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jmknoll commented on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston   apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/haunter
Avicebron · 16 days ago
Authoritarian central planning isn't an inherent trait of engineers and nor should we aspire for it to be.
jmknoll · 16 days ago
I think what the person you're replying to is referring to is the fact that, in contrast to the US, many senior politicians in China literally have engineering backgrounds, or at least engineering degrees. Although this has actually been less true in the past 10-15 years. This article gives a bit of an overview - https://www.chinausfocus.com/2022-CPC-congress/chinese-techn...
jmknoll commented on HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News   josh.ing/hn-slop... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
jmknoll · 8 months ago
Alright, but DocuQuest is actually a really good idea.

"DocuQuest: A platform that leverages LLMs to transform and simplify complex technical documentation into interactive, user-friendly learning experiences tailored for developers and engineers."

jmknoll commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app   nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger
ocdtrekkie · 9 months ago
I have not had someone ask me to use WhatsApp in nearly ten years, I deal with people on iMessage every day...
jmknoll · 9 months ago
Are you in North America? I’ve found this to be true in the US, but not in Europe or Asia.
jmknoll commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs   qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal
bjt · 9 months ago
Or are cynical Americans living in an alternate world, blind to how much better the rule of law is here than most other countries? The commenter's comparison was to Russia. When was the last time Putin lost an election?

I'd say we're slightly behind western Europe as far as rule of law goes, not really sure about the advanced east (Japan, Korea), and miles ahead of just about everywhere else (eastern Europe, Russia, Africa, China, etc). Yes, even with Trump in office, though he really makes me worry.

jmknoll · 9 months ago
I mean, the sitting President was shilling cars on the White House lawn and runs an active meme coin bribery slush fund.

This is not slightly behind Western Europe. This is miles behind any developed country. China may be corrupt, but Xi Jinping hasn’t yet sold beans or cars via press conference.

jmknoll commented on Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics   japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/s... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
mmooss · 9 months ago
> Its really hard to change people without using threats or force.

People change all the time. We are much different than ~10 years ago, before the rise of the far-right in the West. We are much different than 100 years ago.

People get much more exercise, eat healthier, are better educated ... so much as changed. Another new thing is people love to embrace nihilism rather than hope and progress - almost nobody embraces the latter these days.

jmknoll · 9 months ago
What makes you think that people eat healthier and get more exercise?

In the US at least, Obesity is on the rise, people eat more meat than ever before, and life expectancy is basically flat over the past decade.

jmknoll commented on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)   old.reddit.com/r/AskReddi... · Posted by u/Tomte
adolph · 10 months ago
Or an interactive AI primer for your grandchild.
jmknoll · 10 months ago
I dont know if this is just baader-meinhof at work or the fact that AI is so prominent in cultural discourse at the moment, but I feel like I am seeing Diamond Age references everywhere I look
jmknoll commented on Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record   ember-energy.org/latest-u... · Posted by u/xnx
tiffanyh · a year ago
That's one of the most interesting links I've seen in a long time (regardless of subject).

Thanks for sharing because it puts things in perspective much easier due to the data it sourced.

jmknoll · a year ago
If you’re convinced by the materials shared, you may want to consider editing your original content. It’s currently the most-upvoted comment, and is materially incorrect.
jmknoll commented on Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town   tokyoweekender.com/entert... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
4ggr0 · a year ago
> Since the card game went viral, so many kids are starting to look up to these men as heroic figures.

per usual, women just exist :) men get to be heroic elders, women are footnotes, merely assisting men to become heroes.

jmknoll · a year ago
This is such a cynical, keyboard-warrior take. Why do you feel the need to drag down someone else's positive and impactful contribution? No one is stopping you from creating a card game with women as the heroes.
jmknoll commented on Tennis great Steffi Graf got bitten by pickleball's 'fun factor'   cnn.com/2025/02/13/sport/... · Posted by u/Tomte
giraffe_lady · a year ago
Also tennis has some of the best aesthetics of any amateur sport where pickleball is somehow more sexless than ping pong. It's fun tho. Truly a game for our time.
jmknoll · a year ago
It’s the sweatpants-at-work of sports
jmknoll commented on Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley   commoncog.com/c/cases/y-c... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
ethbr1 · a year ago
> why didn’t Google

Because hubris.

One glaring flaw of well-capitalized large tech (perhaps the only one) is thinking they can build something better internally, when they have enough cash to simply buy best of breed off the market.

At times Google understood this: Android 2005, YouTube 2006, Writely/GoogleDocs 2006, DoubleClick 2007, Motorola Mobility 2012, Waze 2013, DeepMind 2014

jmknoll · a year ago
Either thinking they can build something better internally, thinking the new thing doesn't matter, or realizing that it does matter but not having the ability to move fast and commercialize it.

e.g. Microsoft circa 2000 didn't think they could build a better internet. They just thought that the internet didn't really matter that much. Google in 2022 knew that LLMs mattered, and had spent a ton of money, but OpenAI just got a better product to market faster.

u/jmknoll

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