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jrajav commented on After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/zdw
Interesting take. I've used MacOS for 30+ years, and for the last 20 years have had zero problems with updating immediately... For that matter, iOS has been flawless also.
You've either been very lucky or haven't been using much older software. macOS updates routinely cause issues early in the release cycle, particularly with backwards compatibility. Working in creative fields with lots of niche applications and plugins in use makes this a lot more apparent. Catalina in particular was a total nightmare.
jrajav commented on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed steveblank.com/2025/11/11... · Posted by u/ridruejo
‘Two organizations ought to be very concerned – China and the defense prime contractors.’
the department was not built with a single country as their focus, and their target will come and go with the times. would have read the whole article the blatant bias is off putting.
China is the only country that is not aligned with the US and has the military might and production capacity to go toe to toe with the US in an all-out war. Russia would drain their coffers within a year. China is likely to start out producing the US on a similar timeframe. It is pretty reasonable to assume that China is top of mind for any war planning.
jrajav commented on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source deepnote.com/blog/were-op... · Posted by u/zX41ZdbW
Interestingly, even the Warez Scene has standards, and no commercial backing. They're enforced, too.
To see the actual standards, you can search for "standard" on https://defacto2.net/search/file
There's a free book that covers that topic:
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and...
Not quite a counterexample, since piracy derives all of its value from commercial works, and those who want access to them.
jrajav commented on Gold hits $4,000 an ounce for the first time cnn.com/2025/10/07/invest... · Posted by u/bilekas
The gold price drastic increase and USD worst decline is to be be expected, and it's mainly due to the end of petrodollar agreement discussed on HN last year [1]. Somehow the Nasdaq news link is dead now but the Firstpost news is a similar one [2].
The top comment is a golden example of denial (pardon the pun), "This is itself inconsequential" [3]. This can be another Dropbox comment moment of HN. The comment also predicted that "Things will keep running as today probably for the next 20 years", and here we are in just after a year.
The negative effect to USD due to the end of petrodollar is imminent and the writing is on the wall.
[1] U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years (325 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673567
[2] What was the US-Saudi petrodollar deal that lapsed after 50 years?
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/what-was-the-us-saudi-p...
[3] U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years (top comment):
What makes you think the decline is _mainly_ due to this, and not due to other events this year that could plausibly have a significant effect on the value of the dollar?
jrajav commented on The collapse of the econ PhD job market chrisbrunet.com/p/the-col... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
I know this is controversial but there are so many foreign students in the PhD programs across the country. Some programs actually favor non-US students. Some professors quite explicitly pick their own race despite that being highly illegal. I think higher ed in the US became a major scam.
What does this have to do with anything here? The only common thread is that it's related to PhDs. You just have a bone to pick with our higher education being so desirable that people upend their lives to come and participate in it at great expense? This has been a significant source of soft power for the US, as both a self-reinforcing function ensuring we attract and retain top research talent, and by seeding American-educated intellectuals back to their home countries to increase our global influence. Nothing about this was bad for any party involved.
Of course, with the rampant anti-intellectualism burning a path through our institutions, we're currently doing our best to kill that and make sure we fall behind in every respect.
jrajav commented on Apple Photos app corrupts images tenderlovemaking.com/2025... · Posted by u/pattyj
I guess the reason why modern times feel so bland is because we all agree on the lowest common denominator, and then celebrate that as "iNcLuSiViTy". If anything you do has any personality, aka deviates from the standard workflow, it immediately gets a disadvantaged position on the free market.
It's like, we collectively prioritize efficiency over fun and then we wonder why life is not fun even though it is efficient.
Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?
Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...
jrajav commented on Texas banned lab-grown meat. What's next for the industry? technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/rbanffy
This is good, although the artificial meat industry needs stricter legislation, because companies should not be allowed to patent solutions intended to replace traditional methods of mass food production.
I'm not following your reasoning. Your only objection is that this technology has the potential to meaningfully replace meat production? And therefore, because it is so amazing, no one should be allowed to profit off of it after they do a big chunk of initial R&D?
This legislation is not doing anything at all to help the research go further. It's a bare-naked stifling of a technology that threatens to thin the wallets of a few rich, loud constituents with lobbyists in the building, and probably a healthy dose of emotional whining about some kind of values or tradition being under attack.
Make sure no one is cutting corners in a way that will poison people when food is involved, but otherwise, just let the free market do its thing. I thought that was meant to be the American way.
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Many young people I know live on much less than this.
This is more like “optimal wage to live alone in my own apartment with a car.” Which of course, people would like to have but certainly isn’t required to be comfortable.
For example, transportation costs are $9000/year and housing is $20000/year. These are both way more than is necessary.
They need better branding because calling this a living wage is a misnomer and harming their cause.
This is a debatable goalpost. It seems more reasonable to me to assume that meeting basic shelter needs includes having a private room to oneself. The only reason to argue otherwise is to try to drive down the wage further, and is that at all necessary? Renting a private room was possible on nearly any wage 50 years ago, and the only reason it seems out of reach for many now is because purchasing power has been slowly stagnating for decades, while housing costs have soared in recent times. Yet this whole time, GDP continues to rise. It seems that our society can easily support much higher minimum wages (and this would likely have only a positive effect of stimulating the economy), but simply chooses not to.