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jamincan commented on Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy   aaronmate.net/p/noam-chom... · Posted by u/Red_Tarsius
krupan · 4 days ago
Amazing when it comes to Epstein (and other controversial actions/decisions) how detailed and open minded we are when it comes to someone we liked and supported, and how cut and dry we want things to be when it's someone we don't like.
jamincan · 3 days ago
I don't know, it seems Bill Gates pretty quickly flushed any goodwill he had cultivated with the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation once the Epstein stuff came to light, although views of him before that point were certainly mixed still.

I think the difference with Chomsky is that he is in many ways a modern-day guru with adherents who are naturally resistant to viewing their teacher and leader in a negative light.

jamincan commented on Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route   phys.org/news/2026-01-geo... · Posted by u/defrost
markbnj · 10 days ago
For people interested in the subject generally I highly recommend John McPhee's anthology "Annals of the Former World." Actually I highly recommend everything John McPhee has written but this is a good start :).
jamincan · 9 days ago
And if you manage to wade through that tome, Myron Cook's Youtube channel [1] is an excellent place to continue your exploration of geology.

1. https://www.youtube.com/@myroncook

jamincan commented on ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/theahura
jjav · 10 days ago
Well yes, but the US was supposed to have three separate branches of government to keep each other in check.

Unfortunately turns out that in practice two of the three don't actually have any power at all when push comes to shove.

jamincan · 10 days ago
I think Congress does have power, it's just chosen not to wield it to control this presidency.
jamincan commented on US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November   finance.yahoo.com/news/us... · Posted by u/thomassmith65
mekdoonggi · 14 days ago
Surely if we say we'll quadruple tariffs in two months and then walk it back in a month, the situation will improve?
jamincan · 14 days ago
I suppose at a certain point, there wouldn't be any trade at all, which would mean Trump had finally eliminated the trade deficit.
jamincan commented on Tesla is committing automotive suicide   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/jethronethro
p-o · 14 days ago
What makes this move even more incredulous is that none of the two market they want to move towards are proven markets:

- Waymo is generating less than 150m in 2025.

- Consumer robotics is an absolute unknown.

How can the transition be rationally justified? Let alone the valuation.

jamincan · 14 days ago
A lot of the current valuation is based on Elon drumming up investor expectations. As they start to lose their spot as market leaders in EV, Tesla's inability to deliver on what Elon promised will become more clear as their competitors level with and surpass them.

Moving to new, unproven markets is fruitful ground for someone like Elon to drum up expectation and hopefully keep distracting people from the fact that he's had very few recent successes to show for all the hype he receives.

jamincan commented on Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE   pride.com/culture/celebri... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Schmerika · 16 days ago
> My problem with these type of posts in HN is that the discussion doesn't offer ANYTHING constructive.

They offer a chance for awareness, which is literally step one. Americans are some of the most propagandized people on Earth, and most don't even know it.

It's crucial that the tech community develops more awareness around censorship - no small share of the responsibility is with us.

Censoring stories about censorship, on a premier tech community and investment forum, just because the discussion gets 'visceral' is simply capitulation to any entity willing to try and make a discussion toxic. We need to do a lot better than that.

jamincan · 16 days ago
I was talking to my uncle last September who is a chaplain in the US Army, and I was shocked by the disparity between what he understood was going on in the US and what I understood. That's not to say that I'm not influenced in certain ways either, but it really cemented my understanding that people in the US (and here in Canada and I'm sure other countries too) are operating within two entirely different realities.

He's not even what I would call MAGA, but it still seemed like a gulf that is impossible to bridge.

jamincan commented on New York Times games are hard: A computational perspective   arxiv.org/abs/2509.10846... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
lelanthran · 16 days ago
I do wordle, strands and, when available (once a week) I do the midi.

Wordle and strands together usually take less than 5m. The midi ranges from 3m30 (my best time) to ~12m (my worst).

Not done Letterbox, Pips and Tiles, but I figured that all their puzzles are at the same level of difficulty.

It's interesting, to me, that (from my reading of the paper, which was very quick) they they consider it hard/easy based on a sort of brute-force attempt to find all the answers.

jamincan · 16 days ago
What's the midi? Or do you mean the Mini (Crossword)?
jamincan commented on String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?   quantamagazine.org/string... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
pwatsonwailes · 23 days ago
To expand on this a little for those interested, time has properties space doesn't. For example, you can turn left to swap your forward direction for sideways in space. You cannot turn though, in a way that swaps your forward (as it were) direction in space for a backward direction in time.

Equally, cause always precedes effect. If time were exactly like space, you could bypass a cause to get to an effect, which would break the fundamental laws of physics as we know them.

There's obviously a lot more, but that's a couple of examples to hopefully help someone.

jamincan · 23 days ago
I had always thought that the fundamental forces were largely the same regardless of whether time was reversed or not.
jamincan commented on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button   paulmakeswebsites.com/wri... · Posted by u/dbushell
bandrami · 23 days ago
Particularly given that on a screen reader -- which yes is an example of a browser -- it doesn't "look like" anything at all
jamincan · 23 days ago
I think accessibility is one area where some of these components libraries can be helpful as they automatically include a11y features that might otherwise be ignored.
jamincan commented on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable   nobelpeaceprize.org/press... · Posted by u/karakoram
eliben · 25 days ago
The underlying issue here is that the Nobel Peace Prize is a useless, politicized joke. It appears to be almost designed to give newspapers something to write about.

It's a shame it gets tied with scientific prizes which represent actual merit.

jamincan · 24 days ago
You mean like the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine being awarded to the person who developed lobotomy surgery?

u/jamincan

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