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chad_c commented on Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public time.com/7336204/meta-law... · Posted by u/binning

binarymax · 3 months ago

Look, most of us here know that meta is a terrible company that has done terrible things. But what is actually being done about it? So far just some token fines and petty wrist slaps. What’s really the plan here? Because they’re not going to stop.

chad_c · 3 months ago

Capital is orders of magnitude more powerful than labor. Until that changes, this story will be repeated.

chad_c commented on Operating Margins fi-le.net/margin/... · Posted by u/fi-le

toomuchtodo · 3 months ago

Longer life expectancy has led to stagnation due to those older in power and owning wealth to have reduced risk appetite for investment and innovation, leading to maintaining the status quo and their quality of life for the balance of life remaining. They are stealing from the future through the demand for profits today.

Peter G. Peterson wrote about this in Gray Dawn 25 years ago, Scott Galloway talks about it today.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL385129M/Gray_dawn

https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destr...

chad_c · 3 months ago

So that’s where the South Park Epsiode name comes from. Holy cow.

chad_c commented on Tell HN: Azure outage · Posted by u/tartieret

mystcb · 3 months ago

Yeah, I am guessing it's just a placeholder till they get more info. I thought I saw somewhere that internally within Microsoft it's seen as a "Sev 1" with "all hands on deck" - Annoyingly I can't remember where I saw it, so if someone spots it before I do, please credit that person :D

Edit: Typo!

chad_c · 3 months ago

It was here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749054 but that comment has been deleted.

chad_c commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

baby · 6 months ago

Whoever can recreate this community feeling is going to be rich. Why did people spend so much time in specific phpbb forums? Maybe the problem is that there are too many communities out there now and so people just give up because you're in all of them and you're part of none of them at the same time?

chad_c · 6 months ago

I’m sure an anthropologist can clarify, but once a community reaches a certain size, it seems that emergent properties take over.

chad_c commented on Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Informed? tandfonline.com/doi/full/... · Posted by u/icw_nru

chad_c · 6 months ago

Who profits from lying about the acceleration of climate change?

chad_c commented on Reinvent the Wheel endler.dev/2025/reinvent-... · Posted by u/zdw

strken · 9 months ago

If your fencing was done by idiots, then at some point you have no alternative but to start tearing down fences and see what happens. Chesterton's Fence implies either a degree of design or a timeworn quality that most software products don't match.

Chesterton himself was using it as a religious metaphor, and I think most of us agree that software engineers are not literal gods.

chad_c · 9 months ago

It’s not that you can’t tear down the fences. It’s that you studied why they were there in the first place.

chad_c commented on Reinvent the Wheel endler.dev/2025/reinvent-... · Posted by u/zdw

epolanski · 9 months ago

99% of the people that reinvent wheels at work don't know how the wheel they don't like is even made and why it has the compromises it has.

chad_c · 9 months ago

I’m reminded of Chesterton’s Fence [1]. I just explained this to a coworker that was proud of indiscriminately eliminating 200+ positions.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/w/chesterton-s-fence

chad_c commented on Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate? pavlinbg.com/posts/are-el... · Posted by u/Pavlinbg

eckesicle · a year ago

I’ve also got an EV and I love it.

I installed solar panels at home and the car is now pretty much completely free to drive during those summer months where I get enough sun to supply my house and the car. I think these panels had an ROI of around 4 years for me, which is crazy good.

chad_c · a year ago

What panels do you have? Do you have energy storage as well?

chad_c commented on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE wired.com/story/elon-musk... · Posted by u/medler

scarab92 · a year ago

Agree, but when you staff an entire agency with his supporters, the echo chamber effect can result in it becoming a hive of far-left types.

The same would apply to the right too, except that the right tends to shut down agencies, not create them.

chad_c · a year ago

DHS is a counterexample here. It’s huge.

chad_c commented on How to Remove Useless Localizations sleeplessbeastie.eu/2018/... · Posted by u/CTOSian

NeoTar · 2 years ago

This feels like a weird thing to optimise in most cases - how large are these localisations that deleting them is a benefit?

chad_c · 2 years ago

Monolingual used to save gigabytes on OS X.

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