully?

Ignoring the politics of this, I don't understand if this is likely to be long term good or bad for Intel and the U.S.'s ability to remain relevant in the chips manufacturing space.

Ancalagon commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh

delfinom · 17 days ago

Wait until you see

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/

They are very upset by the gpt5 model

Ancalagon · 17 days ago

I don't know how else to describe this than sad and cringe. At least people obsessed with owning multiple cats were giving their affection to something that theoretically can love you back.

Ancalagon commented on Gold futures jump to record high after US tariffs on cast bars – Gold theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

Detrytus · 17 days ago

I do not understand why such news would cause gold price to go up... What Trump is clearly aiming for is to replace gold with cryptocurrencies - that's why his recent moves to have his own coin, allow crypto in 401(k), push toward "crypto dollar", and now trying to limit gold inflow to US with tariffs. If this goes as planned then gold will become less relevant in global monetary system, so it should go down, right?

Ancalagon · 17 days ago

expected increase in scarcity - supply and demand

Ancalagon commented on Princeton Eliminates Tuition for Families Making $250k a Year bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

Ancalagon · 17 days ago

Are these tuition caps better trackers for what wealthy means these days than say conventional rule-of-thumbs (like making six figures used to mean you were wealthy)?

Ancalagon commented on Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year bbc.com/news/articles/c74... · Posted by u/Someone

duxup · 18 days ago

>A growing number of towns and villages are hollowing out, with nearly four million homes abandoned over the past two decades, government data released last year showed.

Is this large enough for city / town footprints to start shrinking?

Ancalagon · 18 days ago

absolutely, search for the term "haikyo"

Ancalagon commented on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition projecthyperion.org... · Posted by u/codeulike

TuringNYC · 19 days ago

I was always curious about this. In some of the star wars movies, you dont see any spin, yet they are not floating around (e.g., notice how Orson Krennic has a backdrop of a planet, isnt floating, yet the planet isnt spinning https://allfortheboys.com/ben-mendelsohn/)

I know Interstellar did not ignore the spin, but do movies like Star Wars just ignore the entire concept?

Ancalagon · 19 days ago

I think they have artificial gravity in star wars iirc

Ancalagon commented on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite futurism.com/white-house-... · Posted by u/42lux

jjk166 · 20 days ago

The billionaire with a doomsday bunker probably has enough rations to outlast you. It's best not to wait until the doomsday bunker stage to do something about the situation.

Ancalagon · 20 days ago

best bring out the bunker busters then

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Ancalagon · 21 days ago

This reads more like an anecdotal rant about someone re-discovering dating. Newsflash - the majority of single 40-and-50-somethings are probably single for a reason.

Ancalagon commented on Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump... · Posted by u/belter

mongol · 24 days ago

Same mindset as Stalin. Granted, not as severe outcome, but the neurons seem to work in similar patterns

Ancalagon · 24 days ago

Not as severe yet.

Ancalagon commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

ElCapitanMarkla · a month ago

I don't really understand why Youtube won't let me create a profile, on my paid family account that I'm paying $29 NZD a month for, which lets me whitelist channels.

I'm happy for my kids to have free access to certain channels on youtube, but the mind numbing shorts, and shit they find on random channels just does my head in. And it seems to be getting worse, I'm not sure if its that they are getting older and able to search for more content or if the content is just getting worse, maybe both, but I'm probably just going to cancel the sub so they at least have to put up with terrible ads if they try to access it.

Ancalagon · a month ago

Ads as effective parental controls is wild, hilarious, and somewhat dystopian to me.

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KarmaCake day3147August 22, 2017View Original